Vitamin D supplements may slow aging: Study

Vitamin D does many wonders for the human body, and now, supplements have added one more.

According to findings published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition earlier this week, vitamin D supplements, across a four-year study, slowed the shortening of telomeres, the protective caps at the end of chromosomes that shrink as one ages.

“The finding that these telomeres seem to be protected against shortening, and that their length was being preserved by vitamin D supplementation...