Nobel laureate biologist Elizabeth Blackburn named five easy ways to slow down aging. She shared her advice with Business Insider.
The specialist based on her scientific work on the theory of aging due to the shortening of telomeric regions of chromosomes.
First, Blackburn recommends dealing with stress. In her research, she studied the behavior of mothers raising children with autism and other chronic diseases. She found that telomeres shortened significantly more slowly in more stress-resistant women.
Secondly, the scientist advises to meditate. According to her, people who meditated for 12 minutes a day for two months were able to slow down the change in telomeres.
Blackburn also considers it important to communicate more with neighbors, get married and have a friend for life. In addition, the specialist recommends making money. Her research found that people with higher incomes tend to have longer telomeres.
Elizabeth Ellen Blackburn is an American cytogenetic scientist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 2009, together with Carol Grader and Jack Shostak, for the discovery of the mechanisms of protection of chromosomes by telomeres and the telomerase enzyme.