Telomeres: controlling aging or just a biomarker? | Elissa Epel
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June 25th 2019
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Telomeres News
- Aerobic exercise (120 minutes per week) significantly lengthened telomeres, a biomarker for healthy aging, in white blood cells after 24 weeks.
- Coal plant emissions may be damaging infant DNA. Babies born during a coal plant’s operation in China had shorter telomeres.
- High physical activity levels were associated with delayed biological aging by 9 years as measured by telomere length.
- Air pollution linked to shorter telomeres, a marker for health & aging, in adolescents in a dose-dependent manner.
- High levels of exercise, equal to 30-40 minutes of jogging per day 5 days per week, linked to nine years of less aging at the cellular level.