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Once you have underground mining, you will struggle to exhaust your natural flint supply. Don’t worry about running out of ores or flint.Read more about how a disease like polio has come back due to lack of vaccinations, an omega-3 supplement than may prevent heart attacks, or how running in shoes could be messing up our feet. So before you try the next anti-wrinkle face cream or age-reversing supplement, think of your telomeres and your metabolism and visit the vegetable aisle instead. The more we learn, the more we realize the answer has been sitting (or in this case, running, swimming or biking) in front of us the whole time. It seems that tricking your metabolism to slow down is currently your best option to safeguard your DNA and extend your life. In recent studies, monkeys given 25% less to eat live decades longer, up to 130 in human years, while regular exercise has been shown to extend human lifespan by an average 4.5 years. There’s still much to learn on the molecular level, but when it comes to our daily lives, the solution has been hiding in plain sight. Foods rich in antioxidants, like fruit, vegetables, coffee and even dark chocolate, may also help to slow this damage. The less we eat (especially less fatty and processed foods), the less metabolic damage we accumulate. It seems our bodies evolved to break down food more conservatively when it is low and metabolize prodigiously when food is plentiful. The more we eat, the faster our body processes that food, creating dangerous particles like free oxygen radicals which damage our DNA and wear away at our telomeres. (Getty Images)īack in the lab where I work, we have found a similar result: telomeres, which protect cells from becoming senescent, are especially prone to UV and metabolic damage. Robbins from the U Minnesota study said, “the ability to deal with senescent cells is based 30% on genetics and 70% on environment.”Īpples at store shelf close up- the best 'cure to aging' we know today. While reversing senescence is difficult, preventing senescence is actually relatively straightforward. Of course, there’s a long way to go before we can determine the safety of these drugs and deliver them to all the cells of the body. In a recent study, scientists at the University of Minnesota found that transplanting senescent (aged) cells into animal and human tissue could make healthy cells age, while using drugs which eliminate senescent cells could reverse the effects of aging. This latter process is responsible for most of the symptoms of aging, like wrinkles, dementia or heart disease. At that point, your cells can either enter “crisis-mode” and become cancerous, or enter “senescence” and slowly wither away.