My paper with Daniel Belsky is now up on GeroScience! We developed the R package, BioAge, that allows users to develop and implement biological age measures based on three published methods. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

How fast are we aging? How can we change environment and behavior to slow aging and increase healthspan? We built a new tool to find out: DunedinPACE is a DNA methylation blood test of the Pace of Aging. Paper online @elife elifesciences.org/articles/73420 @cuepidemiology @columbiaaging

A new paper I had the pleasure of working on ambient air pollution and KD with Seung-Ah . Short-term exposure to PM2.5 and SO2 was positively associated with KD in children <5 years in South Korea.

How prenatal cortisol levels relate to grandmother-mother relationships? online now Human Biology Association & Amer J Hum Biol onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100…

My first paper with Beate Ritz, MD,PhD, “Diet quality and Parkinson’s disease: Potential strategies for non-motor symptom management” is out in Parkinsonism & Related Disorders today! authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S13…

Our recent study Human Biology Association & Amer J Hum Biol explores how pica in Latina pregnant women relates to stress and immune markers. doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.2…

New paper from Dayoon Kwon Beate Ritz, MD,PhD & colleagues examines associations between diet & gut microbiome composition in #Parkinsons; N=85 PD cases; Healthy diet associated with anti-inflammatory;⬆️added sugar intake associated with⬆️in pro-inflam. bacteria nature.com/articles/s4153…

A study in npj Journals Parkinson's Disease reports that consuming a high-quality diet may help address the pro-inflammatory dysbiosis in Parkinson’s disease patients and possibly provide some protection against disease progression. go.nature.com/3UKf4EE

New study from Dayoon Kwon @mollyfox Sera L. Young & colleagues finds that pica during pregnancy is associated with altered stress and immune responses among Latina women, revealing unique biological insights. #PregnancyHealth #Pica

How fun to be selected for the cover of the Human Biology Association & Amer J Hum Biol journal! Super grateful to Prof Molly Fox UCLA Dayoon Kwon for incl me in their work on #pica among #Latina #women. The image is holy earth from Esquipulas, also used in the chapter headings of my book. #geophagy

Excited to share that I've been selected as an Honorable Mention for the 2024 GeroScience Outstanding Publication Award! 🎉 A huge thank you to Daniel Belsky for all the support. GeroScience doi.org/10.1007/s11357…

Long-term exposure to traffic-related air pollution and higher genetic susceptibility are associated with an increase risk in developing Parkinson disease. ja.ma/4ioVwi6

How are gene-environment interactions between the polygenic risk score (PRS) for Parkinson disease (PD) and long-term exposure to traffic-related air pollution (TRAP) associated with PD risk? jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman… c/o JAMA

A gene-environment interaction study, a combination of long-term air pollution exposure & genetic susceptibility "strongly contributed to the risk of developing #Parkinsons"; A meta-analytical assessment of studies conducted in central California & Denmark jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…