'Old age,' Bette Davis once said, 'is not for wimps.' There's nothing wimpy about the formidable team of Terry Prone (77) and Fergus Finlay (75). The communications doyenne and the former Barnados CEO are about to launch Grey Matters, a new podcast which is billed as 'a long overdue conversation about ageing'.
Missing You Did you know the moon was so old It might have to go into a home? It keeps edging nearer The way old people do. Goya wore candles on his hat But Humphrey Davy invented the miner's lamp. On Enceladus a day is longer than a year. Tonight, we have the Spanish Civil War. You can't go on like this, moon, Peering into people's bedrooms And the stars have their own lives to lead. When did you last think of Cassiopeia? Really? Think!
I consider them all my best friends even though I have friends in my life that I see more regularly, she wrote, adding that she felt foolish, childish, to be so upset, especially given her vintage.
When it comes to collagen - how do you take yours? There are parties where people even drink shots of the anti-ageing supplement, often followed by a hefty tequila - though the latter is probably not recommended in the quest for youthful, peachy skin. Collagen is the most abundant protein in the body, and forms the scaffolding that helps maintain the structural integrity of our skin and musculoskeletal system.
In the version of the article initially published, in the Fig. 4e y axis, 5 105 inadvertently appeared twice. The top value has now been corrected to 5 104 in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.
A huge analysis of epigenetic changes throughout the entire adult lifespan provides the most comprehensive picture to date of how ageing modifies our genes. The study reveals that some human tissues, such as the retina and stomach, accumulate more ageing-related DNA changes than do others, such as the cervix and skin, and found universal epigenetic markers of ageing across different organs.
When I modelled them in the shop for my wife, she reacted instantly. I couldn't pull them off, she said. You're not an art or fashion person, was the implication. She was right; her advice tends to be sound. As a man, when you push into your 40s it becomes harder to keep up with every new trend and perhaps there comes a point at which maybe you shouldn't. But you might not want to totally give up either.
