Brain Food

It’s been 13 years in the making, but Dr. David Sinclair and his colleagues have finally answered the question of what drives aging.

I recently met with a patient, a man in his late 40s with a soft smile. Minutes into our first session, I learned that his biggest fear was that decades later, he would look back and realize that he had spent his entire life — as he put it — “being sad.”

These ‘Betty Whites’ are showing us that with a healthy lifestyle, social connections and resilience, we can lower our risks of cognitive decline

How old is too old to be tapping the Bank of Mom and Dad? This week we wrote about parent-child financial relationships and the lengths people will go to to help their adult kids. Nearly 70% of parents with children 18 or older say they have sacrificed their own finances to help their offspring — with some even draining their retirement funds to do so.

Sisyphus, the king of Ephyra, was renowned in Greek mythology for his ingenuity; indeed, so clever was he that he cheated death twice, angering the gods.

There’s an idiom in Swedish—kärt besvär—that I quite love. It sums up many of the important things we do in life. And as one ages, it seems more and more that everything becomes a kärt besvär.