Longevity News
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Rob Halford, the lead singer of the iconic heavy metal group Judas Priest, chatted with Digital Journal about their "Firepower" North American tour, their new album and the digital transformation of the heavy metal industry.
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By AFP
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A 117-year-old Japanese woman, thought to be the world's oldest person, has died, a local official told AFP Sunday.
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By AFP
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Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev shocked the nation Tuesday when he announced he would be resigning after nearly 30 years in power.
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By AFP
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Vladimir Putin is widely expected to win Russia's presidential election on Sunday, giving him a fourth term that would take him to nearly a quarter-century as the head of state or government.
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By AFP
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Some of the secrets of an Italian village that has long fascinated scientists because of its high number of active centenarians are set to be revealed this weekend.
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By AFP
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The world's oldest man, Sakari Momoi, has died in Japan at the ripe old age of 112, an official said Tuesday.
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Possibly the longest-living mammal on Earth is the bowhead whale. Sometimes living more than 200-years, the bowhead has only recently been studied in depth. Now, the complete genetic blueprint of this giant of the sea has been mapped.
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By AFP
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An over-the-counter supplement designed to ease osteoarthritis prolonged the lifespan of lab mice by nearly a tenth, scientists said Tuesday.
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In a new study published by the Pew Research Center, American attitudes toward aging and their projected prospects in their golden years are seen as firmly positive.
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The numbers of worldwide dementia sufferers increased by 22 percent over the last three years according to a new study published Thursday. By 2050, there could be almost 150 million sufferers globally.
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In Laura Helmuth's longevity series on Slate, she explores why we live so long in a long-form examination and invites the Slate audience to share their stories on what saved their lives.
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Following on Slate's Second Acts editorial theme, tech start-up wiz Andy Enfield explains how his experiences led him to coach an NCAA basketball team into the Sweet 16.
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F Scott Fitzgerald said 'There are no second acts in American lives,' and a crowd-sourcing and editorial series from Slate is seeking to debunk the famous Fitzgerald position.
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A 105-year-old Texas woman, Pearl Cantrell, says the secret to longevity is bacon. Her 81-year-old son Billy Allen shares his mother's secret: She begins her day with a cup of "coffee pudding," that is, coffee with milk, sugar, biscuit and bacon.
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Many are the claims attributed to exercise, but do its benefits count for anything in the long run, or are we better off without it? And does our diet really kill us?
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Reasons for living to one hundred years old have been attributed to diet, low cholesterol and lifestyle factors. Now new research indicates that having a happy personality may also contribute to a long-life.
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What are we as patients to conclude from Parkinson's disease research that comes to the conclusion that "more research is needed"?
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According to the ‘Daily Express’, women should raise their glasses to a healthier old age, but we’ve heard it all before – and just the opposite.
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Life expectancy is decreasing in the United States with the average life span approximately 78 years , according to recent reports. But there are folks who defy the odds, living joyously beyond that age.
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Researchers from Boston University and the Institute of Biomedical Technology of Milan, Italy, discovered a series of genetic markers which are particularly common in people who live 100 years or more.
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Studies have consistently found that lowering caloric intake has anti-aging benefits. Less complex organisms can live double, even triple the lifespan if calories are restricted.
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Scientists have recently found what they consider might be an answer for longevity or "the fountain of youth." They have found in caves bats that live longer than mice and discovered what may lead to finding therapies to increase human life span.
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Some people think it is possible to live up to 150 years old. It wouldn’t take a lot of medications to do it either. Read how one man’s secret to longevity; a recipe, if nothing else, for good health if not 150 years of life.
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Scientific research is reinforcing what common sense has been telling us for sometime now. Eat right and shake a leg if you want to live a long and healthy life.
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Sick and tired of working already, and you are only 55. Don’t give up early, scientists say. The longer you work and work to achieve, the better for your life span.
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The vitality of youth is something that many people visualise in terms of physical attributes, lending to the mindset that as we age, we lose muscle mass, mobility and just deteriorate. However, research shows that activity is the fountain of youth.
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Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have determined that starvation blocks the effects of growth hormone via a mechanism that may have implications in treating diabetes and extending life span.
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The death rate for golfers is 40 per cent lower than for other people of the same sex, age and socioeconomic status, which correspond to a 5 year increase in life expectancy.
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Seems all that non-smoking, eating fruit, exercise, and drinking little or no alcohol adds up to a defined number of years of extended life. 14 years, to be exact. This news comes with the strangest bits of qualified logic I’ve ever seen in print.
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Does a good long life have to mean regular visits to the gym, walking to absolutely no where on a treadmill. We all know exercising the stomach muscles not only keeps tummies flat but strengthens the back too. But not all of us are cut out for the gym.
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Figure 1. Phylogeny of Mammals Used in
Codon-Based Maximum Likelihood Comparison
of Selective Pressure Variation
The number of candidate genes under positive
selection on each lineage is indicated. Keane et al., 2015, Cell Reports 10, 112–122
Mammoth Mountain in Siberia's Sakha Republic. YouTube
Aubrey de Grey in full flow during a 2009 presentation. SENS
Professor Brouchkov stands near the area where the bacterium was found. YouTube
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