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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Science
Nicola Davis Science Correspondent

Taking multivitamin daily could help to slow biological ageing, study suggests

A customer inspects rows of multivitamins in a Holland and Barrett shop in London
Participants who took a multivitamin each day for two years showed a slowdown in two of five markers, compared with those who took a placebo. Photograph: Alex Segre/Alamy

Taking a multivitamin every day for two years appears to slow some markers of biological ageing – albeit to a small degree, research suggests.

While chronological age is based on how long a person has lived, biological age reflects the state of the body. Estimates of the latter are often based on changes in patterns of DNA methylation – modifications to DNA that accumulate with age and affect how genes function.

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