Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – Having a long, healthy and youthful life is certainly a hope for many people. Not surprisingly, Plato and Aristotle always discussed and wrote about the aging process more than 2,300 years ago.
In today’s modern era, only a handful of people can live to be 100 years old or more. They are called Centenarians. The UN in 2012 estimated that there were 316,600 living centenarians worldwide.
To find out the secret to living a long life, researchers conducted a study on the blood of Centenarians. Launch Science Alert, the study compared biomarker profiles measured throughout life between very long-lived people and their shorter-lived counterparts to date. Biomarkers are the biological response of an organism to pollutants or environmental stress.
The study included data from 44,000 Swedish people who underwent health checks aged 64-99 years.
Overall, those who reached the age of 100 tended to have lower levels of glucose, creatinine and uric acid from the age of 60.
Experts found that very few 100-year-old people had glucose levels above 6.5 in their lifetime, or creatinine levels above 125.
Mireille Serlie, a professor of endocrinology at Yale, who was not involved in the study, told Medical News Today that creatinine “depends on kidney function and muscle mass.”
“Lower creatinine in this age group (the average age at first biomarker testing in centenarians was 79.6 years) is consistent with higher kidney function,” he said.
“Lifestyle is associated with kidney function through salt intake, hypertension, obesity, hyperglycemia, heart function, etc.,” said Dr. Serlie.
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