What scientists have learned from studying people over 90

[LiberalArkie]

Jun 27, 2024
In 2020, 60 Minutes checked in on the groundbreaking 90+ study and its members, a group of Americans age 90 and above still thriving in old age. Lesley Stahl revisited the participants, whom she first met in 2014, and caught up with the scientists expanding their findings on what leads to a longer, healthier life, with a special focus on memory and dementia.

"60 Minutes" is the most successful television broadcast in history. Offering hard-hitting investigative reports, interviews, feature segments and profiles of people in the news, the broadcast began in 1968 and is still a hit, over 50 seasons later, regularly making Nielsen's Top 10.

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[Joinfortmill]

1. Very cool.

[mitch96]

2. I thought it was interesting that not all Alzheimer's symptoms are due to amaloid plaque. Some have a ton of it

and are clear as a bell. Others with no plaque are very symptomatic. The pharmaceutical industrial complex has jumped all over the "take a pill for plaque" idea.
They don't want to hear about the plaque and no Alzheimer's idea... The micro strokes is an interesting pathway. Not enough to kill you, just enough to mess you up..uff

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[LiberalArkie]

3. That is why they call it science. Things will be different in a few more years with more data on older people

like me. I tell kids in their 20's to take care of themselves as they may live comfortably into their 120's the way medical science is progressing.

As a boomer I remember getting shots in elementary where everyone was given the shot with the same needle. One after another. When the syringe was empty they would refill it and continue.

I remember being taken around to faith healers and having exorcisms to cast out the demons I had. Now it is called HFA, Autism or Aspergers.

I remember for my asthma the doc giving me a shot of something new called Cortisone. I was made for horses. It knocked me to the floor and laid there for awhile. I was still in elementary.

Science is good.