Senolytics and Ageing: Have We Finally Seen Evidence That Clearing ‘Zombie Cells’ Can Help Humans? articles healthy ageing & longevity

Few areas of longevity research have generated quite as much excitement as senescent cells. They have acquired the wonderfully dramatic nickname “zombie cells”, are routinely presented as one of the villains of biological ageing, and have spawned an expanding market of supplements claiming to help t...

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The Scales Can Lie: Why Maintaining Your Weight as You Age Doesn't Mean You're Maintaining Your Muscle articles general nutrition healthy ageing & longevity

This is one that always gets my goat. Simple measurements like weight on the scale or even BMI (Banal, Meaningless, Irrelevant - that is my nickname for it) serve as little more than sticks to beat ourselves with. 

For decades we have been conditioned to regard body weight as one of the great arbit...

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Can Your Diet Really Slow Biological Ageing? What the Latest Epigenetic Research Actually Shows articles general nutrition healthy ageing & longevity

The idea that we possess two different ages has become one of the most compelling concepts in longevity science. There is our chronological age, determined simply by the number of years we have been alive, and then there is our supposed biological age, an attempt to quantify how rapidly the tissues ...

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NMN Raises NAD+ — But Does It Actually Slow Ageing? articles general nutrition healthy ageing & longevity

NMN is definitely one of the most talked about supplements in recent times. It is a supplement that I personally take every single day and on a lot of metrics, it is one that has really moved the needle for me and one I would be loathe to remove from my protocol. It is marketed as an NAD+ booster an...

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How to Eat for a Longer, Healthier Life: What the Evidence Really Shows articles healthy ageing & longevity

The longevity field within nutrition is certainly advancing at a rate of knots and there are all manner of practices that promise the key to eternal youth. We are told that fasting can switch on our longevity genes, that certain supplements can slow biological ageing, that particular foods activate ...

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