The youth of a woman depends on the number of children she gave birth. In its experiment, at first glance, an unusual assumption was decided to confirm or disprove a team of Canadian researchers at the University of Simon Frazier, headed by Professor Pablo Nepomnaschy and Cindy Barha.
75 moms agreed to participate in the study of the length of telomere cell lengths versus the number of children the women gave birth. Why telomeres? Back in 1971, a scientist from Russia, Olovnikov suggested that telomeres, terminal areas of chromosomes, shorten the process of cell division. That is, the age of the cell is equal to the length of the telomer: the shorter the length, the older the cell. In just 15 years, the assumption of Olovnikov was confirmed by the English scientist Howard Cook.
As a result of the experiment, it was found that the rate of telomere shortening in participants who have more children is slower. Scientists explain this by increasing estrogen, a hormone produced during pregnancy. Estrogen functions as a powerful antioxidant, which protects cells from shortening telomeres.
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