A new study has found that adopting a healthy plant-based diet can slow down the human body’s aging process.
The study was conducted among a large group of Asian participants over a long period of time to determine the connection between plant-based diets and aging. But since the aging process is complex and varies among individuals, the researchers used a newly developed biological age biomarker, called MDAge, to measure aging in the study participants to understand it better.
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MDAge integrates multiple biomarkers relevant to physical functions and provides information about overall health. This tool was found to be a more accurate measure of aging than chronological age, as it better predicted all-cause mortality, explain the authors.
Using these biomarkers, the researchers identified three distinct aging trajectories, slow, medium, and high degree. Participants with high or medium-degree trajectories had a higher risk of death than those in the slow-aging trajectory group.
Interestingly, the study also found that individuals who followed an overall plant-based dietary pattern were less likely to be in the high or medium aging trajectories.
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