{"id":99438,"date":"2019-12-07T13:44:20","date_gmt":"2019-12-07T21:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/epigenetic-aging-can-it-be-slowed-with-diet"},"modified":"2019-12-07T13:44:20","modified_gmt":"2019-12-07T21:44:20","slug":"epigenetic-aging-can-it-be-slowed-with-diet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/epigenetic-aging-can-it-be-slowed-with-diet","title":{"rendered":"Epigenetic Aging: Can It Be Slowed With Diet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/epigenetic-aging-can-it-be-slowed-with-diet2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New post!<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Having a faster rate of epigenetic aging, as measured by the epigenetic age metric, AgeAccelGrim, is associated with a significantly increased risk of death for all causes in a variety of cohorts, including the Framingham Heart Study (FHS), the Women\u2019s Health Initiative (WHI) study, the InChianti study, the Jackson Heart Study (JHS), and collectively, when evaluated as a meta-analysis (Lu <em>et al. <\/em>2019):<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3605\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/michaellustgarten.com\/2019\/12\/07\/slowing-epigenetic-aging-with-diet\/screen-shot-2019-12-07-at-2-23-27-pm-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/michaellustgarten.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-07-at-2.23.27-PM-1.png?fit=1830%2C982&ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1830,982\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{\u201caperture\u201d:\u201d0\u201d,\u201d credit\u201d:\u201d\u201c,\u201d camera\u201d:\u201d\u201c,\u201d caption\u201d:\u201d\u201c,\u201d created_timestamp\u201d:\u201d0\u201d,\u201d copyright\u201d:\u201d\u201c,\u201d focal_length\u201d:\u201d0\u201d,\u201d iso\u201d:\u201d0\u201d,\u201d shutter_speed\u201d:\u201d0\u201d,\u201d title\u201d:\u201d\u201c,\u201d orientation\u201d:\u201d0\u201d}\" data-image-title=\"Screen Shot 2019-12-07 at 2.23.27 PM\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/michaellustgarten.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-07-at-2.23.27-PM-1.png?fit=300%2C161&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/michaellustgarten.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-07-at-2.23.27-PM-1.png?fit=640%2C343&ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/epigenetic-aging-can-it-be-slowed-with-diet3.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2019-12-07 at 2.23.27 PM.png\" width=\"466\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/michaellustgarten.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-07-at-2.23.27-PM-1.png?w=1830&ssl=1 1830w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/michaellustgarten.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-07-at-2.23.27-PM-1.png?resize=300%2C161&ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/michaellustgarten.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-07-at-2.23.27-PM-1.png?resize=1024%2C549&ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/michaellustgarten.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-07-at-2.23.27-PM-1.png?resize=768%2C412&ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/michaellustgarten.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-07-at-2.23.27-PM-1.png?resize=1536%2C824&ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/michaellustgarten.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-07-at-2.23.27-PM-1.png?resize=600%2C322&ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/michaellustgarten.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-07-at-2.23.27-PM-1.png?w=1280&ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 466px)  100vw, 466px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With the goal of minimizing disease risk and maximizing longevity, can epigenetic aging be slowed? Shown below is the correlation between dietary components with AgeAccelGrim. Dietary factors that were significantly associated (the column labelled, \u201cp\u201d) with a younger epigenetic age were carbohydrate intake, dairy, whole grains, fruit, and vegetables. In contrast, dietary fat intake and red meat were associated with older epigenetic ages (Lu <em>et al. <\/em>2019):<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New post! Having a faster rate of epigenetic aging, as measured by the epigenetic age metric, AgeAccelGrim, is associated with a significantly increased risk of death for all causes in a variety of cohorts, including the Framingham Heart Study (FHS), the Women\u2019s Health Initiative (WHI) study, the InChianti study, the Jackson Heart Study (JHS), and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,412,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-genetics","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}