If Parents Stay Healthy Till 90, Will Children Feel Less Responsibility? | Reverse Ageing | Part 5
Healthy ageing may delay, but not eliminate, the caregiving responsibilities of adult children. Care may begin later, change in nature or be shared differently among... Read more.
Peptides in Women’s Health in India: What’s Approved, What’s Marketed
Women already receive peptide medicines routinely, and most people never think of them as peptides. Oxytocin in labour, the hormones used in IVF, teriparatide for... Read more.
Will Longer Lives Take Away Jobs from the Younger Generation? | Reverse Ageing | Part 4
Cross-country evidence does not show a simple trade-off in which more older workers means fewer younger ones. It depends on growth, labour demand, institutions and... Read more.
Soda and Sparkling Water in India: Is the Daily Fizz Doing Any Harm?
In India the carbonated water question is not really about imported sparkling water. It is about soda. Club soda has been in Indian homes and restaurants for a century,... Read more.
Fall-Proof Your Home: Room-by-Room Safety, Footwear and Technology | Seniors’ Balance | Part 3
In Part 1 we covered the seven hidden reasons balance gets worse with age. In Part 2 we set out a 17-exercise protocol to rebuild stability. Those two build the... Read more.
Anaemia in Older Adults: The Ferritin Test, the Causes, and Why It Is So Often Missed
Most Indians over sixty have had a haemoglobin reading at some point. Far fewer have had a ferritin test, which is the one that would actually have explained it.... Read more.
Which Blood Tests to Add, and What the Numbers Actually Mean | Blood Tests | Part 2
The four that change decisions most often here are ferritin, vitamin B12, fasting insulin and vitamin D. All four are cheap, all four are available at any accredited... Read more.
If Ageing Slows Down, Will Retirement Even Exist? | Reverse Ageing | Part 3
Retirement ages were set for a world with shorter lives and different work. India's own ages, generally 58 or 60, are administrative decisions, not biological ones.... Read more.
How Close Are We to Reversing Ageing in Humans? | Reverse Ageing | Part 1
Nothing available today can reverse ageing in a human being. Some ageing markers have been reversed in mice, most notably in a 2020 Nature study where old mice recovered... Read more.
Will We Really Live to 100+ and Stay Young While Doing It? | Reverse Ageing | Part 2
Slowing ageing, delaying ageing and reversing ageing are three different claims, and only the first two are anywhere near a clinic. Reversal has been shown in cells... Read more.