The paleo diet may make your biological age older than your real age

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The paleo diet claims to replicate what our ancestors ate

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A new way of calculating our biological age based on the bacteria in our gut has thrown up some surprising results. Among other things, it suggests that people following the paleo diet are nearly two years “older” on average compared with people not on the diet.

“It is striking,” says Guruduth Banavar at Viome, a California-based company that sells tests that measure gut bacteria. “In our population, people on a paleo diet were younger, but their biological age is actually older.”…

Source: newscientist.com

Kerri Waldron

My name is Kerri Waldron and I am an avid healthy lifestyle participant who lives by proper nutrition and keeping active. One of the things I love best is to get to where I am going by walking every chance I get. If you want to feel great with renewed energy, you have to practice good nutrition and stay active.

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