If a hearing healthcare professional diagnoses you with age-related hearing loss (presbycusis), you’re in good company. About one-third of adults between 65 and 70 have some degree of hearing loss, according to the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders. About half of all people 75 and older have hearing loss. Why do we lose hearing… Read More »
The distribution and function of the body’s adipose tissue change throughout the course of life. A special kind of adipocytes known as brown fat cells are capable of using fatty deposit energy reserves by a process of generating heat called thermogenesis. As we get older, brown fat cells change into white fat cells. Thermogenisis stops… Read More »
The quest for a fountain of youth is many centuries old and marred by many false starts and unfulfilled promises. But modern medical science is now gradually closing in on what might realistically enable people to live longer, healthier lives — if they are willing to sacrifice some popular hedonistic pleasures. Specialists in the biology… Read More »
A cure for memory loss? Scientists REVERSE forgetfulness in aging mice by blocking a molecule in their brain The tests, performed at Stanford University School of Medicine, allowed aging rodents to tear through a maze with the vim and vigor of a mouse half their age The treatment rejuvenated the mice’s ability to generate new… Read More »