Supercentenarian gives insight on secrets https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09/24/three-yogurts-a-day/ Tests on Maria Branyas Morera, who was world’s oldest person aged 117, gave doctors a trove of discoveries https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/sep/24/supercentenarian-gives-scientists-insight-on-secrets-of-healthy-old-age Her gut microbiome was also very young for her age with plenty of Bifidobacterium https://edition.cnn.com/2025/09/26/health/maria-branyas-morera-study-genes-intl-scli-wellness Interestingly, scientists noticed a "huge erosion" in Branyas' telomeres – the caps at the ends of her chromosomes. Telomeres protect our genetic material, and shorter ones are linked to a higher risk of death. Recent studies, however, suggest that among the oldest of the old, telomeres are not actually a useful biomarker of aging. In fact, having very short telomeres may have provided Branyas with an advantage. Hypothetically speaking, write the authors, the short lifespan of her body's cells may have stopped cancer from ever proliferating https://www.sciencealert.com/dna-study-of-117-year-old-woman-reveals-clues-to-a-long-life