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“Sarcopenia, the progressive loss of skeletal muscle mass and strength that occurs with aging, begins as early as one's 30s or 40s. By the time a person reaches their 80s, they may have lost as much as half of their total muscle mass.”

“The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends avoiding screen time exposure for children under the age of 18 months and limiting screen time to one hour per day for children between the ages and two and five years.”

“Scientists have identified several hallmarks of aging – observable biological patterns of dysfunction that occur as an organism ages. These hallmarks both drive and are the result of inflammaging, the chronic, low-grade inflammation that occurs with aging.”

“We know that inflammation has recently been identified as the key driver of aging in 4 different age groups including elderly, centenarians, semi-supercentenarians, and supercentenarians.”

“Prenatal folate supplementation prevents an estimated 70 percent of neural tube defects, but additional therapies are needed. A recent report describes the relationship between maternal diabetes and abnormal cell aging in the fetal nervous system in mice.”

“The rise of early-onset cancer has become one of the most puzzling trends in modern oncology. A new study investigated whether changes in biological aging may help explain why some cancers are appearing more frequently in younger adults.”

“As a person ages, their immune system becomes more pro-inflammatory, leading to unresolved or chronic inflammation and driving many age-related diseases and cognitive decline. Authors of a new report suggest that eating a pro-inflammatory diet may further contribute to the inflammatory state associated with aging, driving cognitive decline.”

“Six "aging clocks" converted blood-protein patterns at the start and at weeks 2, 4, and 12 into biological age estimates. Four clocks used protein patterns that tend to differ between younger and older people to predict chronological age.”

“Findings from a recent study suggest that glucose homeostasis in aging differs between some commonly studied animals and humans. As humans age, they experience significant changes in glucose metabolism and body composition.”

“For one year, nine healthy volunteers took a cocktail of three common drugs — growth hormone and two diabetes medications — and on average shed 2.5 years of their biological ages, measured by analysing marks on a person’s genomes.”