July 11, 2024 | Issue #110

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In this week's newsletter:🧀 Cheese to live long?🐭 Mice dig keto

Longevity is Getting Cheesy

Every week there seems to be something that helps you live longer, and this week is no different.BUT... this new longevity food is something we can all celebrate... CHEESE!Before you get too excited, you've got to read the fine print. New Atlas summarized the recent study well:While not directly responsible for happy, healthy aging, a higher intake of cheese (and fruit) was one of the standout contributors in those who had high well-being scores. 

A mediation analysis identified 33 factors that mediate "between the well-being spectrum and the aging-GIP" – essentially, statistically, the disease, behaviors and lifestyle choices that significantly reduce the healthy aging score. Key ones included TV watching, smoking, medication use, heart failure, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), stroke, coronary atherosclerosis and ischemic heart disease. 

Cheese, on the other hand, swung the pendulum the other way in both its impact on the well-being spectrum and aging-GIP. One of five key lifestyle mediators the data testing identified, it had a 3.67% positive impact on those healthy aging factors (whereas, for example, higher fruit intake had a 1.96% positive result and too much TV time, an indication of a more sedentary lifestyle, had a 7.39% negative impact on the score for both indicators).

The full, very technical study is here, if you want to dig deeper. While I saw several flaws in this study (mainly that there were too many other factors to definitively target cheese as a contributor to longevity), I still think there is some importance here...It's actually quite simple, "those who reported the best mental health and stress resilience, which boosted well-being, also seemed to eat more cheese."In other words - those who enjoy themselves, spend time with friends, and don't stress about the small stuff end up living longer. Have a low stress weekend, and enjoy a little cheese,CodyFounder, Spannr

• How the ketogenic diet improves healthspan and memory in aging mice (Medical Xpress)

• Eating Cheese Helps You Age Better, Scientists Say (Newsweek)

• Having a positive attitude toward aging can add years to your life (Los Angeles Daily News)

• Sex cells could be reason why women live longer than men, finds study (Interesting Engineering)

• The loneliness trap: it is said to be as bad as smoking. So will it shorten my lifespan? (The Guardian)

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