OK, so that sounds a bit dramatic and the idea is not exactly novel:\u00a0 That healthy living – diet, exercise and stress management – helps you live longer.\u00a0 But emerging science suggests that there is a real rejuvenation at the cellular level.\u00a0 And it’s not induced by some chemical cream from a pharmachem cosmetics company.<\/p>\n
The study reported in Lancet Oncology by Prof Dean Ornish and a University of California team looked at just 35 men with prostate cancer and those who changed their lifestyle had demonstrably younger cells in genetic terms.\u00a0 The study is intriguing but it is too early to draw firm conclusions.\u00a0 Nevertheless, if you don’t like the idea of dying or cancer or a heart attack, you might like to risk a bit of healthy living!<\/p>\n
The Lancet Oncology: Effect of comprehensive lifestyle changes on telomerase activity and telomere length in men with biopsy-proven low-risk prostate cancer: 5-year follow-up of a descriptive pilot study – abstract<\/a><\/p>\n BBC: Health kick ‘reverses cell ageing’<\/a><\/p>\n BBC: Can we reverse ageing?<\/a><\/p>\n BBC: Long-term fitness ‘fights ageing’<\/a><\/p>\n BBC: Sedentary life ‘speeds up ageing’<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" OK, so that sounds a bit dramatic and the idea is not exactly novel:\u00a0 That healthy living – diet, exercise and stress management – helps you live longer.\u00a0 But emerging science suggests that there is a real rejuvenation at the cellular level.\u00a0 And it’s not induced by some chemical cream from a pharmachem cosmetics company. …
Continue reading A healthy lifestyle can magically make you live longer.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-living"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-uf","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1876,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1875\/revisions\/1876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}