<br /> Aging is largely your chromosomes' fault. That’s what Nobel-prize winning biologist Elizabeth Blackburn discovered when she started exploring the world of the invisible, threadlike cellular strands that carry our genetic code. Blackburn said in an April 2017 TED talk, “It’s the over-shortening of telomeres that leads us to feel and see signs of aging,” "It sends a signal. Time to die." Here are a few things Blackburn suggests anyone can do to keep their telomeres long. <br />
