Author: Stephen E. Terrell | Editorial Director & Co-Founder, LifeExpectancyCalculator.com

Stephen Terrell is an award-winning Creative Director and brand strategist with more than 30 years of experience in health, senior care, and financial services marketing. A 7x Platinum and 3x Gold MarCom Award winner, Stephen has led brand campaigns featured on the Today Show, Good Morning America, NBC Nightly News, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times. He is a contributing columnist for Cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer.

Does Ca-AKG Actually Slow Aging?

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Eight years younger in seven months. It is the kind of proposition that makes a supplement bottle sound like a time machine. The number comes from a real scientific paper about a formulation containing calcium alpha-ketoglutarate, better known as Ca-AKG. The researchers reported a striking change in a DNA-based estimate of biological age. What they […]

What a Cruise Ship Outbreak Reveals About Your Lifespan

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A cruise ship drifting off Cape Verde with 146 people aboard, three deaths, and a virus most Americans had barely heard of a week earlier sounds like the setup for a distant news story. It is easy to file it away as someone else’s problem. A CDC issue. A White House issue. A travel issue. […]

What Nobody Tells Cancer Patients About Staying Positive

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The pressure to stay upbeat during cancer can feel almost as heavy as the illness itself. Patients are often told to be strong, think positive, and keep fighting. Most people mean well. Still, those words can land like another burden at the worst possible time. This is the part many people miss: not every cancer […]