Decades of research have yielded over 20,000 published, peer-reviewed papers on telomeres. Below we have summarized a collection of studies that span the vast array of health and lifestyle factors that have been shown to associate with telomere length.
How to Keep Your Cells Healthy and Young
Diet & Telomeres, Institutional StudyMedical News Today summarizes the latest blockbuster study of 5,000 research participants that lends even more weight to the large body of evidence that telomere length is affected by diet. This study duplicates findings from other large...
Randomized controlled trial of weight loss versus usual care on telomere length in women with breast cancer: the lifestyle, exercise, and nutrition (LEAN) study
Diet & Telomeres, Institutional Study151 women breast cancer survivors were randomly assigned 2 different post-cancer treatment regimens – one regimen was the standard care recommended for breast cancer survivors, the other a weight loss intervention regimen. Among women wh...
Exercise and bone health across the lifespan
Exercise & Telomeres, Institutional StudyIn this review, recent work on human aging and epigenetics suggests that beginning exercise after the fourth decade of life is still important, given the anti-aging effect and health benefits provided, potentially occurring via a delay ...