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The longer your telomeres, the longer you're likely to live. And the omega-3 fats in fish (DHA and EPA) may keep your telomeres from shortening.
Telomeres are the proactive caps at the ends of chromosones. Each time a cell divides, its telomeres shrink. So shorter telomeres are a sign that your cells are getting old. They're also linked to a higher risk of heart disease.
Between 2000 and 2002, reserchers measured the length of telomeres in the white blood cells of roughly 600 San Francisco Bay-area residents with heart disease. Five years later, those who started out with the highest blood levels of DHA and EPA had the least telomere shortening, while those who started out with the lowest levels had the most shortening. The results weren't influenced by income, education, blood pressure,weight, cholesterol, smoking, statins, vitamins, exercise, or other factors.
What to do: It won't be clear whether fish oil can preserve telomeres until reserchers give the oil (or a placebo) to people and measure their telomeres. But based on the evidence that fish oil protects the heart, it's worth eating fatty fish like salmon twice a week. That should supply, on average, about 500 to 1,000 milligrams a day of DHA plus EPA.
If you have heart disease, follow the American Heart Association's advice to take a daily fish oil supplement with 1,000 mg of DHA plus EPA to make sure you get enough.
(Taking more than 3,000 mg a day may cause bleeding).
What I do: I put it in the capable hands of The Executive Chef Yosef Schwartz and his culinary team of THE FRESH DIET to take care of my dietary needs. He knows what the body needs. He makes it easy and wonderfully flavorful.
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