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.
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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