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RE: New Research Suggests Infections During Infancy May Influence Your Ability To Fight Off Disease Later On In Life
The authors stated that an increase in one standard deviation relative to the average amount of diarrhea for an infant during the ages of 6 months to 1 year reduced adult telomere length by an amount equivalent to 3.3 years of aging
I was wondering what could be the effect for an adult suffering from a lot of diarrhea? Says the guy who is traveling a lot (and whose stomach does not like it much :p )
That is a good question, one would suspect it would have a similar effect, however the author's did find this specific age range had the biggest correlation to shortened telomere length later in life. So perhaps telomerase is better controlled as we age? Dunno!