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Can you tell Matt and Mike Beckwith apart?They’re almost the same height. Just about the same weight. They both love endurance sports (Matt’s the biker, while Mike runs.) And, as identical twins, they happen to have all the same genes, too.This all makes them near perfect candidates for a diet study about how meat and dairy products impact our overall health. Mike and Matt were both participants in a Stanford study featured in the new Netflix docuseries “You Are What You Eat,” which compared eig…
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For the past couple of decades, twins Matt and Mike Beckwith have watched their cholesterol numbers slowly creep up.“Our parents gave us the gift of high cholesterol,” Matt said.They’re both relatively healthy, active guys, but that genetic predisposition to high cholesterol does sometimes give him pause.“I am at that age where every so often we hear about somebody our age who died of a massive coronary event or a stroke, and it scares the hell out of me,” the 52-year-old said.So, when they both…
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Matt Beckwith really loves his Chipotle burrito.“I have been a Chipotle fanatic forever,” Beckwith, a 52-year-old from northern California, told Business Insider. “I have eaten Chipotle once a week for maybe 20 years.“For years, he would roll up to the counter and order a chicken burrito stuffed with brown rice, pinto beans, mild and hot sauce, plus some lettuce. He didn’t think much about the nutrients, he was just fueling up for his next big cycling workout.That weekly, meat-filled burrito was…
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Some of the healthiest people in the world live on home-cooked meals based on cherished recipes passed down through multiple generations. But if you don’t have Greek or Sardinian grandmother cooking up a zesty bean stew loaded with fresh herbs, there may still be hope for your diet.The people who’ve popularized the world’s “Blue Zones” — longevity hotspots where healthy aging is second nature — have developed a line of convenience foods inspired by Blue Zone diets. Their new meals are called Blu…
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A first-of-its-kind anti-aging tablet for dogs is now being tried out in elderly pets across the country — and so far, these old dogs love their new drugs.On average, our dogs die after about a decade or so with us, but these new chewables are designed to extend the lives of dogs of almost every size for just a little while longer. If they work, they’ll make aging dogs feel and act healthier, younger, and more vibrant. And it’ll all be done with a once-daily meaty-flavored chewable drug.Boo, an…
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There are a lot of ways to spend a fair amount of money calculating your so-called “biological age.” As a longevity reporter who’s been covering the science of aging and age-related diseases for a few years now, I am well aware of the drawbacks and limitations of the various biological aging tests out there.TruDiagnostic, one of the most widely used and respected direct-to-consumer biological age tests, charges $500 to pump out a biological age estimate and a predicted pace of aging based on dri…
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If you have COVID, there are plenty of reasons a standard nose swab test may not turn positive.Maybe you tested too early. Maybe your viral load is so low it isn’t detectable. Maybe you have some other wintry viral illness. Or, maybe you just didn’t get the testing procedure quite right.But some people who test negative for COVID aren’t taking no for an answer.Recently, some social media users feeling sick and testing negative on nose and throat tests say they’re turning their swabs on their oth…
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Elon Musk announced his brain interface company, Neuralink, implanted its first human brain chip last week. The product is called “telepathy.”“Enables control of your phone or computer, and through them almost any device, just by thinking,” Musk said on X, the social media platform he owns, which is formerly and better known as Twitter.Given all the breathless discourse about this being a “first” in human brain implantation, you’d be forgiven for assuming Musk is far ahead of the competition.But…
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There are hundreds of supplements out there promising to “boost” your brain health or perform a “miracle” for your mind.While it’s true that some people may benefit from some kind of supplementation of their diet, the evidence that so-called memory supplements can benefit all of us as we age remains shoddy, at best, says Joseph Schwartz, a food and drug chemist who directs the Office for Science and Society at McGill University.“They advertise all kinds of things: They’re antioxidants, they chan…
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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Christopher Silva, a 39-year-old from Pennsylvania who works in TV and film production. It’s been edited for length and clarity.Why not me?That’s what I thought when I saw a clever ad on the internet about two years ago asking for volunteers to participate in a vaccine research study to fight dysentery. The ad was neon green, a throwback to the two-toned Oregon Trail games I played in middle school typing class, where dying of the diarrhea-pr…
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There is no single agreed-upon prescription for aging bodies, no supplement that experts contend is good for everyone to stay sharp and fit as they get older.At a first-of-its-kind independent, academic conference in Singapore last week, leading aging researchers gathered to discuss which supplements may work best to boost longevity. Despite the fact that the supplement industry is a booming, roughly $170 billion dollar business worldwide — with longevity supplements like NMN boosters becoming i…
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Dr. Nir Barzilai has spent his career figuring out how aging works, and he’s already discovered some key genetic reasons why some people are so good at it.The director of the Institute for Aging Research at Albert Einstein College of Medicine hopes the insights he and others glean from researching centenarians may translate into new ways to treat aging, perhaps with some novel drug targets one day. But for now, he says, there are some cheap old drugs available that may help make people feel new…
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Daylight-saving time is a killer.The annual ritual in which we “gain” an hour of evening light in the summertime by pushing the clocks forward one hour each spring may seem like a harmless shift. Most Americans love it.But it’s actually incredibly controversial, and doctors including those in the American Medical Association say the damage it causes to our health is not worth it.Here’s why DST was created in the first place, and what we now know about the health effects:Daylight-saving time was…
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Dietician and cancer prevention expert Cynthia Thomson knows you can’t always diet or supplement your way out of getting cancer.“I was a dietician running marathons when I was diagnosed with colorectal cancer and I was in my early 40s,” Thomson, a University of Arizona professor, told Business Insider. “There’s a lot of cancer that we can’t prevent, that we have no idea why people are getting.“But, as Thomson has discovered through decades of studying the effects of supplements on tens of thousa…
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Professor Cynthia Thomson doesn’t rely on supplements to stay healthy.As a dietician, cancer researcher, and colon cancer survivor, she knows that the capsules and powders that more than 57% of Americans use regularly don’t have a big impact on a person’s overall health.But over the years, as the nutrition expert has dealt with a few specific health issues, and gotten just a tad older too, she’s come up with a simple regimen of four supplements she thinks may help her age just a little bit more…
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Sam Altman is already a tech titan. Somehow, at 38, he’s been coding for three decades, and with the advent of ChatGPT and (more recently) Sora, he’s quickly amassed nearly as much hype and influence as Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg.As OpenAI’s CEO, Altman is widely considered to be the face of artificial intelligence, reprogramming the way we’ll live and work for years to come. His relentless push into the future of tech — including early investments in Reddit, Stripe, Airbnb, and Instacart — h…
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It’s the holy grail for a weight-loss drug: Stay strong, but lose the fat.The drugmaker Altimmune says its new weekly injectable, pemvidutide, saw patients lose about 75% fat and only 25% muscle in results of a Phase II clinical trial the company announced on Wednesday.That’s impressive when you compare it to existing GLP-1 drugs such as Ozempic and Wegovy, which use semaglutide, or Mounjaro and Zepbound, which use tirzepatide.On those drugs, patients can lose as much as 40% of their muscle mass…
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Anyone who’s anyone has an opinion about fasting.Chris Hemsworth has done it to boost his longevity and lose a ton of weight for acting roles. Podcaster Andrew Huberman told his more than 5 million YouTube subscribers he uses a “pseudo-intermittent fasting” diet for better focus and energy. Hugh Jackman started fasting for 16 hours a day on the recommendation of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, and Terry Crews only eats between 2 and 10 p.m.It’s not just movie stars and health-fluencers. In the C-suit…
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I want to play this mind game every day. I can’t stop thinking about how fantastically clear-headed I feel.My mind is lighting up, my reflexes feel sharp, and my focus is renewed.I’m not the only one. Formula 1 racers. Professional athletes in the NFL and Premier League. Fighter pilots. Even stock traders love this six-minute game.I’m in Singapore — arguably ground zero for healthy aging research and development. Trainer Anna Milani, who owns Sparkd, one of the only mind-body fitness gyms in the…
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It’s no secret that Michael Pollan loves plants. He’s been encouraging folks to eat more real food — especially veggies — for nearly two decades.Pollan, the author of “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” and “In Defense of Food,” said that vegetables can function as preventive medicine — and they provide more health benefits than taking pricey supplements.“It’s much better to get your vitamins from food,” Pollan told Business Insider. His latest documentary, “Food, Inc. 2,” was released in theaters Friday.”…
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Michael Pollan is probably best known for the seven simple words of diet advice he first used to open a New York Times essay in 2007, which later became the backbone of a bestselling book:“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.“He knows it’s really not so simple.“We all make compromises,” Pollan told Business Insider ahead of the release of his latest documentary, Food, Inc. 2, out April 12. “We do the best we can, and people pick out the issues they want to deal with, and can deal with.“At home…
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