Your biological age, which is how old our body seems—not how old we actually are in chronological years–is what matters more.
—not how old we actually are in chronological years.showed that DNA changes that occur during our lifetime can significantly increase biological age, which can make us much more susceptible to age-related diseases.
A collaboration between the Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow, the researchers collected data from over 1,000 older adults to determine how large the gap was between each participant's biological and chronological age—and how much these DNA changes, which are called somatic mutations, played a role in that gap.
The results showed that the 6% of the population with somatic mutations had a biological age almost four years older than the participants without the mutations. According to the researchers, somatic mutations can affect the way blood stem cells work, which can leave people more vulnerable to illnesses like blood cancer, heart disease, and dementia. In fact, the study was funded bySomatic mutations have been studied as they relate to cancer development, but as Tamir Chandra, Ph.D.
So how do we prevent these somatic mutations and protect ourselves against age-related disease? According to
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