Red wine and chocolate are secret to beating wrinkles, study says

The secret to youth is eating chocolate and drinking red wine, a study suggests.
Lab researchers found both helped to rejuvenate old cells, making them look younger and start to behave more like young cells.
When people age and wrinkle, the strands of DNA in cells gradually lose the protective telomeres that act like the plastic tips at the end of shoelaces.

The result is that cells gradually become less able to repair themselves.
The Exeter and Brighton universities team applied compounds based on chemicals found in red wine, dark chocolate, red grapes and blueberries to cells.
Within hours, the older cells started to divide and had longer telomeres.
Exeter’s Dr. Eva Latorre said: “When I saw some of the cells rejuvenating I could not believe it.
“These old cells were looking like young cells. It was like magic.”
Brighton’s Prof Lorna Harries said: “Our data suggest that using chemicals to switch back on genes switched off as we age might provide a means to restore function to old cells.
“This is a first step in trying to make people live normal lifespans, but with health for their entire life.”
The research was published in the journal BMJ Cell Biology.

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