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