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Discover Magazine quoted Valter Longo of the USC Leonard Davis School on how fasting can ramp up autophagy, a kind of cellular housekeeping, and allow the body to repair itself.

CNN noted that a recent study co-led by Caleb Finch of the USC Leonard Davis School adds to a growing body of research investigating the potential link between air pollution and dementia.

Forbes featured research by Valter Longo of the USC Leonard Davis School on intermittent fasting. Longo believes fasting at regular intervals allows you to eat all you want in between. It forces your body to recycle many of its immune cells, particularly white blood cells, he hypothesized.

California Healthline quoted Donna Benton of the USC Leonard Davis School on the risks of social isolation for older caregivers.

Reuters featured research by Jessica Ho of the USC Leonard Davis School on the declines of life expectancy in high-income countries. It is the first time so many countries simultaneously experienced declines for both men and women. “This hasn’t occurred in decades, and the size of these most recent declines were larger than prior declines,” Ho said.

Next Avenue, via Kaiser Health News, featured research by Eileen Crimmins of the USC Leonard Davis School and colleagues on college graduates who can expect to spend more than 80 percent of their lifetime after age 65 with good cognition. The article provides the first estimates of educational differences in age-specific prevalence, and changes in prevalence over time, of dementia by education levels in the United States. The story quoted Jennifer Ailshire of the USC Leonard Davis School.

In this Nature article, Caleb E. Finch of the USC Leonard Davis School reveals how a classic work by Greek physician Galen pioneered the idea of the ‘healthspan’.