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Researchers followed 147,374 people for up to 30 years and found that 90 to 119 minutes of strength training a week — roughly two gym sessions — was linked to a 27% lower risk of dying from neurological disease and a 19% lower risk of cardiovascular death, with no further longevity benefit apparent beyond two hours a week
2+ hour, 55+ min ago (595+ words) A large observational study reports that adults who did about 90 to 119 minutes of resistance training a week had lower mortality rates than those who...
Scientists have found a Heliconius butterfly that barely seems to age, living several times longer than its close relatives and showing little sign of physical decline — and its biology may hold clues to why a few animals escape the usual rules of ageing
2+ day, 9+ hour ago (409+ words) A tropical butterfly genus best known for bright wing patterns and mimicry has now become interesting for a quieter reason: some of its members live much...
Growing Up Poor Leaves a Mark on the Body's Aging Clock
1+ mon, 1+ day ago (162+ words) Somewhere in a methylation dataset sits a child of ten whose body is already running fast. Not sick, not visibly different from the kid at the next desk,...
Three Common Sleep Habits Linked to Signs of Brain Aging
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (29+ words) A daytime nap feels like a small mercy. Twenty minutes on the sofa, a quick reset, and you wake sharper than before. Yet of all the things 23,000...
Four Weeks of Eating Differently Can Make Your Body Biologically Younger, New Study Finds
2+ mon, 1+ day ago (26+ words) Your body keeps two clocks. One ticks forward a year every year, without exception, without appeal. The other is less obedient. It responds to what you...
Running, Lifting, or Both: Why Combining Exercise Types Cuts Heart Risk by Nearly Half
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (1184+ words) ScienceBlog.com is an independent daily science news publication covering peer-reviewed research across all major scientific disciplines. Founded in 2002, it is one of the longest-running science news sites on the internet. It curates and reports on breakthroughs from universities, research…...
A Few Hours of Brain Training in Your Sixties Could Ward Off Dementia Two Decades Later
5+ mon, 4+ day ago (549+ words) ScienceBlog.com...
Cells Reorganizing Their Factories May Explain Why We Age
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (916+ words) Artistic render of an endoplasmic reticulum (ER) network transitioning from ER sheet structures (green) to tubular structures (magenta), similar to what is observed during aging in C. elegans. (Kris Burkewitz) IN YOUR body right now, millions of tiny factories are quietly…...
The World’s Oldest People Are Real, and Scientists Can Prove It
6+ mon, 1+ week ago (254+ words) “What we show in this paper is that the original blue zones meet—and often exceed—the strict validation criteria used worldwide to confirm exceptional human longevity,” Austad explains. That rigor matters because it protects the scientific value of these…...
Gene From 100-Year-Olds Reverses Heart Damage in Aging Kids
8+ mon, 3+ week ago (609+ words) A young girl with progeria Image credit: CC BY 2.5 via Wikimedia Commons Scientists have borrowed a trick from people who live past 100 to tackle one of medicine’s cruelest puzzles: a disease that makes children age at warp speed. In a…...