The More Children a Woman Has, the More Slowly She Will Age, Study Suggests
Photo: Getty There could be another (surprising!) anti-aging solution for women: having more children. Health sciences professor Pablo Nepomnaschy and postdoctoral researcher Cindy Barha led the study, which looked at the correlation between the number of children born to a woman and the length of her telomere. Atelomereis the protective tip at the end of each strand of DNA, and is key in the aging process. As humans age, telomeres naturally get shorter, and shorter telomeres are the main cause of the age-related breakdown of cells because once they become too short, those cells can no longer reproduce....