The cGAS-STING Pathway: The DNA Sensor That Ignites Inflammation in the Aging Brain
What if our brain ages partly because its defense system can't distinguish between an invader and self-inflicted damage? A new review published in the...
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Brain health and cognition
The Brain Protein Menin: The Aging Switch That Might Be Reversible
What if a tiny pea-sized gland at the base of the brain determines the aging rate of the entire body? A study published in the journal PLOS Biology po...
Vitamin C and Brain Health: New Study Links Low Levels to Brain Shrinkage
Vitamin C is known to most of us as a supplement taken when we have a cold, or as something found in oranges. But a new Japanese study published in Ju...
Obesity Accelerates Brain Aging: Why Excess Weight Ages Your Memory
What if excess weight doesn't just burden your knees and heart, but actually ages your brain? A new study from Virginia Tech found that young rats fed...
Brain Aging Is Not Gradual: The Critical Window for Action
For decades, we assumed our brains age slowly, a little each year, like a clock gradually slowing down. New research published in PNAS in March 2025, ...
GV1001: A telomerase peptide that saves the brain from aging
Every year it turns out that a molecule developed for one purpose hides a completely different power. GV1001 is a short peptide cleaved from the enzym...
3 Brain-Boosting Home Exercises That Reduce Brain Aging by Two Years
When it comes to protecting the brain, most people think of crossword puzzles, omega-3s, or medications. But one of the most powerful and affordable t...
Job Loss and the Brain: Why Stopping Work Might Accelerate Brain Aging
Most of us dream of the day we can finally stop working, sleep in, and do whatever we want. But a new working paper (not yet peer-reviewed) by economi...
Male and Female Brains: The Paradox of Aging and Alzheimer's
Science has recently uncovered one of the most intriguing paradoxes in aging research: men's brains age faster structurally, losing more volume over t...
Menin and Brain Aging: One Protein That Restores Memory in Mice
Every year, it becomes clearer that a single molecule can hold the key to an entire aging process. A study published in PLoS Biology in 2023, which re...
Environmental Pollution and Brain Aging: PM2.5, Noise, and Lead
A series of recently published studies, including the large-scale Exposome study in Nature Medicine and a meta-analysis in Lancet Planetary Health, co...
Migraine and Brain Aging: What the New MRI Study Really Found
Headache is one of the most common medical complaints worldwide. Most of us treat it as a passing nuisance, take a paracetamol, and forget about it. B...
Plants and Brain Aging: What Actually Works Among Herbal Supplements
In the traditional medicine of India, China, and Central Asia, the list of plants said to preserve mental clarity is long. Every few years, local rese...
IRISeq: A New Technology for Mapping Brain Aging at Single-Cell Resolution
For years, genetic mapping of brain tissue required expensive microscopes and labs with complex optical infrastructure. Technologies like Visium and M...
Fish Oil and the Brain: New Study Determines Omega-3 Does Not Prevent Brain Aging
For three decades, fish oil has been considered the most recommended supplement for brain health. The reason was intuitive: the brain is partly made o...
GLP-1 Drugs for Parkinson's: Why the Large Trials Disappointed
For years, GLP-1 drugs (Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro) carried great hope: perhaps they also protect the brain from neurodegenerative diseases like Parkin...
Brazilian Study: Artificial Sweeteners Linked to Faster Cognitive Decline
After our article on sugar-sweetened beverages, many people asked: what about artificial sweeteners? A large Brazilian study published in the journal ...
Israeli Study: Metabolic Health and Belly Fat Linked to Brain Aging
An Israeli study from Ben-Gurion University, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, followed 284 adults with abdominal obesity for 1...
Framingham Reveals: Link Between Sugary Drinks and Lower Brain Volume
Two Framingham studies by Dr. Matthew Pase from 2017 present a complex picture. A cross-sectional study found an association between high consumption ...
One Type of Body Fat Linked to Accelerated Brain Aging – The Solution is Simple
When we talk about body fat, we usually mean it all together. But it turns out that one specific fat, not the one under the skin but the deeper one, i...
Scientists Discover Surprising Similarity Between Brain Aging in Mice and Humans
For decades, aging research has relied on mice as a model for humans, but always with a caveat: who says a mouse's brain ages like a human's? A new st...
Daytime Napping and Brain Aging: What Science Really Found About Brain Volume
A short afternoon nap is considered a natural part of the day in many cultures. A Mendelian randomization study based on genetic data from over 378,00...
The Story That "Bilinguals Have Healthier Brains" Might Not Be Accurate: A Researcher's Critique
For years, it was said that learning a second language protects the brain. Now, Prof. Hernandez from the University of Houston critiques this assumpti...
Brain Health Starts Early: Choices You'll Thank Yourself for at 70
You're 30 and think "I have time." But research shows that your lifestyle habits now, long before your brain is even on your mind, accumulate and affe...
GFAP and NfL: Two Blood Proteins That Predict Dementia Death 5-6 Years in Advance
For decades, diagnosing dementia required expensive scans or spinal fluid tests. Now, a large study published in Neurology shows that a simple blood t...
Tubulin: The Protein That Directs Tau and Alpha-Synuclein Associated with Alzheimer's
A new fundamental study from Baylor College of Medicine shows in laboratory systems that tubulin directs Tau and alpha-synuclein from a pathological a...
MIND Diet Saves You 2.5 Years of Brain Aging: Study on 1,600 People
Classic Mediterranean diet or DASH diet? Why not combine both with a focus on the brain? This is the MIND diet, and a new study shows that those who a...
The Gut Talks to the Brain: How the Microbiome Nourishes Memory
How does memory decline with age? A new study in Nature (in mice) points to the gut. A bacterium that proliferates with age produces fatty acids that ...
The Secret of Brain Aging in Large Dogs: Why They Live Shorter but Their Brains Stay Young
A German Shepherd lives 7-8 years. A Chihuahua lives 15-17 years. The gap is enormous. But new studies from the University of Arizona have revealed so...
Poor Sleep Ages the Brain by 1-3 Years: What the Research Says About the Mechanism
We knew sleep was important for the brain, but research shows exactly how much. Poor sleep is linked to accelerated brain aging by 1-3 years. The key:...
Hispanic Brain Aging: NIH Invests Approximately $16 Million in Research
For decades, aging research has primarily focused on the white population. But Latinos exhibit higher rates of dementia, and their genetics and life t...
TDP-43 Type C: A Type of Neurodegeneration That Begins with Language Ability, Not Memory
If dementia happens to you like this: At first, you remember well, but you lose the ability to recognize simple words like "umbrella." This is not Alz...
Why Does Brain Aging Vary So Much Between People? The Answer Begins in Childhood
A 73-year-old can function cognitively like someone much younger, or show accelerated wear. Why is the difference so large? The Lothian follow-up stud...
Creativity and Brain Age: Why a Creative Hobby Is Linked to a Younger Brain
An international study examining experts in art, dance, music, and strategy games across 13 countries found that creative engagement is linked to a br...
Your Epigenetic Age Is Not Your Brain Age: New Study Distinguishes Between the Two
Popular epigenetic age clocks promise to predict your biological age from a blood sample. But a new study that followed 1,196 women for eight years re...
Nardilysin and OGDHL: Two Rare Genes That Add a Piece to the Brain Aging Puzzle
Two teenagers unable to walk, eat, or speak. Two rare genes never before linked. A team from Baylor College of Medicine solves the puzzle and discover...
"RNA Pollution": The New Hypothesis About Brain Aging That Received Research Funding
Brain cells make mistakes in processing genetic instructions, and the hypothesis is that these contaminants accumulate with age. Researchers call it "...
The Consortium That Recodes Brain Aging: 35,000 Samples, 250 Million Proteins
How do you detect Alzheimer's years before it erupts? The Global Neurodegenerative Proteomics Consortium (GNPC) unites hundreds of labs into one datab...
Economic Decline Accelerates Brain Aging: Massive Study Reveals Disturbing Link
A new study tracking 7,676 older adults for about a decade reveals a significant link between financial stress and accelerated brain aging. The findin...
TREM2: The gene that affects the risk of Alzheimer's and brain health
TREM2 is a gene that determines how the brain's immune cells handle waste. It is linked to the risk of Alzheimer's and is being studied as a therapeut...
A Simple Memory Test Reveals Your True Brain Age
A short clinical memory test shows a moderate correlation with brain age measured by MRI. A new study in Scientific Reports (Nature group) links SOMI ...
Spinal Fluid Protein Test Predicts Alzheimer's Progression 3 Years in Advance
A new study in Nature Communications reveals two proteins in spinal fluid that predict who will decline to dementia within about two to three years. A...
Nutrition as a System: How What You Eat Shapes the Brain's Aging Clock
Nutrition is not just fuel. A new review in Frontiers presents it as a system of molecular signals that influences brain aging pathways. What does thi...
The #1 Habit That Slows Brain Aging: What Science Found
If you had to choose one habit that slows brain aging, what would it be? A new study in Neurology answers: movement. But not in the way you thought.
Nasal Spray That Reverses Brain Aging: A Breakthrough from Texas A&M
A team at Texas A&M developed a nasal spray that reverses brain aging in old mice with just two doses. It suppressed inflammation, restored mitochondr...
Massive Study in Nature: Social and Physical Environment Ages Your Brain 15 Times More
A study in Nature Medicine examining nearly 19,000 people from 34 countries found that the quality of the external environment, from air pollution to ...
FTL1: The Protein That Ages the Brain, and the Breakthrough That Reverses the Decline
UCSF researchers published a dramatic discovery in Nature Aging: a protein called FTL1 is the main driver of age-related cognitive decline. Reducing i...
Breakthrough Synapse-Restoring Pill Could Revolutionize ALS Treatment
The medical world is on the verge of a significant breakthrough in the fight against Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS): a unique pill called SPG302,...
Phosphatidylcholine Linked to Better Memory and 28% Reduction in Dementia
The brain produces a chemical called acetylcholine, essential for memory and other cognitive functions. A deficiency in acetylcholine is linked to cog...
SENS Strategies for Engineered Aging: A Look at Parkinson's Disease
Parkinson's disease, a common neurodegenerative disorder affecting movement, posture, and speech, has cast a heavy shadow over the lives of millions o...
Stopping the Brain Drain
Until the late 1990s, the prevailing belief among neuroscientists was that the human brain stops producing new nerve cells (neurons) after adulthood. ...
Modifiable Risk Factors for Dementia
A groundbreaking brain imaging study from the University of Oxford published in Nature Communications examined 161 modifiable risk factors for dementi...
Midlife Crisis: The Effects of Menopause on the Brain and Ways to Protect It
Midlife crisis is known as a period of emotional turmoil, but new research suggests it is much more than that. Menopause, occurring between ages 40 an...
Brain Supplements
Maintaining brain health over time is important not only for our cognitive ability but also for our overall health. This category offers a variety of ...
Breakthrough in Alzheimer's Treatment
New research indicates significant therapeutic potential in Alzheimer's disease using new drugs that clear beta-amyloid protein from the brain. The d...
Groundbreaking Study Reveals the Multiple Roles of TDP-43 Protein in Health
The TDP-43 protein, also known as TAR DNA-binding protein 43, is primarily known for its important roles in gene expression and neuronal plasticity in...
New Hope for Age-Related Cognitive Decline?
Researchers at Mayo Clinic may have discovered a new approach to tackling age-related cognitive decline. Their recent study suggests that removing sen...