CNN carried a KFF Health News article on the disturbing lack of public outcry over persistently higher COVID death rates among seniors. Robert Kramer, co-founder and strategic advisor at the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care, told the reporter that his classes at USC and elsewhere emphasize that when seniors thrive, all people thrive.
Los Angeles Times, in a column, noted that Valter Longo of USC Leonard Davis advises that supplement-heavy diets that include drug therapies like the one promoted by Bryan Johnson could be harmful. “You can cause short-term benefits, but eventually that will probably turn into long-term problems.”
US News & World Report and UPI ran a Health Day article about research by Caleb Finch of USC Leonard Davis showing there was very little mention of dementia in ancient Rome and Greece, based on a text analysis. More coverage appeared in Lab Roots and Daily Mail.
IFL Science, Earth.com and The Times (Greece) featured a study by Caleb Finch, a University Professor at the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, in which he analyzed medical texts from ancient Greece and Roman and found only rare mentions of severe memory loss, suggesting that today’s widespread dementia stems from modern environments and lifestyles. “The ancient Greeks had very, very few – but we found them – mentions of something that would be like mild cognitive impairment,” Finch said. “When we got to the Romans, and we uncovered at least four statements that suggest rare cases of advanced dementia – we can’t tell if it’s Alzheimer’s. So, there was a progression going from the ancient Greeks to the Romans.”