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A 2025 Nature Aging study found that hippocampal ferritin light chain 1 (FTL1) rose with age in mouse neurons, tracked poorer cognition, and became experimentally reversible in old mice. Thi…
Read articleA 9-person randomized crossover neuroimaging substudy found that high-polyphenol extra-virgin olive oil increased occipital resting-state functional connectivity compared with regular olive …
Read articleDementia rates in the US, UK, Netherlands, Sweden, France, and several other high-income countries have been falling for decades, despite population aging. The standard explanation — improve…
Read articleA 2026 PREDIMED-Plus cohort analysis linked higher olive-oil intake with 2-year cognitive preservation in 656 older adults, with each 10 g/day increment associated with higher global cogniti…
Read articleA 2026 community study of 101 older adults found that pulse-wave harmonics changed in a more organized way during a subtraction task in cognitively intact participants than in people with Mo…
Read articleChronic low-grade inflammation rises with age, and a growing body of work asks whether peripheral inflammatory markers in blood track subtle changes in brain white-matter microstructure on M…
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