NAD+ Supplements Won't Save Your Muscles: What Two 2025 Studies Actually Found
The pitch writes itself: as you age, cellular NAD+ levels decline, mitochondria lose their fuel, and muscles begin to waste away. Take NMN or NR daily, restore
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Your Immune System Is Running Out of Fuel: NMN Moves From Supplement Shelf to Clinical Trial
In 2026, NMN entered its first clinical trial for autoimmune disease and appeared in Nature Medicine. Combined with new evidence on T cell senescence reversal and exercise-driven SIRT1 activation, three studies map NAD+ as an immune calibrator.
Can Young Blood Really Fight Aging? Five Blood Therapies Still Looking for Answers
A few years ago, a startup was charging people tens of thousands of dollars to infuse them with plasma from young donors. The FDA eventually issued a statement:
Why Some Anti-Aging Strategies Boost Autophagy While Others Suppress It — The Answer Lies in a Threshold
There's a contradiction sitting at the center of anti-aging biology that doesn't get explained enough: some researchers are working hard to increase autophagy
Why Ventilators May Stiffen the Lungs They Are Saving — The Ferritinophagy-Fibrosis Connection
Mechanical ventilation is one of modern medicine's most important life-saving tools. For patients in respiratory failure, it is the bridge between death and sur
Can Bad Sleep Show Up in Your Blood? 49 Studies Tracking Biological Aging Markers
Most people know that poor sleep makes them feel older. But does it actually make them biologically older — in a way measurable in their blood?A 2026 systemat