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Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
[...]Research on 5,834 U.S. adults by Brigham Young University exercise science professor Larry Tucker, Ph.D., found people who drink low-fat milk experience several years less biological aging than those who drink high-fat (2% and whole) milk.
[...]Tucker investigated the relationship between telomere length and both milk intake frequency (daily drinkers vs. weekly drinkers or less) and milk fat content consumed (whole vs. 2% vs. 1% vs. skim). Telomeres are the nucleotide endcaps of human chromosomes. They act like a biological clock and they're extremely correlated with age; each time a cell replicates, humans lose a tiny bit of the endcaps. Therefore, the older people get, the shorter their telomeres.
And, apparently, the more high-fat milk people drink, the shorter their telomeres are, according to the new BYU study, published in Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity. The study revealed that for every 1% increase in milk fat consumed (drinking 2% vs. 1% milk), telomeres were 69 base pairs shorter in the adults studied, which translated into more than four years in additional biological aging. When Tucker analyzed the extremes of milk drinkers, adults who consumed whole milk had telomeres that were a striking 145 base pairs shorter than non-fat milk drinkers.
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Larry A. Tucker. Milk Fat Intake and Telomere Length in U.S. Women and Men: The Role of the Milk Fat Fraction. Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity, 2019; 2019: 1 DOI: 10.1155/2019/1574021
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 25 2020, @06:02PM (1 child)
It was mainland China and for that year I hardly even saw butter. There was a near complete lack of any dairy products, even finding butter was often an issue in some of those small towns. The only butter I could find would usually be in those little packets. I could generally get soft serve ice cream and apple milk. (Actually pretty tasty)
My suspicion has been that it's the wrong mix of bacteria. I had a great deal of luck by introducing massive amounts of bacteria back into the body via live culture yogurt including strains that are known to digest lactose in a less problematic way, but the amount it took was a lot and I haven't been able to figure out an appropriate mix or schedule to make it self sustaining. I was eating about a gallon of live culture yogurt a week to see much effect and at that point, it was unclear whether it was just extra lactase from the bacteria or if some had set up shop in my digestive track.
(Score: 2) by Arik on Saturday January 25 2020, @06:11PM
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?