21-05-2025
Vitamin D supplements could counter ageing, study suggests
Taking Vitamin D supplements could help to turn back the clock on biological ageing, research has suggested.
A clinical trial found that adults who took the vitamin every day saw less age-related damage to their DNA, which has been linked to diseases including Alzheimer's and cancer.
Taking vitamin D for four years was found to 'prevent the equivalent of nearly three years of ageing'.
The study, published in the The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, involved 1,054 adults aged 50 and over. They were either given a placebo or a vitamin D pill.
Scientists used regular blood tests to measure the length of the participants' telomeres — the 'caps' on the end of our DNA that protects it from damage, which naturally shorten with
