University of Manchester scientists, part of a global team led by Stanford University, have uncovered a remarkable link between where you live and how quickly your body ages.
Publishing in one of the world’s leading scientific journals Cell, the researchers analysed 322 healthy people from Europe, East Asia and South Asia to build the most detailed picture yet of how genetic ancestry and environment shape our biology.
They used a sweeping “multiomics” approach, measuring everything from genes and proteins to gut bacteria, metabolic chemicals and metals to understand how ethnicity and geography shape our biology.