Leibniz Healthy Ageing: LRA Healthy Ageing

Does a healthy lifestyle promote cognitive performance in old age? What new therapeutic approaches can be used to extend the health span in old age? What must the environment look like so that people can age healthy and satisfied? These are just a few examples of the pressing questions that society and politics are currently posing to science. The Leibniz Research Alliance Healthy Ageing wants to provide answers.

21 institutes of the Leibniz Association cooperate in the Leibniz Research Alliance Healthy Ageing. In addition, there are associated members from renowned research institutions in Germany and abroad. In interdisciplinary projects, they research the biological and social aspects of ageing. The interdisciplinary approach, which is unique in the German research landscape in this form, makes it possible to analyse the interactions between biological-medical and socio-economic aspects. The aim is to develop new adaptation strategies that promote healthy ageing in the long term. Biomedical scientists, educational researchers, spatial planners and economists work together in interdiciplinary teams.

Diabetes Drug May Improve Bone Fat-induced Defects of Fracture Healing
03/20/2017 · DIfE German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke
A new study led by the German Institute of Human Nutrition (DIfE), a partner of the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), shows that gliptins – well known from diabetes treatment – may oppose the detrimental effects of fat cell accumulation in the bone marrow to improve bone healing in older, overweight patients. The research team led by stem cell researchers Thomas H. Ambrosi and Tim J. Schulz has now published its findings in Cell Stem Cell (Ambrosi et al. 2017).
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Men with Impaired Glucose Metabolism Should Avoid High-Carbohydrate Foods in the Evening
03/09/2017 · DIfE German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke
According to a nutrition study led by the German Institute of Human Nutrition (DIfE), a partner of the German Center for Diabetes Research, the so-called internal clock also influences how people with impaired glucose metabolism react to carbohydrate-rich food. For example, in men with prediabetes, abundant consumption of foods containing starch and sugar in the evening had a negative effect on their blood glucose regulation. In comparison, in healthy study participants the timing of carbohydrate intake did not play a significant role in blood glucose regulation.
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Poster & PhD Award for young scientists at the 2nd International Symposium Healthy Ageing
03/06/2017 · LFV Healthy Ageing
During the 2nd International Symposium Healthy Ageing, young researchers received the Poster as well as the Presentation Award.
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Issue 08Healthy Ageing - Forschung aus erster Hand

Issue 08
Healthy Ageing - Forschung aus erster Hand