Anti-Aging
ANTI-AGING INGREDIENTS ON THE DINNER PLATE
We now we have some proof the anti-aging ingredients are on your dinner plate. Researchers at McMaster University have developed a cocktail of ingredients that forestalls major aspects of aging.
FINDINGS
The findings are published in the current issue of Experimental Biology and Medicine.
The study found that a complex dietary supplement powerfully offsets this key symptom of ageing in old mice by increasing the activity of the cellular furnaces that supply energy – or mitochondria – and by reducing emissions from these furnaces – or free radicals – that are thought to be the basic cause of ageing itself.
Using bagel bits soaked in the supplement to ensure consistent and accurate dosing, the formula maintained youthful levels of locomotor activity into old age whereas old mice that were not given the supplement showed a 50 per cent loss in daily movement, a similar dramatic loss in the activity of the cellular furnaces that make our energy, and declines in brain signaling chemicals relevant to locomotion. This builds on the team’s findings that the supplement extends longevity, prevents cognitive declines, and protects mice from radiation.
Ingredients consists of items that were purchased in local stores selling vitamin and health supplements for people, including vitamins B1, C, D, E, acetylsalicylic acid, beta carotene, folic acid, garlic, ginger root, ginkgo biloba, ginseng, green tea extract, magnesium, melatonin, potassium, cod liver oil, and flax seed oil. Multiple ingredients were combined based on their ability to offset five mechanisms involved in ageing.
SCIENCE VS. NATURE
This study showed both the remarkable extension of physical function in old mice, and extended longevity. With this comes hopes of developing more effective supplements.
Nature has already done that for us all we have to do is part take. What you put on your plate is more powerful than any supplements you buy.
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