Earlier work has shown that patients with heart disease who have a high intake of omega-3s have higher survival rates, and this new study sought to explain why this might be.

“We’ve shown an entirely new effect of omega-3 fatty acids, which may be to slow down the biological aging process in patients with coronary heart disease,” explains lead author Ramin Farzaneh-Far, MD, an assistant professor of medicine at the University of California San Francisco.

Farzaneh-Far and the team looked at a marker of biological age – shortening of telomeres, the structures at the end of a chromosome that are involved with its replication and stability.

Experts believe that as telomeres shorten, the eventual result is the death of the cell. In earlier work by the team, the telomere length of heart disease patients was a powerful predictor of death and bad outcomes. The shorter the telomeres, the greater risk of death.

For the study, the researchers evaluated 608 outpatients in California who had stable heart disease and had been recruited from the Heart and Soul Study.

At the start of the study and at the five-year point, blood samples were taken and evaluated for omega-3 fatty acid levels. DNA from the blood allowed researchers to look at the length of the telomere of the leukocyte, a type of blood cell. The subjects were followed up until January 2009.

“Patients with the lowest blood levels of omega-3 fatty acids exhibited a rate of telomere shortening 2.6 times faster than patients with the highest levels of omega-3 fatty acids,” Farzaneh-Far tells online medical resource WebMD. And while no one has enough information to convert telomere length to years of aging, experts suspect omega-3 might be one of many influences on the length of telomeres – others being inflammation, obesity, oxidative stress and lack of activity.

Would lots of omega-3s in the blood help a patient with heart disease? Experts can’t say for sure.

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Omega-3s Slow Aging Continued…

There was no association between omega-3 fatty acid levels and telomere length back in September 2000 and December 2002 when the study began. But by the end of the follow up period the team saw the higher the blood levels of omega-3 fatty acids in the subjects, the slower the rate of telomere shortening.

Of course this is exciting news, demonstrating how sources of omega-3s work at a cellular level. One day your doctor might even be able to conduct a test that examines your telomere length with an eye to predicting your risk of heart disease.

Whether you’re a heart disease patient or not, this research might have you wondering what to do about omega-3s?

The American heart Association recommends a gram a day of omega-3 fatty acid for those who do have heart disease. Look for natural dietary sources like oily fish (salmon, mackerel, albacore tuna) or supplements.

If you don’t have heart disease, the AHA suggests you eat a variety of fish at least two times a week, as well as trying to add more healthy oils like canola, soybean and flaxseed to your cooking.

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And while being active is important to young people, there was little research on the effect of high impact exercise on bone density as we age.

Now some new research finds high-impact exercise may be even more critical as we get older, especially since bone mass peaks during the 30’s and declines afterward.

A sampling of senior athletes, both men and women aged 50 to 93, who took part in the 2005 National Senior Games (also known as the Senior Olympics), including 560 who competed in high impact sports like basketball, road racing, track and field, triathlons and volleyball found that these athletes had higher bone mineral density than those who didn’t take part in these activities.

These findings appear in the November/December 2009 issue of Sports Health: A Multidisciplinary Approach.

The athletes completed a detailed health history questionnaire and underwent ultrasound to measure bone mineral density.

They were classified by the researchers as participating in high impact sports or low impact sports. The ultrasound scans revealed that older athletes who participated in high impact sports had better bone mineral density than those who took part in the low impact variety.

This even after age, sex, obesity and use of any osteoporosis medication was factored in.

“Our study represents the largest sample of bone mineral density data in mature athletes to date,” says Dr. Vonda Wright, an assistant professor of orthopedic surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. “My colleagues and I were surprised to see that active adult participation in the high-impact sports had such a positive influence on bone health, even in the oldest athletes.”

Of course osteoarthritis (abbreviated as OA, sometimes also called degenerative arthritis) and other conditions might keep older folks from taking part in high impact activities.

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High Impact Great For Older Bones Continued…

Osteoarthritis is the most common form of the over 1000 different types of arthritis, affecting over 20 million Americans, most as they get older when the water content of the cartilage increases causing the protein makeup of the cartilage to degenerate.

Without the cartilage cushion, friction of the bones causes pain and the limitation of mobility and is most common in the hands, feet, spine and large weight bearing joints like the hips and knees.

If you know you have this condition, talk to your doctor about what activities are best for you before you begin any exercise program.

Still it’s good to know that not only young bones can benefit from high impact exercise. Things like weight training, walking, hiking, jogging, climbing stairs, tennis and even dancing can play a positive role in keeping your bones healthy as you get older.

But remember, always check with your doctor first, and work to make regular activity, at least 30 minutes on most days of the week, part of your routine.

Your bones (and the rest of your body) will thank you.

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The good news is that healthy habits can hold off the decline, which means that keeping your weight under control, exercising regularly, and not smoking are simple, natural behaviors to slow the inevitable.

Living a healthy lifestyle has proven, yet again, to be of value when it comes to living longer and healthier. But you have to work for it, not just once in a while but all the time, every day.

Of course as the population ages and the numbers carrying too much weight continue to rise, this latest work on cardiorespiratory fitness may well change the way experts think about aging and fitness. We also know that despite the well-publicized health risks, almost 43.4 million U.S. adults smoke cigarettes.

The subjects in this most recent work included 3,429 women and 16,889 men from as young as 20 to as old as 96 who took part in the Aerobics Center Longitudinal Study and completed from 2 to 33 health exams from 1974 to 2006.

The lifestyle variables used were body mass index, and subjects’ reports of their aerobic exercise and smoking behavior. Cardiorespiratory fitness was assessed using a maximal Balke treadmill exercise test.

The reductions in cardiorespiratory fitness didn’t appear in a straight line, but rather after the age of 45 the slope got much steeper.

Increases in body mass index, less physical activity and smoking accelerated the downward trend. Poor cardiorespiratory fitness is tied to an increased risk of early death, just as improvement is related to lessening the risk of early death from all causes.

The take home message is this – if you want to stay fit and healthy after 45, you need to keep your BMI on the low side, be physically active on a regular basis and do not smoke.

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After Age 45 Fitness Can Fade Fast Continued…

“We’ve known that, as you age, your aerobic capacity goes down, and the exercise physiology literature indicates it’s a linear relationship. We found that this is not the case,” explains study author Andrew Jackson, who is professor emeritus of health and human performance at the University of Houston.

“It makes sense to me. When things aren’t working right, we tend to go down at faster rates. This was true for both men and women [although the rate of decline was faster for men than for women].”

What this means is that taking care of yourself could make you younger than your years. Living a healthy lifestyle in your 30’s and 40’s, and sticking with it, gives you higher aerobic capacity as you age.

This is believed to be able to turn back the clock in terms of the age you might have expected health problems to come on – improved fitness holding off troublesome diseases into your 70’s, 80’s, perhaps even the 90’s.

Exercise is the key according to Dr. Suzanne Steinbaum, director of women and heart disease for Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City (also a spokesperson for the American Heart Association).

A study by both the American Heart Association and the Social Security Administration found the exercise keeps people younger biologically than they are chronologically. “Exercise is the most potent medication around, and the Social Security Administration agrees with me.”

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Improvements in medical care, as well as changes in diet and lifestyle are all helping us live longer, but our bodies are still wearing out at the same rate. In an effort to promote “50 active years after 50″ experts at Leeds University are launching a research initiative that will invest $88 million over the next 5 years to uncover innovative solutions to make this a reality.

They suggest that options like own-grown tissue and durable implants, new medical devices and regenerative therapies will allow people to be as active in their second 50 years as they were in their first 50.

The research will focus on the areas most affected by age – joints, spine, teeth, heart and circulation. New heart valves, hips and knees are the starting point, though someday experts hope that nearly any body part that wears out with age might be replaced.

The Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering at Leeds has already completed a hip transplant that should last a lifetime.

This is far better than the 20 year maximum life expected out of today’s artificial hips. The newest hip mechanism is a combination of a durable cobalt-chrome metal alloy socket and a ceramic ball able to hold up to the 100 million steps a patient can be expected to take before their hundredth birthday.

And unlike studies that focus on stem cells or growing spare parts in a laboratory, this work uses your body’s own regenerative systems.

Professor Eileen Ingham and her team have come up with a way to help the body enhance itself. The idea is to make transplantable tissues, maybe even organs, that are made naturally by the body. This would mean no rejection, the main reason that today’s transplants wear out and fail.

Using a “scaffolding” technique, researchers have managed to make heart valves that are fully functional.

The process involves a healthy donor heart valve (from a person or suitable animal), cartilage or other vessel being washed using a cocktail of enzymes and detergents that gently strip away cells. The inert “scaffold” that remains can be transplanted into a patient without any concern over rejection. Once the inert material is in place, the body takes over and repopulates it with cells.

Animal trails, as well as work involving 40 Brazilian human patients are showing promising results.

The technology has been licensed to the NHS National Blood and Transplant Tissue Services so it can be used all across the UK on any donated human tissue. Today the NHS is investigating using this technique on donor skin for burn patients.

Of course what experts are hoping for is to be able to eliminate the need for donor organs. Technology to replace all donor tissue might take from 30 to 50 years because each product must be designed and tested on its own.

Professor Christina Doyle of Xeno Medical (the company that’s developing the technology) points out that other researchers are working on regenerative therapies grown completely outside the body, looking at how to “stop” aging with more and more vigour.

Today we have more hope than ever that those years after 50 will be healthy, active ones lived in a body of someone half that age.

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Research about this part of life is becoming increasingly important as more and more baby boomers (now in their middle 50s) begin to approach retirement age.

New research out of the University of Maryland that appears in the October 2009 Journal of Occupational Health Psychology suggests that giving up all work totally after you retire is not such a good idea. In fact, the study found that retirees who perform either self-employment, temporary or part time work have fewer major diseases, and retain better day-to-day functioning.

In today’s economy, a life of leisure after retirement isn’t within reach for many of us. Many surveys are showing that more and more boomers are planning on working during years their parents dedicated to enjoying life.

Fortunately for us, research bears out the idea that there are benefits to the body (and mind) of staying busy with some form of employment.

These findings were still significant even after looking at variables like a person’s physical and mental health before retirement.

Using the national Health and Retirement Study, the team analyzed data from 12,189 participants who were 51 to 61 years old at the start of the research. Each was interviewed on health, finances and work life every two years over a six-year period.

Medical conditions were only included if they had been confirmed by a doctor’s diagnosis. The researchers also accounted for things like age, sex, education and total wealth. Everyone who participated in the study also filled out a basic mental health questionnaire.

Analysis of the data found that those who took on jobs related to their previous careers reported better mental health, and fewer limitations, than subjects who had given up all work.

Mental health improvements were seen only in those who worked in jobs somehow related to their previous career; retirees who worked in jobs outside their career saw no boost to mental health. The researchers speculate that this is because these jobs require more adaptation and therefore offer more stress. The researchers also found that retirees with financial problems were more likely to work in a different field after they retired.

Any benefits that come with working after your official retirement are lost when financial obligations make it a have to, instead of a want to. Situations like this make it hard for older folks to get any of the physical or mental health benefits from working after retirement.

Those who are approaching retirement age should think carefully about the type of work they’d like to do after leaving their career – there are pluses and minuses you’ll need to consider before you do anything.

Sometimes a clean break from a stress packed career is the right move, just so long as the job you pursue after retirement relies on another skill or talent you enjoy using.

Professor Cary Cooper, an occupational health psychologist at the University of Lancaster, explains the findings, “All the evidence suggests that if your mental wellbeing is depleted it will affect you physically. Conversely, if you are more positive mentally you are going to be much more robust and active. And if you continue working after retirement often your status remains similar to that you experienced during your career, and as a result your self-esteem and sense of wellbeing will be enhanced.”

Working, whether in a temporary, part time or even in your own business, is something to consider as you think about your own retirement. Doing so may help you make the transition into this next phase of your life and continue to enjoy the best possible physical and mental health.

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Adults in their mid 40s with even slightly elevated cholesterol (as well as those with high cholesterol) appear to have a greater risk for Alzheimer’s disease or related conditions like vascular dementia years later.

Researchers followed over 9,800 northern California residents who were part of the same health insurance plan during the study. The researchers didn’t have information on HDL (good) and LDL (bad) cholesterol because these weren’t widely understood when the study began in the early 1960s.

Still, if total cholesterol is high, it’s logical to assume that levels of the bad cholesterol must also be high since two thirds of the total comes from the LDL (bad) type. The team looked at the total cholesterol levels of participants between 1964 and 1973 when the subjects were between 40-45 years old.

By the end of the research, almost 600 of the subjects had developed either Alzheimer’s disease (469 subjects) or a related condition (vascular dementia in 127 subjects) when they were in their 60s, 70s and 80s.

Subjects with total cholesterol in the high range (240 or higher) at the start of the study had a 66% increase in Alzheimer’s risk. Borderline high cholesterol (levels between 200-239) brought a 52% increased risk of vascular dementia but no statistically significant risk of Alzheimer’s.

“People tend to think of the brain and the heart as totally separate, but they are not,” says study co-author Rachel A. Whitmer, PhD of Kaiser Permanente Division of Research in Oakland, California. “We are learning that what is good for the heart is also good for the brain – and that midlife is not too soon to be thinking about risk factors for dementia.”

This work adds to the growing evidence that controlling your risk factors for heart disease as well as keeping a handle on your weight in midlife can protect the brain as you age. “Keeping your weight down, eating right, and getting regular exercise can keep your heart healthy as you age, and it may also keep your brain sharp,” adds lead author Alina Solomon of the University of Kuopio.

Recent estimates have 2.4 to 4.5 million Americans living with the terribly destructive symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease, an irreversible and progressive disease that destroys thinking and memory, leaving patients without the ability to do everyday things like cooking, dressing, driving a car, making decisions.

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Even Slightly High Cholesterol Could Raise Risk Of Alzheimer’s Continued…

As yet, science doesn’t know what sets off the Alzheimer’s process, though experts think the damage starts 10 to 20 years before any mental symptoms appear, and this latest work seems to support the silent progression of this disease.

If you have high cholesterol, start by talking to your doctor to get updated cholesterol numbers and learn what you can do to take control of your diet, be more active. Also, if necessary medication can help bring your numbers under control.

Being aware of the link between cholesterol and Alzheimer’s Disease, as well as following actions might not just help your health today, but it may also contribute to your future brain health as well.

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Monkeys, as close as you can get genetically to people, fed a calorie-restricted diet live longer, have fewer signs of aging and less disease – conditions like cardiovascular disease, brain atrophy and even cancer – according to some new fascinating research.

During the twenty-year study, University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers found 50% of the monkeys allowed to eat as they wished were still alive, while 80% of monkeys who ate the same foods but with a third less calories have survived.

Other experts believe the long life span of monkeys (about 40 years) means conclusions on longevity and diet can’t yet be drawn and we need to wait a bit to be sure.

“This is the largest and most highly controlled study showing the beneficial effects of calorie restriction on disease and survival in a primate species,” says study author Ricki J. Colman, PhD, of the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center.

“We believe that what works in primates will work in humans because primates are so closely related to humans. This has allowed us to understand the mechanisms of the aging process.”

The pioneering but long term study began in 1989 with 30 rhesus macaques and was intended to look at the health effects of a calorie-restricted diet.

Earlier work from 1935 had shown that mice fed a calorie restricted diet lived up to 40% longer – the team wanted to see if the same could be true for primates.

In 1994 the research was expanded with the addition of 46 additional animals. All the subjects were adults when they were enrolled, and of the original 76 in the study, 37% of the control monkeys lost their lives to age-related causes – 13% of the animal’s fed a restricted calorie diet died of similar consequences.

The incidence of cancerous tumors and heart disease in the monkeys who ate restricted calorie diets was half that of the animals allowed to eat what they liked.

Incidentally, the oldest monkey still in the study is control subject Owen, who is 29, two years older than the average life span of 27 years in captivity.

One of the more remarkable findings of the research came in the case of diabetes (or pre-diabetes).

This condition was found in 42% of the control monkeys who ate as they liked and none of the monkeys on the restricted calorie diet.

“So far, we’ve seen the complete prevention of diabetes,” points out Richard Weindruch, PhD, a professor of medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health and another author of the study.

And when it comes to brain health, the animals who ate a calorie-restricted diet were better off here too, according to Sterling Johnson, a neuroscientist and another of the researchers.

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The study found that the areas of the brain that are tied to short-term memory and problem solving are better preserved in these subjects.

These same brain results have been seen on other studies on animals like fish, mice, worms, rodents and spiders. All the experts can say for sure right now is that there are differences in areas of the brain that might be related to what a subject ate.

A rather limited number of these same types of studies have been tried on humans, and have yielded fewer signs of cardiovascular aging according to experts.

More work needs to be done, and researchers who study aging are divided on what stock to put in this work, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a sound case for following calorie restricted diets to keep your body healthy and fit today and also as you age.

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It seems that multivitamins might actually help women live longer by keeping key parts of our DNA from getting shorter.

“This study provides the first epidemiological evidence that multivitamin use is associated with longer leukocyte telomeres among women,” explains lead researcher Dr. Honglei Chen who is in charge of the Aging & Neuroepidemiology Group at the U.S. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. “It is not yet clear if this association is causal.”

What this means to us non-scientists is that the research was the first to show some evidence of the effects multivitamins on the body.

Multivitamins are a major source of beneficial micronutrients, believed to assist in the management of oxidative stress and chronic inflammation.

Structures called telomeres, found on the end of our chromosomes, work to protect them from damage, but shorten slightly as a natural part of cell division.

Shorter telomere length may be a marker of biological aging as well as being linked to higher risk of chronic diseases and higher mortality rates.

The thinking behind this latest work is that if you could keep this shortening from happening, the new cells would be protected and so slowing the aging process.

Chen’s team performed a cross sectional analysis on data for 586 participants, all women ranging in age from 35 to 74 years old, who were part of the Sisters Study.

This project included women who had breast cancer, as well as cancer free women. One part of that research included a 146-item food frequency questionnaire asking the subjects about their multivitamin use over a 12-year period. Blood samples and DNA testing were also performed.

After the team made statistical adjustments for age and other factors, they found that subjects who took multivitamins daily had longer leukocyte telomeres — on average 5.1% longer than those who did not take vitamins. This works out to almost 9.8 years less age related shortening.

Subjects who got vitamin C and E from dietary sources also had longer telomeres.

Beyond the weaknesses of being an observational study, this work did nothing to prove any health benefits of having longer telomeres.

What’s more, subjects with the longest telomeres weren’t necessarily the most frequent multivitamin users. So for now, this means the research can’t conclusively say that multivitamin use alone was responsible for the effect, or that the effect brings a true benefit.

The director of the Prevention Research Center at Yale University School of Medicine, Dr. David Katz has concerns about the message of the study, “Most recent studies of vitamin supplements have yielded discouraging results,” Katz points out. “This study clearly goes the other way, suggesting that a multivitamin may help protect our chromosomes, and thus ourselves, from aging.”

Until more work is done, taking a multivitamin each day is really a personal decision. If you do decide to give them a try, check with your doctor first, as multivitamins can be troublesome for pregnant women and those with certain medical conditions.

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Look at the labels for the United States Pharmacopoeia (USP), NSF International (NSF) or ConsumerLab.com (CL) seals on anything that you buy and are planning to put into your body.

And never, ever take more than the recommended dose of whatever anti ageing vitamin you do choose. When it comes to these nutritional supplements, more is not better.

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Florence Baldwin, Britain’s oldest woman who has just turned 113, credits her longevity to a daily fried egg sandwich.

And while medicine can tell you exactly what shortens your lifespan (smoking and being overweight come to mind) researchers have for along time struggled to identify things that contribute to living longer.

Eating healthy can certainly help… but just what types of foods should you choose? And can what you eat really impact how long you live?

You might take a suggestion or two from the ten different food choices revealed by centenarian’s when asked about the secret to their longevity.

1) Herring and orange juice - is the secret of 115-year-old Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper, the herring is a good source of omega 3 fatty acids known to be beneficial to your heart and cardiovascular system. Her glass of orange juice a day provides vitamin C and a whole load of antioxidants.

2) Vegetables – green veggies are the staple of a good diet and offer a lot of key vitamins and minerals like iron, carotene and dietary fiber. A variety of these healthy foods cut the risk of cancer and heart disease, and are a regular part of the menu for 120-year-old Mariam Amash.

3) Custard cakes – might seem out of place on a list like this, but 114-year-old Mitoyo Kawate swears by this very sweet treat… and who can argue with her? Experts do concede that as a part of a healthy, balanced diet, a few sweets now and then aren’t generally troublesome and can make a stricter diet in other places easier to maintain.

4) Alcohol – in moderation is the secret of 113-year-old Lucy d’Abreu. A few drinks have been shown to bring down the risk of heart disease; but alcohol intake has also been linked to cancer and too much drinking is known to bring a variety of health complications. Moderation is key.

5) Sausage in bread – was the extravagance of rural Ukranian Hryhoriy Nestor, though conventional wisdom balks at eating processed meat… doing so hasn’t hurt this still active elder. Experts insist such foods should only be part of a balanced diet that includes lots of veggies and plenty of regular exercise.

6) Bread, dripping, salt – perhaps living over 100 came in spite of this highly unhealthy diet choice, known to up the risks of heart disease and high blood pressure. Still Yorkshire woman Ada Mason swears this is the secret to having celebrated 111 birthdays… and counting.

7) Porridge – Scotswoman Annie Knight, 111 years old, starts her mornings by eating this traditional Scottish breakfast, giving her body a regular dose of fiber. Adding milk makes porridge full of other nutrients like calcium too.

Boiled rice and chicken – is a great source of starch and low fat protein, as well as supplying fiber, vitamins and minerals. At age 114, Yukichi Chuganji, who doesn’t like vegetables, continues to enjoy this meal regularly instead.

9) Cottage cheese – a good source of calcium, and other essential nutrients, important to your bones, teeth and body health, this food is the favorite of the world’s oldest woman, Sakhan Dosova, who has just reached an astonishing 130 years old.

10) Donkey milk – while you won’t find this in the dairy cases at your local grocery store, 116-year-old Maria Esther de Capovilla, swore the milk she regularly drank as a youngster is the reason she’s lived so long.

As you can see from the list… not all are within the recommendations we’ve come to know. So before you start stocking up on some of the more unconventional “goodies”, it’s important to note that what these remarkable people eat may only be part of the reason they live so long.

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Genetics certainly play a role, as do things these people did early in life.

Perhaps what their mothers did while they carried these children, or a lack of stress in early life could be part of the picture. No one knows for sure.

And something else to think about… there’s one other trait that Dr. de Grey, whose Methuselah Foundation is funding research into regenerative medicine for aging, says those in the over 100 club have in common, “If there’s one thing we can say about centenarians, it’s that nothing bothers them.”

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Except that it’s not true.

A research team from University College London, lead by Dr. David Gems, found “no clear evidence” that antioxidants slow the aging process. No clear evidence.

As a major part of the beauty and health food industries, antioxidant compounds are vital to our health and our youthful looks or so we’ve been told.

The surprise comes when you realize that this thinking dates back to the 1950’s, 1956 to be exact.

The theory considers aging to be caused by the build up of molecular damage that comes from reactive forms of oxygen termed superoxides circulating in our bodies.

Today we call them free radicals, and we’re told that antioxidants work to clean up these destructive free radicals so that the damage they’re able to cause is lessened. Research to prove this theory has brought inconclusive results.

In this most recent study, supported by the Wellcome Trust and appearing in the journal Genes and Development, used nematode worms to look at what antioxidants did in terms of aging.

Though you would think worms are a big step down the evolutionary scale from humanity, these simple creatures are a useful tool for researchers as they share many genes with people, and have a lifespan that lasts days, so it’s easy to get clues about long term changes.

The nematodes used in the British study were genetically manipulated so that their bodies were able to clean up free radicals, just as antioxidants are supposed to do.

This should have given the altered worms an advantage in terms of lifespan and aging. Only it didn’t. These altered worms lived just as long as the worms that hadn’t been altered.

This suggests that so-called oxidative stress (what free radicals are supposed to be doing to us) is less of a factor in aging than anyone had thought. And it might explain why there was never definitive evidence to back up the role of antioxidants in aging.

Dr Gems said: “The fact is that we don’t understand much about the fundamental mechanisms of ageing – the free radical theory has filled a knowledge vacuum for over 50 years now, but it doesn’t stand up to the evidence.

“It is clear that if superoxide is involved, it plays only a small part in the story – oxidative damage is clearly not a universal, major driver of the ageing process.”

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New Study Reveals Truth About Antioxidants And Aging… continued

Both the cosmetics industry and supplement makers insist that they carry out extensive research and rigorous studies to see that any claims about antioxidants are supported.

Spokespersons from these organizations doubt that the conclusion can be drawn that because antioxidants had no effect on worms, that they have no effect on people. Aging could be very different in higher animals.

Still this latest work gives us lots to think about.

Perhaps antioxidants may not provide the protection from aging that we’ve all been told they do.

There may be a simpler, more natural way to slow aging and keep our bodies young. A healthy, balanced diet, lots of exercise, regular medical care and an upbeat, positive attitude may do an even better job of keeping us young than natural antioxidants ever did.

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