Drinking Tea Extends Lifespan

Looking for another reason to trade your daily coffee for tea?

A study in Hong Kong looked at the genes of tea drinkers (average 3 cups a day) vs. non-tea drinker (average 1/4 cup a day) and found that they seem to be biologically younger. Telemere length in tea drinkers were longer than those that were not. Telemeres are tails found on genes that are thought to limit cell division to a set number of times. Longer telemeres seem to correlate with more healthy cell divisions.

Biologically speaking, tea drinkers were thought to have cells with telemeres that looked about 5 years younger than non-tea drinkers. This is theorized to be linked to the strong antioxidant properties of tea.

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