“Research at the Buck Institute shows that vitamin D works through genes known to influence longevity and impacts processes associated with many human age-related diseases. The study, published in Cell […]
Tag: Aging
Boosting levels of known antioxidant may help resist age-related decline
“In young animal cells, stress doesn’t cause such a rapid loss of glutathione. The cells from older animals, on the other hand, were quickly depleted of glutathione and died twice […]
Plant Extracts Found to Slow Down Aging Process
“This study is an important step forward for science because these signaling pathways could eventually delay the onset and progression of chronic diseases associated with human aging,” commented Éric Simard, […]
Strict diet combats rare progeria aging disorders in mice
“The study has now established that in mice with this disease it is actually very important to eat less. ‘Mice that were given 30 percent less food lived for more […]
Brains of overweight people ‘ten years older’ than lean counterparts
“From middle-age, the brains of obese individuals display differences in white matter similar to those in lean individuals ten years their senior, according to new research.”
Pomegranate’s powerful anti-aging secret
“Scientists have discovered that a molecule in pomegranates, transformed by microbes in the gut, enables muscle cells to protect themselves against one of the major causes of aging.”