In the News

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.

The New York Times interviewed Francesca Falzarano about the growing number of people on social media who share their daily experiences caring for aging parents, grandparents or other relatives. Falzarano referred to the caregivers as “carefluencers” because they can inspire and inform their audiences about caring for aging family members. “We all have this universal experience where we’ll need to provide care or need to be cared for at some point,” Falzarano said. “Why not start thinking about it now?”

U.S. News & World Report, HealthDay and Tech Explorist covered research led by Pinchas Cohen that examined how a mutation in a mitochondrial protein could protect against Alzheimer’s in people with the APOE4 gene, which normally confers a higher risk of the disease.

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.

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.”