Mona SharmaCelebrity nutritionist and wellness advocate

Why Your Gut Controls Your Biological Age

6 Dec 2025 · 1 min

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Mona Sharma explains how ultra-processed foods damage your gut bacteria through synthetic chemicals, triggering systemic inflammation that accelerates biological aging. A diet of whole foods protects gut integrity and slows age-related decline.

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How much ultra processed food that you have in your diet seems to be one of the things when, you know, we're looking at different people's biological age and what their habits are and things like that. Diet really does play a big role for multiple reasons. Firstly, if you have a diet that is full of ultra processed foods, the first thing is that there's a lot of chemicals in these foods. That despite the fact that these foods don't have nutrients in, it's not even the fact they don't have the nutrients, it's the chemical side of things that are actually damaging and causing damage to the gut microbiome. Then we know if the gut is damaged, then we get an inflammation across the entire body. And then on top of that, you're also not getting the nutrients from the actual real foods, the whole foods.