Can coconut fat keep brains from aging too fast?

Mice placed on a high-fat diet appear to fight off symptoms of aging that affect the brain.

The mice had a defect in their DNA repair system. In humans, this defect causes the disorder Cockayne syndrome, where patients prematurely age as children and die at an age of 10-12 years.

by Gitte Frandsen

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