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Blood iron levels could be key to slowing ageing, gene study shows:
The international study using genetic data from more than a million people suggests that maintaining healthy levels of iron in the blood could be a key to ageing better and living longer.
[...] Scientists from the University of Edinburgh and the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing in Germany focused on three measures linked to biological ageing - lifespan, years of life lived free of disease (healthspan), and being extremely long-lived (longevity).
[...] The researchers pooled information from three public datasets to enable an analysis in unprecedented detail. The combined dataset was equivalent to studying 1.75 million lifespans or more than 60,000 extremely long-lived people.
The team pinpointed ten regions of the genome linked to long lifespan, healthspan and longevity. They also found that gene sets linked to iron were overrepresented in their analysis of all three measures of ageing.
[...] Blood iron is affected by diet and abnormally high or low levels are linked to age-related conditions such as Parkinson's disease, liver disease and a decline in the body's ability to fight infection in older age.
Journal Reference:
Paul R. H. J. Timmers, James F. Wilson, Peter K. Joshi, et al. Multivariate genomic scan implicates novel loci and haem metabolism in human ageing [open], Nature Communications (DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-17312-3)
(Score: 2, Flamebait) by RS3 on Monday July 20 2020, @04:27AM (2 children)
Your brain is a big infinite loop. Hard reset needed. Probably need more iron to the side of your head.
Your attitude makes you not worth responding to, but for anyone else's benefit,
The article is an alert. The point of the article is it turns out that blood iron levels are more important than was previously known.
Did you get it yet? Or still just want to troll?
There is no ideal level- everyone is different, and now we know even more about how important it might be for many people to be conscious of it, get tested if needed, etc.
I can't wait to see how you'll morph your trolling...
(Score: 3, Funny) by ikanreed on Monday July 20 2020, @02:07PM (1 child)
We call people with sincere, intransigent, and stupid opinions trolls because it's easier than dealing with the fact that they're probably the ones running the world.
(Score: 2) by RS3 on Monday July 20 2020, @02:17PM
I'm using the literal definition of troll. Of course there are many definitions, but the gist is that AC isn't trying to understand or pose alternate points of view; he's just being obtuse, contrarian, and inflammatory.
I'd love to see the stats but I'd bet 1/2 of posts are AC.
I guess if you can't beat them, join them.