Good Health Choices Magazine NZ

7 min. di lettura

Many of us believe that ageing brings a slide into ill health, loss of mobility and mental decline. According to Dr David Sinclair, Harvard researcher and author of Lifespan: Why we age – and why we don’t have to, this view is out-dated. In fact, Dr

The Saturday Evening Post

7 min. di lettura

The pressure most of us feel to remain fit, slim, and in control of one’s body does not end with old age — in fact, it only grows more insistent. Friends, family members, and doctors start nagging the aging person to join a gym, “eat healthy,” or, at

Good Health

7 min. di lettura

Many of us believe that ageing brings a slide into ill health, loss of mobility and mental decline. According to Dr David Sinclair, Harvard researcher and author of Lifespan: Why we age – and why we don’t have to, this view is out-dated. In fact, Dr

Independent on Saturday

3 min. di lettura

EXPERTS worldwide have called it “a situation without precedent”. Everyone from the UN to the World Health Organization (WHO) and Time magazine have called it the most pressing and compelling fact of our generation: people are living longer but not n

The Atlantic

8 min. di lettura

Once people are past middle age, they’re old. That’s how life progresses: You’re young, you’re middle-aged, then you’re old. Of course, calling someone old is generally not considered polite, because the word, accurate though it might be, is frequent

Futurity

1 min. di lettura

The extent to which temperature affects lifespan depends on an individual’s genes, according to new research. Temperature is a known factor in aging and many animal species live longer at lower temperature than they do at higher temperatures. As a re

Space

1 min. di lettura

Once in a blue moon, it is worth asking ourselves if aging is really a bad thing in our lives. As our upbringing teaches us the aging is sad, we are easily saddened by comparing ourselves to the social standards set in the conventional time table. Th

Australian Women’s Weekly NZ

1 min. di lettura

Kiwis have a “she’ll be right” attitude when it comes to eye health, a recent study by Specsavers has found. One in five Kiwis admits they did not seek medical advice or help when an eye problem occurred. Small eye issues can sometimes indicate a mor

WellBeing

7 min. di lettura

We live in a time where there are more elderly people living longer than ever before. In fact, by 2050 the number of people aged 60 years and older is expected to double, predict ed to reach two billion. Yet, remarkably, our attitude towards ageing a

What Doctors Don't Tell You Australia/NZ

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It could be the wonder protein that determines our longevity and health. Levels of humanin G (HNG) have already been linked to age-related problems such as failing eyesight and Alzheimer’s, and new research suggests it also influences how long we liv

Women's Fitness

1 min. di lettura

Eat plenty of Brazil nuts and canned tuna – as two of the best sources of selenium they could help your live longer. In a study published in the journal Clinical Nutrition, higher selenium intake was associated with longer telomere length in middle-a

NPR

1 min. di lettura

Scientists have developed promising clock-turning treatments for mice. Could pills that mimic the benefits of exercise help humans? In this Future You: the effort to stop the symptoms of growing old.

Good Health Choices Magazine NZ

3 min. di lettura

Actress and model Christie Brinkley turned 65 in February – but instead of celebrating that actual number, she called it her 15th 50th birthday, in recognition of the fact she feels no older than 50. This, she says, is her ‘spirit age’, which is noth

The Independent

5 min. di lettura

I’m going to turn 40 this month, a milestone I’m approaching with nine-tenths equanimity, one-tenth mild existential dread. On the one hand, with a kid and a job, I’m too busy to spend much time peering at my newly middle-aged navel. Plus, if you’re

The Atlantic

3 min. di lettura

Humanity has added three decades to people’s life spans in the past 150 years. Science is only beginning to catch up.

Saturday Star

3 min. di lettura

EXPERTS worldwide have called it “a situation without precedent”. Everyone from the UN to the World Health Organization (WHO) and Time magazine have called it the most pressing and compelling fact of our generation: people are living longer but not n

Weekend Argus Saturday

3 min. di lettura

EXPERTS worldwide have called it “a situation without precedent”. Everyone from the UN to the World Health Organization (WHO) and Time magazine have called it the most pressing and compelling fact of our generation: people are living longer but not n

Literary Hub

4 min. di lettura

Since most of us reach old age, you might think old people would engender fewer “Not me” and “Not my problem” reactions than many categories defining our social identities. After all, old age is not like gender or race. For the most part, people rema

Futurity

3 min. di lettura

A sort of physiological clock—levels of 373 proteins in your blood—can predict your age, according to a new study. “We’ve known for a long time that measuring certain proteins in the blood can give you information about a person’s health status—lipop

Futurity

1 min. di lettura

Your chronological age and your biological age are two different things, says geriatrician Andrea Maier. Being 80, for example, can look very different for two different people. “Already in the 20s, 30s, we can really see who is aging faster, or the

Futurity

2 min. di lettura

The walking speed of 45-year-olds, particularly their fastest walking speed without running, may indicate the aging of their brains and bodies, according to a new study in New Zealand. The findings show that slower walkers have “accelerated aging” on

Good Health

3 min. di lettura

Actress and model Christie Brinkley turned 65 in February – but instead of celebrating that actual number, she called it her 15th 50th birthday, in recognition of the fact she feels no older than 50. This, she says, is her ‘spirit age’, which is noth

Pretoria News Weekend

3 min. di lettura

EXPERTS worldwide have called it “a situation without precedent”. Everyone from the UN to the World Health Organization (WHO) and Time magazine have called it the most pressing and compelling fact of our generation: people are living longer but not n

Good Housekeeping South Africa

1 min. di lettura

‘People are very diverse in terms of their ageing rates, and the level that one person hits by age 50, another may not hit until 60,’ says Dr Morgan Levine, assistant professor of pathology at Yale School of Medicine in the US. BIOLOGICAL AGE This m

Top Sante

2 min. di lettura

ACTRESS AND model Christie Brinkley recently had her 65th birthday – but instead of celebrating that actual number, she called it her 15th 50th birthday, in recognition of the fact she feels no older than 50. This, she says, is her ‘spirit age’, whic

Futurity

2 min. di lettura

Women’s brains appear to be about three years younger than men’s of the same chronological age, metabolically speaking, according to a new study. The findings, which appear in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, could be one clue to why

Longevity Magazine

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DR DUNCAN CARMICHAEL, MEDICAL DOCTOR AND FOUNDER OF THE INSTITUTE OF HEALTHY AGING (IHASA) In the last few years we have begun learning how to optimise our health. We have had breakthroughs in our understanding of the massive benefits of sleep. We ar

TIME

2 min. di lettura

LIFE WAS EASIER WHEN IT wasn’t so long: learn when you’re young, work while you’re able, then resign yourself to a slow period of repose—and decline. But in the past century, scientific advancements have added decades to the average human life span,

Futurity

2 min. di lettura

Multiple pregnancies might make women’s cells age more quickly, a new study suggests. The findings could help explain why women with many children tend to show signs of accelerated aging. For the study, which appears in Scientific Reports, researcher

You South Africa

1 min. di lettura

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