Category Archives: Longevity Medicine

Could the key to slowing human aging and fighting off ailments like Covid, heart disease, and arthritis be hiding in the wings of bats? A recent study suggests it just might be.

Bats, remarkable creatures that live for around 20 years on average, appear to be unscathed by pathogens that prove deadly to humans, such as Ebola and Covid.

This intriguing fact has prompted scientists to take a closer look at these animals, hoping to uncover the secret behind their resistance to sickness, and see if it can be replicated in humans.

The study, conducted by researchers at Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore, led to the discovery of a protein that forms the backbone of bats extraordinary immune defense.

The protein, named bat ASC2, showed remarkable promise in genetically engineered mice. The research team is optimistic that it may one day be harnessed to save millions of human lives.

Bat ASC2 is a modified version of a protein that halts the inflammatory response in bats, providing them with their unique resistance to viruses. In a statement, the research team explained, Our results demonstrate an important mechanism by which bats limit excessive virus-induced and stress-related inflammation with implications for their long lifespan.

The scientists tested this proteins effectiveness by genetically modifying mice to carry the ASC2 protein. The results were astonishing. The mice demonstrated the same defensive properties against inflammation as the bats, as reported in the study published in the journal Cell.

Further investigation into why bats excel at fending off viruses revealed more about the ASC2 protein. When tested on human cells, these cells became more resistant to disease, showing the therapeutic potential of bat ASC2.

The protein works by dampening inflammasomes the part of the immune system that drives inflammatory responses when infection strikes.

Dr. Linfa Wang, a professor of emerging infectious diseases at Duke-NUS Medical School, spoke to The Telegraph about the potential of bat ASC2 in contributing to human longevity and reducing mortality from viruses.

He cautioned: It may not be the only factor, as biology is never as simple as one molecule or one pathway. But the overall dampening of inflammation most likely plays a role in health aging in bats.

Dr. Wang further explained that this discovery could lead to the development of new medicines that mimic ASC2, offering a potential treatment for various viruses that trigger an inflammatory response in humans.

We have filed patents based on this work and are exploring commercial partnerships for drug discovery, said Dr. Wang. We are hoping to develop a new class of anti-inflammatory drugs for inflammasome-driven human diseases.

Interestingly, mice carrying the ASC2 adaptation saw their death rate from a deadly flu virus drop dramatically from 100 percent to 50 percent. In addition, the ASC2 protein substantially inhibited the Zika virus in these genetically engineered mice.

Both humans and bats carry the ASC2 protein, but the researchers speculate that it may have evolved to be stronger in bats due to the immense physiological stress that comes with flight.

Bats, the only mammals capable of powered flight, may have developed a means to suppress their inflammatory immune response as a survival mechanism. This theory suggests the metabolically costly flight could be a key driver for this adaptation.

The research findings have sparked interest among experts worldwide. Professor Gilda Tachedjian, head of Life Sciences at the Burnet Institute in Australia, acknowledged the significance of the study. She told The Telegraph: The researchers have proved the concept that bat ASC2 protein can target the part of the immune system responsible for inflammatory responses, and therefore reducing inflammation in cells in a petri dish and in mice.

However, she tempered her praise with caution, adding, While the findings of this study are intriguing, more work is needed to translate these findings into new therapies that can be used in people to reduce mortality from viruses or increase longevity.

Indeed, the road from promising laboratory findings to effective human therapies can be long and arduous. The discovery of bat ASC2s potential is just the beginning. To fully understand how this protein works and to harness its power for human health, extensive further research is necessary.

The current study does, however, underscore the incredible potential that nature holds for medical breakthroughs. As scientists continue to investigate bats remarkable resilience to viruses, they are gaining insights that could transform our approach to human health and longevity.

In the fight against diseases like Covid and conditions such as heart disease and arthritis, bats could prove to be an unexpected ally. Their unique protein could provide a template for new anti-inflammatory drugs that could not only save lives but also extend them.

The quest for longevity and disease resistance has been a long-standing challenge for humanity. Now, it appears that the solution may be soaring in the night sky, in the form of these winged mammals. As we continue to study and learn from them, bats may just hold the key to unlocking a new frontier in human health and medicine.

As we wait for the next steps of this exciting research, its clear that the humble bat, a creature that has inspired myth and legend for centuries, may soon find itself at the center of a scientific revolution. The study of bat ASC2 has the potential to reshape our understanding of disease, immunity, and the very nature of aging. And who knows? The secret to a longer, healthier life may just be a bats flight away.

-

Check us out on EarthSnap, a free app brought to you by Eric Ralls and Earth.com.

More here:
Scientists find a protein in bats that can slow aging and fight most ... - Earth.com

On May 6, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, carefully placed the iconic St. Edwards Crown atop King Charles IIIs head as the new king solemnly sat in the 700-year-old Coronation Chair at Westminster Abbey while grasping a golden scepter in each hand.

It was the first time in 70 years for a monarch to be crowned in the U.K. since the coronation of his late mother, Queen Elizabeth II, who shared an almost identical pose, wearing the same crown in 1953.

When his mother died on Sept. 8, 2022, he became the oldest monarch to take the British throne.

KING CHARLES HONORED WITH UNIQUE DISPLAY OF GNOMES ALL OVER UK WOMANS YARD

The king is now 74 (hell turn 75 on Nov. 14, 2023) and many wonder if the monarch will enjoy the same longevity as his parents did.

I expect King Charles reign to be a long one, Dr. June McKoy, professor of medicine, preventive medicine and medical education at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois, told Fox News Digital.

That he is starting his reign in his 70s will not prevent him from doing as well as a monarch in his 40s, added McKoy, who is an academic geriatrician.

She recommended that older adults be individually assessed and not by chronology as they age.

To be sure, King Charles has been a great steward of his health and he will benefit from that stewardship.

King Charles III comes from a family of long livers on both his mothers and fathers side, so its likely he inherited their genes, McKoy said.

The latest science on the genetics of longevity suggests that, for most of us, less than 20% of it is passed down through the generations, meaning the other 80% is lifestyle and luck, Andrew Steele, PhD, author of Ageless: The New Science of Getting Older Without Getting Old, told Fox News Digital.

There does seem to be a more significant genetic component when it comes to exceptional longevity.

However, there does seem to be a more significant genetic component when it comes to exceptional longevity the child or sibling of someone who lives to 100 is 10 times as likely to do so themselves as someone from the general population, added Steele, a biologist based in Berlin, Germany.

Charles father lived to 99, his mother lived to 96 and his grandmother, the queens mother, lived to 101 so he may be lucky enough to have some longevity genes in his DNA, he added.

Wealth is known to correlate with long life, too, so even though he ascended to the throne at age 73 the oldest in British history hes still got a shot at a decently long reign, Steele said in an email.

Charlies turned 74 in November 2022. (None of the medical experts interviewed for this article directly examined King Charles III.)

Prince Harry, Charles youngest son, wrote in his bombshell memoir, Spare, that his father used to perform handstands in Balmoral Castle to relieve chronic back and neck pain from old polo injuries.

Prescribed by his physio, these exercises were the only effective remedy for the constant pain in Pas neck and back, Harry wrote.

FOR KING CHARLES CORONATION, WORLDS LONGEST SERVING BRASS BAND PLAYER, 95, CAN TOOT HIS OWN HORN

He performed them daily, in a pair of boxers, propped against a door or hanging from a bar like a skilled acrobat.

Charles aggravated the condition when he fell off a horse at Windsor two years later.

After missing the Royal Ascot, one of Britains most famous horse races, because of a herniated disc in his spine in 1991, Charles aggravated the condition when he fell off a horse at Windsor two years later, according to a Daily Mail report.

Experts speculate that his trademark walk with his fingers interlocked together behind his back is a clever way to relieve his back pain.

On another note, there has been some focus on his posture and its implications for osteoporosis, McKoy told Fox News Digital.

BE WELL: KEEP YOUR BONES STRONG TO PREVENT OSTEOPOROSIS

Given that osteoporosis causes a decrease in bone density and weakening of the bones, it can cause height loss, she added.

A stooped posture might represent height loss, she said but this can be normal or abnormal depending on the individual circumstances.

As part of the normal process of aging, people typically lose approximately 1 centimeter, or 0.5 inch, of height every 10 years which tends to accelerate in our 70s, McKoy said.

She also said, Height loss of [two] inches or more is not considered normal and should prompt a visit to the physician.

King Charles suffered many injuries while playing polo and hunting, including a pivotal fall during a polo match in 1990 that resulted in fracturing his right arm.

After it didnt heal once he had surgery, he had a second operation to fix it three months later, partly due to concern the injury would not allow him to properly salute, per a Daily Mail report.

Charles retired from polo in 2005 when he was 57, after playing the game for over 40 years.

In 2001, Charles was knocked unconscious temporarily when he fell head-first from his horse during a charity match at Cirencester Park in Gloucestershire, England, according to a BBC report.

He retired from polo in 2005 when he was 57, after playing the game for over 40 years, as his biography on his official website said.

He has an interesting pair of hands for a baby, Queen Elizabeth wrote to her former music teacher shortly after her son Charles was born.

They are rather large, but with fine long fingers quite unlike mine and certainly unlike his fathers.

Charles himself referred to them as sausage fingers after Prince Williams birth, according to Howard Hodgsons biography Charles, The Man Who Will Be King.

Dactylitis is a condition where the digits get swollen like sausages, typically seen in the toes and associated with ankylosing spondylitis, Dr. Nilanjana Bose, a board-certified rheumatologist at Lonestar Rheumatology in Houston, Texas, told Fox News Digital.

Its important to examine the hand to distinguish if the swelling is arising from the joint, the tendon sheath or the soft tissue, added Dr. Amy Kehl, rheumatologist with Providence Saint Johns Physician Partners and staff physician at Cedars Sinai in Southern California.

Bose said the look of Charles hands could be his baseline and not suggestive of any underlying disease.

The look of Charles hands could be his baseline and not suggestive of any underlying disease, said one expert.

True dactylitis is most classically observed in patients with a type of inflammatory arthritis known as spondyloarthritis, Kehl told Fox News Digital.

One example of this type of arthritis, she said, is psoriatic arthritis, which is often diagnosed by examining the patient.

There are a variety of medical conditions that can cause swollen fingers, including other types of arthritis such as rheumatoid arthritis, gout, autoimmune causes like lupus, sarcoidosis or sickle cell disease, or infections, such as Lyme disease, syphilis and tuberculosis.

CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR HEALTH NEWSLETTER

Typically a rheumatologist can order more diagnostic testing including lab testing or imaging studies of the joints if the diagnosis is unclear, Kehl said.

The typical treatment is geared toward the underlying type of inflammatory arthritis and the degree of symptomatology of the individual patient.

Understanding the biology of people who make it to exceptional ages could be an important way to discover medicines that can help us all live longer and healthier, Steele noted.

For example, while women live longer than men, we know that long-lived men tend to do so in better health, he added.

CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP

Steele also said he hoped that Charles will be a working royal for some time yet.

Read more here:
As King Charles III, at age 74, assumes British throne, heres what to ... - 1330 WFIN

The SuperAgers Family Study demonstrates effectiveness of multi-modal participant enrollment, data collection, and engagement in reaching aging populations

FAIRFAX, Va., May 09, 2023--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, just one in every thousand people in the United States reaches the age of 95 or older. While lifestyle may be a factor, researchers believe there could be genetic drivers that influence whether an individual lives an exceptionally long life.

This is the hypothesis behind the SuperAgers Family Study, launched by researchers from Albert Einstein College of Medicine in collaboration with the American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR) and Boston University School of Medicine, and supported by AFARs multi-year SuperAgers Initiative. The study recently exceeded its initial recruitment milestone, demonstrating early success in reaching this unique population.

The SuperAgers Family Study aims to collect data from 10,000 people, primarily individuals 95 and older, but also including their children and childrens spouses. This target enrollment number makes SuperAgers the most ambitious research program studying the biology behind exceptional longevity to date.

Historically, reaching aging populations for health research has been difficult. Many researchers still rely on face-to-face and clinical interactions and resist the use of digital methods for enrollment and data collection. By exceeding their first recruitment milestone, the SuperAgers study demonstrates that digital approaches can engage aging populations.

"Weve seen that, contrary to popular belief, there is some comfort with technology among this population, although it varies," said Sofiya Milman, MD, MS, who is the director of Human Longevity Studies at Einsteins Institute for Aging Research and the principal investigator of the study. "For those with less comfort, our recruitment of superager offspring in the study helps to foster compliance in superagers using digital methods. When needed, we can also leverage traditional and hybrid methods to perform eConsent and data collection."

Story continues

To meet, engage, and study superagers, the research team chose to collaborate with Vibrent Health, a digital technology company known for its innovation in precision medicine research solutions. Vibrent specializes in providing research teams with multi-modal approaches to eConsent, participant engagement, and data collection the latter of which comprises electronic medical records, genomics, wearables, surveys, and more.

"Studies exploring the contributing factors of healthy aging will be more effective if we can achieve larger numbers of participants in the research. We already see that technology can succeed in reaching aging populations," said Nir Barzilai, MD, Scientific Director at AFAR. "Our collaboration with Vibrent will help amass a data set whose magnitude will significantly move forward the identification of genetic, biological and behavioral factors that affect aging and its related diseases, delivering immediate and significant benefits to the legion of scientists and clinicians dedicated to healthy aging."

The SuperAgers Family Study uses Vibrents Participant Experience Manager to support the eConsent process and complete data collection in a way that meets them where they are, using a mix of digital methods, computer-assisted telephone interviewing (CATI), and paper forms. Study staff also use Vibrents powerful researcher tools to manage communication and appointments with participants. Vibrents platform provides the team with a way to manage, visualize, and better understand the data they collect throughout the study. In the future, the study also plans to provide genomics return of results to the participants and their family members.

"The important research the SuperAgers team is doing demands a participant-centric approach at every step, because the study population is so unique," said Vibrent Health CEO Praduman "PJ" Jain. "The novel discoveries that this research team makes will no doubt set new precedents for research, and for family-based studies. As health research becomes increasingly digital, family-based datasets represent a robust, promising area of precision health research."

Those who wish to be a part of the SuperAgers Study can find study qualifications by visiting superagersstudy.org.

About Vibrent Health

Vibrent Health develops digital health technology and research tools for health organizations, researchers and research participants. Powering the next generation of precision medicine, Vibrents scalable technology platform for individual and population health provides actionable insights to help accelerate medical discoveries. Vibrent Health is proud to serve, since 2017, as the Participant Technology Systems Center for the National Institutes of Healths All of Us Research Program, which aims to collect health data from 1 million or more people to support a wide variety of research studies. Since 2020, Vibrent has also collaborated with numerous organizations to conduct a variety of research initiatives spanning several topics, including precision medicine, cancer, COVID, substance abuse, aging, and fertility, among others. To learn more, visit vibrenthealth.com.

About AFAR - The American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR) is a national non-profit organization that supports and advances pioneering biomedical research that is revolutionizing how we live healthier and longer. For more than four decades, AFAR has served as the fields talent incubator, providing more than $193 million to nearly 4,350 investigators at premier research institutions to dateand growing. In 2022, AFAR awarded over $11,000,000 to more than 60 investigators. A trusted leader and strategist, AFAR also works with public and private funders to steer high quality grant programs and interdisciplinary research networks. AFAR-funded researchers are finding that modifying basic cellular processes can delayor even preventmany chronic diseases, often at the same time. They are discovering that it is never too lateor too earlyto improve health. This groundbreaking science is paving the way for innovative new therapies that promise to improve and extend our quality of lifeat any age. Learn more at afar.org or follow AFARorg on Facebook and American Federation for Aging Research on LinkedIn.

View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230509005157/en/

Contacts

Molly Bryantmbryant@vibrenthealth.com

Read the original:
SuperAgers Family Study Reaches First National Recruitment Milestone Using Digital Methods Powered by Vibrent Healths Research Software - Yahoo...

About lithium-ion batteries

Lithium-ion batteries are the most common type of battery used in todays portable devices. These batteries charge quickly, discharge deeply at a steady rate, and have high energy density that allows for small cell sizes. This makes them ideal for Surface devices where we design for the longest possible battery life in the smallest possible form factor.

Surface devices are engineered to maximize battery life and longevity. By understanding a little about lithium-ion batteries youll be able to help maximize the life and longevity of the battery in your Surface device:

It is common for the capacity of lithium-ion cells to diminish after a certain number of charge/discharge cycles. This will result in shorter intervals between charging and lower battery capacity.

When using your device, make sure the battery drains below 50 percent regularly. This will help minimize aging of the battery cells.

Surface devices have features to reduce battery aging. Keeping your device current with the latest driver and firmware updates is the best way to help preserve battery reliability and longevity.

Like all batteries, lithium-ion cells are consumables that age and lose capacity over time and with usage. The best way to extend battery life and performance on devices that don't support smart charging is to drain the battery below 50 percent several times a week before recharging rather than discharging it on frequent short and shallow discharge cycles.

As you use your battery, there are some conditions you should avoid as they can lead to faster aging:

Avoid using or charging at extreme high temperatures: Devices that are charged or operated at high temperatures will cause accelerated aging of the lithium-ion battery and permanent loss of battery charging capacity. Surface devices are designed to work between 32F and 95F (0C-35C) so keep your Surface out of the sun and dont leave it in a hot car.

Keeping or storing at a high state of charge: Batteries maintained at a high charge state will lose capacity faster. You can help prevent this accelerated process by not leaving your device connected to AC power for extended periods. Rather, try to ensure the device is regularly discharged below 50% before charging again. If you have a scenario where you need to keep the device plugged in continuously, we recommend using the Battery Limit Modeto limit the battery state of charge. If you need to store your device for a long period of time, its best to reduce the charge level to 50% before storing and to regularly check the battery to ensure it has not drained to very low levels.

When batteries experience excessive aging, you may see severe battery life reductions or advanced expansion of the lithium-ion cells. Under normal conditions, Surface devices are designed with a mechanical enclosure to contain battery expansion. Under extreme conditions the battery may expand beyond the mechanical limits of the device and result in deformation.

Advanced battery expansion caused by excessive agingdoes not present a safety concern and is most often caused by the formation of non-flammable carbon dioxide (CO2) gas. If you have a device where the battery has expanded visibly beyond the mechanical enclosure, we recommend you stop using the device. You should handle the device with caution to prevent putting pressure on or risk puncturing the battery cell.If you need assistance, please complete the Surface replacement request form to work with a Surface Support Advocate.

Surface is continually working to help get you the most from the battery in your device and regularly releases fixes designed to improve battery reliability and longevity. The following features are already available on select device models (see table below) to help deliver optimal battery performance and slow down battery aging:

Battery Smart Charging Battery Smart Charging is a feature that helps protect your battery from the effects of charging patterns and high temperatures that may accelerate battery aging or lead to expansion. Battery Smart Charging is always active and turns on automatically to limit battery charging to 80% when it detects your device is plugged in for prolonged periods and/or used at elevated temperatures. The 80% charging limitautomatically turns off when the battery has been discharged below 20%.What you see when Battery Smart Charging turns on depends on your Surface device model. For specific details, see Feature availability below.

Battery Limit Mode - Battery Limit Mode is a feature available for users who need to keep devices plugged in for extended periods of time. Plugging in the device for extended periods of time can cause batteries to prematurely age. When enabled this feature limits battery charging capacity to 50%, which slows the aging process and prolongs battery longevity.

More details on Battery Limit Mode, including instructions to enable and disable the feature, can be found on our Battery Limit Modesupport page.

Battery Lifespan Saver - Battery Lifespan Saver is a feature designed to help protect your battery from the cumulative negative effects of consistent and recurrent use at high temperatures or high states of charge. This feature complements Battery Smart Charging by monitoring battery conditions continuously. If these adverse conditions are detected, Battery Lifespan Saver implements a limited number of permanent reductions in charging voltage. Although this will result in a smallincremental and permanent loss to battery capacity, it will maximize the total lifespan of your battery byaddressing conditions that would otherwise accelerate battery aging, significantly reduce battery capacity, or lead to battery expansion.

To get the most from these features, it's important to keep your device current with the latest driver and firmware updates.

If you normally connect to Windows Update and use the default out of the box settings to receive automatic updates, youll always have the latest drivers and firmware.

To make sure you have the latest updates, open Windows Update in Settings on your Surface, then select Check for updates. For more info, see Get the latest Windows update.

Check for updates

If your Surface device is managed by your organization, your IT group will typically deploy updates internally.

Device

Battery Smart Charging

Battery Limit Mode

Battery Lifespan Saver

Surface 3

No

Yes

No

Surface Pro 3

Yes

Yes

No

Surface Pro 4

Yes

Yes

No

Surface Pro (2017)

Yes

Yes

No

Surface Pro 6

Yes

Yes

No

Surface Pro 7

Yes

Yes

Yes

Surface Pro 7+

Yes

Yes

Yes

Surface Pro 8

Yes*

Yes

Yes

Surface Pro 9 (all models)

Yes*

Yes

Yes

Surface Pro X

Yes

Yes

Yes

Surface Pro X (Wi-Fi)

Yes

Yes

Yes

Surface Book

Yes

Yes

No

Surface Book 2

Yes

Yes

No

Surface Book 3

Yes

Yes

Yes

Surface Laptop

Yes

Yes

No

Surface Laptop 2

Yes

Yes

No

Surface Laptop 3

Yes

Yes

Yes

Surface Laptop 4

Yes

Yes

Yes

Surface Laptop 5

Yes*

See more here:
Caring for your Surface battery - Microsoft Support

Lithium-ion batteries are the most common type of battery used in todays mobile devicesincluding laptops and tablets. These batteries charge quickly, discharge at a steady rate, and they have high-energy density that allows for small cell sizes in batteries.

By understanding a little about lithium-ion batteries, you can help maximize your battery life and the overall longevity of the battery in your device:

The capacity of lithium-ion cells is reduced after a certain number of times the battery is charged and then discharged. This means youll need to charge your battery more often and the overall battery capacity may be lower.

When using your device, make sure the battery regularly drains below 50%. This will help reduce deterioration in the battery cells.

When battery capacity is lower, the battery cant be charged as much as it used to compared to when it was newer. Therefore, battery life may be reduced and youll need to charge your battery more frequently.

Like all batteries, lithium-ion cells age and deteriorate over time and with use. To help extend battery life and performance, try to keep the battery level between 20% and 80% several times a week instead of using your device for only a short amount of time, and then plugging it in to recharge the battery. If your device supports Smart charging, turn it on to make sure that your device stays charged to the recommended battery leveleven if you keep your device plugged in.

As you use your battery, you should avoid some conditions because they can lead to the battery deteriorating and aging at a faster rate:

Try not to use your device or charge it at high temperatures. Extremely high temperatures can cause lithium-ion batteries to deteriorate at an accelerated rate, which can permanently lower the battery capacity.

Store your device with the battery charged to below 50% but not completely drained. Batteries that are more fully charged and then stored may lose capacity faster. If you need to store your device for a long period of time, its best to make sure the battery level is below 50% but not completely drained before storing your device.

When a battery has deteriorated a lot, battery life might be very short or the lithium-ion cells may expand. When a battery expands from deterioration, its most often caused by the formation of non-flammable carbon dioxide (CO2) gas. If your devices battery has expanded visibly beyond the mechanical enclosure, we recommend that you stop using the device. You should handle the device with caution to prevent putting pressure on or puncturing the battery cell.

If youre interested in getting more technical info about your battery usage and estimated capacity, you can use the Powerfg command-line option thats built into Windows 11 to generate a battery report.

Select Search on the taskbar, type Command prompt, press and hold (or right-click) Command prompt, and then select Run as administrator > Yes.

At the command prompt, type powercfg /batteryreport, then press Enter.

The battery report will be an HTML file thats stored in a folder on your PC. The file location will be shown in the Command Prompt window.

Open File Explorer, go to the folder that the report was saved to, and then double-click the battery report (HTML file) to open it in your web browser.

You can get a lot of detailed info about your battery usage and capacity. Some particular sections you might want to look at to get started include the following: Installed battery, Recent usage, and Battery usage.

More:
Caring for your battery in Windows - Microsoft Support

Your Surface uses an internal lithium-ion battery. The amount of time your battery lasts will vary depending on the kinds of things you do with your Surface. This article will help you learn more about how to get the most out of your Surface battery.

On some Surface models you can select a power mode, which affects how much battery life and the performance you can get from your Surface.

To switch to a different power mode, disconnect the power supply (if it's plugged in),select Start > Settings > System > Power & battery > Power mode. If you want to save power to write an email or finish watching a movie, move the slider to a lower setting, like Recommended or Battery saver. Or, if you need better performance for playing a game or using a Windows Mixed Reality headset, move the slider to a higher setting (like Best performance).

Use the detailed Battery information in Windows to see which apps are using the battery power.

Select Settings > System > Power and battery.

Open Power & battery settings

For Battery levels, select Last24 hours, and then selectan hour of high battery usage.

For Show, select Apps with usage.

Look for apps that are using a lot of battery power. If you're not using them, you should close those unused apps.

If the apps start automatically, open Task Manager and then select the Startup tab. For any apps, you don't want to start automatically, you can select the app, then select Disable. For more info see Change which apps run automatically at startup in Windows.

If you're using the apps that usea lot of battery power, you might want to plug in your Surface while using those apps to help get the most from your battery over time.

For ways to save battery power, including how to find out which apps are using the most battery,see Battery saving tips for Windows.

Installing the latest updates will help keep your Surface performing at its best. SelectCheck for Windows updatesbelow to open Windows Update in Settings.

Check for Windows updates

Your Surface uses an internal lithium-ion battery. The amount of time your battery lasts will vary depending on the kinds of things you do with your Surface. This article will help you learn more about how to get the most out of your Surface battery.

On some Surface models you can select a power mode, which affects how much battery life and the performance you can get from your Surface.

To switch to a different power mode, disconnect the power supply (if it's plugged in), select the Battery icon on the right side of the taskbar.If you want to save power to write an email or finish watching a movie, move the slider to a lower setting, like Recommended or Battery saver. Or, if you need better performance for playing a game or using a Windows Mixed Reality headset, move the slider to a higher setting (like Best performance).

Use the detailed Battery information in Windows to see which apps are using the battery power.

Open Settings > System > Battery, and then See which apps are affecting your battery life.

For Time period, select 6 hours, 24 hours, or 1 week (depending on which time period has a higher amount of battery usage).

For Show, select Apps with usage.

Look for apps that are using a lot of battery power. If you're not using them, you should close those unused apps.

If the apps start automatically, open Task Manager and then select the Startup tab. For any apps, you don't want to start automatically, you can select the app, then select Disable. For more info see Change which apps run automatically at startup in Windows.

If you're using the apps that usea lot of battery power, you might want to plug in your Surface while using those apps to help get the most from your battery over time.

For ways to save battery power, including how to find out which apps are using the most battery,see Battery saving tips for Windows.

Installing the latest updates will help keep your Surface performing at its best. SelectCheck for Windows updatesbelow to open Windows Update in Settings.

Check for Windows updates

Visit link:
Maximize your Surface battery life - Microsoft Support