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Evening Standard
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Beril Naz Hassan

How to live beyond 100: Researchers think they have found the secret

Many people dream of living to a ripe old age — and a group of researchers at the University of Copenhagen might have finally cracked the code.

The scientists at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research studied 176 centenarians from Japan to see what they had in common, that may have allowed them to live for more than a century. Their findings revealed that they shared a “unique” combination of gut bacteria.

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