Scroll through any wellness feed right now and you’ll find two things everywhere: People sitting in saunas. And people sitting in ice baths. Both are promoted as longevity tools. Both come with bold claims. Which begs the question: What’s real here? And...
If you had to pick one metric to sum up how well your body is aging, what would it be? Blood pressure? Cholesterol? Body weight? All of these are important. But there’s another number that outperforms each of these when it comes to predicting longevity. And...
Ask people what they do to protect their memory and cognition, and you’ll hear a familiar list: Eat well. Exercise. Do puzzles. Stay socially connected. Get quality sleep. Almost nobody says, “Get my hearing checked.” And yet, when researchers rank...
Hormones work by fitting into receptors that are found throughout your body. Hormone molecules are kind of like keys, and hormone receptors are like the locks that fit those keys. When a hormone molecule meets its corresponding receptor, a message is sent. And that...
Medications transforming the world of weight loss could have an unexpected secondary benefit: Protecting the brain from age-related decline. A growing body of evidence suggests that GLP-1 agonists like semaglutide and tirzepatide may be associated with reductions in...
Over the past two decades, researchers have come to think of skeletal muscle as being more than just machinery. Rather, it’s an endocrine organ that manufactures and releases chemical messengers into your bloodstream. This reframe has important implications for...
