How fast you age, or what chronic disease you eventually get is a depends on your mitochondrial heteroplasmy (rate of accumulation of mitochondrial DNA mutations)

Optimal lifestyle practices reduce mitochondrial heteroplasmy and therefore compress morbidity & postpone death

Key among them is strict circadian rhythm, which produces melatonin, guardian of mitochondrial genome & regulator of apoptosis & autophagy

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