Scientists may have found one path to a longer life
Scientists at USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences may have found the beginnings of a path toward increasing human lifespan.
Jul 10, 2020
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Scientists at USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences may have found the beginnings of a path toward increasing human lifespan.
Jul 10, 2020
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An underlying assumption of research on aging holds that dietary restriction (and drugs that mimic its effects) will slow aging to extend both lifespan and healthspan jointly. While eating a Spartan diet has been shown to ...
Jun 4, 2020
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Researchers from Osaka University have found that high blood pressure and obesity are the strongest factors reducing lifespan based on genetic and clinical information of 700,000 patients in the U.K., Finland and Japan. These ...
Mar 23, 2020
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Scientists have known for decades that caloric restriction leads to a longer lifespan. It has also been observed that chronic inflammation increases with age. But any relationship between the two had remained unexplored.
Mar 21, 2019
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Researchers in South Australia believe they have found the key to why high-protein diets are unhealthy and can lead to shortened lifespans.
Feb 19, 2019
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Stanford biologist Shripad Tuljapurkar had assumed humans were approaching the limit to their longevity – that's what previous research had suggested – but what he observed in 50 years of lifespan data was more optimistic ...
Nov 7, 2018
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A team of researchers led by Principal Investigator Dr. Jan Gruber from Yale-NUS College has discovered a combination of pharmaceutical drugs that not only increases healthy lifespan in the microscopic worm Caenorhabditis ...
Oct 22, 2018
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Previous research published earlier this year in Nature Medicine involving University of Minnesota Medical School faculty Paul D. Robbins and Laura J. Niedernhofer and Mayo Clinic investigators James L. Kirkland and Tamara ...
Oct 2, 2018
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A new study from University of Minnesota Medical School researchers has demonstrated that psychosocial stress can shorten the lifespan in mice. For years, stress and socio-economic status has been connected to morbidity and ...
May 29, 2018
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People who are overweight cut their life expectancy by two months for every extra kilogramme of weight they carry, research suggests.
Oct 13, 2017
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