The Key To Longevity - Baby Face

So now finally there’s a good reason to be happy if you have baby face. Apparently there is research data indicating that baby face adults equate to longer life span. I wonder what other benefits researches may uncover in the future on those adults with baby face.

Interestingly Danish researchers reported in their findings the key to longevity on those baby face folks is most probably due to longer telomere, a key DNA component that affects the rate of aging. A telomere is part of the DNA that protects the cell from degradation and deterioration during cell replication.

The telomere allows the cell to replicate successfully through the process of what is known as cell division and this process helps to reduce the possibility of any anomalies arising out from the cell replication. Abnormal or incomplete cell and DNA replication may eventually leads to uncontrollable tumor growth such as cancer.

Cell division better known as ‘mitosis’ occurs throughout lifetime. Cell division is necessary to replace dead cells and it is what causes us to grow in lifetime. Cells are genetically program by the DNA to terminate after certain period of time so as to make way for new cells to replace those that are damaged. Shorter telomere may cause changes to the DNA that will prevent damaged cell from dying naturally.

Genetic DNA research indicates the telomere gets shorter and shorter during each cell division and eventually the cell division and replication stops when the telomere depletes. This phenomenon explains why there is limitation to how many times a cell can divide and replicate. Shorten telomere is one of the major causes of health deterioration and aging.

Apart from gene, external environmental factors such as pollution and stress affects how far we are able to hang on in life. The way I see it, it's kind of premature to conclude that baby face adults will indeed have longer life span as there are many other factors which determines one's health.

Perhaps it is not the outward physical appearance that determine how long one live but rather living a healthy lifestyle improve one's physical appearance thus making seems as though those with pleasant disposition and wellbeing lives longer.

http://www.madeformums.com/its-amazing/people-with-a-baby-face-may-live-longer/4466.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8411329.stm
http://www.nhs.uk/news/2009/12December/Pages/Do-baby-faces-live-longer.aspx