Good Morning America interviewed Valter Longo about his work indicating a fasting-mimicking diet could improve health and extend lifespan. “By doing 5 days of 800 to 110 calories, we’re very far from starving the body, but we’re just starting to push the cells into this reset mode. If you go too long, you can slow metabolism and start having problems, and if you go too short, you never go into this reprogramming, this stem cell activation.” The story has also aired across ABC affiliates nationwide.
The USC Leonard Davis community recently gathered to honor and celebrate the distinguished career and retirement of Professor Jon Pynoos, PhD.
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The typical path for many PhD students is a research career in academia, government or the private sector. Recent USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology graduate Brenda Eap, PhD chose a path less traveled — political advocacy.
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New York Times featured an article on Valter Longo and his research on diet and fasting for longevity. “I want to live to 120, 130. It really makes you paranoid now because everybody’s like, ‘Yeah, of course you got at least to get to 100,’” he said. “You don’t realize how hard it is to get to 100.”
Findings suggest the rare variant prevents Alzheimer’s onset by clearing away amyloid-beta buildup in long-lived carriers of APOE4, the gene most strongly associated with disease risk.
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International collaboration of USC and Max Planck Institute for Human Development investigates the role of noradrenaline and dopamine in memory loss.
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CNBC interviewed John Walsh about President Biden’s age. Walsh said that the “occasional gaffe” doesn’t signal a competence issue but rather a natural age-related slowdown in reaction time. “Given more time, they perform at the same level as their younger counterparts,” Walsh said. KNBC-TV also ran the story.
Neurology Today covered research from Pinchas Cohen that tied a rare mutation to a greatly reduced risk of developing Parkinson’s disease.
Newsweek and The Telegraph asked Valter Longo to explain the nuts and bolts of the fasting-mimicking diet, which Longo’s research has shown can shave a few years off of biological age.
New York Times quoted Henry Jay Forman, professor emeritus at USC Leonard Davis, on the potential health benefits of hydrogen-infused water.
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