Named five easy ways to slow down aging

2018-01-04 17:43

Named five easy ways to slow down aging
The Nobel laureate biologist Elizabeth Blackburn identified five easy ways to slow down aging

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Specialist based on his scientific work on the theory of aging due to the shortening telomeric sections of chromosomes, reports Rus.Media.

First, Blackburn recommends to cope with stress. In her study she studied the behavior of mothers raising children with autism and other chronic diseases. She found that in more stresstimed women telomere shortened significantly slower.

Second, the scientist advises to meditate. According to her, people who meditated for 12 minutes a day for two months, was able to slow down the change telomers.

Blackburn also believes it is important to communicate with neighbors, to marry and to have a friend for life. In addition, the expert recommends to make money. Her research showed that people with higher incomes telomere often longer.

Elizabeth Helen Blackburn American scientist-cytogenetic and winner of the Nobel prize in physiology or medicine in 2009, together with Carol Greider and Jack Shostak with the wording “for the discovery of mechanisms of protection of chromosomes telomere and the enzyme telomerase”.