Genetic scientists, conducting laboratory studies, have come to the conclusion that human life expectancy depends on epigenetic switches. According to researchers, so-called switches can lengthen life and improve health.
This discovery prompted scientists to think about the creation of medicines that promote metabolic processes in the body. In the course of experiments carried out on laboratory mice, geneticists noticed that the health and life expectancy of some rodents living in similar conditions with other rodents differs from their relatives.
Scientists have found that epigenetic switches are enzymes that turn on during stressful situations experienced by mice in their early years.
Enzymes, the level of which in the early developmental stages of mice increase after a little stress, control the overall functionality of genes throughout the life of rodents.
Note that geneticists have found that mice, whose lifespan is longer than their relatives, have a fairly high activity of such enzymes.