Lifestyle

The people who keep a 50-year-old memory past 80 are not just lucky. They are unusually social, and their brains show it. Northwestern’s SuperAging program...

Most adults need about seven to nine hours of sleep, on a schedule that barely moves from night to night. Duration gets the headlines....

Among dietary patterns studied for long-term health, whole-food, plant-forward approaches—especially the Mediterranean diet—stand out for consistent associations with lower rates of heart disease, certain...

Geroscience starts from a simple claim that is still unusual in medicine: many of the diseases that dominate later life are not independent failures....

In a study of more than 700,000 U.S. veterans, eight midlife habits predicted large differences in survival. Physical inactivity, smoking, and opioid use had...

Aging research has many promising leads and few that survive a hard test. The most consistent pharmacological lever in animals is still nutrient sensing:...

Sleep is not passive downtime. It is an active biological process that clears metabolic waste from the brain, regulates hormones, supports immune function, stabilizes...

Regular heat exposure in the form of traditional Finnish-style sauna stands out among passive interventions for its consistent links to lower cardiovascular mortality and...

Eating patterns built around vegetables, fruit, legumes, nuts, whole grains, olive oil, and fish—while keeping ultra-processed foods and excess red or processed meat low—consistently...

The diets that hold up over decades look alike. They are built from plants, use unsaturated fats, keep some fish and dairy, and stay...