PsyPost featured research coauthored by Em Arpawong on an analysis that showed individuals who had better cognitive ability as adolescents were less likely to develop dementia 60 years later.
South China Morning Post highlighted research by Caleb Finch that explores why and how one Bolivian community, the Tsimané, has largely avoided Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. Better brain health in our later years “is now known to depend on heart health,” he said.
The Independent cited Francesca Falzarano’s comments that originally appeared in a recent New York Times’ story on “carefluencers” for its own version about the rising trend of caregivers’ social media posts of helping aging loved ones. The story was also run by Yahoo.
CNBC highlighted Valter Longo in a story featuring his five eating tips to living a longer life. The story also highlighted a recent study published in Nature Communications that found mice eating a diet following Longo’s principles had a lower risk of developing cancer, diabetes and heart conditions.
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