Geriatrics

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What Are SuperAgers—and Why Their Brains Stay Young Science

What Are SuperAgers—and Why Their Brains Stay Young

SuperAgers are adults over 80 whose memory rivals people decades younger. Scientists have discovered they produce twice as many new neurons and carry...

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What Are Zombie Cells—and How They Drive Aging Science

What Are Zombie Cells—and How They Drive Aging

Senescent 'zombie' cells stop dividing but refuse to die, flooding tissues with inflammatory signals that accelerate aging and disease. Scientists are...

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How Smell Tests Detect Alzheimer's Before Memory Fades Science

How Smell Tests Detect Alzheimer's Before Memory Fades

Scientists have discovered that the sense of smell declines years before memory loss in Alzheimer's disease. Simple, low-cost olfactory tests may offe...

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How Bone Remodeling Works—and Why Bones Weaken Health

How Bone Remodeling Works—and Why Bones Weaken

Your skeleton completely rebuilds itself every decade through a process called bone remodeling. Understanding how osteoblasts and osteoclasts maintain...

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How Iron Builds Up in Your Brain—and Why It Matters Science

How Iron Builds Up in Your Brain—and Why It Matters

Iron is essential for brain function, but as we age it accumulates in key brain regions, damaging neurons and driving cognitive decline. Scientists ar...

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Sarcopenic Obesity Increases Mortality by 83% Health

Sarcopenic Obesity Increases Mortality by 83%

A 12-year follow-up study has found that the combination of abdominal fat and low muscle mass – sarcopenic obesity – increases the risk of all-cause m...

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What Is Sarcopenic Obesity and Why Is It So Dangerous? Health

What Is Sarcopenic Obesity and Why Is It So Dangerous?

Sarcopenic obesity combines excess body fat with declining muscle mass, creating a vicious cycle that raises mortality risk by up to 83%. Here is how...

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What Is the Thymus—and Why It Matters for Longevity Health

What Is the Thymus—and Why It Matters for Longevity

Long dismissed as irrelevant after childhood, the thymus gland is now recognized as a key driver of immune health throughout adult life—and new resear...

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Fatty Acids Kill Senescent Cells, Could Slow Aging Science

Fatty Acids Kill Senescent Cells, Could Slow Aging

Researchers at the University of Minnesota have identified conjugated polyunsaturated fatty acids that selectively destroy senescent cells via ferropt...

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Blood Protein Shapes Reveal Alzheimer's Years Early Health

Blood Protein Shapes Reveal Alzheimer's Years Early

A landmark study published in Nature Aging has identified structural changes in three blood proteins that can detect Alzheimer's disease years before...

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What Is Glaucoma and How Does It Damage Vision? Health

What Is Glaucoma and How Does It Damage Vision?

Glaucoma is a leading cause of irreversible blindness worldwide, silently destroying the optic nerve over years before most people notice any symptoms...

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How Alzheimer's Disease Develops in the Brain Health

How Alzheimer's Disease Develops in the Brain

Alzheimer's disease begins silently decades before any symptoms appear. Here is what actually happens inside the brain — from rogue proteins to dying...

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