Wrinkles, white hair, loss of elasticity of the skin … You have to admit it, no one wants to age. But time spins, and there is not yet a magic formula to keep your youth and eternal beauty. Fortunately, many innovative care products can slow down certain signs of aging, hydrate the skin in depth and give it back and firmness.
But if you don’t like brushing your skin with cream, there are other solutions. On May 21, theAmerican Journal of Clinical NutritioNA published a study that reveals an effective tip to slow aging. No need to go under the scalpel, nor to inject young plasma, you just need one thing: Vitamin D.
A simple gesture to slow 3 -year aging
Indeed, according to researchers, this vitamin that our body produces naturally when exposed to the sun, and that can be found in certain foods, would promote the slowdown in cellular aging from 3 ans. To achieve this result, they followed 1 071 participants aged 65 on average for 4 years.
They analyzed and measured their telomeres. “Imagine your chromosomes as shoe laces. These are the small plastic tips that prevent the lace from fraying. Except that, unlike the real tips, our telomeres shortened with each cell division”explains the scientific author Thierry Souccar.
The importance of vitamin D
These telomeres shortese each time our cells are divided, and the shorter they are, the more our cells “Amail badly” And the risk of age -related diseases increases. The ideal would therefore be to have long telomeres! The group of participants was divided into two: one received no treatment, while the other has benefited from vitamin D supplementation.
The study revealed that, in the placebo group, the telomeres had clearly shortened, a sign of classic aging. On the other hand, among participants who received vitamin D, the decrease was much less marked, suggesting A slowdown in the cellular aging process.
