Sentences with phrase «disease processes of aging»

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Walking reduces depression, lowers your risk of diabetes, cancer, depression, and heart disease, slows down the aging process, and improves cognitive abilities.

Some intermittent fasting methods even claim that this on - and - off eating plan can help regulate blood sugar, prevent diabetes, lower the risk of heart disease and slow the aging process.

Due to its super-potent antioxidants, cacao has been shown to protect the nervous system, slow our aging process, reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease and stoke, and reduce both blood pressure and insulin resistance levels.

Regular servings of antioxidant rich fruits is thought to slow down the ageing process, lower cholesterol levels, improve circulation and help prevent disease.

«Restricting calories can slow your basal metabolism, and if by - products of metabolism accelerate aging processes, calorie restriction sustained over several years may help to decrease risk for chronic disease and prolong life,» says lead author Leanne M. Redman, associate professor of Clinical Sciences at Pennington Biomedical Research in Baton Rouge, LA.

«Cognitive aging is not a disease or a level of impairment — it is a lifelong process that affects everyone,» explains lead author Dr. Sharon K. Inouye, Director of the Aging Brain Center at the Institute for Aging Research, Hebrew SeniorLife in Boston, Massachusetts and Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical Scaging is not a disease or a level of impairment — it is a lifelong process that affects everyone,» explains lead author Dr. Sharon K. Inouye, Director of the Aging Brain Center at the Institute for Aging Research, Hebrew SeniorLife in Boston, Massachusetts and Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical ScAging Brain Center at the Institute for Aging Research, Hebrew SeniorLife in Boston, Massachusetts and Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical ScAging Research, Hebrew SeniorLife in Boston, Massachusetts and Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

An expert panel convened by the Institute of Medicine clarified the cognitive aging process by making a distinction from Alzheimer disease and related dementias, and provided recommendations to enhance cognitive health in older adults.

After undergoing the complex process, nine of the 10 participants, who suffered from cognitive impairment or memory loss associated with Alzheimer's, displayed improvement in memory three to six months into the program — a joint venture between the Mary S. Easton Center for Alzheimer's Disease Research at UCLA and the Buck Institute for Research on Aging.

«We've known that aging is a major risk factor for most chronic diseases for some time, but recently, we've gained a better understanding of the aging process's basic underpinnings, which has allowed us to extend both life span and health — in animals at least,» says Felipe Sierra, director of the Division of Aging Biology at the National Institute on Aaging is a major risk factor for most chronic diseases for some time, but recently, we've gained a better understanding of the aging process's basic underpinnings, which has allowed us to extend both life span and health — in animals at least,» says Felipe Sierra, director of the Division of Aging Biology at the National Institute on Aaging process's basic underpinnings, which has allowed us to extend both life span and health — in animals at least,» says Felipe Sierra, director of the Division of Aging Biology at the National Institute on AAging Biology at the National Institute on AgingAging.

Aging, after all, is not a disease but a natural process, the accumulation of defects that our bodies simply do not have the wherewithal to repair.

Researchers only discovered this process in the late 1990s, but they've already begun dozens of clinical trials to gauge whether infusing patients with these small RNAs works against a range of diseases, from lung infections to liver cancer to age - related macular degeneration, a sight - stealing condition that mainly affects people over the age of 50.

LONDON, UK, and MENLO PARK, CA September 15, 1997 — Chiroscience Group pic (CRO - L), through its subsidiary Darwin Molecular Corporation, and Geron Corporation (NASDAQ: GERN) today announce a research collaboration agreement focusing on diseases associated with the process of aging.

So with fast walkers, high blood pressure may be more indicative of underlying disease and not just a symptom of the aging process.»

Sarcopenia is a disease associated with the aging process, resulting in loss of skeletal muscle mass and muscle strength and / or function in the elderly.

These findings causally link sleep deprivation to the etiology of biological aging, and further supports the hypothesis that sleep deprivation may be associated with elevated disease risk because it promotes molecular processes involved in biological aging.

The researchers found that TyrNovo's novel and unique compound, named NT219, selectively inhibits the process of aging in order to protect the brain from neurodegenerative diseases, without affecting lifespan.

Antioxidants in blueberries are linked to the prevention / delaying of diseases such as cancer, heart disease, and the aging process.

The ultimate goal, of course, is to be able to intervene in the aging process itself, rather than addressing killers like heart disease or cancer in isolation, Belsky said.

As noted in the study by Crimmins and lead author Morgan E. Levine, assistant professor at the Yale Center for Research on Aging: «A deceleration of the human aging process, whether accomplished through environment or biomedical intervention, would push the timing of aging - related disease and disability incidence closer to the end of life.&rAging: «A deceleration of the human aging process, whether accomplished through environment or biomedical intervention, would push the timing of aging - related disease and disability incidence closer to the end of life.&raging process, whether accomplished through environment or biomedical intervention, would push the timing of aging - related disease and disability incidence closer to the end of life.&raging - related disease and disability incidence closer to the end of life.»

Among them, novel genes like RHEBL1, AMHR2, PSMG1, or AGER were identified that have never before been linked to general aging processes and lifespan, but are known to directly contribute to the development of aging - associated diseases like cancer or Alzheimer's disease in humans.

Although what drives this process has not been clear, studies have indicated that caspace - 2 might be involved, according to senior author Michael Shelanski, MD, PhD, the Delafield Professor of Pathology & Cell Biology, chair of the Department of Pathology & Cell Biology, and co-director of the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain at CUMC.

«These results suggest that inflammation in mid-life may be an early contributor to the brain changes that are associated with Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia,» said study author Keenan Walker, PhD, of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Md. «Because the processes that lead to brain cell loss begin decades before people start showing any symptoms, it is vital that we figure out how these processes that happen in middle age affect people many years later.»

As adults age, changes in physical health can be a natural part of the process, as can cognitive decline, which can range from normal change in cognition to the onset of disorders such as dementia or Alzheimer's disease.

I have the privilege and responsibility to provide strategic vision and leadership to an outstanding team of scientists focused on one of the most crucial biomedical challenges of our time: How do we alter the aging process in order to prevent, delay, or cure the chronic diseases that afflict almost all of us as we grow older?

«We discovered that these fatty acids are produced by the brain, that they build up slowly with normal aging, but that the process is accelerated significantly in the presence of genes that predispose to Alzheimer's disease,» explained Karl Fernandes.

Mark Albers uses the olfactory system of mice and humans to help understand the early events of neurodegeneration in order to find ways to intervene early in the disease process before symptoms appear and distinguish early pathologic events from changes produced by aging.

LA JOLLA — A study tying the aging process to the deterioration of tightly packaged bundles of cellular DNA could lead to methods of preventing and treating age - related diseases such as cancer, diabetes and Alzheimer's disease, as detailed April 30, 2015, in Science.

These processes often break down as a result of aging, neurodegenerative disorders (e.g. Alzheimer's disease), or traumatic brain injury, and the new findings provide a roadmap to examine strategies to improve these functions.

The HOPE study tracks the memory and cognition abilities of elderly adults with varying degrees of cognitive decline to provide insight into the aging process and the progression of Alzheimer's disease.

Its impairment is closely associated with the process of aging, the progress of neuro - degenerative and neuro - muscular diseases and cell death.

Collectively, these will advance the understanding of the role ChrX plays in the etiology of age - related diseases, which will also have an important positive impact on our understanding of sex differences in aging processes.

Emphasis on protein biomarkers for diabetes, diseases of the kidneys and urogenital tract and the aging process

For setting cancer in the context of ageing tissue, study of normal adult homeostasis is important — we are studying mutational processes, clonal dynamics and cellular competition in thousands of non-cancerous cells and samples from a range of tissue types, in health and disease.

It is based on the scientific understanding and high - throughput analyses of human immune responses to disease - related proteins in selected populations including elderly with the capability to stay healthy during the aging process.

That damage accumulates with age to cause secondary effects, which in turn cause further issues, and by the time the process of dysfunction rises to the level of being called a disease it has become a huge mess of broken mechanisms, confusion, and dead ends.

LysoSENS - I always believe in sole one (might be to hopeful with bacterial enzyme - filled nanorobots clearing lipofuscin) Reversing Heart Disease, not just heart disease, reverting the major age pigment accumulation problem - lipofuscin in lysosomes that is a major cause of aging (by blocking the proteasome, blocking autophagy and mitophagy process (critical for cell surDisease, not just heart disease, reverting the major age pigment accumulation problem - lipofuscin in lysosomes that is a major cause of aging (by blocking the proteasome, blocking autophagy and mitophagy process (critical for cell surdisease, reverting the major age pigment accumulation problem - lipofuscin in lysosomes that is a major cause of aging (by blocking the proteasome, blocking autophagy and mitophagy process (critical for cell survival).

Oisín Biotechnologies» ground - breaking research and technology is demonstrating that the solution to mitigating the effects of age - related diseases is to address the damage created by the aging process itself.

AD, PD, and other diseases and functional deficits of degenerative aging processes emerge from the ongoing and often mutually - reinforcing accumulation of multiple forms of cellular and molecular damage.

In all but a few people with rare mutations, degenerative aging processes (such as the accumulation of mitochondrial mutations in SNc neurons) are primarily responsible for the disease.

It may be that, most likely, 5 of the therapies will impact health to nullify many disease but will not change the «aging» process (the one that is disconnected from telomeres but related with epigenetics) and 2 last therapies will be of intrinsic aging, of which one could end up not doing anything but remain a mitochondrial improvement manifesting as removal of mitopathies (such as MELAS) but would not alter the course of aging (such as the seperate epigenetic aging going on).

Believed to be one of the primary actors in the aging process, free radicals are also implicated in numerous age - related diseases, including cancer, heart disease, stroke, and many neurological disorders.

Their work builds upon and may potentially supersede several previous approaches to the problem of mitochondrial mutations that occur as a result of the degenerative aging process, including allotopic protein expression, (6) its optimization using an MTS, (3 - 5) and the exploitation of the multiprotein RNA import complex (RIC) of the protozoal parasite Leishmania tropica (7)(which the investigators characterize as «requir [ing] the introduction of nonnative tRNAs with foreign protein factors or the transfer of a large multisubunit aggregate into cells, which is of low efficiency and difficult to reproduce in desirable disease - relevant settings» (2)-RRB-.

To assess whether a process, such as the onset of a disease, might indeed be coupled to aging, requires measuring the joint distribution of lifespan and disease onset to establish at least a correlation between the two.

A rare, premature aging disease, Hutchinson - Gilford progeria is caused by a single point mutation in the gene encoding lamin A, which forms a protein scaffold on the inner edge of the nucleus that helps maintain chromatin structure and organize nuclear processes such as RNA and DNA synthesis.

Using replicative senescence as a cellular model, we will dissect the functions of ATR and ATM in the process of aging and in premature aging diseases.

Some may believe that Alzheimer's disease is an inconvenient loss of memory and a normal part of the aging process.

These fibrotic processes, nowadays more frequently detected, may be related to defects in the repair process and / or to an increased incidence of autoimmune diseases due to ageing.

LA JOLLA — A study tying the aging process to the deterioration of tightly packaged bundles of cellular DNA could lead to methods of preventing and treating age - related diseases such as cancer,...

Whatever the goal of the researcher, the Director of the Core, Dr. Simon Melov, has a broad and deep experience in the investigation of basic processes of aging and age - related disease in multiple organisms and tissues.

National Institute on Aging (NIA)-- Est. 1974 NIA leads a national program of research on the biomedical, social, and behavioral aspects of the aging process; the prevention of age - related diseases and disabilities; and the promotion of a better quality of life for all older AmeriAging (NIA)-- Est. 1974 NIA leads a national program of research on the biomedical, social, and behavioral aspects of the aging process; the prevention of age - related diseases and disabilities; and the promotion of a better quality of life for all older Ameriaging process; the prevention of age - related diseases and disabilities; and the promotion of a better quality of life for all older Americans.