Vegan diet can change inflammation, improve how body ages, UCSD study finds

Switching to a vegan diet, even for a month, can physically alter the body’s inflammation and aging markers, according to a report released from UC San Diego researchers. A UCSD team was joined by researchers from University of Freiburg in Germany to run a randomized clinical trial. Participants were assigned either a vegan diet or a meat-rich diet. Those who went vegan showed changes in DNA methylation, a biological process that regulates whether genes are more or less active, that wer...