It might sound counterintuitive, but scientists say one key to living beyond 100 is plenty of experience fighting off infections.
Researchers who studied the DNA of seven centenarians found they all shared one thing in common — they’d fought lots of bugs and viruses.
Their subjects had a high number of B cells, immune cells and antibodies needed to fight off old foes.
Scientists are trying to work out whether catching and beating infections is the key, or whether centenarians are just genetically stronger in the immune department
Lead author of the study, Paola Sebastiani, a biostatistician at Tufts University in Boston, said the immune profiles of centenarians show ‘a long history of exposure to infections and capacity to recover from them.’
‘We believe that centenarians have protective factors that allow them to survive the Spanish Flu, survive Covid,’ she told DailyMail.com
The study, which also included scientists from Boston University, looked at blood samples from seven centenarians between the ages of 100 and 119 years old.
The team isolated a critical part of the participants’ immune systems: peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs), a kind of immune cell that originates in bone marrow.
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Living to age 99 is a key factor in making it to 100 according to unpublished research.
Just sayin’,