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Healthy lifestyle slows aging

 

WASHINGTON: Sweeping lifestyle changes including a better diet and more exercise can raise the body’s levels of an enzyme closely involved in controlling the aging process, US researchers reported on Monday.

 

The small study involved 30 men with low-risk prostate cancer who underwent three months of lifestyle changes. They had blood levels of the enzyme telomerase 29% higher after these three months than when they began.

Telomerase fixes and lengthens parts of chromosomes known as telomeres that control longevity and are also important for maintenance of immune-system cells.

 

The research in the journal Lancet Oncology was led by....

 

Healthy lifestyle slows aging-Health/Sci-The Times of India

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