Vascular aging is something that we all have to deal with as we grow older. Although some people are fortunate not to really have problems with vascular aging, a lot of people suffer from various diseases due to vascular aging. If you are one of those people who have family history of vascular diseases, you [...]

Today people in the United States are living to a far older age and are more aware of living a lifestyle that will automatically prevent aging than were their parents or grandparents. Great efforts are made by the manufactures of these age blocking products to target this 100 billion dollar market and to get their [...]

The National Institute on Aging is part of the NIH and is basically involved in a scientific approach to understand the aging process and to discover ways to keep people healthy and leading active lives when they become senior citizens. The congress gave power to the National Institute on Aging in 1974 to take the [...]

According to studies, our brain age like the rest of our body. By the age of 20, we begin to lose a few brain cells. However, memory loss and aging should not really be of much concern to most of us at this point. We must understand that memory loss and aging is a long [...]

It is not always easy to care for our aging parents at home. Yes, we all want to be with our parents during their twilight years but there are times when circumstances would simply not permit us. When our elderly parents reached the point where they will need special medical attention, we need to step [...]

A lot of people who are approaching their senior years or are in their senior years are searching for products that can slow down the process of human aging. Numerous scientists in the filed of aging are concerned that the makers of these products are making statements about the benefits of their products that are [...]

Many of us never really think about the health consequences of our lifestyle. When we are young, it is so easy to believe that we can live forever and do whatever we want. Unfortunately, all those unhealthy practices that we have when we were younger take a toll on our health and we move into [...]

One of the most dynamic aspects of genetic research is the quest to create genetic treatments to slow ageing.  The definitive goal in the engineering of genetic treatments to slow aging is to understand ageing in human beings.  Much of the studies for human genetics are not only conducted on human beings but also on [...]

The fear of aging affects every individual at one point or another.  Ageing is change to your body and mind through the course of one person’s lifespan.  Most people have a negative perception of ageing to the point it creates extreme anxiety in their lives and devalues the quality of their life.  As one grows [...]

It’s no secret that the older we get the more our bodies break down and need a little extra tender loving care. Finding out the effects of aging is the first step in learning how to remain physiologically young even when our chronological age begins to advance.
It is true that age is just a number, [...]