Angus

Angus

Specializing in aging, pathology, immunology, cancer, and data science, Angus distills complex insights into accessible wisdom, empowering you to lead a longer, healthier life.

Strong bones, strong brain.

Strong Bones, Strong Mind

By Angus / May 4, 2022

Regular exercise releases osteocalcin from your bones. Once in circulation, osteocalcin enters your brain to support learning and memory.

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How to Build an Anti-Frail Mind: Use Exercise to Control Brain Inflammation

By Angus / December 15, 2021

Regular exercise reduces neuroinflammation, which increases brain cell proliferation and survival, leading to improved cognition.

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By staying engaged with life, exploring new activities, and persisting with those new activities that inspire you, you significantly increase your chance of preserving your mind into old age.

Three Simple Lifestyle Tweaks to Build an Anti-Frail Mind

By Angus / November 11, 2021

By staying engaged with life, exploring new activities, and persisting with those new activities that inspire you, you significantly increase your chance of preserving your mind into old age.

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By using your hobbies to inspire your education, you protect your mind as you age while enhancing meaning in life.

How to Build an Anti-frail Mind: Combine Ikigai with Self-Directed Learning

By Angus / October 26, 2021

By using your hobbies to inspire your education, you protect your mind as you age while enhancing meaning in life.

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Building an Anti-frail Mind: Variety is the Spice of Life!

By Angus / October 20, 2021

By increasing the diversity of your activities you can preserve overall and executive cognitive functions as you age.

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How to Become Anti-frail: Prevent Oxidative Stress

By Angus / October 14, 2021

Combining a healthy, plant-based diet with exercise reduces unhealthy oxidative stress without overdosing your body with antioxidants.

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Four Strategies to Enhance Ikigai

By Angus / October 1, 2021

Consciously applying ikigai-enhancing strategies may help you experience a life that is indeed worth living.

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Can Yoga Make You Smarter?

By Angus / March 27, 2021

Yoga is an effective way to improve several domains of intelligence, notably executive function, attention, memory, and processing speed.

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Dance your way to Everyday Resilience

By Angus / January 23, 2021

Independent studies have shown that dancing improves your body, strengthens your mind, nurtures your spirit, and expands your social network.

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Using Yoga to build a Resilient Mind

By Angus / September 19, 2020

Long-term yoga practice has been shown to preserve the structure of your brain and increase the connectivity of your neural networks. This, in turn, helps protect your precious cognitive abilities against the ravages of old age.

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How to Improve Cognitive Functions

By Angus / July 28, 2020

The latest research suggests that by improving your cognitive functions through training, you can become more resilient and increase your chance living a meaningful life.

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Exercise for a Resilient Mind

By Angus / July 16, 2020

To help you maintain a resilient mind, we outline how to use exercise to keep your brain healthy.

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