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Scientists found 77 spots in our DNA linked to thoughts or actions about suicide — 59 of which are brand new discoveries — showing that genetics play a complex role in different ways people...
In older male mice, genes play a bigger role in how long they live — by the time they reach super old age, about half the reason one lives longer than another comes down to their DNA, not their...
In mice, the genes that affect how long they live work differently in males and females — many of the gene interactions are totally separate between the sexes.
In mice, certain genes seem to link being heavier early in life to a shorter life, especially in males — but being heavier later in life is actually linked to living longer, showing that the effect...
In male mice, being heavier as a young adult is linked to a shorter life — each extra gram might take away up to 14 days. This effect is much stronger in males than in females, suggesting their genes...
In mice with different genes, scientists found 29 specific gene spots that affect how long they live — but these genes act differently depending on whether the mouse is young or old, and whether it's...
Some genes linked to living longer depend on whether they come from your mom or dad — different sets of genes seem to help men and women live longer.
If your parents lived a long time, you might have inherited genes tied to aging-related processes like cell aging, inflammation, and heart health — and these could help explain why some people live...
Some people have a specific gene variation that’s linked to parents who lived longer and had a lower chance of heart disease — it might be related to how our blood vessels age.
If someone has a higher genetic score based on 10 specific DNA variants, they're more likely to have a parent who lived to 100 or beyond — each step up in the score means about a 19% better chance of...
Scientists found 25 spots in the DNA of people with European roots that are linked to how long their parents lived — some of these spots are near genes we already know affect aging, and it looks like...
Your genes might play a role in when you die — not just from diseases, but in how long you naturally live.
Eating certain types of healthy fats—like those found in nuts and seeds—doesn’t seem to change levels of inflammation in the blood of healthy American adults.
If you're a healthy American adult eating a lot of certain vegetable oil fats (n-6), getting more fish oil fats (EPA and DHA) seems to help reduce signs of inflammation in your body. But if you're...
If healthy people in the U.S. regularly eat more foods rich in omega-3s like EPA and DHA—think fatty fish—their bodies tend to show lower levels of markers linked to chronic inflammation.
Having more omega-6 fats in your red blood cells might be linked to slightly lower inflammation, but the effect is so small it probably doesn’t make a big difference in your health.
In older adults, eating more omega-6 fats like linoleic acid or having higher levels of arachidonic acid in the body doesn’t seem to increase signs of inflammation.
Omega-6 fats in red blood cells don’t seem to be connected to signs of body stress or blood vessel inflammation in older adults.
If older adults have more arachidonic acid in their red blood cells, they tend to have lower levels of certain inflammation markers in their blood — which suggests this omega-6 fat might not make...
If older adults have more of a certain healthy fat (linoleic acid) in their blood cells, they tend to have lower levels of inflammation markers in their body.
When people started eating less seed oil in the 1970s and 80s, heart disease cases dropped by 30%, which might mean that changing fats in the diet helped reduce heart problems.
Countries where people eat more linoleic acid, like the U.S. and Israel, have had higher rates of heart disease deaths, while countries like Japan and Greece, where people eat less of it, have had...
Eating too much linoleic acid might speed up heart disease because when it gets into your blood, it can turn into harmful chemicals that damage blood vessels and cause inflammation.
Americans started eating way more soybean oil over the 20th century, and this change is linked to big increases in a type of fat called linoleic acid in both our diets and our body fat.