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<blockquote data-quote="Sportello" data-source="post: 1813984" data-attributes="member: 55299"><p><em>Because Helen Reichert and her siblings were all centenarians (her younger sister, Leonore Kahn Reichart, who was born May 25, 1903,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Reichert#cite_note-14" target="_blank">[14]</a> died on February 18, 2005, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Reichert#cite_note-15" target="_blank">[15]</a> at the age of 101), researchers have been studying them to see if longevity is correlated to genetics. Geneticist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nir_Barzilai" target="_blank">Nir Barzilai</a>, a researcher who studied the biology of aging for over a decade, included the Kahn siblings and other Ashkenazi Jews in his research. He asked the pool about the details of their living habits: nutrition, alcohol consumption, smoking, physical activity, sleep, education, status, and spirituality. Barzilai and the team of researchers at Einstein's Institute for Aging Research discovered three genes common to the centenarians that may be the key to their long life. The first is a gene that increases the amount of good cholesterol HDL (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-density_lipoprotein" target="_blank">High-density lipoprotein</a>) to two to three times higher than average, which Barzilai believes is part of the reason for the siblings’ mental acuity at an old age. The second is a gene that slows metabolism as a result of a mildly underactive thyroid. The last is a mutation in axis, a human growth hormone that could possibly protect against age-related diseases, such as cancer.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Reichert#cite_note-16" target="_blank">[16]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Reichert#cite_note-17" target="_blank">[17]</a></em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sportello, post: 1813984, member: 55299"] [I]Because Helen Reichert and her siblings were all centenarians (her younger sister, Leonore Kahn Reichart, who was born May 25, 1903,[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Reichert#cite_note-14'][14][/URL] died on February 18, 2005, [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Reichert#cite_note-15'][15][/URL] at the age of 101), researchers have been studying them to see if longevity is correlated to genetics. Geneticist [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nir_Barzilai']Nir Barzilai[/URL], a researcher who studied the biology of aging for over a decade, included the Kahn siblings and other Ashkenazi Jews in his research. He asked the pool about the details of their living habits: nutrition, alcohol consumption, smoking, physical activity, sleep, education, status, and spirituality. Barzilai and the team of researchers at Einstein's Institute for Aging Research discovered three genes common to the centenarians that may be the key to their long life. The first is a gene that increases the amount of good cholesterol HDL ([URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-density_lipoprotein']High-density lipoprotein[/URL]) to two to three times higher than average, which Barzilai believes is part of the reason for the siblings’ mental acuity at an old age. The second is a gene that slows metabolism as a result of a mildly underactive thyroid. The last is a mutation in axis, a human growth hormone that could possibly protect against age-related diseases, such as cancer.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Reichert#cite_note-16'][16][/URL][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Reichert#cite_note-17'][17][/URL][/I] [/QUOTE]
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