Recent studies have shown that daily vitamin D can help to fight aging.
Taking vitamin D supplements for four years to prevent three years of aging.
Previous studies show that vitamin D supplements can help against the biggest signs of aging, which is associated with many age -related diseases such as cancer, heart disease and dementia.
To put this theory in the test, researchers Mass General Brigham and Georgia Medical School I studied the results of the previous exam. The experiment gathered thousands of women over 55 years of age and men over 50 years old and requested to take vitamin D, omega 3 or placebo every day for the next five years.
The new study focused on measuring the length of telomeres to 1054 participants who tested special tests in the second and fourth grade at the start of the exam.
Telomeres repeat the DNA sequence capturing chromosomes, Morten Schiebye-Knudsen At Copenhagen University, which is not involved in this study BBC Science Focus Magazine.
“Think of them as plastic tips at the end of the shoe strap -they help to keep chromosomes from wearing or sticking to each other to help maintain the stability of genetic information during cell division.”
Every time the cell is divided, the telomeres becomes a bit shorter. If telomeres are too short, the ability to share is lost and cells can no longer function.
The study found that the participants who took vitamin D have a significantly less able to shorten telomeres and prevent almost three years of aging.
This can be a great insight in keeping people healthy because it is associated with a lot of telomeres.
Schiebye-Knudsen said, “I often call them angry old people, which are cells that lose their functions and disable their functions in life to make the surrounding environment bad.
“Telomeric shortening can contribute to more angry old cells, so it can contribute to more inflammation in the inflammation of our body, especially the cells that are divided into bone marrow, skin and hair.”
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Morten Schiebye-Knudsen is an associate professor of cell and molecular medicine at the University of Copenhagen.
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