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Healthy Lifestyle Habits Add Years of Good Health in Older Adults
In healthy older adults, sticking to four proven lifestyle habits—good diet, exercise, no smoking, and moderate alcohol—statistically adds about 10 months of healthy living per person over 6 years and …
Rethinking senescent cells: When to stop them, when to keep them
This paper makes a compelling case that we've been thinking about senescent cells too simplistically. Not all aging cells are bad—some actually keep tissues healthy. Future therapies might work better …
Why Aging Cells Sometimes Help—and Sometimes Hurt—Muscle Repair
This paper explains why aging cells are a paradox in muscle repair: briefly helpful during healing, but harmful when they stick around. If this mechanism is correct, drugs that remove …
How a protein that ages cells might be reversed to restore youthful growth
This lab study suggests one type of cellular aging caused by loss of a specific protein might be reversible—a promising idea, but far too early to be relevant to human …
Rethinking Cellular Aging: Why One-Size-Fits-All Approaches to Senescence Are Failing
This paper doesn't report new discoveries—it's a thoughtful critique arguing that anti-aging researchers have been oversimplifying senescence and should embrace its complexity instead of chasing universal fixes. It's credible as …