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Eating a vegan diet for short period can help reduce biological age: Study
Updated On: 29 July, 2024 03:39 PM IST | Mumbai | IANS
The team found decreases in estimates of biological age -- known as epigenetic ageing clocks -- in participants who ate a vegan diet but not among those that ate an omnivorous diet
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Eating a vegan diet for eight weeks can help reduce biological age estimations, according to a small study.
Knowing 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 methylation -- a type of chemical modification of DNA (known as an epigenetic modification) that alters gene expression but not DNA itself.
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