Healthy lifestyle stops aging

A healthy lifestyle may stop or significantly slow the aging process as it prevents aging cells in the human body. This is the conclusion, researchers from the University of California in San Francisco.

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If people stick to a healthy diet, properly chosen regime of physical activity, as well as a system of "stress management", such as meditation and yoga for at least 5 years, they have in the body begins to produce "young-looking" chromosome. This type of change in the chromosomes (the structures that contain our genetic code) before been associated with lower risk of age-related diseases and an increase in life expectancy.

These conclusions scientists have received in the course of a pilot study in patients suffering from prostate cancer. They are equally applicable to men and women, though to confirm the required follow-up study. Now, to the attention of scholars were 35 patients with non-aggressive form of prostate cancer. They agreed to regular monitoring by doctors instead of conventional treatment.

10 men have to comply healthy lifestyle Including plant-based diet, moderate exercise, stress management and group sessions of psychological support. The other 25 patients did not change their lives. Researchers from California have measured the length of telomeres - the end portions of chromosomes that prevent DNA damage. With age, their length becomes shorter, the cells begin to grow old and die quickly.

It turned out that the men from the first group for 5 years healthy lifestyle   their telomeres lengthened by approximately 10%, thus having started up the aging process in the opposite direction. The men from the second group of telomere length over the same period declined by 3%. (READ MORE)

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