Sentences with phrase «as centenarian»

As a centenarian, Weintraub is part of another significant moment: the nation's rapid demographic shift into very old age.

Longo's research culling epidemiological studies, as well as centenarian studies and his own research with various populations, points to not just the «self - eating» phenomenon of autophagy burning out aberrant cells first (not muscle mass, my friends, not unless that muscle needed replacing)--

Not exact matches

Pinker took an in - depth look at the life - long habits of centenarians in Sardinia, an Italian island that boasts six times as many centenarians as the mainland, and ten times as many as North America.

We're going to try and find out why they've outlasted hundreds of thousands of other restaurants by visiting these centenarians in person and talking to the owners, chefs, wait staff, and (perhaps most importantly) customers, as to why they think their restaurant has survived and flourished in one of the most competitive businesses in the country.

It became evident that without abdication states risked a succession of extremely elderly kings and queens, as the crown was passed from centenarian to octogenarian.

Meanwhile, the flow of political donations from centenarian Leonard Litwin's Glenwood slowed to a trickle following the arrests in Albany, and the real estate industry as a whole is falling behind in spending as hedge funds pump money into lobbying for education reform.

Glenwood, headed by centenarian Leonard Litwin, had also recommended that an environmental technology firm, Ab Tech Industries, hire Skelos» son as a consultant, authorities said.

As a physician who works with these centenarians, I can tell you that they are far more complex than mice.

When researchers study centenarians, people who live to be 100 or older — as Barzilai and his colleagues have been doing at Albert Einstein for more than a decade — they find that these well - aged individuals are certainly not immune to chronic diseases, but they get them later in life.

Still, when Barzilai and his colleagues questioned the near centenarians as part of their aging studies, the genetic determinant of longevity took the researchers by surprise.

The researchers found that, based on subjects» genetic profiles, the centenarians could be further divided into 19 subgroups, some of which were associated with delayed onset of age - related diseases such as dementia, hypertension and cardiovascular disease.

Centenarians show successful aging as they remain active and alert at very old ages.

Already, Rothberg says they've done 30 centenarian genomes as a pilot project.

More expansive genetic studies are now underway as researchers «look at the rate of genetic variation across the entire genome» of centenarians, says Thomas Perls, director of the New England Centenarian Study at Boston University.

He suspects that centenarians lack genes that predispose them to geriatric diseases and possess genes — as yet unidentified — that protect them from the ravages of time.

Health improvement (allowing to post - pone / escape the diseases and thus live, healthier / disease - free longer, but not above human MLSP of around 122 years; thus these therapies do not affect epigenetic aging whatsoever, they are degenerative aging problems not regular healthy aging problem (except OncoSENS - only when you Already Have Cancer - which cancer increases epigenetic aging, but cancer removal thus does not change anything / makes no difference about what happens in the other cells / about what happens in the normal epigenetic «aging» course in Normal non-cancerous healthy cells) Although there is not such thing as «healthy aging» all aging in «unhealthy» (as seen from elders who are «healthy enough» who show much damage), it's just «tolerable / liveable» enough (in terms of damage accumulating) that it does not affect their quality of life (enough yet), that is «healthy aging»: ApoptoSENS - Clearing Senescent Cells (this will have great impact to reduce diseases, the largest one, since it's all inflammation fueled by the inflammation secretory phenotype (SASP) of these senescent cells) AmyloSENS - Dissolving the Plaques (this will allow humans to evade Alzheimer's, Parkinsons and general brain degenerescence, allowing quite a boost; making people much more easily reach the big 100 - since the brain is causal to how long we live; keeping brain amyloid - free and keeping our memories / neuron sharp / means longer LongTerm Potentiation - means longer brain function means longer heavy brain mass (gray matter / white matter retention seen in «sharp - witted» Centenarians who show are younger brain for their age), and both are correlated to MLSP).

Also centenarian cardiac senyle amyloidosis (transthyretin) which kills supercentenarians from this plaque in their hearts, will be reduced by this therapy since it shares similar mechanism as amyloid and parkin (son).

Same thing in giant turtles who normoglycemic or hypoglycemic for their entire life; Centenarians have reduced blood glucose levels and reduced blood glucose increase over the years, their blood glucose is monotonic plateau, where as elders dying below 80s show blood glucose rise each decade until their death, their pancreatic Beta cells can't secrete enough insulin and they are mildly pre - diabetic / insulin resistant.

When we study centenarian diets in detail, we note that over 80 percent of calories in their diet comes from vegetables, fruit, legumes, and complex carbohydrates, such as whole grains, brown rice, oats, and sweet potatoes.

From merely surviving to thriving, we can study those centenarian hot spots also known as «blue zones.»

Most studies show centenarian diets to be pretty similar to those of the society as a whole, while supercentenarian diets are generally low - carb high - fat.

14 Lard was traditionally used in cooking on the island and although it may not be used as much today, the Okinawan centenarians were using lard most of their lives, lives that began long before the USDA decided to tell us all to eat canola oil.

As I mentioned yesterday, I have a Google Alert for centenarian stories and have been reading about them for some time.

«This report suggests that specific substrains of bifidobacteria from guts of healthy centenarians in China may be of particular value and have the potential to be used as probiotic supplements», the researchers conclude.

There are other credibility problems with the Okinawa Centenarian Study, at least as interpreted in the author's popular books.

If we want to use populations as an example, the most long lived population, the Okinawans, had the most centenarians per capita in the 1950's.

«Centenarians represent a rare phenotype appearing in roughly 10 — 20 per 100,000 persons in most industrialized countries but as high as 40 — 50 per 100,000 persons in Okinawa, Japan.

[Cell 2011] While there are no human studies involving spermidine, centenarians are known to exhibit healthy levels of polyamines such as spermidine.

Paul Jaminet writes «As I mentioned yesterday, I have a Google Alert for centenarian stories and have been reading about them for some time.

Fit centenarians have high vitamin D levels A relatively high vitamin D level may enable you to reach a ripe old age and avoid chronic diseases such as cancer, diabetes type - 2 and cardiovascular disease.

Mind you, I'm not talking about bread and pasta and pizza, but detailed studies of centenarian diets show that over 80 percent of calories in their diet comes from vegetables, fruit, legumes, and complex carbohydrates, such as whole grains, brown rice, oats, and sweet potatoes.

Adventist Online Dating She calls the online dating hub «a reputable place where centenarian vegetarians otherwise known as Seventh - day Adventist, can meet their special friend.»

An old friend who really loves high - performance cars — he has owned as many as five Porsches at once and still keeps three rarities — bought a Maserati GranTurismo a year or two ago just because he thought it was beautiful and would be the perfect car to use when he goes to visit his centenarian grandmother.

As Leonard Manasseh becomes our first centenarian Royal Academician, his cousin, the architectural historian Timothy Brittain - Catlin, takes a look at a career of over 80 years.

CNN just aired a new interview with that upbeat, optimistic centenarian James Lovelock, actually just 88, who says his usual stuff about it's too late to do anything about it, but adds that in his view, 500 million people will survive the Troubles, or what others have called «The Great Interruption» from 2050 to 3050, by taking refuge in the Arctic Basin, as well as in island nations such as the UK, New Zealand, Tasmania and a few «oases» in North and South America (maybe Colorado Rockies, Banff, Patagonia, Machu Pichu).

There's no work / life balance for centenarian Texas lawyer Jack Borden, who today is honored as «America's Outstanding Oldest Worker for 2009.»

Kato, K. et al. (2012) Positive attitude towards life and emotional expression as personality phenotypes for centenarians.

Today's centenarians had to survive the war years, as well as the diseases that in the 1960s struck down so many of their generation in middle age, such as heart attack and cancer.