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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Bradley Jolly

The secret to living to 100 may already be lurking inside you, new study reveals

The secret to living to 100 is all about your gut, a new study has found.

Specific viruses in the intestines can have a beneficial effect on the intestinal flora and therefore on our health, researchers at the University of Copenhagen discovered.

They studied 176 centenarians from Japan and found they had a "unique" combination of gut bacteria.

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