Beth Newcomb

HuffPost quoted Valter Longo in a story discussing the best time to eat lunch in order to support healthy digestion and blood sugar regulation.

Arab News quoted Pinchas Cohen, who advocated for tailored health interventions based on genetics and lifestyle at the Global Healthspan Summit in Riyadh. “We need individualized lifestyle interventions rather than a one-size-fits-all model. The Mediterranean diet, while beneficial, may not be effective for every population.” He also highlighted mitochondrial health: “By understanding mitochondrial DNA mutations and their effects on metabolism, we can develop targeted therapies that address the root causes of age-related diseases.”

HuffPost quoted Jennifer Ailshire on SuperAgers and lifestyle factors that increase the chances of longer, healthier life. “We think of SuperAgers … as people who are reaching 85 years of age, so they’re exceeding the typical or average life expectancy for … their cohort,” Ailshire said. “For us, a SuperAger is not just someone who’s long-lived. It’s also someone who’s maintained a fairly high level of physical, cognitive, psychological and social well-being.”

GQ quoted Valter Longo in an article on the healthiest time to eat dinner. “If you do have a bigger dinner, and you’re sleeping well, your cholesterol and blood pressure [are] fine, then you’re good,” Longo says. “But if you’re sleeping poorly, and you have [health] problems, maybe you should move to having a bigger breakfast, a bigger lunch and a smaller dinner, which usually seems to be the healthiest [pattern] of all.”

News-Medical featured a study led by Berenice Benayoun that investigated the mechanisms that govern male and female differences in cognitive resilience and decline to understand the influence of biological sex on aging.

Tech Explorist covered a study by Daniel Nation that explores the relationship between cerebrovascular reactivity (CVR) in the medial temporal lobe and memory function in older adults, particularly those with and without mild cognitive impairment (MCI). “We’re studying the ability of these very small vessels to respond to stimuli and to dilate, and they’re showing dysfunction in people who have memory problems. … It could implicate blood vessel dysfunction in a very early stage of memory loss. It happened whether or not people had Alzheimer ‘s-related brain changes. They still had this blood vessel problem if they had memory issues.”

Nature quoted Caleb Finch discussing a study about the effects of air pollution on the brain. Studies from his lab and others show that the genes that mediate inflammatory responses are switched on; messengers associated with inflammation become more abundant; there are signs of oxidative stress; and microglial cells that sense damage and protect neurons are activated. Every major class of brain cell is affected, says Finch.