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LaPlante is a journalist and associate professor of journalism at Utah State University, specializing in science communication.
Known for: Lifespan: Why We Age—and Why We Don't Have To, The Longevity Plan: Seven Life-Transforming Lessons from Ancient China
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Lifespan: Why We Age—and Why We Don't Have To
In this groundbreaking work, Harvard geneticist David A. Sinclair argues that aging is a disease—and that it is treatable. Drawing on decades of research, Sinclair explains the biological mechanisms o...
The Longevity Plan: Seven Life-Transforming Lessons from Ancient China
This book explores the secrets of long life and health discovered in a remote Chinese village known for its centenarians. Cardiologist Dr. John Day and journalist Matthew LaPlante share practical less...
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The Information Theory of Aging
The heart of my argument rests on what I call the Information Theory of Aging. Biology, at its core, is about information — not just genetic code but how that code is read and executed. Our DNA is astonishingly stable, like the hard drive storing the body’s instructions. Yet over time, the epigeneti...
From Lifespan: Why We Age—and Why We Don't Have To
The Role of Sirtuins and NAD+
In my lab, the quest to understand longevity led us to sirtuins — a family of genes that act as the guardians of cellular health. When I first began studying them, few could imagine their significance. Sirtuins regulate the body’s responses to stress and scarcity, maintaining genomic stability and e...
From Lifespan: Why We Age—and Why We Don't Have To
Discovery of Bapan Village
When I first heard of Bapan Village in Guangxi Province, I’ll admit I was skeptical. Reports claimed that a disproportionate number of its residents lived past one hundred—and that they did so without chronic conditions like heart disease or diabetes, which plague so many of us in the West. As a sci...
From The Longevity Plan: Seven Life-Transforming Lessons from Ancient China
Lesson 1 – Purpose and Connection
The first lesson I grasped in Bapan was that health begins not in the body but in the heart’s sense of direction. Every centenarian I met had something to wake up for: crops to tend, grandchildren to feed, neighbors to check on. They were masters of relevance, and that emotional vitality radiated in...
From The Longevity Plan: Seven Life-Transforming Lessons from Ancient China
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LaPlante is a journalist and associate professor of journalism at Utah State University, specializing in science communication.
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