Aging

McGill University researchers have discovered a mechanism through which mitochondria, the energy factory of our body's cells, play a role in preventing cells from...

As people grow older, they often have difficulty falling asleep and staying asleep, and tend to awaken too early in the morning. In individuals...

A Vancouver-based research team has successfully carried out studies that suggest that, if started early enough, a daily regimen of the non-prescription NSAID (nonsteroidal...

Traces of fungus have been discovered in the brains of Alzheimer's sufferers, raising the question: might the disease be caused by an infectious microbe?   There...

University of Maryland (UMD) researchers report that methylene blue (MB), a common chemical with a 120-year-long history of diverse applications, can treat progeria, a rare genetic disease...

You are what you eat. Or so the saying goes. Science now tells us that we are what the bacteria living in our intestinal...

Diminishing levels of GABA, the primary inhibitory neurotransmitter in the brain, may play a role in cognitive decline as we age, according to a...

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in the developed world, killing more than 17 million per year, far more lives than cancer claims,...

New research shows for the first time that gut bacteria from old mice trigger age-related chronic inflammation when transplanted into young mice. Called "inflammaging,"...

A dietary supplement containing a blend of thirty vitamins and minerals – all natural ingredients widely available in health food stores – has shown remarkable anti-aging...

Methylene blue has been shown to increase short-term memory and memory retrieval in humans in a new study. A single oral dose of methylene blue increased...

A new study by researchers at the University of Eastern Finland is the first to observe that dietary intake of phosphatidylcholine is associated with...