by When Maria Branyas Morera died last year In 117 years and 168 days old she was the oldest famous person in the world. Before she died, she asked doctors to study her.
Dr. Manel Esteller, chairman of Genetics at the University of Barcelona’s School of Medicine, spent three years analyzing the health of Branyas. A study, published online on Wednesday, by Esteller and a cohort of colleagues, it turned out that a mix of factors contributed to the lifetime of Branyas.
“The conclusion is that the instructions for extreme lifespan are a mix between what we have inherited from our parents and what we do in our lives,” Esteller said. “And this mix, the percentage depends on, but it can … be half and half.”
Branyas “had very good genes that protect against many disorders, many genetic variants that no one has seen before,” Esteller said. She also had ‘very good habits’. She did not smoke or drank alcohol and had a diet rich in fish, olive oil and yogurt – according to Esteller three yogurt every day.
Maria Branyas Morera / Credit: Handout
The yogurt was simply without added sugar, which supplements the intestine with good bacteria, which fights inflammation, Esteller said.
Chronic inflammation is one of the main causes of aging and illness, he said.
“These are good bacteria that offer an advantage to people,” Esteller added.
The study noted that “or the dominance of the Bifidobacterium [beneficial gut bacteria] Related gender is completely due or not to the yogurt diet, cannot be fully confirmed because that would have required a longitudinal study with sample collection in several years. However, we believe that it is likely that a beneficial effect of yogurt intake could have contributed to its well -being and advanced age through modulation of the intestinal ecosystem. “
Branyas once posted on social media about her love for yogurt and said it “gives life” – and hers was long. She was born in San Francisco in 1907 and lived in Spain since she was 8. She survived two world wars and two pandemies and had three children and 13 great -grandchildren.
A photo of Maria Branyas in 1925. / Credit: Handout
In addition to a long life, she also lived a healthy – free of cancer, cardiovascular disease or dementia, according to Esteller.
The image that comes from studying Branyas “shows that extremely advanced age and poor health are not intrinsically linked and that both processes can be distinguished and dissected at a molecular level,” says the study, published in Cell Reports Medicine.
Researchers said that in order to conduct the study, “samples of the subject were obtained from four different sources: total peripheral blood, saliva, urine and stools at different times.”
It also noticed some limitations, including the aging and extreme lifespan “are probably strongly individualized processes”, so “drawing broadly applicable conclusions of a single subject must be drawn with caution.”
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