Newsweek covered research from Pinchas Cohen that tied a rare mutation to a greatly reduced risk of developing Parkinson’s disease.
Los Angeles Times spoke with John Walsh about Loma Linda and the concepts of Blue Zones, along with how to verify claims of Blue Zone communities. Yahoo News republished the article. The column noted that Walsh has seen firsthand some of the benefits of the culture in Nosara, the Costa Rican Blue Zone community, having taught a gerontology class there. “Longevity research is a real slippery slope, with way too many researchers around the world cashing in on humanity’s fear of aging, frailty and death,” he said.
The New York Times and KCRW-FM spoke with Eileen Crimmins about U.S. life expectancy increasing after a post-pandemic decline and why U.S. life expectancy lags behind other wealthy countries. “We’re halfway back to what we lost. But we certainly have a very long ways to go before we get to where life expectancy should be.”
DailyMail republished comments from Pinchas Cohen about millionaire Bryan Johnson’s journey to battle aging and the inevitability of death.
NPR interviewed Eileen Crimmins about the U.S. life expectancy recovering after a post-pandemic decline and why U.S. life expectancy lags behind other wealthy countries. KPBS and LAist republished the article; multiple NPR and APM radio stations around the country aired the story.
Crimmins says other wealthy countries in Europe and Asia do much better on preventing early deaths from causes such as heart disease, gun violence, giving birth and infectious diseases for which there are vaccines. “These are things that don’t require scientific investigation to know how to actually prevent them,” she says. “Other countries prevent them. We don’t.”
Woman’s World mentioned a study co-authored by Valter Longo of USC Leonard Davis that looked at the benefits of intermittent fasting and how it can promote the growth of hormones in women. The Sacramento Bee and Yahoo Liferepublished the article.
Discover quoted Caleb Finch in an article on animals with “negligible senescence” that appear to defy aging. “We know how to describe it, but we don’t know the fundamental basis that allows species that have the same kinds of cells and heart and lungs and breathe air, how they can have differences that range as short as a year, or as long as 200 years. … We know lots of things happen, but we don’t have anything like a global understanding of aging in terms of mechanisms.”
USC Annenberg Media mentioned the USC EatWell subcommittee co-led by Cary Kreutzer and the resources for healthy eating provided by the group.
Insider published an article about Valter Longo of USC Leonard Davis about supplements that may help individuals live longer and what is his “vegan plus fish” diet. Yahoo News republished the article.
Psychology Today featured research coauthored by Teal Eich regarding the motivations underlying curiosity.
- Helping USC Eat Healthy, One Choice at a Time
- Celebrating Professor Emeritus Jon Pynoos
- Study: Newly Discovered Beneficial Mutation in Mitochondrial DNA Appears to Help Alzheimer’s Gene Carriers Live Longer, Stay Sharper and Represents a New Direction in Drug Discovery
- Study: Neurotransmitters are Involved in Memory Aging in Different Ways
- Fasting-Like Diet Lowers Risk Factors for Disease, Reduces Biological Age in Humans
