The man who’s ageing too fast, and what he can teach us all about growing old

The man who’s ageing too fast, and what he can teach us all about growing old

Nobuaki Nagashima was in his mid-20s when he began to feel like his body was breaking down. He was based in Hokkaido, the northernmost prefecture of Japan, where for 12 years he had been a member of the military, vigorously practising training drills out in the snow. It happened bit by bit – cataracts at …