A daily multivitamin may slow signs of biological ageing
Published in Nature Medicine, the paper noted that these effects were stronger in people whose biological age (which relates to the health of their cells and tissues) was already older than their chronological age (how many years old they are). On average, older people who took a multivitamin supplement daily had a biological age four months younger than those who didn’t. What else did the study find? The researchers looked at blood samples from just under 1,000 participants of the US’ COSMOS study – a randomised, double-blind trial. Participants had an average age of 70. Some people took multivitamins, and others didn’t. Blood samples were taken three times: at the start of the study, and 12 and 24 months after that. The scientists calculated the biological age of the people in the research by looking for five biological ageing “clocks” in their blood. These “clocks” had to do with the patterns on DNA, changes in which have been linked to a person’s ageing...
