Older Research On Telemere Length And Certain Nutrients Bernard Pyron

 Older Research On Telemere Length And Certain Nutrients Bernard Pyron

Nutrition also has an influence on telomere length. See http://www.isagenixhealth.net/blog/2011/06/16/fish-oil-for-longer-telomeres/

 

Several studies have shown relationships between longer telomeres and nutritional supplements, including multivitamins, vitamin C, vitamin D, vitamin E, and folic acid.29- 33

 

See:
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Richards JB, Valdes AM, Gardner JP, et al. Higher serum vitamin D concentrations are associated with longer leukocyte telomere length in women. Am J Clin Nutr. 2007;86(5):1420-1425

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Xu Q, Parks CG, DeRoo LA, Cawthon RM, Sandler DP, Chen H. Multivitamin use and telomere length in women. Am J Clin Nutr. 2009;89(6):1857-1863

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Furumoto K, Inoue E, Nagao N, Hiyama E, Miwa N. Age-dependent telomere shortening is slowed down by enrichment of intracellular vitamin C via suppression of oxidative stress. Life Sci. 1998;63(11):935-948

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Tanaka Y, Moritoh Y, Miwa N. Age-dependent telomere-shortening is repressed by phosphorylated alpha-tocopherol together with cellular longevity and intracellular oxidative-stress reduction in human brain microvascular endotheliocytes. J Cell Biochem. 2007;102(3):689-703

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Paul L, Cattaneo M, D’Angelo A, et al. Telomere length in peripheral blood mononuclear cells is associated with folate status in men. J Nutr. 2009;139(7):1273-1278

These studies show some evidence that vitamin D, Multivitamin use, vitamin C, phosphorylated alpha-tocopherols, and Folic Acid protect telomeres from shortening.

Studies comparing one group of people who have higher blood levels of a nutrient, or who report taking a food supplement, to those with lower blood levels of the nutrient or those not taking the supplement could be vulnerable to confounding. It is possible that variables other than taking a food supplement, or vitamin, are responsible for the protection of the person's telomeres from shortening. The possible variables that might be suspect here are income level, education level and intelligence level. Those in higher income levels, higher education levels and/or with higher intelligence might possibly have longer telomeres for some reason. To prevent this more obvious kind of confounding, a repeated measures study design would be best - if such a research design could be carried out and if the reseachers could afford to make repeated tests for telomere length over time periods of a few years. The data from such a study could be statistically analyzed by a repeated measures analysis of variance, which would use each subject in the study as his own control.

If certain nutrients, with many in the form of supplements, do in fact increase telemere length and overall health of the individual, then this research can be pointed to as some support for  the hypothesis that certain nutrients as food supplements can increase the ability of the immune system to prevent a person from getting a contagious virus.

The hypothesis is that vitamic C, Vitamin D-3 and Zinc, taken regularly over a period of time at a certasin level, and combined with  the taking of Fulvid Acid to increase absorption of these nutrients, can prevent a person from getting the virus when exposed to it