A major longitudinal study has found seven factors that predict healthy ageing.
Employing mature adaptations
Education
stable marriage
not smoking
not abusing alcohol
some exercise, and
healthy weight.
You might at this point be tempted to quote Clement Freud: “If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don’t actually live longer; it just seems longer.”
Perhaps taking actions that slow ageing and lengthen lifespan [...]
Grodscorp, post ANZAC day.
…the country has spent the weekend getting misty-eyed over ANZAC day.
That’s fine and everything, but the reality is that many, many more Australians have died at work than in any war, and that globally the numbers of people dying in their workplace is staggering. Many more Australian families will have lost [...]
Scientists have managed to extend the lifespan of worms, by tricking their bodies into using the “hypoxic response” – a situation where the body adapts to limited oxygen supply – even when there was no need for the response (ie. there was plenty of oxygen in the air.
Does this have implications for humans? Possibly.
The researchers, [...]
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