Longevity
Aging Clocks Go Multi-Omics: The Next Generation of Biological Age Tests
Epigenetic age tests were just the prototype. A new wave of clocks stitches together DNA, proteins, metabolites, and microbes — and AI is the thread.
Longevity
Coverage of the biology, interventions, and emerging evidence behind extending healthspan and slowing biological aging.
Longevity
The Allostatic Load Era: Putting a Number on a Lifetime of Wear
A large UK Biobank analysis turns the abstract idea of cumulative physiological stress into a measurable signal — and links it, dose by dose, to how long we live.
Longevity
Staging the Aging Brain: A New Lifespan Map of Cholinergic Vulnerability
A new review proposes cognitive aging unfolds as a decades-long sequence — and that a midlife branch point may be the window where intervention matters most.
Longevity
Protein After 70: What a New Tracer Study Reveals About How Older Bodies Actually Absorb Amino Acids
A small but methodologically rigorous crossover trial measured how well young and older adults extract amino acids from milk, sorghum, and black beans — and the answer depends on the food.
Longevity
The Nose Knows: Why Fading Smell May Foretell Physical Decline
A long-running U.S. cohort study links weaker odor identification in older adults with later losses in balance, gait and grip — strengthening the case for smell as a low-cost biomarker of aging.
Longevity
The Mediterranean Diet's Mitochondrial Signature: A New Mechanistic Clue
Two 2026 studies move the Med-Diet story from epidemiology toward mechanism, pointing to mitochondrial microproteins and a reshaped gut microbiota as plausible reasons the pattern protects the heart and brain.
Longevity
Subjective Age and the Mind: What 15 Years of Data Suggest About How We Grow Older
A long-running German study finds that how old you feel tracks how your brain performs over time — at both the population and personal level. The signal is modest, but it's persistent.
Longevity
Resilience as a Brain-Health Lever: Why Longevity Needs a Global Lens
A new Nature Medicine review argues that resilience — biological, psychological, social — is a measurable modifier of brain aging, and that studying it only in wealthy countries leaves real protection on the table.
Longevity
Obesity Is Aging You Faster — and the Biomarkers Now Prove It
New research in young adults links long-term obesity to measurable biological aging — and points to metabolism as the load-bearing pillar of longevity.
Longevity
The Fatty Acid Signature of Healthy Aging to 80
A 15,000-person cohort sharpens which fats in your bloodstream travel with healthspan — not just the years, but the years lived free of major disease.