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Speaker 1: New research out this morning suggests daily multi vitamins could

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Speaker 1: slow biological aging. So this trial found older adults on

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Speaker 1: multi vitamin showed slower changes to the DNA based epigenetic clock.

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Speaker 1: Now least attemiding It is a professor at the Center

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Speaker 1: for Public Health Research and Nutrition at MASSY and as

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Speaker 1: will this least a morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, This makes sense, I guess. So it's adding

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Speaker 2: to a small but growing body of intri of research

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Speaker 2: suggesting that there's some value in multi vitamins.

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Speaker 1: My argument, My argument would be that if it counterbalances

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Speaker 1: things that you aren't getting throughout your life, then that

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Speaker 1: will inevitably help you. That It makes sense, wouldn't it.

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Speaker 2: It makes sense. But it's not a magic pill that's

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Speaker 2: going to mean that you don't have to eat your

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Speaker 2: vegetables and do all those other things that we say

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Speaker 2: are healthy, and you probably won't notice the effects. The

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Speaker 2: effects so far are really tiny and also only changing

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Speaker 2: markers of health risk. There's no evidence yet that it

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Speaker 2: actually helps you live longer. It's just changing things that

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Speaker 2: we think are associated with living longer. So it's pretty preliminary, right, And.

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Speaker 1: So this is where we're into this longevity space, and

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Speaker 1: the world's fascinated by this at the moment. If you

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Speaker 1: went further in the sort of research and you looked

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Speaker 1: at people not on multi's but on specific targeted vitamins

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Speaker 1: to replace things they weren't getting, is there a rich

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Speaker 1: vein of research there to be had?

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Speaker 2: You know, I think we've been trying to do these.

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Speaker 2: We've been trying to find the magic pill and the

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Speaker 2: magic diet for decades, and you know, mostly this sort

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Speaker 2: of research doesn't pan out to show really major and

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Speaker 2: important effects. So all of it combines to show that

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Speaker 2: eating well, making sure you have lots of vitamins and

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Speaker 2: minerals that are important as good. That we haven't found

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Speaker 2: the magic pill.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but the problem with vitamins and minerals and all

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Speaker 1: of that sort of stuff is, and we know this

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Speaker 1: is why we have an obesity epidemic, is most people

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Speaker 1: don't know what they're eating or don't care or accommodation

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Speaker 1: of both sot right.

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Speaker 2: They afford it, well, it could, but vitamins are still

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Speaker 2: quite expensive, aren't they. So what would be good is

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Speaker 2: if you know, we could all afford to eat healthy

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Speaker 2: fruits and vegetables and lean meats, and whole grains and

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Speaker 2: all of those things. These these multi vitamins aren't particularly

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Speaker 2: cheap either, and the formulations that you buy in the supermarket,

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Speaker 2: they're all different. If you look at the backs of

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Speaker 2: the bottles, they're all slightly different. So we don't really

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Speaker 2: know what we're getting, and we don't know for sure

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Speaker 2: what they're doing.

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Speaker 1: All right, appreciate at least at Leasta timiding. I don't

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Speaker 1: think it was a cost thing that the research did.

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Speaker 1: It was whether they were effective or not. For more

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