Women's Health

If you’re an agebuzz reader, you likely understand the direct connection between what you eat and how well you’re aging– especially how your brain functions. While you likely have a sense of a healthy diet, there is a science behind the nutrition available from specific foods and the aging of…

English writer Virginia Woolf once wrote, “Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.” In fact, Ms. Woolf was ahead of her time in understanding the essential importance of friendships in your life. Even more than spouses and relatives, friends are the essential relationships for our…

The trends are worrisome. Even before the start of the pandemic in 2020, data showed that alcohol use among adults 65 and over was on the rise. Then the pandemic exacerbated this trend. According to data from the CDC, from 2020-2021 deaths due to alcohol were greater than 178,000, and…

How do you think you look compared to your peers? Do you all look about the same age? Would someone think you’re younger than your same-aged friends? Do you think you look younger than your chronological age? Does it even matter one way or another about whether you look young…

It’s clear that for agebuzz readers- really for anyone getting on in years- maintaining balance and preventing falls is an important topic. And while we regularly address balance and strength-building exercises, clutter clearance, and other fall prevention strategies, perhaps one of the more undiscussed but important areas of consideration is…

Whether you are going gray, or suffering hair loss, many of us become unhappy with the state of our hair as we get older. The texture changes, density changes, and what was once considered “normal” may now be a distant memory in terms of how your hair “behaves.” While the…