Sentences with phrase «of healthy aging»

The new findings give a snapshot of the healthy aging brain — and it's a «positive» one, the researchers said.

* They also play an important role in the maintenance of proper immune system function and the support of healthy aging.

The idea was to study their DNA and learn the secrets of healthy aging.

* It is also known to play a critical role in the body's defense against oxidative processes and is especially helpful for maintenance of healthy aging.

Principal investigator, Professor Dame Linda Partridge, Director of the UCL Institute of Healthy aging and the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Aging, said: «Our aim is to identify ways to intervene in aging, with the end goal of keeping us all healthier for longer and compressing the time at the end of life when we suffer from physical decline and diseases.

PERFECT GIFT IDEA FOR ELDERLY PARENTS: maintaining senior wellness is an important part of the healthy aging process and physical exercises play an important role.

As assistant director of the Institute of Healthy Aging at University College London, Gems regularly runs experiments on Caenorhabditis elegans, a roundworm that is often used to study the biology of aging.

The presence of these antibodies in this subset of vulnerable older adults was associated with increased inflammatory burden, and with decline in grip strength, walking speed and increased number of falls,» says Neal Fedarko, Ph.D., professor of medicine and co-director of the Biology of Healthy Aging Program at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and the paper's senior author.

«With longevity and the ability to bear children at an older age associated with longer telomere length, this study suggests that a higher maternal age of successful child bearing may be a marker of healthy aging,» says Dr. JoAnn Pinkerton, NAMS executive director.

The atlas created using images from MRI scans of older people could aid diagnosis by comparing the patients» scans with a detailed map of the healthy aging brain.

The different signatures, which attest to the genetic complexity of EL, correlated with differences in the prevalence and age of onset of age - associated diseases (e.g., dementia, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease) and may help dissect this complex phenotype into subphenotypes of healthy aging.

An article titled, «The Balance of Healthy Aging» was featured in today's Harvard Gazette promoting IFAR's mobility and falls research.

«The time is right for pursuing the complex question of healthy aging given the rapid advances in analytical technologies and the expanding knowledge of the human genome and microbiome and their interactions.

New tools and technologies developed since the first sequencing of the human and other genomes are now allowing researchers to explore the human body in more detail than ever before, including identifying biological signatures (biomarkers) indicative and even predictive of healthy aging.

The team will then compare the microbiome and molecular profiles of the healthy aging group with those of the non-healthy aging group to identify biomarker candidates.

Also in previous studies, Hetzer and his team documented age - dependent declines in the functioning of NPCs in the neurons of healthy aging rats, which are laboratory models of human biology.

Put a different way: Our fork is so powerful it can not only transport food to our mouth, it can be used as a genetic on and off switch to alter our weight, blood pressure, blood cholesterol, cancer growth, and even our chances of healthy aging.

Thus, it becomes important for the primary care physician, who is the first line of diagnosis and treatment, to feel comfortable with the use of testosterone as a viable and safe short - and medium - term option in the therapeutic armamentarium of healthy aging and wellness preservation.

A new study from Harvard even suggests that a Mediterranean Diet has the power to lengthen telomeres which is a biomarker of healthy aging.

A Building Block of Healthy Aging Dynamic Chiropractic 2013 This essential quinine molecule is found in the mitochondria of every single cell in the body, where it plays a key role in energy production.

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There are 3 types of healthy aging benefits described in this review paper: Improved muscular motor coordination Normalized eating patterns and appetite Improved disposal of nitrogen and reduction of uremic Read More...

Given the importance ascribed to pro-inflammatory processes in long - term health outcomes and particularly long - term cardiovascular health (Hansson, 2005), better understanding factors contributing to pro-inflammatory tendencies has important implications for models of healthy aging.

He is the author of The Healthy Aging Brain, The Neuroscience of Human Relationships, The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy, and The Making of a Therapist.

Effects of healthy aging on hippocampal and rhinal memory functions: An event - related fMRI study

«Genes are 30 percent of healthy aging,» says Cheryl Osborne, chairman of the California State University - Sacramento gerontology program.

Identifying a drug target for aging is a crucial step in achieving this and by targeting GSK - 3, we could discover new ways of controlling the aging process in mammals, including humans,» explained lead researcher, Dr Jorge Iván Castillo - Quan, previously at UCL Institute of Healthy Aging, now at Harvard Medical School.

«Our aim is to develop treatments that would preserve well - functioning metabolism as part of healthy aging — something that would likely not ever include indulging in candy binges.»

* BCAAs also play an important role in the maintenance of proper immune system function and the support of healthy aging.

University Research Priority Program «Dynamics of Healthy Aging», University of Zurich, Switzerland

Co-first author, Dr Nazif Alic, UCL Institute of Healthy Aging, said: «Our aim is to understand the mechanisms of aging and alter the processes that lead to loss of function and to disease.

Co-first author, Dr Cathy Slack, UCL Institute of Healthy aging, said: «Identifying the importance of the Ras - Erk - ETS pathway in animal aging is a significant step on the way to developing treatments that delay the onset of aging.

Principal Investigator, Professor Dame Linda Partridge, Director of the UCL Institute of Healthy Aging and the Max Planck Institute for Biology of aging, said: «My groups study the changes in diet and genetic make - up that can slow down aging, with the aim of identifying drug targets for a broad - spectrum, preventative medicine for the diseases of human aging.

But it's extremely important for understanding fatal diseases in humans, especially those caused by ageing,» said Professor David Gems (UCL Institute of Healthy Ageing), who led the team of researchers.

«The way death spreads from cell to cell by calcium is like a house burning down,» said lead author Dr Evgeniy Galimov (UCL Institute of Healthy Ageing).

It is yet more evidence of how much we have to fear from excess sugar in the diet,» said co-author, Professor David Gems, UCL Institute of Healthy Ageing.

We don't know that it happens in humans, but the signs suggest that it could,» said first author, Dr Adam Dobson, UCL Institute of Healthy Ageing.

Senior author, Dr Nazif Alic, UCL Institute of Healthy Ageing, said: «The burden of age - related ill health is being exacerbated by poor diets and we know these can cause long - term, detrimental effects by programming our physiology.

Principal investigator, Professor Dame Linda Partridge, Director of the UCL Institute of Healthy Ageing and the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, said: «Our aim is to identify ways to intervene in ageing, with the end goal of keeping us all healthier for longer and compressing the time at the end of life when we suffer from physical decline and diseases.

Identifying a drug target for ageing is a crucial step in achieving this and by targeting GSK - 3, we could discover new ways of controlling the ageing process in mammals, including humans,» explained lead researcher, Dr Jorge Iván Castillo - Quan, previously at UCL Institute of Healthy Ageing, now at Harvard Medical School.

We are at University College London in the Research Department of Genetics, Evolution & Environment and associated with the UCL Cancer Institute, the Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, the UCL Genetics Institute, and the Institute of Healthy Ageing.

This is not a part of healthy aging.

In this online course, Dr. Baxter Bell will discuss the new guidelines, and explain why maintaining normal blood pressure is such an essential part of healthy aging.

One piece of research not mentioned in Dr Mosley's book is the work of Dr Matt Piper from the University College of London's Institute of Healthy Ageing.