To Live a Long Life, Keep Shaving
To find your approximate date of death, measure your telomeres. These are the pieces of DNA that protect the ends of our chromosomes and control how fast our cells age, and scientists think shortened telomeres cause early death. Some cloned mammals, such as Dolly the sheep, have shorter telomeres than other animals of the same age, leading scientists to think they’ll have shorter lives. This is one reason why it’s not yet safe to produce human clones. And men: keep shaving?scientists don’t know why, but shaving less than once a day increases your risk of stroke by 70%.
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