Sentences with phrase «affect biological age»

[6] Telomere Length and Long - Term Endurance Exercise: Does Exercise Training Affect Biological Age?

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Although the biological mechanisms through which this polymorphism could affect aging are not known, it is adjacent to two genes called CDKN2A and CDKN2B, which play an important role in cell cycle regulation.

To study how splicing might affect aging, the researchers looked to Caenorhabditis elegans, a species of roundworm that's often used as a precursor to human tests in biological research, thanks to it having a genome very similar to ours.

Here we examined how exposure to a short - term intensive residential meditation retreat affected biomarkers of aging and more general regulatory networks defining a wide array of biological processes.

From 322,972 women between the ages of 25 and 70, the team of researchers gathered data on how old the subjects were at various female biological events — first period, giving birth, breast - feeding, menopause, etc. — and other factors that would have affected these events, like taking oral contraceptives.

In this podcast I discuss some of the mechanisms by which chronic stress (and rumination) affect the brain and brain aging, the gut and inflammation, the immune system, and biological aging through acceleration of telomere shortening.

Both animal (11) and human studies (12) clearly indicate that the early environment affects biological functioning and health outcomes, not only in early life but throughout adulthood into old age, controlling for other risk factors.