It is believed that chronic stress may lead to the development of disease and accelerate aging. Though this idea may seem intuitive, there have not been any adequate cellular or molecular explanations of how the relationship occurs, until now. In the current research published in the journal Nature, scientists infused mice chronically with adrenaline.  Adrenaline is released in the body normally [...]

There is a new book called The Longevity Project written by a professor of psychology named Howard S. Freidman at the University of California. Friedman and his associate Leslie R. Martin looked for links between personality and age of death in a lifelong cohort of people first started when they were school children. This was a personality study first started by Dr.Terman in 1921 and include 1500 [...]

The title of this article might seem intuitive, but there is good scientific evidence that happy people live longer. A review by Ed Diener and Micaela Chan looked over 150 reports and eight types of longitudinal long term studies and found consistently that subjects sense of subjective well being (SWB) was correlated with reduced mortality or longevity. SWB was variably defined in the studies reviewed [...]