It has been ages since human beings started searching a way to live longer. Scientists has found the secret about how a woman to live longer. They said the more babies a woman giving birth to, the slower she will aging.Well. . .that sounds ridiculous. But, that’s what scientists found.
The length of telomeres were believed related to aging because the length are getting shorter when people are getting old. Scientists found that more babies a women giving birth to, the longer telomeres she will have.
Telomeres are at the endpoint of chromosomes. A chromosomes has four telomeres, and when a chromosomes was copied, the telomeres of the new chromosome will make sure the new chromosome continue doing the job that the old chromosome hasn’t finished. Every time a chromosome was copied, the shorter telomeres the new chromosome will have. When the telomeres are disappear, the cell will not be functional and die. As it happens to most cells, people will get old.
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People will want to have longer telomeres. And, scientists have found that giving birth to baby can make the mother’s telomeres longer. They have picked 75 women from two neighboring tribes of Guatemala. Collect the numbers of baby they have given birth to at 2000 and 2013. And collect their saliva to measure the length of their telomeres. They have found the women who have more alive offspring have longer telomeres. And, giving birth to one more baby, the length of telomeres will increase 0.059 units.
Scientists explained that when women are pregnant, the amount of estrogen will increase a lot. Estrogen is a strong antioxidant that can protect the cell from the effect of the shorten telomeres.
