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By Murray Sherriffs<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition<\/em> says that vitamin D slows aging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A trial followed more than 1,000 healthy American women and men over the age of 50 for four years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They have determined that taking 2,000 international units of vitamin D3 every day helped slow down the shortening of telomeres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Telomeres are \u201cprotective caps on your chromosomes” that naturally wear down with age and protect DNA during cell division, a process that the body uses to repair and grow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every time that happens, they get a bit shorter, which makes them a marker of biological age and\u2014when they get too short\u2014cells can\u2019t divide properly and start to malfunction or die, and when they shrink too fast, the risk of heart disease, cancer and premature aging rises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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