http://www.kcl.ac.uk...nst-ageing.aspx
"Scientists at King’s College London have found that people who have previously suffered from acne are likely to have longer telomeres (the protective repeated nucleotides found at the end of chromosomes) in their white blood cells, meaning their cells could be better protected against ageing."
"Statistical analyses which adjusted for age, relatedness, weight and height showed that telomere length in acne sufferers was significantly longer"
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I guess its only a matter of time before a supplement company produces a pill that gives you acne.
Seriously though, I would like to discuss this new finding a bit.
Several years ago scientists were stumped. While studying the grapevine genome they discovered that somehow a similar bacteria responsible for acne in humans hopped on over to the grapevine and it is now found in vines worldwide. They suspect that sometime 7 or so thousand years ago, while pruning it jumped from the hands of the human and into the vine. These type of hops (from human to plant) are rare events.
http://www.nature.co...acteria-1.14812
Another paper showed that resveratrol helps inhibit acne http://link.springer...3555-014-0063-0 a good write up on the above paper can be found at http://dermatologytimes.modernmedicine.com/dermatology-times/news/resveratrol-inhibits-growth-acne-causing-bacteria
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So lets sum up some of the findings in four different papers all within 3 years:
1. Acne bacteria closely related to the same bacteria found in humans hops over to the grapevine, a rare event.
2. Resveratrol especially when combined with enzoyl peroxide inhibits acne.
3. Resveratrol activates Sirt1 and telomerase https://www.ncbi.nlm...pubmed/23293221
4. Acne Sufferers are found to have longer telomeres
It could be that all of the above are unrelated. However, I suspect there is more at play here.
When I discovered years ago that at one point in history, right about when humans started cultivating grapes, there was a trend that involved consuming off a vine directly. Not long after the vine especially the leaf came to be known as the tree of life. I wrote a paper presenting countless circumstantial pieces of evidence as to how and why this is possible, you can read more on that here: http://www.longecity...ould-happen-if/
The bacteria that jumped could very well have happened during those encounters of people eating directing off the vine. If the article in nature it ends with:
"The authors speculate that P. Zappae could have helped with the domestication of grapevines by providing some as-yet-unknown advantage over wild plants not carrying the symbiont."
Indeed they are correct, the word "advantage" being the understatement on that article.
Please read the post above to learn more as to why this all matters and hopefully soon enough someone will put this hypotheses to test.
