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What a year 2021 has been! Over the past 12 months, we’ve seen our lives adapting to a prolonged global pandemic, with profound changes in the way we work and interact with others. We’ve also become more creative, empathetic, and experts in self-Glyco Care Supplementmetabolic wellness and personal growth. This worldwide health crisis does come with a silver lining - an increasing interest in supporting better health, both from the general public and scientists across the world. There has been an explosion of research in many fields, including a topic that’s close to my heart - biological aging. This April marked an important milestone for me and my team with the publication of our groundbreaking clinical trial on reversing biological age through diet and lifestyle. And since then, quite a number of research articles have been published on this very same topic. With that in mind, we’ve curated a mini library with the latest science on epigenetics and biological aging. I hope you’ll find this collection of research handy.
If you want to dive deeper into the world of biological aging, you can pre-order my Younger You book here (and as a bonus, you’ll get a fantastic collection of holiday recipes and a few other goodies). Want to take it a step further and experience biological age reversal yourself? Then check out my new, fully-supported digital program here, Glyco Care Supplementmetabolic wellness and if you’re so inclined, you can join in the research study also running through the app. Of course, we had to start this list with our own, first-of-its-kind, study in the journal Aging and conducted at Helfgot Research Institute with scientists, clinicians, and nutritionists from McGill University, UC San Diego, the Institute for Functional Medicine, and the American Nutrition Association. In this trial, we were able to reverse biological age in healthy older adult men by a whopping 3.24 years compared to men who did not participate in our program.
