Going Vegan for Just 8 Weeks May Roll Back Your Biological Age

[mucifer]

In a new study, published in the journal BMC Medicine, researchers from Stanford University and biological analytics company TruDiagnostic recruited 21 pairs of adult identical twins to investigate how eight weeks on a vegan diet affected these DNA methylation patterns.

Over the course of the study, one twin from each pair consumed an entirely plant-based diet while the other stuck to a healthy omnivorous meal plan. And by the end of the study, the twins who stuck to the vegan diet saw a significant reduction in markers of overall biological aging, as well as specific age-related markers in the heart, liver, hormone, inflammatory and metabolic systems.

"Distinct responses were observed, with the vegan cohort exhibiting significant decreases in overall epigenetic age acceleration, aligning with anti-aging effects of plant-based diets," the authors wrote in their study.

https://www.newsweek.com/vegan-biological-age-diet-nutrition-1930886



I bet they weren't eating french fries and drinking cokes like I do sometimes. I don't want to live tooooo long

[MLAA]

1. I'm with you! Vegan here who loves fries, onion rings and gingerale!

[mitch96]

7. Same here, Vegan/vegetarian for years....health reasons..I go off the program every once in a while. The other

day I was at my fav brew pub. They have a food truck that serves the typical SAD food but they also have one or two things I eat. They have a portobello gouda melt on sourdough that is nice. Comes with fries..
That a brewsky and I'm set...
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[MLAA]

8. I like beer with impossible/beyond burgers and Chinese food. There is one Chinese restaurant where I live

that has many delicious vegan dishes and their beer is served icy cold! Portobello Gouda melt sounds delicious.

[CousinIT]

2. Vegan for years. Vegetarian before that.

I should look 20! (I’m a LOT older than that!)

[mucifer]

3. Yeah me too. Went vegetarian in 1982 and vegan in 2013. I look my age.

maybe even older. Sometimes I eat well. Sometimes I don't. As Isaac Bashevis Singer once said "I don't do it for my health, I do it for the health of the chickens".

[elleng]

4. LOLOL!!!

[jimfields33]

5. I worry because Linda McCartney was a wonderful vegan

and died very young.

[mucifer]

6. It's not a cure for all diseases. Who knows she might have lived a shorter life on

an animal based diet.

[mitch96]

9. "It's not a cure for all diseases" Agree. To me there is LIfe span and Health span. I want to go 100 mph and then

turn off the switch fast. None of this lingering around sick and in pain..
From what I've seen vegan/vegetarian will give me that. I'm 75 and in fairly good shape. No meds or major maladies to speak of. I have been eating this way most of my life. There are many testimonials from people way older than me that follow the vegetable path.
As the saying goes. "Eat real food, not too much, mostly plants"
Why invent the wheel when the road is there for you...
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