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Eating a vegan diet for eight weeks can help reduce biological age estimations, according to a small study...
Knowing the biological age can help understand the risk of diabetes or dementia..
The research, published in the journal BMC Medicine, showed that the age reduction observed was based on levels of DNA methylationa type of chemical modification of DNA (known as an epigenetic modification) that alters gene expression but not DNA itself...
The team instructed one-half of each twin pair to eat an omnivorous diet for eight weeksincluding between 170 and 225 grams of meat, one egg, and one-and-a-half servings of dairy each dayand the other half to eat a vegan diet for the same length of time...
The team found decreases in estimates of biological ageknown as epigenetic ageing clocksin participants who ate a vegan diet but not among those that ate an omnivorous diet...
