![]() Germain counts good genes and good living for his longevity he starts every day with steel-cut oatmeal he cooks at night, along with fruit and orange juice, and a daily one-mile walk. ![]() ![]() “It’s picking your grandparents well,” he said. Beyond that is when researchers believe genetics play a larger role. Many people who exercise regularly, eat healthy diets, and refrain from smoking will make it to 90, Perls said. The researchers say privacy of samples (which will be used to extract participants’ DNA) and information will be maintained by using a unique barcode rather than participants’ names. Participants are asked for general health information and a saliva sample using a tube that is mailed to them and returned in a postage-paid envelope to Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Researchers aim to identify inherited and natural factors that protect against human aging and related diseases. The researchers will compare traits in super agers and their children to traits in older adults whose parents were not super agers. The study, a collaboration between BU, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and the American Federation for Aging Research, seeks to enroll individuals aged 95 and older, as well as those whose parents are 95 and older, and individuals whose in-laws are 95 and older. “They have a history of aging very slowly and they greatly delay disability with the diseases they have,” Perls said. “People think everyone would have Alzheimer’s and other diseases at this age, and it’s not true” said Perls, professor of medicine at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, and a co-investigator of the SuperAgers Family study.
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