There are two main classifications of naturally occurring stem cells: embryonic stem cells and adult stem cells (a. Throughout these pages the authors effectively explain stem cells, disease risk factors, genes, cells, the immune system, nutrition and menopause. Honorable Mentions: Other eye-opening longevity-related reads that are either too old, too new, or just not as heavily reviewed to make it onto the actual list.

One of the other things that “The Longevity Book” touched on was the importance of human connection and relationships in aging, health and cognitive function — there’s a study where just 10 minutes of social interaction was shown to boost cognitive performance — dang.And yes, we are more susceptible to disease as we get older and our bodies weaken, but that doesn’t mean we have to end up sick, just because we’re old.

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On the far horizon, progressive technologies like AI-brain integration could allow us multiple centuries of healthy living. How many neural connections we have as an adult and how strong they depend on how much learning and how many new experiences and conditions we have been exposed to over the course of our lives. That means that many of these women have to reduce their time spent in the workforce to care for others — a major loss of money. That means that the DNA each one of us receives from our parents is influenced not only by the lifestyle of our parents but also our grandparents and our great-grandparents and our great-great-grandparents" (p. The Telomere Effect may not give you any breakthrough health advice you haven’t heard elsewhere, but it will back the claims up with rigorous science surrounding one of the human body’s most important aspects – its telomeres.Ebooks fulfilled through Glose cannot be printed, downloaded as PDF, or read in other digital readers (like Kindle or Nook). It's worth noting that Molecular and Cellular Biology of Aging is not about geriatric medicine or the physiology of aging and doesn't delve into economic, ethical, or environmental considerations.