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ON AVERAGE, WE live 8 years longer than we did in 1970. The problem is, even though we’re living longer than we ever have before, we are not necessarily living healthier. In fact, we are living sicker in the last 10-15 years of life.
Modern medicine and medical treatments are prolonging our lives, even helping us live with diseases that were otherwise fatal.
But we’re also in the habit of reacting to and medicating diseases that are preventable: diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, sleep apnea, certain cancers among other common complex diseases. Quality of life has suffered in this paradigm.
It’s regrettable, but it’s changing. We’re becoming increasingly curious…
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Can We Live to 200?
In the last century, the average human life expectancy doubled. Here’s a roadmap to the innovations that could help us do it again — maybe.
Can We Live Longer but Stay Younger?
With greater longevity, the quest to avoid the infirmities of aging is more urgent than ever.
The real trick to staying young forever
While there is a popular narrative that older generations have robbed younger ones of future prosperity, Smith says the generations have more in common than not. Almost eight in 10 people between 18 and 24 and the over-65s want life to slow down, and social care for older people remains the second-highest concern for 18-to-34-year-olds. The issue is not whether they have anything in common, but how to connect them.
Can Fasting Help You Lose Weight? (Or Maybe Live Longer?)
Here's the thing: eating is easy, and fasting is hard. If you're going to fast to lose weight, you probably will lose a bit, but the evidence is that most people gain the weight back fairly soon once the fasting diet is over. So fasting might provide a quick reward in terms of weight loss, but the loss will be fleeting. Suprisingly, though, fasting may be a good idea. A recent review by Stephen Anton and colleagues, in the journal Obesity, found that intermittent fasting may come with a variety of health benefits, including reducing inflammation, improving the ratio of lean tissue to fat, improving cognitive function, preventing type 2 diabetes, and possibly even prolonging life span.
Could AI allow you to live forever?
When Roman Mazurenko was killed by a hit-and-run driver in late 2015, his friend Eugenia Kyda, then in her late 20s, found herself scrolling through their old text conversations. She was searching for vestiges of her friend in his digital footprint. Roman was always fascinated by the idea that our data would outlive our physical selves, so as an homage, Eugenia decided to use Roman’s online data—at least what she could access—to bring her friend back to life.
Forget the Blood of Teens. This Pill Promises to Extend Life for a Nickel a Pop
NIR BARZILAI HAS a plan. It’s a really big plan that might one day change medicine and health care as we know it. Its promise: extending our years of healthy, disease-free living by decades.
How Long Can People Live?
The trick is not to increase life span, scientists say, but to lengthen “health span.”
How Long Can We Live?
New research is intensifying the debate — with profound implications for the future of the planet.
How Long Will We Live in 2069?
Naked mole rats, the Church of Perpetual Life, and the quest to discover what the future holds for the human lifespan.
Seven Habits That Science Says Increase Longevity
As more people live well into their 90s and even surpass their 100th birthdays, scientists and researchers are studying just what they’re doing (and not doing) to live long lives.
Sorry, Running Doesn't Make You Live Longer
You may have heard that a recent study found an hour of running could add seven hours to your life. Proclaiming as much in a headline is often traffic gold: People click and share content that says their habit is good for them; runners especially so, and who doesn't want to live longer? Problem is, the headline is at best misleadingly simplified; at worst, plain wrong.
Study of 14,000 Nonagenarians Says Alcohol, Java Drinkers, Those Overweight In Their 70s Live Longer
“What allows people to live to age 90 and beyond?” Researchers at the University of California Irvine Institute for Memory Impairments and Neurological Disorders (UCI MIND) have been asking nonagenarians that very question for the last 15 years. And the results may surprise you.
Tips for a Long, Healthy Life From ‘Longevity Village’
Smile more, rethink stress and embrace aging: A doctor shares lessons from his travels to a Chinese village known for its centenarians.
Tips for a Long, Healthy Life From ‘Longevity Village’
Smile more, rethink stress and embrace aging: A doctor shares lessons from his travels to a Chinese village known for its centenarians.
Want To Live Longer? Take Up Tennis
Tennis might just be the best thing you can do to extend your life. A new study from Denmark, published just last week by Peter Schnohr and colleagues, shows that playing tennis may extend your life by nearly 10 years. That's a remarkably big benefit, one that even the study authors were surprised at. It's been well-established for a while now that exercise helps you live longer.
Will Cutting Calories Make You Live Longer?
Calorie restriction is one of the least ridiculous strategies in the burgeoning field of longevity science. Studies going back to the mid-1930s have shown over and over that cutting calories by 25-50 percent lets yeast, worms, mice, rats, and monkeys live longer, healthier lives, free from age-related disease. But there’s far less consensus on the mechanisms through which it works.
You Will Probably Live Longer Than You Thought, But Can You Afford To?
Societies around the world decided to let the oldest members take some final time off before their end. A good and humane practice, I think. However, it has limits.
How To Live Longer
We’ve long been drawn to immortality, or at least a version of it. In the 16th century, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León allegedly searched for the Fountain of Youth. Even further back, in Greek mythology, ambrosia granted eternal life. We’re still searching for ways to hit the biological pause button, but today’s scientists have a more practical approach: They hope to stall aging to prevent the diseases that so often come with it. If they succeed, we’ll not only live longer, we will also be healthier and more youthful. Here’s what we know now that Ponce de León didn’t.
A few simple habits can tack some extra years onto your lifespan
n a study in the journal Circulation, researchers studied five lifestyle factors that influence how long humans live. They researchers calculated that people who adhered to five things—drink no more than one glass of alcohol per day (two for men), maintain a healthy body weight, eat a high-quality diet, abstain from smoking, and exercise at a moderate-to-vigorous pace (think a brisk walk, at least) for 30 minutes or more a day—had a greater chance of living longer past age 50. Women who followed all five practices lived 14 years longer, on average, than peers who didn’t adhere to any of them. Men lived 12 years longer under the same conditions.
A History of The China Study
In the early 1980’s, nutritional biochemist T. Colin Campbell, PhD of Cornell University, in partnership with researchers at Oxford University and the Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine, embarked upon one of the most comprehensive nutritional studies ever undertaken known as the China Project. China at that time presented researchers with a unique opportunity. The Chinese population tended to live in the same area all their lives and to consume the same diets unique to each region. Their diets (low in fat and high in dietary fiber and plant material) also were in stark contrast to the rich diets of the Western countries. The truly plant-based nature of the rural Chinese diet gave researchers a chance to compare plant-based diets with animal-based diets.
Dog Owners Live Longer and Are Better People, Study Shows
Turns out companionship (and walking) is good for your heart.
How to Increase Your Chances of Having a Long, Healthy Life
Where’s the best place in America to live if you want to maximize your chances of living longer? Based on an authoritative new state-by-state study of the American burden of disease, disability and premature death, and how it has changed from 1990 to 2016, you might consider setting down roots in Hawaii, where residents have the longest life expectancy, 81.3 years. But if your goal is to live long and stay healthy as long as you can, call Minnesota your home, which outranks every state and the District of Columbia for average length of healthy life expectancy, 70.3 years.
How To Live Forever
Wexler explores the viewpoints of delightfully unusual characters alongside those of health, fitness and life-extension experts in this engaging new documentary, which challenges our notions of youth and aging with comic poignancy. Begun as a study in life-extension, How To Live Forever evolves into a thought-provoking examination of what truly gives life meaning.
Laugh Lots, Live Longer
A vast new study finds that a sense of humor lowers mortality rates, especially for women.
Places Where People Live the Longest
What’s the secret to a long life? For clues, check out these places worldwide where people live the longest. From Hong Kong to Loma Linda, CA, see how locals' lifestyles contribute to long lives.
Want to live longer, even if you're poor? Then move to a big city in California
Men in the top 1 percent of the income distribution live 15 years longer than men in the bottom 1 percent. A very poor American male has about the life expectancy of the average resident of Sudan or Pakistan. A low-income resident of San Francisco lives so much longer than his or her counterpart in Detroit that it's equivalent to San Francisco literally curing cancer. And these yawning disparities are getting worse, not better. Between 2001 and 2014, rich women gained 2.92 years of life while poor women only gained 0.04 years.
Where You Live Could Determine How Long You Live
Higher income has already been linked to greater longevity and better health. A new study by a prominent researcher of mobility suggests geographic location plays an outsized role in life expectancy for lower earners.
Why Women Live Longer Than Men
Women haven't always outlived men. A new study says the reason why may begin with childbirth.
Anti-Aging Products, Do They Work?
Throughout the ages, people have been searching for the mythical "Fountain of Youth," a magical place, potion, or pill to control, reverse, or even eliminate the aging process.
Betty White Tells the World to Get Over It!
Betty White has partnered with AARP to inspire those 50+ to abandon their pre-conceived ideas of what it means to get old. The campaign is called “Get Over It”.
I Wish I Was a Little Bit Shorter
The research is clear: Being tall is hazardous to your health.
One Of The World's Top Aging Researchers Has A Pill To Keep You Feeling Young
Elysium Health hasn't discovered the fountain of youth, but their new supplement—with the backing of some of the world's foremost authorities on aging—could change how you get older.
The Lovely Hill: Where People Live Longer and Happier
In one idyllic community in southern California, Adventists live 4 to 7 years longer -- and more healthily and happily -- than the rest of the country. A look at their diet, lifestyle, and philosophy
The Old-Age Survival Guide: How to Live a Longer, Happier Life
Good genes are a blessing that some should be grateful for, but they can help only so much. The rest, for better or worse, is all up to you.
The Right Road For A Better Future Of Aging
It’s become common knowledge that populations are rapidly aging across the world. Increasing longevity during the last century has contributed to unprecedented global economic growth—and new opportunities for personal fulfillment that previous generations could only dream of. A result of advances in medicine, sanitation, and safety, the longevity dividend may, in fact, be the most extraordinary accomplishment in human history.
The Truth About Human Aging
Antiaging products are big business--a multibillion-dollar industry. But the marketing of these products often misrepresents the science.
What Happens When We All Live to 100?
If life-expectancy trends continue, that future may be near, transforming society in surprising and far-reaching ways.
Good Health Alone May Not Be The Key To Longevity
Reporting in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, researchers write that exceptionally long-lived individuals appear no healthier than average Americans, with similar habits of smoking, drinking and overeating. Author Nir Barzilai discusses how lifestyle and genetics contribute to human longevity.
Patient Data-Driven Personalization Key to Fixing Today's Broken Health Assessments
ON AVERAGE, WE live 8 years longer than we did in 1970. The problem is, even though we’re living longer than we ever have before, we are not necessarily living healthier. In fact, we are living sicker in the last 10-15 years of life.
The Longevity Project
Our Mission: to promote transformation in support of longer life.
Better Life Index
There is more to life than the cold numbers of GDP and economic statistics – This Index allows you to compare well-being across countries, based on 11 topics the OECD has identified as essential, in the areas of material living conditions and quality of life.
Age and Ageing
Age and Ageing is an international journal publishing refereed original articles and commissioned reviews on geriatric medicine and gerontology. Its range includes research on ageing and clinical, epidemiological and psychological aspects of later life.
Age UK
Age UK aims to improve later life for everyone through our information and advice, services, campaigns, products, training and research.
Alliance for Aging Research
The Alliance for Aging Research is dedicated to accelerating the pace of scientific discoveries and their application to vastly improve the universal human experience of aging and health.
Anti-Aging News
Die Plattform für Anti-Aging Medizin und Prävention.
AntiAging.com
As pioneers in the rapidly expanding anti-aging field, we are increasingly imitated -- but never duplicated.
Blue Zones
We are on a mission to help people Live Longer, Better.
Calico
Calico is a research and development company whose mission is to harness advanced technologies to increase our understanding of the biology that controls lifespan. We will use that knowledge to devise interventions that enable people to lead longer and healthier lives. Executing on this mission will require an unprecedented level of interdisciplinary effort and a long-term focus for which funding is already in place.
Fight Aging
The Fight Aging! mission remains the same as it was at the outset: to encourage the development of medical technologies, lifestyles, and other means that will help people live comfortably, healthily, and capably for as long as they desire, well beyond the current limits of mortality.
Happify
Our vision is to use cutting-edge science and innovative technology to empower individuals to lead happier, more fulfilling lives.
Healthy Aging For Women
This is about getting healthy and staying healthy. You cannot really do that without information. It"s hard to find good information online sometimes, and if your primary provider is as busy as I am, they may not have the time or take the time to make sure you understand. I know! I hear it in my practice all the time.
Kurzweil
KurzweilAI.net features the big thoughts of today's big thinkers examining the confluence of accelerating revolutions that are shaping our future world.
Life Extension
Life Extension is a global authority on health, wellness and nutrition as well as a respected provider of scientific information on disease prevention. We supply only the highest quality premium grade dietary supplements, minerals, herbs and vitamins.
Living to 100
The Living to 100 Life Expectancy Calculator uses the most current and carefully researched medical and scientific data in order to estimate how old you will live to be.
LongeCity
Welcome to LongeCity the premier forum about extending the human lifespan
Longevity-Science.org
This scientific and educational website contains over a hundred of scientific and reference documents relevant to longevity and aging studies.
Maximum Life Foundation
Maximum Life Foundation will show you how to add up to 15 healthy years to your life now... and will help control aging and aging diseases for most individuals by 2030.
Methuselah Foundation
Because saving lives is the most valuable thing anyone can spend their time doing, and since over 100,000 people die every single day of causes that young people essentially never die of, you'll save more lives by helping to cure aging than in any other way.
QualityCounts.com
For those health conscious consumers and medical professionals that are looking to purchase nutritional supplements, vitamins, herbs, learning about medications, losing weight, health food, low carbs, high protein nutrition, and exercise, you have come to the right place.
Rest of Life
We have one goal: to provide unbiased communications that help Americans prepare for retirement. To have a great retirement, you should plan for your finances, health and life fulfillment.
Reversing Disease for Optimal Health
Dr. Jack Kruse is a respected neurosurgeon and CEO of Optimized Life, a health and wellness company dedicated to helping patients avoid the healthcare burdens we typically encounter as we age. He is a member of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, the Congress of Neurologic Surgeons, and Age Management Medicine Group.
Senescence.info
An educational and information resource on the science of aging.
SENS Research Foundation
SENS Research Foundation is a 501(c)(3) public charity that is transforming the way the world researches and treats age-related disease. The research we fund at universities around the world and at our own Research Center uses regenerative medicine to repair the damage underlying the diseases of aging. Our goal is to help build the industry that will cure these diseases.
T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies
At the T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies, we believe that you have the right to better health and better information. We advocate for evidence-based education and resources. The cornerstone of this education is our Plant-Based Nutrition Certificate program in partnership with eCornell featuring lectures from over 20 MDs, PhDs, RDs, RNs and more.
Xtend Life
Unbiased and up to date information so you can take better control of your health.
Younger Next Year
A place for readers and web-fans to talk to us about their experiences and their ideas for getting Younger Next Year. We simply KNOW that this whole process works better if it is done with others.
American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine
Established in 1992, A4M is a global medical education provider. Through our Anti-Aging Academy, we provide Anti-Aging breakthroughs, practical knowledge, treatment modalities and skills for the practicing physician and health practitioners through our live conferences and online programming.
Better Life Index
There is more to life than the cold numbers of GDP and economic statistics – This Index allows you to compare well-being across countries, based on 11 topics the OECD has identified as essential, in the areas of material living conditions and quality of life.
BioBank
UK Biobank is a major national health resource, and a registered charity in its own right, with the aim of improving the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of a wide range of serious and life-threatening illnesses — including cancer, heart diseases, stroke, diabetes, arthritis, osteoporosis, eye disorders, depression and forms of dementia.
Center for Research and Education on Aging
Welcome to the website of the University of California at Berkeley's Center for Research and Education on Aging! Our mission is to investigate the basic processes that cause aging, with the goal of improving and extending human health span.
Gerontology Research Group
Physicians, Scientists, and Engineers dedicated to the quest to slow and ultimately reverse human aging within the next 20 years.
Healthcare Industry Today
Anti-Aging News is an EIN News Service for health professionals. Constantly updated news and information about health.
International Society for the Study of the Aging Male
The International Society for the Study of the Aging Male (ISSAM) was formed and incorporated in the United Kingdom in 1997 with the objective of promoting research, study and education on all matters relating to men's health after the age of 30. The Society aims to encourage physicians and other health-care professionals to understand male illness in the context of the aging process as a whole and to adopt a multi-disciplinary approach to caring for male patients.
Know Your Number
Assessing the likelihood that individuals will develop a chronic, preventable disease resulting in poor quality of life, declining productivity, and higher healthcare costs has become a major concern for healthcare providers, insurers, and employers alike. Each individual is unique and requires personalized assessment based on the best medical evidence. Know Your Number® can help.
More Life
Excellent health is necessary for high quality of life. If you are not healthy you will not have the capacity, nor often even the desire for happiness.
National Council on Aging
Our programs help older people remain healthy and independent, find jobs, increase access to benefits programs, and discover meaningful ways to continue contributing to society.
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
Founded in 1985, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) is a nonprofit organization that promotes preventive medicine, conducts clinical research, and encourages higher standards for ethics and effectiveness in research.
PreventDisease.com
PreventDisease.com is dedicated to bringing you the highest quality health information on the Internet. It is our vision to one day use preventive education as an essential tool in primary healthcare worldwide to achieve better health and prevent disease.
Preventive Medicine Research Institute
The Dr. Dean Ornish Lifestyle Modification Program uses a comprehensive approach to address the underlying causes of disease rather than merely treating its symptoms.
Science of Aging Knowledge Environment
From October 2001 to June 2006, Science's SAGE KE provided news, reviews, commentaries, disease case studies, databases, and other resources pertaining to aging-related research. Although SAGE KE has now ceased publication, we invite you to search and browse the article content on this archive site.
Sierra Sciences
Sierra Sciences, LLC. (Sierra) is a biotechnology company whose goal is to develop medicines and therapies that will reverse the effects of human aging; enabling people to live longer lives, with health and vigor, free of many of the debilitating effects of old age.
The Preventive Medicine Center
The Preventive Medicine Center is dedicated to promoting a realistic, supportive, holistic approach to health - achieving disease prevention and reversal, where possible, through a combination of innovative, traditional, and alternative methods.
The Longevity Game
How long can you expect to live? We developed the Longevity Game to give you a peek into your future by identifying the factors that can lead to a healthier, more productive life.
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