Lifestyle & environment
Daily behaviours, social conditions and environmental exposures linked with healthspan.
Find the question you want to explore
Explore movement, sleep, social connection and exposures together. Associations in population studies and effects observed in controlled trials answer different questions about healthy ageing.
18 topic dossiers connect research, trials, universities, funding and patent activity. Coverage is still growing; numbers describe the indexed records, not all evidence worldwide.
Exercise
Evidence on physical activity, fitness, healthspan, and ageing outcomes.
Open evidence dossier →Sleep
Research connecting sleep duration, quality, timing, and ageing-related outcomes.
Open evidence dossier →Heat, cold, and hormesis
Sauna, heat shock, cold exposure, and adaptive stress responses.
Open evidence dossier →Circadian rhythms
Biological timing, clock disruption, chronobiology, and healthy ageing.
Open evidence dossier →Resistance training
Strength training, muscle function, bone health, and independence.
Open evidence dossier →Aerobic fitness and VO2 max
Cardiorespiratory fitness, endurance, and healthy ageing outcomes.
Open evidence dossier →Walking and longevity
Walking volume, pace and daily steps in relation to function and survival.
Open evidence dossier →Balance training
Training aimed at postural control, fall reduction and independent function.
Open evidence dossier →High-intensity interval training
HIIT protocols studied for fitness, metabolism and function across ageing.
Open evidence dossier →Sedentary behaviour
Sitting time and low-movement patterns as determinants of healthy ageing.
Open evidence dossier →Social connection
Social networks, participation and relationships associated with healthy ageing.
Open evidence dossier →Loneliness and ageing
Loneliness, social isolation and their links with function, disease and mortality.
Open evidence dossier →Cognitive training
Structured cognitive practice and its effects on later-life cognition and function.
Open evidence dossier →Stress management
Psychological stress, resilience practices and biological ageing outcomes.
Open evidence dossier →Smoking cessation and longevity
How stopping tobacco use affects survival, disease risk and healthy ageing.
Open evidence dossier →Alcohol and ageing
Alcohol exposure, abstention and later-life health and mortality outcomes.
Open evidence dossier →Light exposure and ageing
Daylight, artificial light and circadian alignment across later life.
Open evidence dossier →Air pollution and ageing
Particulate and gaseous pollution as exposures affecting biological and functional ageing.
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