Telomeres shorten from oxidative stress, inflammation, and smoking, but lengthen with exercise, sleep, stress reduction, and diet. Vitamin D and omega-3s are evidence-backed supplements that help tip the balance toward preservation.
Do people need to also focus on minimizing their oxidative stress, maximizing their movement, their sleep, their stress reduction, their food? Like, does this work in a vacuum or does it work in conjunction with.
They have to do all those things. Okay, Especially right now, because we aren't winning the tug of war. We can even do better by eliminating some of the people on the pulling the side. Shortening telomeres, by eliminating some of those by antioxidants, anti inflammatories, quit smoking, quit being obese, meditation and yoga, they actually reduce the number of people on the side. Yoga, meditation is actually decreasing the rate of their aging. Important supplements like vitamin D and omega 3 fatty acids, those have been shown to remove people from the shortening side of the tug of war.
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