Daily multivitamin delays biological aging by up to 5 months, trial finds

• Over the last few years, researchers have been focusing on finding new ways for people to slow their biological aging.
• Past studies show that making certain healthy lifestyle choices, such as eating a healthy diet, may help slow the biological aging process.
• A new study found that taking a daily multivitamin may help slow biological aging, including in older adults who are already experiencing accelerated biological aging.

Over the last few years, researchers have been focusing on finding new ways for people to slow their biological aging — the process by which the body begins to age, which may not match a person’s chronological age.

Past studies show that making certain healthy lifestyle choices, such as not smoking, being physically active, getting enough sleep, and eating a healthy diet may help slow the biological aging process.

“Living longer is one thing; living better is just as important,” Howard Sesso, ScD, MPH, associate director of the Division of Preventive Medicine in the Mass General Brigham Department of Medicine, told Medical News Today. “More clinical trials are needed under the effects of lifestyle and pharmacologic interventions on biological aging captured through epigenetics and other biomarkers.”

Sesso is the senior author of a new study recently published in Nature Medicine that found that taking a daily multivitamin may help slow biological aging, including in older adults already experiencing accelerated biological aging.