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If You Want to Maximize Longevity, You’ve Got to Work for It
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If You Want to Maximize Longevity, You’ve Got to Work for It

Exercise and longevity have something of a love affair, but you don’t need push yourself to exhaustion to capitalize on this enormously beneficial fact. Read more about longevity and exercise.

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Preserving Telomere Length is Part of the Puzzle of Delaying Aging
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Preserving Telomere Length is Part of the Puzzle of Delaying Aging

Protecting our genetic data by preserving telomere length may be key to slowing down the process of aging and staving off its many related diseases. Learn more about telomeres, telomerase, and aging.

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Reversing Your “Biological Clock” May Be the Key to Longevity
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Reversing Your “Biological Clock” May Be the Key to Longevity

Aging isn’t just a roll of the genetic dice. How you live and what happens over the course of your life can have a huge effect on the outcome. Learn how you can maximize longevity through epigenetics.

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The Surprising Role of Your Gut Microbiome in Aging
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The Surprising Role of Your Gut Microbiome in Aging

Looking to age gracefully and healthily? Turns out, the secret to healthy aging might be found in your gut microbiome. Read on to find out what role your gut microbiome plays in aging and what you can do to help slow down the hands of time.

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Health checkup

A health checkup is a routine visit to find problems early and track health over time, for babies, women and men. Topics include screening tests, lab and blood tests, biopsies, scans and imaging, along with health literacy, family health history and personal health records.

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Screening

Tests

Biopsy

Scans and Imaging

Importance of Health Literacy

Longevity

Longevity is the length of a life, and research into it asks why some people live longer, healthier lives than others. Topics include longevity research, telomeres, epigenetics, inflammation, calorie restriction and healthy aging of the brain, heart and bones.

Nutrition

Nutrition is how the body takes in and uses food for energy, growth and health. Topics range from proteins, fats, carbohydrates and water to healthy eating at every age, diets such as the Mediterranean diet and the DASH eating plan, food as medicine and dietary supplements.

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Healthy Eating

Diets

Food is Medicine

Supplements

Exercise

Exercise benefits the body and mind at every age, and an inactive lifestyle carries risks of its own. Topics include walking, hiking and resistance training, exercise for children, women and older adults, preventing back pain, sports injuries and sarcopenia.

Benefits of Exercise

Exercise Demographic

Activity and Risks of an Inactive Lifestyle

Emotional health

Emotional health is the ability to handle feelings, stress and relationships, and it shapes overall well-being. Topics include social connection, burnout, grief and loneliness, emotional abuse, trauma and bullying, along with the mental health of children, teens, moms and older adults.

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Emotional Abuse

Emotional Demographic

Habits

Sleep

Sleep is when the body and brain rest and recover, on a daily cycle set by the circadian rhythm. Topics include how sleep works, dreams and napping, insomnia, sleep apnea, narcolepsy and restless legs syndrome, along with safe sleep for infants and sleep in older age.

Healthy Sleep

Sleep Disorders

Sleep Demographic

Sleep Apnea

Stress and anxiety

Stress is the body's response to pressure, while anxiety is worry or fear that can last after the pressure is gone. Topics include chronic stress and burnout, broken heart syndrome, generalized and social anxiety disorder, PTSD and ways to manage stress, such as massage and biofeedback.

Managing Chronic Stress

Types of Stress and Anxiety

Environmental health and smoking

Smoking and the environment both shape health, through the air, water and chemicals people are exposed to. Topics include cigarettes, vaping, secondhand smoke and quitting, along with air and water pollution, lead poisoning, pesticides and climate change.

Dangers of Smoking

Quitting Smoking

Nicotine

Environmental Risk

Weight loss

Weight loss and keeping a healthy weight depend on eating and activity and, for some people, on medicine or surgery. Topics include tips for successful weight loss, GLP-1s and other weight management medications, weight loss surgery, weight loss after pregnancy and supplements sold for weight loss.

Obesity and the science of fat

Body fat, or adipose tissue, stores energy and releases hormones, and obesity is an excess of it that harms health. Topics include visceral fat, being thin outside but fat inside, lipids and lipid metabolism, dietary fats, obesogens and preventing childhood obesity.

Consequences of obesity

Obesity raises the risk of many chronic conditions, in adults and in children. Linked conditions include type 2 diabetes, heart disease and stroke, high blood pressure, fatty liver disease, sleep apnea and osteoarthritis, along with a higher risk of some cancers.

Complementary and integrative medicine

Complementary and integrative medicine brings practices from outside mainstream care into treating the whole person. Topics include acupuncture, yoga and tai chi, herbal medicine, Ayurveda and traditional Chinese medicine, along with non-drug pain management.

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