On nutrition and aging

What is it about?

Kris Verburgh, physician and researcher at the Free University of Brussels, created a new scientific discipline that studies how nutrition can slow down aging. He introduced this new field called ‘nutrigerontology’ in the international scientific journal ‘Aging cell’. ‘We urgently need this new field of science, to better winnow out all the conflicting diet and health advice’.

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Why is it important?

The field of nutrigerontology explores how nutrition can slow down aging and reduce our risk of aging related diseases, like heart disease, dementia or diabetes. Diseases many people get confronted with when they get older. ‘This new scientific field can help us to make sense of the overabundance of diet-and health advice, which is often confusing and contradictory. If you know why we age, you can better assess what health and diet advice is the best.