Longevity and Life Expectancy: Facts and Factors: Publications and Documents
Summary
This collection of publications on longevity and life span extension includes topics such as the science behind aging, dietary influences on lifespan, genetic factors affecting longevity, and lifestyle choices that can lead to a healthier old age. These articles are useful for understanding how changes in diet, exercise, and genetics can impact life expectancy. They offer valuable insights for seniors and individuals with disabilities by discussing practical strategies to enhance healthspan, like the benefits of caloric restriction or the impact of social connections on longevity. The information is presented in a way that's accessible, helping readers make informed decisions about their health to potentially live longer, healthier lives.Searching the Database
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| Title and Description | Ed | Publish Revised |
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| Aging as a Disease: Scientific Evidence and Ethical Implications Scientific evidence and ethical debates on classifying aging as a disease, examining longevity research, interventions, and societal implications. | ✓ ✓ | |
| Human Life Expectancy Growth Slows, Defying Medical Progress Paper offers new evidence that humans are approaching a biologically based limit to length of life span. | ✓ | |
| Gut Viruses and Bacteria Linked to Living Past 100 A study of 176 Japanese centenarians finds a diverse mix of gut bacteria and bacterial viruses tied to metabolic stability and healthy aging. | ✓ ✓ | |
| Children of Helicopter Parents Tend to Live Less Longer Analysis of data for nearly 1,000 participants in the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing born in the 1950s and 1960s discovered children's relationships with parents influence longevity. | ||
| Discovery Finds Aging Process Driven by Unbalanced Genes Research finds that most molecular-level changes that occur during aging are associated with gene length. The finding could lead to interventions designed to slow or even reverse aging. | ||
| Waist-to-hip Ratio Predicts Early Death Better Than BMI Waist-to-hip ratio measurement should replace BMI as a simple measure of healthy weight as it better predicts early death than BMI. | ||
| Married, Educated Men Have Higher Odds of Outliving Women Study finds married, educated men have a higher chance of outliving women, challenging traditional views on gender and longevity. | ✓ ✓ | |
| Elders Role in Human Longevity and Social Evolution Peer-reviewed research reveals how intergenerational cooperation and elder contributions shaped human evolution's extended post-reproductive lifespan. | ✓ ✓ | |
| Life After Death: Reviving Light-Sensing Cells in Donor Eyes Scientists revive light-sensing neuron cells in organ donor eyes and restore communication between them as part of a series of discoveries that stand to transform brain and vision research. | ||
| Why Boxers Face the Shortest Lifespan Among Athletes Study reveals boxers have a reduced life expectancy of 67.7 years due to cumulative injuries, highlighting significant health risks in contact sports. | ✓ ✓ | |
| Study Data Shows There is No Cheating Old Age Study reveals increase in human life expectancy is more likely statistical outcome of improved survival for children and young adults, not slowing the aging clock. | ✓ ✓ | |
| Metolazone Could be Key to Increased Lifespan Existing anti-hypertension drug Metolazone can activate mitochondrial stress response that prolongs lifespan shows potential for re-purposing into anti-aging pharmaceutical drugs for humans. | ||
| Human Growth Hormone (HGH) for Anti-aging HGH has an effect on almost all our tissues and organs, it enhances growth of various organs and tissues, muscle and bone, and increases protein synthesis. | ||
| Personality Traits Change Over 50 Years, Study Shows Research shows personality changes with age. While relative rankings stay consistent, most people become more conscientious, emotionally stable, and agreeable over time. | ✓ ✓ | |
| Clues to Aging Found in Stem Cells Genomes Some types of immortal cells in people may perform the same rejuvenating trick to prevent the rDNA declines that come with age. | ||
| U.S. Mortality Rate Improvement Slowed by Rise in Obesity Studies reveal rise in obesity to blame for reduction in rate of improvement in American mortality during last 30 years. | ||
| Population Specific Deep Biomarkers of Aging Population-specific biomarkers of human aging: a big data study using South Korean, Canadian and Eastern-European patient populations. | ||
| People Want to Live Longer - But Only If in Good Health Research shows individually most people only want to live long lives if they will be healthy. | ||
| Evolution's Oversight: Why Aging Is Hardwired Into DNA Peer-reviewed research reveals autophagy genes promote fitness in youth but drive aging after reproduction, providing evidence for evolution's aging paradox. | ✓ ✓ | |
| U.S. Turns to Holistic Healthcare as Life Expectancy Drops For the first time in almost 25 years, the overall life expectancy for men and women living in the United States has declined. | ✓ ✓ | |
| Longevity Preparation : No Need to Become Frail As We Age Age-related frailty may be a treatable and preventable health problem, just like obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. | ||
| Hypothalamus Stem Cells Govern Rate of Aging Stem cells in the brain hypothalamus govern how fast aging occurs in the body, and could lead to new strategies for warding off age-related diseases and extending lifespan. | ||
| Life Expectancy for People With Parkinson's Disease and Lewy Body Dementia Mayo Clinic study provides answers for patients with Parkinsons disease, Lewy body dementia, multiple system atrophy with parkinsonism and Parkinsons disease dementia. | ||
| Epigenetic Clock Distinguishes Between Chronological and Biological Age Traditional clocks measure chronological time and age, an epigenetic clock can also measure biological age. | ✓ ✓ | |
| Average Life Expectancy Set to Increase in Developed Nations by 2030 Study analysed long-term data on mortality and longevity trends to predict how life expectancy will change in industrialised countries by the year 2030. | ||
| Europeans Living Longer, But Not Always in Good Health Europe 2016 European Commission/OECD report shows policies aimed at promoting good health, preventing diseases, and effective healthcare could save lives and billions of euros. | ||
| Individual Lifespans Becoming More Similar life expectancy and variation of individual lifespans tightly bound together by mathematical relationship. | ||
| Coenzyme NAD+ Has Potential to Postpone Aging Researchers find the substance NAD+ bridges gap between two main aging theories, repairs to the DNA and poor functioning mitochondria. | ||
| Why Women Live Longer than Men Exploring why women consistently outlive men, this article delves into immune function, oxidative stress responses, and genetic factors influencing longevity. | ✓ ✓ | |
| Increase in Disability-free Life Span Expectancy It used to be that when you turn 70, your occupation became managing your health, now you can increasingly just live your life. | ||
| Americans Living Longer But with Disability or Health Issues Study reveals Americans are living longer but with more years affected by disability or health issues, highlighting the need for early health interventions. | ✓ ✓ | |
| Inequality Linked to Large and Growing Gap in Lifespans Study reveals differences in lifespan exist along the entire continuum of wealth in the U.S.. | ||
| Scientific Secrets for Successful Aging Researchers discover metabolites that are specifically related to aging and shed light on how the human body ages. | ||
| Anti-aging Breakthrough for New Aging Treatments A breakthrough in understanding human skin cells offers a pathway for new anti-ageing treatments. | ||
| Longer Lives Now Mean More Years with Illness and Disability Longer lifespans now come with more years of illness and disability, highlighting a growing need for better long-term healthcare and disability support. | ✓ ✓ | |
| Understanding Aging: Insights into Gene Networks and Longevity Explores the biology of aging and gene network stability, offering potential insights into longevity and aging-related therapies. | ✓ ✓ | |
| Skin Looks Old On the Outside? You're Probably Old On the Inside Research reveals methods to assess biological aging in young adults, highlighting variability and the need for early health interventions. | ✓ ✓ | |
| Can Treadmill Performance Predict Mortality Formula estimates risk of dying over a decade based on ability to exercise on a treadmill at increasing speed and incline. | ||
| DNA Telomeres Predict Our Life Expectancy DNA end caps called telomeres are great predictors of life expectancy the shorter your telomeres, the shorter your lifespan. | ||
| Human DNA Clock Measures Lifespans Scientists identify biological clock that provides vital clues about how long a person is likely to live. | ||
| Doctor of Korean Medicine Vision on Banning Chemical Medicines Doctor of Korean medicine has been asserting banning of chemical medicines, and dreaming of extending the lifespan of humankind by 30 years, recently disclosed his specific visions for the realization of this dream.. | ||
| Workplace Health Programs Improve Life Expectancy and Health Steps to encourage adoption of evidence-based disease prevention and health promotion programs in the workplace. | ||
| Preventing Age-Related Bone and Muscle Health Decline Physical activity significantly improves musculoskeletal health in older adults through resistance training, endurance exercise, and proper nutrition. | ✓ ✓ | |
| Drug May Slow Aging and Related Disease New research helps explain the action of rapamycin a drug that appears to mimic dietary restriction. | ||
| Sense of Purpose Linked to Living Longer at Any Age Study Study of over 6,000 adults finds that having a sense of purpose in life predicts lower mortality risk at every age, regardless of retirement or emotional state. | ✓ ✓ | |
| Biological Age Calculator: Find Your True Health Age Use this free biological age calculator to estimate your true health age, life expectancy, and how lifestyle habits shape the way your body ages. | ✓ ✓ | |
| Numbers of Centenarians Rising : Women Continue to Outlive Males Study highlights findings that people are living longer and women make up a significant proportion of centenarians. | ||
| Slowing the Aging Process by Turning Off Human Aging Genes Computer algorithm developed by researchers identifies genes that could be transformed to stop the aging process. | ||
| New Definition for Defining Old Age Age is not just the number of years one has lived and a new study provides a set of tools for measuring age in all its dimensions. | ||
| Breakthrough for New Anti Aging Drug A single anti-aging enzyme in the body can be targeted with the potential to prevent age-related diseases and extend lifespans. | ||
| The Paradox of Aging - Why Older Adults Feel Better A UC San Diego study of over 1,000 older adults found that resilience and low depression matter as much as physical health in how people rate successful aging. | ✓ ✓ | |
| Gene Predicts Sleep Times and Likely Time of Death Biological clock regulates preferred sleep times, peak cognitive performance and timing of physiological processes and medical events like stroke and heart attack. | ||
| U.S. Life Span Expectancy Lags Behind Many Countries Despite modest longevity gains in lifespan over the past 100 years, the United States still trails many countries when it comes to life expectancy. | ✓ ✓ | |
| By Ridding Senescent Cells Age-related Disability May be Delayed or Prevented Onset of age related disorders and disabilities could be delayed or prevented by eliminating senescent cells that are no longer dividing. | ||
| Erasing Signs of Aging in Cells a Step Forward for Regenerative Medicine Rejuvenating cells from elderly donors were re-programmed in vitro to induced pluripotent stem cells and to rejuvenated and human embryonic stem cells. | ||
| Longevity Clinics or Anti Aging Centers Information and list of Longevity Clinics also known as Anti Aging Centers or Life Extension Institutes. | ||
| How to Age Successfully Information and tips on successful aging and how to age and stay healthy in your senior years. | ||
| Temporarily Reversing Aging in Immune System Research opens up possibility of temporarily reversing effects of aging on immunity and could allow for short-term boosting of the immune systems of seniors. |
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