Month: August 2020

Aug 04 2020

Medicine, Biotech, Research

How Calorie Restriction Improves Intestinal Stem Cell Function

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The practice of calorie restriction, eating up to 40% fewer calories while still maintaining an optimal intake of micronutrients, is well demonstrated to slow aging and extend healthy life span...

Aug 04 2020

Daily News

Long-Lived Trees are Not Immortal

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Trees can adopt a range of strategies not available to animals in order to live for very long periods of time, but they are not immune to mechanisms of aging....

Aug 04 2020

Daily News

Influenza Vaccine Use Correlates with Lower Risk of Alzheimer’s Disease

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Researchers here note a correlation between receiving influenza vaccination, even once, and the later risk of Alzheimer’s disease. This is interesting in the context of the present debate over the...

Aug 03 2020

Newsletters

Fight Aging! Newsletter, August 3rd 2020

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Fight Aging! publishes news and commentary relevant to the goal of ending all age-related disease, to be achieved by bringing the mechanisms of aging under the control of modern medicine....

Aug 01 2020

Healthy Life Extension Community

Combining Therapies as the Next Frontier for the Treatment of Aging

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There are two activities in medical science in which both the academic research community and clinical development industry are truly terrible at achieving results, or indeed even at getting started...

Aug 01 2020

Daily News

Reviewing the Mechanisms of Alzheimer’s Disease

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The present understanding of Alzheimer’s disease is illustrative of a broader issue with aging in general, in that while there is considerable evidence to pin down specific pathological mechanisms in...

Aug 01 2020

Daily News

Fitness in Humans Acts to Reduce Inflammation, But Does Not Reduce the Burden of Cellular Senescence in Muscle Tissue

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Fitness produced by training is here shown to correlate with reduced inflammatory signaling, but has no effect on the burden of senescent cells in old muscle tissue. This is interesting,...