Co-founder of the mission, Professor Denis Noble acknowledged the significance of sleep.

"Autophagy is the body's in-built cellular waste removal system that slows down the rate at which we age," he started.

"This activity gets less as we get older but everyone can do something simple to activate autophagy-fasting."

Professor Noble revealed: "The simple solution is to get more sleep because when we sleep, we are also inadvertently fasting."

Another tip, this time from fellow co-founder of The Oxford Longevity Project Leslie Kenny, is to "begin squatting".

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Kenny defined: "Good balance is so important... muscle mass decreases around one percent per year by the time we reach middle age.

"[There are] extra dramatic losses of as much as 50 % by the point we're in our 70s and 80s."

Kenny added: "Age-related lack of skeletal muscle mass and performance, sarcopenia, is related to bodily frailty and elevated threat of morbidity."

Thus, the extra an individual maintains their muscular tissues, the decrease the chance of osteoporosis, later life immobility, and fractures from falls.

"We all know the way severe a hip fracture may be in older age!" Kenny stated.

The expert said: "A quite simple train we will do is definitely apply getting up and down off the ground commonly to construct decrease physique power and refine our stability.

"One study actually found that having the balance to sit and rise is actually a predictor of mortality."

Dr Sandra Kaufmann, a scientific advisor to Oxford Healthspan, really useful spermidine.

Dr Kaufmann mentioned: "Intake of dietary spermidine, a compound found in breastmilk and semen, inversely correlates with the incidence of cardiovascular disease and death."

Citing analysis, Dr Kaufmann added: "There's a great study that looked at the Bruneck cohort, which is a sample of 1,000 sample men and women ending in 2018, and they demonstrated that the more spermidine you have, the less cardiovascular illness you will have as nicely.

"There was additionally a cross-sectional examine of 48 Western nations that once more cited the identical findings."

The easiest way to introduce spermidine into your diet is through shitake mushrooms or a supplement.