Today almost everywhere you look people are searching for the fountain of youth. We're a society obsessed with staying young. But you might not have to turn to expensive creams or procedures to slow aging. In fact, taking two common supplements in combination with regular exercise may form a powerful anti-aging blend, per new research.
Taking omega-3 and vitamin D supplements over a three-year period may slow biological aging by three to four months, according to the study published in Nature Aging. When combined with exercise, researchers observed even greater effects.
For the study, researchers tracked 777 people 70 and older for three years and measured their biological age using epigenetic clocks—a tool used to estimate a person's biological age by analyzing DNA methylation patterns.
The study participants were divided into three groups—those who took 2,000 IU of vitamin D per day (equal to 50 micrograms (µg), the recommended daily amount for adults with low vitamin D levels), and/or 1 gram of omega-3 per day (equal to roughly three 1-gram fish oil capsules), and/or participated in a home exercise program.
When the three-year time period was up, researchers looked at blood samples from the participants. They found that individuals who combined daily omega-3 with vitamin D on top of exercise three times a week, slowed biological aging by roughly two to four months.
Not only was this mix linked to aging slower but previous research has shown it may also reduce prefrailty (a process that predisposes individuals to frailty) and the risk of developing certain types of invasive cancer. Plus, researchers also found that omega-3 alone reduced the rate of infection and the rate of falls in older populations.
“This result extends our previous findings from the DO-HEALTH study, in which these three factors combined had the greatest impact on reducing the risk of cancer and preventing premature frailty over a three-year period, to slowing down the biological aging process,” Heike Bischoff-Ferrari, the study’s lead researcher and a professor of geriatrics and geriatric medicine at the University of Zurich, said in a statement.
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