How Can You Improve Your Longevity, According to This New Blood Study

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Some people just live longer than others and it’s not always their lifestyle habits that seem to necessarily contribute to that longevity. Now a new study, hoping to divine the secrets of a long life, has found two particular biomarkers in the blood of those who just live longer. Veuer’s Tony Spitz has the details.

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00:00Some people just live longer than others and it's not always their lifestyle habits that seem to

00:04necessarily contribute to their longevity. Now a new study hoping to divine the secrets of a long

00:09life has found certain levels of biomarkers in the blood of those who just live longer and they say

00:14this might be the first clue to increasing human life expectancy. The researchers looked at the

00:19blood of some 44,000 Swedish people who had health diagnostics conducted from ages 64 to 99,

00:24finding that those who lived to see a century of age had lower glucose creatine and uric acid levels

00:30after 60. These numbers were below what are considered good for healthy people with the

00:34researchers noting quote this is probably because these guidelines are set based on a younger and

00:39healthier population and the opposite was true for those who had much higher levels of those

00:43biomarkers. The study also revealed that the group with the lowest total cholesterol and iron levels

00:48were the least likely to reach 100 years of age. The researchers noted that the differences were

00:53generally relatively small saying while they can't point directly to lifestyle factors as part of

00:57this study it's possible they could be related.

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