BU’s New England Centenarian Study delves into the lives of superagers to better understand why some people make
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Researchers studying “super agers,” people over 80 who have mental faculties of people decades younger, said st
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Stacy Andersen, co-director of the New England Centenarian Study, a center dedicated to studying p
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Latinos are 1.5 times more likely to develop Alzheimer's disease than their white counterparts, but make up a small
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“We can learn why these people delay or escape Alzheimer’s disease, and use that to come up with drugs to comba
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Thomas Perls, director of BU’s New England Centenarian Study, explains how and why some people live to 100 years
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The oldest-known person in the world, Kane Tanaka of Japan, has died at the age of 119. Host Marco Werman discusses
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You have two choices when pondering how—and whether—you will live a long, healthy life.
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Being Latina and being a woman, Arrecís has a favorable combination to be a centenarian, according to Thomas Perls
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In Age Later, Dr. Barzilai reveals the secrets his team has unlocked about SuperAgers and the scientific discoveries that show we can mimic some of their natural resistance to the aging process. This eye-opening and inspirational book will help you think of aging not as a certainty, but as a phenomenon like many other diseases and misfortunes
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