3/3/20 Healthspan/Lifespan

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While longevity sounds great it's not great unless you have good health to go along with it. I work on health and hope I have a long life to enjoy good health. This is an exploding field, so much happening. I suggest you follow the people in the first line of this paragraph. You'll find more.

3/3/20

Master Molecule
As humanity continues to advance, technology follows suit. For decades, groundbreaking discoveries in human health and treatment have been made. One of the oldest voyages in medicine has been trying to slow down our biological clocks. It is inevitable that as time goes by we continue to age. But what if we could not only stop the negative effects, but to some degree, reverse them?
https://cityviewmag.com/master-molecule/

Is Aging a Disease?
Whether aging can be cured or not, there are arguments for thinking about it like a disease. But there are major pitfalls, too.
https://slate.com/technology/2020/03/aging-disease-classification.html

How we can add five healthy years to UK life expectancy
By 2050, the world's over-65s will outnumber the under-15s for the first time in history. The root cause of this is simple: infant mortality has decreased. In 1910, about 15% of British babies died shortly after being born. By 1950, this had dropped to about 3%, and last year it was about 0.3%. This reduction is a global trend that only grouches fail to hail as a triumph.

But success brings its own problems. Every surviving baby is a potential pensioner, and by the age of 85, nobody is disease free. Being old is not in itself a problem, but being old and ill is quite another matter...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-03-healthy-years-uk-life.html

Gene matters: Why we don’t have to age 
Is aging a disease? David Sinclair, a professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School and researcher in aging and longevity, thinks so. He outlines that aging is a disease, but it is treatable within our lifetime...
https://thehimalayantimes.com/opinion/gene-matters-why-we-dont-have-to-age/

2/12/20

Research Discovers New Measures To Detect Biological Age...thanks to new research from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, there might be a more accurate way to determine your BA...The study, published in eLife, said understanding your biological age can predict future health risks. The most important biomarkers they found were frailty and the epigenetic clock...
https://www.mindbodygreen.com/articles/how-to-determine-your-biological-age

9/5/19

First hint that body’s ‘biological age’ can be reversed
In a small trial, drugs seemed to rejuvenate the body’s ‘epigenetic clock’, which tracks a person’s biological age.
A small clinical study in California has suggested for the first time that it might be possible to reverse the body’s epigenetic clock, which measures a person’s biological age. For one year, nine healthy volunteers took a cocktail of three common drugs — growth hormone and two diabetes medications — and on average shed 2.5 years of their biological ages, measured by analysing marks on a person’s genomes. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02638-w

'Longevity gene' responsible for more efficient DNA repair
Date: April 23, 2019
Source: University of RochesterSummary:
Researchers found that the gene sirtuin 6 (SIRT6) is responsible for more efficient DNA repair in species with longer lifespans. The research illuminates new targets for anti-aging interventions and could help prevent age-related diseases.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/04/190423133511.htm

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