Does Vitamin D and Omega-3s slow aging?
Supplements come with a lot of promises, many that sound too good to be true. With the current wellness obsession with longevity, there are myriad supplements flooding the market promising youth and long lives. But…do they really fulfill those promises? People can claim a lot of things, especially if they want to sell a product and make lots of money, but to know if a supplement is truly linked to a beneficial health outcome, you need to do clinical trials. So when I read a recently published study in a reputable journal on the combination of Vitamin D, plant-based Omega-3s and moderate exercise and slowing aging…I got excited! I reached out to the lead author and was thrilled she decided to come on Causes or Cures to discuss the trial, its findings and offer my podcast listeners practical, evidence-based take-home points.
In this episode right HERE, I chat with aging and longevity expert Dr. Heike Bischoff-Ferrari about whether simple lifestyle interventions, like Vitamin D and plant-based Omega-3s, can actually make us biologically younger.
Dr. Bischoff-Ferrari breaks down:
• What DNA methylation clocks are and how they’re used to measure biological age
• The design and findings of the DO-HEALTH Bio-Age Trial
• Whether vitamin D, algae-based omega-3s, and exercise can turn back your biological clock
• The science behind how these interventions may work
• Practical takeaways for longevity and healthy aging
• What’s next in this fast-moving field
Dr. Bischoff-Ferrari is a legitimate longevity ROCKSTAR! She is a physician and researcher with board certifications in geriatrics, internal medicine, and rehabilitation medicine. She’s a professor at the University of Zurich where she chairs the Department of Geriatrics and Aging Research, and the principal investigator of DO-HEALTH, Europe’s LARGEST study ever on healthy longevity. With a doctorate from Harvard and a long-standing commitment to aging research, she’s at the forefront of understanding how to extend not just lifespan, but healthspan. You can learn more about her here.
If you want evidence-based advise on how to slow aging and prolong longevity, I encourage you to listen to the podcast episode HERE! My sister, a practicing physician, called me after she listened to it and loved it–and is even telling her patients to listen to it. By the way, Dr. Bischoff says some really interesting things about Vitamin D supplementation in general, that I think you guys will be interested in!
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And if you are only into short clips, I encourage you to subscribe to my Youtube Channel, where I post very short clips from the podcast episodes that I think you’ll find helpful or interesting. Granted, I think it’s always better to listen to the whole podcast episode and not just the clips, but I also understand that you guys have lives and most people are short on time. Here’s a clip where Dr. Bischoff discusses how Omega-3s slow aging: