Health Span

If you were to close your eyes and let your mind wander, how would you think about your current self? What age do you feel like you are? Does your sense of yourself jive with your actual birth date? What do you think people your actual age should look like?…

We’ve certainly posted articles in agebuzz over the years about strategies for extending both your health span and life span. While there are innumerable ideas about diet, exercise, brain engagement, and stress reduction, it can be overwhelming in your daily life to remember what you can do to improve your…

While not all of us are on track to becoming centenarians, enough of us are that it’s worth studying how people get there and how those with such long lives can live fully and robustly for as long as possible. Only about 1 % of Americans reach age 100 but…

While Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and solitary scientists toil away at pushing the boundaries of human mortality, a dose of reality was recently interjected into the ongoing conversations about how long humans can live. A multi-national team of scientists just published findings that conclude that aging continues to be a relatively…

While there may be no desire to return to our 20s or 30s, many of us wouldn’t mind if we could just slow down the aging process a bit: maybe forestall some of the aches and pains that seem to arise anew every few months, or lessen the challenges of…

It’s one of the oldest mysteries of mankind, not yet solved but with innumerable theories and millions of dollars devoted to the definitive answer. The mystery is: Why do we age, how do we age, and is there a way to thwart the aging process? (Of course, a whole separate…