If you're a healthy adult between 50 and 69 and you eat less of certain grilled, fried, or processed foods for 6 weeks, your body shows about 11% less of a harmful compound in your blood and 44% less in your urine—meaning what you eat really can lower this marker of aging and inflammation.

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Dietary intake of advanced glycation end products did not affect endothelial function and inflammation in healthy adults in a randomized controlled trial.

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This study gave people a diet with fewer AGEs for 6 weeks and found that two key markers of AGEs in their blood and urine dropped by about 11% and 44%, just like the claim said.

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Dietary intake of advanced glycation end products did not affect endothelial function and inflammation in healthy adults in a randomized controlled trial.

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DOI: 10.3945/jn.113.189480

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Eating more of the kinds of foods that have extra AGEs—like grilled or fried meats—for six weeks doesn’t seem to raise the levels of a specific marker in the blood or urine of healthy middle-aged and older adults, meaning those foods probably don’t make your body’s AGE burden much worse than it already is.

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If you eat the same amount of food with the same carbs, fats, and calories—but just change how many AGEs (chemicals formed when food is cooked at high heat) are in it—for six weeks, your blood sugar, cholesterol, and related body signals don’t change. So, those cooked-food chemicals probably don’t mess with your metabolism in the short term.

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