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Brian Walsh
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A Welsh study found that people who received the shingles vaccine were 20% less likely to develop dementia over 7 years.
A US study of 500,000 people found a 24% lower risk of developing dementia among those who received the shingles vaccine.
Socially isolated people have roughly a 32% higher risk of early death, according to studies Brian Walsh cited.
Seven or more hours of sleep on a regular basis is tied to lower risk of heart disease, diabetes, and cancer, and is considered the most neuroprotective daily habit.
After your 20s, muscle mass continuously declines; building strength early is like 'banking' muscle you can afford to lose later.
Just one hour of resistance training per week captures most of the longevity benefit from strength work — you don't need to go to extremes.
Vitalist Bay is a Berkeley-based annual gathering for the longevity movement — part science fair, part lifestyle festival. Attendees range from tech workers to researchers and investors, and the crowd is more diverse than the billionaire-bro stereotype suggests.
Two startups at Vitalist Bay are building 'bodyoids' — headless biological sacks of organs that could replace failing human hearts, livers, and kidneys. The concept raises immediate philosophical alarm: if you replace enough organs, are you still you?
Every era has had its death-defying elixirs, from Egyptian pharaohs to Chinese emperors. Today's version swaps snake oil for AI and cryopreservation — and some researchers genuinely believe this time is different.
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