Can a Daily Multivitamin Slow Down Aging?
You eat well, exercise and work out your brain, but is there something else you can do to slow aging? “Now we’ll add a multivitamin,” said culinary medicine specialist Dr. Terry Simpson with Dignity Health St. John’s Regional Medical Center.
For years now, experts have been saying that multivitamins that contain A, C, D, E and B, along with minerals like zinc, selenium and calcium had little evidence to support its use. Now researchers are changing their tune. “Multivitamins aren’t really magic pills, but they may be a simple way to support healthy aging,” he said.
In a two-year Nature Medicine study, daily multivitamin use appeared to slow biological age compared to chronological age of over two years. The trial involved nearly 1,000 older adults taking Centrum Silver. Biologic age looks at a surrogate marker on the DNA. It showed that their DNA hasn’t aged as much. So it’s more of a surrogate marker, but it is real and not to be ignored.
Excerpted from ABC News 7
