Aging

As we reach old age, our bodies undergo several changes. And not for the better. More and more people are beginning to wonder whether we can do something about this. A lot of research is going on to uncover the mechanisms of aging, which should give us a ...

Article - Gunnar De Winter - Nov 10 2011 - 5:11am

No One Ever Got Divorced Because The Sex Was Good

Sex helps in multiple ways, it seems. New research presented at The Gerontological Society of America's meeting, based on 2004 General Social Surveys, found that the more often older married individuals engage in sexual activity, the more likely they ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 21 2011 - 7:02am

Just Exercise For 12 Weeks: You'll Live Better And Longer

You know it's true. It's common sense. Continue to exercise and you will have a better life. Muscle mass will decrease as you age unless you stop it but 12 weeks of training geared towards improving muscular power in older people were shown to ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 12 2012 - 9:18pm

Aging Stoners Tend To Remain Stoners

Illicit drug use is more common in older people than ever before- but that's because they did it the most when they were younger and they are more likely than ever to survive into old age. New research published in Age and Ageing found that the lifeti ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 5 2012 - 4:00am

A New Method To Find Longevity Genes

Despite much research, the genetic causes why animals have such different longevities remain largely unknown, much because so many factors act on ageing that isolating the effect of a single gene is almost impossible. But now, a study just published in ...

Article - Catarina Amorim - Sep 11 2012 - 4:07am

Clear + Brilliant Resurfacing Device Demonstrates Reduction Of Pore Count And Pore Size

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Article - Newswire - Apr 19 2012 - 2:00pm

Live Longer, Thanks To Evolution

Researchers have documented the first fossil-based evidence supporting an evolutionary theory of aging, which predicts that species evolving in low mortality and resource-limited ecosystems tend to be more long-lived. But that is not an endorsement of ban ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 25 2012 - 1:03pm

Counterintuitive- What The Youthful Brain Does May Not Mean So Much

Aging is unavoidable- except perhaps for the brain, say researchers. They also present counterintuitive evidence that it is what you do in old age that matters when it comes to maintaining a youthful brain- not what you did earlier in life. Education alone ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 29 2012 - 5:00am

Idiothetic Memory- This Spatial Learning Does Not Seem To Worsen With Age

In western countries there are 20 times more people aged 65 years andr older than one hundred years ago. With those demographic changes have come changes in brain research. Understanding the mechanisms responsible for aging-related changes in cognitive pr ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 30 2012 - 7:30pm

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Monster V. 2.0

Is immortality really ideal? Is the confusion and befuddlement worth surviving the times and ages? Much like Mary Shelley’s monster that arose from the dead, would we be wretched, dejected, and distraught by the prospects of a future that we can’t even h ...

Article - Denzel Faulkner - Jun 3 2012 - 12:55pm