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For decades, aging at the cellular level has been blamed on one tiny structure inside our cells: the mitochondria. These microscopic power plants generate the energy that keeps cells alive and functioning. As we grow older, mitochondria break down, slow down, and multiply less efficiently. When that power supply weakens, diseases begin to appear across … Read more
A new study is drawing attention to a nutrient most people barely think about, choline, and its potentially powerful connection to brain aging, obesity, and early neurological decline. The findings, published in Aging and Disease, suggest that low choline levels combined with obesity may accelerate pathways associated with Alzheimer’s disease long before symptoms appear. As … Read more
When an older adult suffers a serious fall, it does not simply count as an accident. It functions as a biological warning signal, an inflection point that often marks the beginning of irreversible decline. The data is consistent across decades of research: a fall in adults over 65 significantly shortens life expectancy, even more so … Read more
For decades, coal ash has been treated as little more than a toxic reminder of America’s fossil-fuel past, a gray, powdery waste piled into landfills, buried in ponds, and left for environmental agencies to monitor. But a growing body of research is now pointing to something unexpected: the same waste we have worried about for … Read more