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Nutrition for healthy ageing: combating sarcopenia and inflammageing

March 25, 2024 by Tim Crowe 2 Comments

With a rapidly ageing population, more people than ever are becoming at risk of nutritional frailty. Older age is a time when specific nutrient needs can be higher while the ability to meet those needs has greater barriers. In this blog post, I highlight how our nutrition needs change as we age, the factors that make it harder to meet these needs, and the role nutrition plays … [Read more...] about Nutrition for healthy ageing: combating sarcopenia and inflammageing

Eating your way to longer telomeres

December 6, 2016 by Tim Crowe 1 Comment

telomeres ageing

Telomeres are the protective cap at the end of DNA which protects our chromosomes. The length of telomeres shortens with age which raises the intriguing possibility that telomere length forms a key part of the ageing process. Now scientists are looking into how much diet can influence telomere length.Telomeres are one of today’s hottest topics in science. Top researchers … [Read more...] about Eating your way to longer telomeres

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