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“A recent study found that the age at which a person develops type 2 diabetes influences their risk of developing dementia, with obesity more than tripling risk, especially at younger ages. Researchers tracked more than 1,200 adults aged 50 and older who had diabetes but no dementia at the start of the study.”

“A recent study found that multiple health factors—including hypertension, diabetes, smoking, and low educational attainment—may speed up brain aging, increasing the risk of cognitive decline and neurodegenerative diseases.”

“Insulin resistance and poor blood glucose control – defining characteristics of type 2 diabetes – drive changes associated with brain aging and cognitive decline. A growing body of evidence suggests that dementia is the manifestation of insulin resistance and altered metabolism in the brain.”

“Mutation risk is linked to father's age because the sperm lineage in males keeps dividing, while females have all the eggs they are ever going to produce present at birth. It's believed that chimps may produce more (cycles of) sperm than humans, and thereby amplifying this affect.”

“The women completed cognitive tasks that assessed verbal learning and memory by having them learn and later recall a list of words, verbal fluency by asking them to name as many animals as possible in one minute, and mental speed, attention, and working memory by having them match numbers with symbols as quickly and accurately as possible.”

“FTA: > As we age, we have an increasingly harder time ignoring distractions. But new research reveals that by learning to make discriminations of a sound amidst progressively more disruptive distractions, we can diminish our distractibility. A similar strategy might also help children with attention deficits or individuals with other mental challenges.”

“Somatic mutations identified in blood cells of healthy older adults was associated with an average of 4 years of accelerated biological aging as measured by epigenetic age and up to 6.4 years of increased biological age with certain mutations.”

“Eating more blueberries didn't show a protective effect against developing cataracts; however, higher anthocyanin intake did confer a 10 percent reduction in risk. Blueberries are rich in anthocyanins – a class of flavonoid compounds that exert robust antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties via hormetic effects.”

“The data were adjusted for body mass index, smoking status, education level, alcohol consumption, total energy intake, socioeconomic status, physical activity, inflammatory status (measured by C-reactive protein), and history of diabetes, heart disease, asthma, bronchitis or tuberculosis.”

“Among adults not participating in the structured exercise and diet program, maximum bench-press strength increased by 4.02 kg (8.86 lb) with creatine, compared with a 2.96-kg (6.53-lb) decline with placebo.”