14 DAY TRIAL // Some people age like wine and others age like milk, popular wisdom tells us.
According to scientists at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing in Germany, this doesn't necessarily happen because some people take better care of themselves than others do.
On the contrary, it appears that a person's genetic makeup also influences their aging rate and contributes to the fact that, in some cases, one too many birthdays greatly alter physical appearance.
The researchers maintain that, according to their investigations into the matter at hand, a certain set of genetic mutations passed on from mothers to their offspring speed up the aging process and eventually translate into a shorter lifespan.
“Our mother's mitochondrial DNA [mDNA] seems to influence our own aging. If we inherit mDNA with mutations from our mother, we age more quickly,” researcher Dr. Nils-Goran Larsson says, as cited by Huffington Post.
Well, at least now people who get wrinkles while they are still in their 30s know whom to blame.