The Exposome Outweighs Genetics in Longevity
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Your environment is ten times more important than your DNA for predicting how long you live.
Scientists have officially moved beyond just looking at genetics to something called the exposome.
This tracks absolutely every chemical, stressor, and pollutant you’ve absorbed over your
entire lifetime. Using new mass spectrometry tech on blood samples and silicone wristbands, researchers can
now see invisible chemical footprints left by everything from your gas stove to your daily coffee.
They found that these environmental factors interact with your biology to drive disease
far more than genetic risk alone. This is the new era of precision medicine.
Read the full paper in PNAS.
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