Nutrition Strategies Promoting Healthy Aging: From Improvement of Cardiovascular and Brain Health to Prevention of Age-Associated Diseases.

ABSTRACT:

Background

An increasing number of studies suggest that diet plays an important role in regulating aging processes and modulates the development of the most important age-related diseases.

Objective

The aim of this review is to provide an overview of the relationship between nutrition and critical age-associated diseases.

Methods

A literature review was conducted to survey recent pre-clinical and clinical findings related to the role of nutritional factors in modulation of fundamental cellular and molecular mechanisms of aging and their role in prevention of the genesis of the diseases of aging.

Results

Studies show that the development of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, neurodegenerative diseases, cognitive impairment and dementia can be slowed do

SUBMITTER: Fekete M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9824801 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature