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February 2025

a young man clutching his chest in pain due to heart disease

Heart Disease: How to prevent the #1 cause of death in the world from killing you

The leading cause of morbidity and mortality is preventable. Learn what you can do to take heart disease off the table. Without even knowing you, if I had to guess one thing that is most likely to be the cause of your death it would be heart disease. Heart disease is the leading cause of […]

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several different cuts of meat

Protein intake and longevity – harmful or helpful?

Protein plays a role in longevity through multiple conflicting variables. Which ones are more important depends on who you ask. In the longevity space, the debate as to whether protein intake should be limited or maximized remains hotly contested. It’s easy to find arguments from experts in the field claiming that protein consumption increases the

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a bag of longevity medicine being administered to a patient

Commercializing anti-aging products – skipping research for the market

With the rapid rise in anti-aging products, companies are taking advantage of the hype and capitalizing on sales of unproven and unregulated therapies. But buyer beware, charlatans selling snake oil run rampant in this market. The field of geroscience, which focuses on understanding the biological mechanisms of aging, is rapidly gaining mainstream attention. As public

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