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What does science say about sugar? And can sugar really make you look old? Halloween is fast approaching, and children will trick-or-treat while we all indulge in candies, spider-muffins, finger-cookies and brain-cakes. Eating sugar during holidays is generally not a...

Promising breast cancer research October is an important month to shine a light on cancer research and to raise money that contributes to research projects, salaries to researchers and the spread of knowledge about cancer and how to detect it. Therefore, we will...

Dietary supplements based on health quizzes can have unwanted consequences   Trendy packaging More and more companies are being started where vitamins are sold in attractive packaging, separately or in bags with daily dosages. Influencers and young followers who...

The Swedish concept of a Kallbad looks like lunacy to anyone not from Scandinavia. How on earth could diving into a freezing cold lake of water be pleasurable?! Well it turns out that cold water swimming can have many more health benefits than previously imagined...

The drug Metformin has had a lot of buzz around it ever since it was announced that trials would be done to try and name it the world’s first anti-aging drug. Leading researchers active in the fields of Gerontology, like David Sinclair, have publicly said that they’re...

For all that we at NEM talk about aging and healthcare, people rarely can put a face to the researchers that make these scientific breakthroughs possible. Through our scientific profiles, we will introduce you to some of the most famous and interesting scientists...

Li Karlsén is a Captain, Coach, and NEM sponsored athlete. After years in the Swedish army, she is now working as the Head of Security for the women’s rights organisation Kvinna till Kvinna as well as taking the world of freediving* by storm. After winning the Swedish...

This is the final part in our hallmarks of aging series, and focuses on the final two hallmarks that contribute to the body’s decline. Stem Cell Exhaustion As we age, our tissues lose the power to regenerate. Stem cells are created when we’re still embryos, allowing a...

The second set of hallmarks are the antagonistic ones. For most of our life, these processes are beneficial, but as we age they start to become damaging. Deregulated nutrient sensing When we eat, our body turns the food we consume into energy and nutrients. When we...