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"Eat your vitamins" might be replaced with "ingest your ceramic nano-particles”.
Nanoscopic particles could help protect cells from common causes of damage.
Oxidative stress plays a role in ageing & conditions like heart failure, muscle atrophy & Parkinson's.
Vitamins rich diet avoids oxidative stress but nanoparticles are showing promising results too.
There's more oxidative stress in space - nanoparticles' protective effect was tested in International Space Station.
Muscle cells flew to the Space Station & cultured in ESA's Kubik incubator before being frozen for storage.
"The effect we observed seems to imply that nanoparticles work better and longer than traditional antioxidants such as vitamins." - Gianni Ciofani, IIT.
Mode of administration, side effects and for how long effects last are questions still being researched.
Research by Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) published in Nanomedicine.
