Hacker News with Generative AI: Aging

Vital for Bone Health, Vitamin D May Also Slow Aging at the Cellular Level (discovermagazine.com)
A long-term trial reveals how the powerhouse vitamin D can add anti-aging to its already-impressive list of health benefits.

Health, Science, Vitamin D, Aging

8 points by jnord 34 days ago | 0 comments

Vitamin D Supplements Show Signs of Protection Against Biological Aging (massgeneralbrigham.org)
Results from the VITAL randomized controlled trial reveal that vitamin D supplementation helps maintain telomeres, protective caps at the ends of chromosomes that shorten during aging and are linked to the development of certain diseases.

Vitamins, Health, Aging, Science, Medical Research

12 points by gnabgib 36 days ago | 1 comments

Why Noisy Rooms Are Harder for Some Brains to Handle (neurosciencenews.com)
As they age, some people find it harder to understand speech in noisy environments.

Neuroscience, Aging, Cognition, Hearing

6 points by bookofjoe 50 days ago | 1 comments

Getting Older Isn't What You Think (katycowan.co.uk)
Getting old creeps up on you. It’s not sudden. There’s no dramatic moment where you wake up and realise you’re “not getting any younger”. No — it’s more like a slow progression. One day, you’re out at a bar, dancing with friends, living your best life, and the next, you’re peeking over your sunglasses in horror at someone calling 36 “old”.

Aging, Personal Growth, Life Advice

148 points by speckx 51 days ago | 229 comments

Why our waistlines expand in middle age: aging stem cells shift into overdrive (medicalxpress.com)
It's no secret that our waistlines often expand in middle age, but the problem isn't strictly cosmetic. Belly fat accelerates aging and slows down metabolism, increasing our risk for developing diabetes, heart problems and other chronic diseases. Exactly how age transforms a six pack into a softer stomach, however, is murky.

Aging, Health, Science, Metabolism

83 points by gmays 56 days ago | 133 comments

In the US, not even $11,000 a month can buy you dignity at the end of your life (theguardian.com)
After watching my father’s struggle in a system that values profit over compassion, I wonder: how much longer will we accept a future where most of us lose our sense of human worth in old age?

Healthcare, Social Issues, Aging, United States

37 points by howard941 57 days ago | 29 comments

'We Are Not Programmed to Die,' Says Nobel Laureate Venki Ramakrishnan (wired.com)
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, the man of death. Although this does not sound like a good moniker, it is: Ramakrishnan is one of the world’s most eminent scientists in the fields of structural biology and cellular processes related to aging and death.

Science, Nobel Prize, Aging, Biology

10 points by beardyw 73 days ago | 4 comments

Reminiscence Bump (wikipedia.org)
The reminiscence bump is the tendency for adults over forty to have increased or enhanced recollection for events that occurred during their adolescence and early adulthood.

Memory, Psychology, Aging, Cognitive Science

5 points by amichail 76 days ago | 0 comments

Fifty and out: How Gen X became the biggest work losers (the-independent.com)
As the heyday of the creative economy boom becomes a distant memory, Stephen Armstrong looks at the generation who were once the high-rollers and are now facing an uncertain future as younger workers and AI come for their jobs, just as their children and parents are relying on them more than ever

Generational Issues, Employment, Economics, Artificial Intelligence, Aging

25 points by wyclif 78 days ago | 11 comments

Is Technology Terrible or Am I Just a Grumpy Old Man? (cnet.com)
At 37 years of age, I've come to realize some things about the gadgets I use every day. But maybe I'm the problem.

Technology, Opinion, Personal Experience, Aging

8 points by donnachangstein 84 days ago | 3 comments

Healthy Diets Linked to Holistic Healthy Aging in Long-Term Harvard Study (thecrimson.com)
Researchers at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health found that certain dietary patterns — such as avoiding processed foods and eating a balance of animal and plant-based foods — promote healthy aging after 30 years, according to a long-term study published Monday in the journal Nature Medicine.

Health, Nutrition, Science, Aging, Research

9 points by mikhael 91 days ago | 0 comments

Prolonged torpor in mice slows epigenetic changes that accompany aging (medicalxpress.com)

Aging, Epigenetics, Mice, Biology, Science

3 points by PaulHoule 94 days ago | 0 comments

Targeting Brain's Drainage Pathways Rejuvenates Memory (neurosciencenews.com)
Now, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis report they have found a way around that problem by targeting the network of vessels that drain waste from the brain. Rejuvenating those vessels, they have shown, improves memory in old mice.

Neuroscience, Aging, Memory, Brain Health

8 points by amichail 97 days ago | 4 comments

For Many of America's Aging Workers, 'Retirement Is a Distant Dream' (time.com)
Walter Carpenter walks across the ski resort’s dining room on a knee that needs to be replaced and a hip that’s going bad. Lumbering into the kitchen, he deposits a brown bin of dirty dishes on a counter before heading back out to collect more bowls of half-eaten tomato soup and plates littered with sandwich crusts. “One foot in front of the other,” he jokes to kitchen prep worker Kim Hopper, 72, as they pass each other.

Retirement, Aging, Labor, Economy, Social Issues

94 points by geox 100 days ago | 57 comments

Body wasn't built to last: a lesson from human mortality rates (2009) (wordpress.com)
What do you think are the odds that you will die during the next year? Try to put a number to it — 1 in 100? 1 in 10,000? Whatever it is, it will be twice as large 8 years from now.

Human Mortality, Statistics, Life Expectancy, Aging

15 points by Tomte 101 days ago | 0 comments

At 95, He's the World's Oldest Speedskater. He's Gunning for 100. (nytimes.com)
When Iichi Marumo competed in his first international race seven years ago in Moscow, the Japanese speedskater moved down the ice at about the pace of a brisk jog. It took him three times as long to cross the finish line as most of the other skaters that day.

Sports, Aging, Japan

14 points by bookofjoe 103 days ago | 3 comments

Extreme Heat Linked to Accelerated Aging in Older Adults, Study Finds (nytimes.com)
A first-of-its-kind analysis found that people living in hotter areas experienced more molecular changes than those in cooler places.

Health, Aging, Climate Change, Science, Research

6 points by bookofjoe 108 days ago | 1 comments

The ninetysomethings who revolutionized how we think about strength training (theguardian.com)
In 1988, 712 people lived at the Hebrew Rehabilitation Center for the Aged, a Boston nursing home affectionately named “Hebrew rehab” by its residents and staff.

Health, Aging, Strength Training, Boston

10 points by robaato 108 days ago | 1 comments

Do We Age Steadily, or in Bursts? (nytimes.com)
New technologies are giving scientists a better understanding of how the process actually works.

Aging, Science, Biology, Technology

15 points by mooreds 113 days ago | 5 comments

Changes in brain's 'sugar shield' could be key to understanding effects of aging (news.stanford.edu)
What if a critical piece of the puzzle of brain aging has been hiding in plain sight? While neuroscience has long focused on proteins and DNA, a team of Stanford researchers dared to shift their gaze to sugars – specifically the complex sugar chains that cover all our cells like chain mail.

Neuroscience, Aging, Biology, Sugar

42 points by dangrossman 117 days ago | 1 comments

Mucins keep the brain safe and could guard against ageing (nature.com)
A slimy barrier lining the brain’s blood vessels could hold the key to shielding the organ from the harmful effects of ageing, according to a study in mice.

Neuroscience, Aging, Biology, Health

192 points by walterbell 120 days ago | 56 comments

'Slime' keeps the brain safe ― and could guard against ageing (nature.com)
A slimy barrier lining the brain’s blood vessels could hold the key to shielding the organ from the harmful effects of ageing, according to a study in mice.

Neuroscience, Aging, Biology, Health

9 points by rntn 121 days ago | 0 comments

Potential cellular 'master switch' capable of reversing senescence (studyfinds.org)
OSAKA, Japan — In the ongoing battle against aging, scientists have discovered a surprising new player that might hold the key to keeping cells young or making them old.

Aging, Cellular Biology, Science, Medical Research

6 points by chasil 123 days ago | 0 comments

'Healthy' Vitamin B12 Levels Not Enough to Ward Off Neuro Decline (ucsf.edu)
Meeting the minimum requirement for vitamin B12, needed to make DNA, red blood cells and nerve tissue, may not actually be enough – particularly if you are older. It may even put you at risk for cognitive impairment.

Health, Nutrition, Aging, Cognitive Decline, Vitamin B12

8 points by geox 127 days ago | 0 comments

Lifestyle and environmental factors affect health and ageing more than our genes (ox.ac.uk)
A new study led by researchers from Oxford Population Health has shown that a range of environmental factors, including lifestyle (smoking and physical activity) and living conditions, have a greater impact on health and premature death than our genes.

Health, Genetics, Lifestyle, Environment, Aging

55 points by gnabgib 127 days ago | 26 comments

Older AI models show signs of cognitive decline, study shows (livescience.com)

Artificial Intelligence, Science, Research, Aging

7 points by Brajeshwar 129 days ago | 5 comments

670nm red light exposure improved aged mitochondrial function, colour vision (nature.com)
Mitochondrial decline in ageing robs cells of ATP. However, animal studies show that long wavelength exposure (650–900 nm) over weeks partially restores ATP and improves function.

Science, Biology, Aging, Health, Light Therapy

333 points by walterbell 132 days ago | 222 comments

Facing the Music or Burying Our Heads in the Sand? (nlm.nih.gov)
Defenses that keep threatening information out of awareness are posited to reduce anxiety at the cost of longer-term dysfunction. By contrast, socioemotional selectivity theory suggests that preference for positively-valenced information is a late-life manifestation of adaptive emotion regulation.

Psychology, Cognitive Science, Aging, Emotion Regulation

12 points by bobongo 132 days ago | 3 comments

Daily omega-3 fatty acids may help human organs stay young (medicalxpress.com)
Consuming one gram of omega-3 per day may slow down the rate of biological aging in humans, according to an analysis of data from a clinical trial involving over 700 older adults over a three-year period.

Health, Science, Nutrition, Aging

143 points by gmays 138 days ago | 65 comments

Muscle-Brain Crosstalk: How Skeletal Muscle Influences Neurocognitive Function (gethealthspan.com)
The term 'sarcopenia' might evoke images of weakening muscles and reduced physicality in the elderly. But this decline in muscle mass and strength, prevalent among older adults, has ramifications far beyond just physical fragility.

Neurology, Aging, Health, Exercise, Muscles

9 points by rpkoven 142 days ago | 0 comments