How Can I Keep My Body and Brain Healthy?
Throughout Jamie Justice’s career as a scientific researcher, her life’s work has focused on how to “prevent or delay the onset of functional declines, disability or chronic diseases” as people age, she says.
Justice has studied longevity since 2009, starting with research on athletes’ performance — examining how long people could maintain certain physical tasks before feeling fatigued — including in adults over age 50. She did that work at the University of Colorado Boulder, where she eventually received a master’s degree in integrative physiology and a doctorate in neurophysiology of movement and integrative physiology of aging.
Working with those older adults was formative for Justice: They wanted to learn how to exercise effectively as they aged, extend their ability to spend time with family and remain active in their communities, she says. Conducting research in “geroscience” — a term that refers to the study of biological mechanisms that influence aging and increase risks of developing age-related diseases — took Justice to labs, hospitals and research centers, she says.
Excerpted from CNBC
