Daily Mail (UK) and Yahoo (Australia) published reviews of the fasting-mimicking diet research by Valter Longo of the USC Leonard Davis School.
City News Service highlighted research by Christian Pike of the USC Leonard Davis School on how individuals that carry a gene that may be related to Alzheimer’s disease might increase their risk of cognitive decline if they have an unhealthy diet. The study found eating foods high in sugar and fat increased the risk for both Alzheimer’s disease and obesity with the inherited gene of APOE4 is present.
ABC News Los Angeles affiliate KABC-TV highlighted research by Christian Pike of the USC Leonard Davis School on how individuals that carry a gene that may be related to Alzheimer’s disease might increase their risk of cognitive decline if they have an unhealthy diet. The study found eating foods high in sugar and fat increased the risk for both Alzheimer’s disease and obesity with the inherited gene of APOE4 is present.
Alternet cited research by Valter Longo of the USC Leonard Davis School about the benefits for the immune system when following a fasting-mimicking diet.
Daily Mail (UK) highlighted research by Christian Pike of the USC Leonard Davis School on how individuals that carry a gene that may be related to Alzheimer’s disease might increase their risk of cognitive decline if they have an unhealthy diet. The study found eating foods high in sugar and fat increased the risk for both Alzheimer’s disease and obesity with the inherited gene of APOE4 is present. City News Service also reported on the study.
STAT published a profile on Valter Longo of the USC Leonard Davis School and his research on the benefits of fasting and fasting-mimicking diets, and how the body ages. Fasting “is at the foundation of the body’s ability to protect, repair, and rejuvenate itself. We started to wonder: What can we use it for?” Longo said. Longo spoke about how his initial research on aging met some pushback from the scientific community. STAT also published a review of Longo’s fasting-mimicking diet.
New USC Davis faculty member and 2017-2018 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellow Reginald Tucker-Seeley looks beyond simple income measures to find out how individuals’ finance-related feelings and behaviors affect disparities in physical and mental health.
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USC Davis School Assistant Professor Andrei Irimia leads new research on traumatic brain injury diagnosis, treatment and connections to diseases such as Alzheimer’s with a new National Institutes of Health-supported residency and a grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.
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The Sacramento Bee (in a California Healthline story) highlighted the USC Leonard Davis School’s Family Caregiver Support Center, which provides resources for caregivers who are responsible for caring for someone 18 or older. “This was designed to help everyone, including middle-income families,” said Donna Benton of the USC Family Caregiver Support Center. The services are offered at low-cost or no-cost, regardless of income and include stress-reduction workshops, legal and financial consultations, how to manage medical care and other resources and breaks from caregiving.
The protein MOTS-c may have the potential to stave off frailty and maintain muscle mass, says second-year PhD in Biology of Aging student and Glenn/AFAR Scholarship recipient Joseph Reynolds.
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- New NIA-Funded Center to Help Older Adults Live Longer, Healthier Lives
