Ingesting antioxidents or raising the human body's ability to produce them may be the key to longer life.
Mice engineered to produce high levels of an antioxidant enzyme lived 20% longer and had less heart and other age-related diseases, they found.
If the same is true in humans, people could live beyond 100 years.
The University of Washington work in Science Express backs the idea that high reactive oxygen molecules, called free-radicals, cause ageing.
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