Latest News and Developments about Humankind's Drive Towards Biological Immortality

What Value Do You Place On Healthy Aging?

When determining what your health is worth to you, do not be waylaid by the dollar and cents value – not unlike an insurance actuary – but focus on those things where worth cannot be tallied. It quickly becomes apparent that there is no reasonable way one can place a price on their health. Not [...]

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The Quality Of Your Life And Longevity Depends On Your Muscle Strength As You Age

Yes, it is possible to improve with age just like a fine wine. Our quality of life as we grow older is dependent upon how we can manage physically. As an aging adult, the most valuable asset we have is our physical strength. Each time we move we use our muscles – everything is dependent on the [...]

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Fear of Falling Increases the Risk of Falling For Elders

According to a study published in British Medical Journal, Fear of falling is prone to cause future falls among elders, and this applies to whether or not you actually have a risk of falling. Therefore, fear can be included in the factors to avoid fall risk, and new falling prevention approach can be developed. People [...]

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Practical Anti Aging Advice For Anyone Over Forty

Those of us over age fifty have a picture in our minds eye of what “old” people looked like in our youth. Forty or fifty years ago they appeared to move more slowly than WE do today. No one ever did any physical training or sports of any kind to the best of our recollection. [...]

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Observations On An Aging North American Society

The numerical evidence we have on record as it pertains to an aging population, their trends and general demographics across the United States in pretty remarkable, not to mention factual. At the turn of the twentieth century, the average adult could look forward to an average life span of forty seven years of age. At [...]

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Debunking Myths On Aging and Enjoying Disease Free Longevity

MYTH: Life Spans Are Longer Today Than Ever Before. We so often hear these days that we are living longer today than we ever have in the past. However, based on evidence presented by author Dan Georgakas, who wrote The Methuselah Factor, surprisingly, the average human life expectancy has not been altered in documented time. [...]

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Understanding The New Standards For Triumph Over Aging

Recent scientific investigations have been conducted that studied the lives of individuals who have had lengthy and prosperous lives both in the physical and psychological sense. Many of these people were centenarians and part of this increasingly abundant population of one hundred plus year old community elders. The evaluation enabled experts to recognize the many [...]

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What If You Live Longer Than Expected? Start Planning For Extended Longevity Now

Living a long healthy life is essentially up to each individual. We all want to live as long as we can, even those of us with health issues and those who make poor lifestyle choices. What happens when you get your wish and live unexpectedly longer than you or your physician ever thought was possible? [...]

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Happy Planet Index (HPI) Measures Happiness and Well-Being

The future is not the result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created – created first in the mind and will, created next in activity. The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, [...]

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From Average Longevity To Maximum Life Expectancy – What Does It Take?

One way of defining longevity is the amount of years a person lives as established from physiological inheritance or one’s genes with environmental factors thrown in for good measure. Two kinds of longevity exist and they are known as maximum longevity and average longevity. Average longevity is normally recognized as average life expectancy; this referring [...]

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