Detoxing Fat By-Products Could Increase Longevity
HealthNews.com
Eglė Krištopaitytė
March 21, 2023
Detoxifying the body of harmful fat by-products that accumulate over the years may delay aging, a study in animal models finds.
Seeking to identify the mechanisms driving longevity, researchers at the University of Virginia (UVA) used microscopic worms called C. elegans that share more than 70% of human genes.
"With age-related diseases currently being the major health burden for patients, their families and the healthcare system, targeting the process of aging itself would be most effective way to reduce this burden and increase the number of years of independent healthy living for all of us," says UVA researcher Eyleen Jorgelina O’Rourke, Ph.D.