Senescence is an ethereal-sounding word. It’s not something you often hear in everyday conversation, and if you’re not a scientist who researches aging, you might not know it at all. It’s a term for biological aging, either in a body as a whole or at an individual, cellular level. Understanding senescence is vital if you […]
Talk about longevity tends to focus on diet and exercise – the things we know are essential to a long and healthy life. Still, we’re in the modern world, and it’s probably no surprise that a lot of people are looking to the potential benefits of technology for increasing our longevity even more. Technology already
When it comes to healthcare, community isn’t just some nebulous concept. Community health is an actual, specific medical discipline. It’s a form of public health that concentrates on the people of one geographic area. The people who administer this kind of healthcare are known as community health workers, and agencies like the CDC offer a
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Many conditions can be discovered through a blood test, but that’s not the be-all, end-all of medical testing. If you’ve got a genetic disorder, it can only be identified with a genetic test. In fact, genetic testing has a variety of useful purposes. Genetic testing means looking at DNA to identify any changes in the
We all sometimes get to the top of the stairs and forget why we’re there. Many of us can’t keep an appointment without having it written down. It’s the sort of thing you might just brush off with an “Oh, well, I suppose I’m getting older.” Sometimes this is just natural wear and tear. Other
Ask someone who’s made it to their 100th birthday how they’ve managed to live so long, and you’re likely to get a variety of answers. They may blame good genes, but genes are only about 25 to 30% responsible for longevity. Some will link it to diet or exercise. Others will say it’s the benefit
You probably realize by now that some things are a lot easier when you’re surrounded by a supportive community. Conversely, when bad stuff becomes embedded in a community as a whole, it can become much harder to change it. With community being so important to human success or failure, it’s no wonder entire scientific disciplines
You might think that tests and scans are only for when there’s something wrong with you. You start experiencing symptoms, so you go to the doctor and they conduct whatever investigation is necessary to identify the cause. If you’re ill and you want to figure out what’s wrong, you need tests, but that’s not the
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1. Let’s get the unfortunate truth out of the way first: you are going to age. Getting older is unavoidable. Now, some of you may show your age more than others, but no one is the same when they’re 80 as when they were 40 or 20. 2. With that said, there are things you
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There are a million things that can affect longevity: where you live, your genes, your diet, and that’s just to start. One thing that seems to be nearly universal across most of the world’s population, however, is that women tend to live longer than men. Life expectancy grew for all genders in the 20th century,
