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Woman who lived to age 117 had genes keeping her cells ‘younger’, study showswww.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/13/supercentenarian-aging-genes-study
223 sats \ 2 comments \ @south_korea_ln 8h HealthAndFitness
A study of Branyas’s microbiome and DNA that scientists began conducting before her death reportedly determined that the genes she inherited allowed her cells to essentially feel and behave as if they were 17 years younger than they actually were. And Branyas’s microbiota – which primarily refers to the bacteria in people’s guts that has a role in keeping them healthy – mirrored that of an infant, according to the research led by University of Barcelona genetics professor Manel Esteller, a leading expert on ageing.
As always, good gut is key. Correlation, causation, representatives sample, blablabla. Yes, I know.
I'll just have myself another yoghurt as i type this.
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This example also shows that its not on single factor, but a combination: Genetics, the microbiome, good food (mediterranean diet) and “order, tranquility, good connection with family and friends, contact with nature, emotional stability, no worries, no regrets, lots of positivity and staying away from toxic people”, as she is cited.
Also having a yoghurt now, will add some blue berries and flax seeds. Cheers
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Was this woman vaccinated? serious question She made international news headlines by contracting Covid in 2020, when Spain was one of the countries hit hardest by the virus and protective vaccines were not yet available. But her Covid bout was asymptomatic, and she recovered relatively easily.
University of Barcelona genetics professor Manel Esteller, a leading expert on ageing.
She avoided drinking alcohol and smoking, enjoyed walks, and constantly surrounded herself with family and loved ones, all of which apparently aided her in staving off declines both physical and mental that could have shortened her life, the researchers concluded.
Branyas was born in San Francisco on 4 March 1907, after her parents moved from Spain and Mexico to the US. She also spent time in Texas and New Orleans before her family returned to Spain in 1915 – amid the first world war – and settled in Catalonia.
Asked by the Guinness organization’s website to contemplate her longevity, Branyas chalked it up “order, tranquility, good connection with family and friends, contact with nature, emotional stability, no worries, no regrets, lots of positivity and staying away from toxic people”.
“I think longevity is also being lucky,” added Branyas, who expressed herself later in life with a voice-to-text device. “Luck and good genetics”.
A widowed mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, she died on 19 August at a nursing home in the town of Olot in north-eastern Spain where she lived for her final two decades.
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