Here are some articles that caught my eye over the past several days.
Can We Live Longer but Stay Younger?
Here’s a long though fascinating look at what goes on in the AgeLab, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge. Here researchers work not only on adaptive devices to help with the problems of physical aging but also on questions about whether those problems of aging can be biologically controlled.
Thinking About Retirement? Start With A Book
Retirement expert Sara Zeff Geber offers some reading suggestions in this article for Forbes.
How to Get the Best From Your Immune System
Here’s a booster for your immune system: an explanation of how it works and how to take care of it.
Most older adults don’t ask doctors about dementia, survey says
Only 10 percent of people between ages 50 and 64 with a family history of dementia say they have talked to a doctor about preventing memory problems, according to the National Poll on Healthy Aging published Wednesday at the University of Michigan.
How to Revisit the Ghosts of Your Past
We all have moments from our past that gnaw at us — a regret, an unanswered question, an old tragedy. We obsess over these moments when we can’t sleep, or when we need a good cry. But most days, we try to ignore these unwelcome memories, pushing them aside so we can buy groceries or go to work or do new things that we won’t regret. Our poor choices and hurt feelings fade to the background, until another quiet moment beckons them to come pick at us again.
In this way, a single moment can pester us for years and years — unless we return to the past and confront it head on.
Kalila Holt has some advice on how to undertake the process of confronting such moments head on.
Arthritis supplement glucosamine may lower heart disease risk
Finally, some good news:
Glucosamine has long been used as a supplement to help ease the joint pain of arthritis, but new research suggests its anti-inflammatory properties might also lower heart disease risk.
Novel Alzheimer’s drug passes first phase of human testing
And a bit more good news:
A new drug for treating Alzheimer’s disease has successfully passed the first phase of testing in humans. Preclinical studies had already shown that the drug could improve memory and other symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease in older mice.
© 2019 by Mary Daniels Brown
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