date:Feb 20, 2020
accelerate telomere shortening, and now our research suggests the Mediterranean diet can slow this shortening.
Their research was published in BMJ.
It's thought that the antioxidants present in the favored foods protect against cell aging. While the researchers didn't find that any specific food provided the silver bullet, they suggest that it was a combination of the components that predicted telomere length.
The researchers scored each woman's diet according to how closely it adhered to Med