Well Spotted
Moles Linked To Delayed Ageing
People with a high number of moles (more than 100) are likely to have relatively slow ageing skin, and now a team of researchers at King's College London has discovered they are also blessed with tougher bones. Their latest research has found that people with more than 100 moles on their bodies are 50% less likely to develop osteoporosis than people with few moles.
Why? It appears that people with large numbers of moles have longer telomeres - the bundles of DNA found at the end of chromosomes in all cells - and telomeres are a good biological indicator of the rate at which we are ageing.
" People (with moles) have a slightly increased risk of melanoma, but they have the benefit of a reduced rate of ageing," says lead researcher Dr Veronique Bataille.
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