What is age-related frailty? And how does it show up in the two sexes? And is it possible to prevent it? Francesca Baglio, a neurologist at the IRCCS Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi ONLUS in Milan and a member of the SoLongevity scientific committee, tells us.
Sounds composed of more powerful low frequencies seem to promote deep sleep and better cardiac function
Flavia Franconi has lived several lives. A graduate in Psychiatry, she taught Pharmacology at the University of Sassari. She then served as Health Councillor of Basilicata. But women’s health has always been at the center of her interests. Indeed, she is the “noble mother” of sex-gender medicine in Italy, and today she is also at the center of an international network as chair of the Women20 Health Commission. We asked her to tell us about the differences between the sexes when it comes to aging.
We call it “gender medicine,” but it would be more correct to call it “sex-gender medicine.” Its goal is to ensure increasingly adequate treatment for all and equity of access to care, through the recognition and enhancement of differences between male and female individuals
The reasons why women have a greater need for sleep than men lie in certain aspects of biology, but are also cultural and social
