Instruct: Identify the main category of Biorxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: Engaging the complexity of diet and healthy aging in humans Little is known about how normal variation in dietary patterns in humans affects the aging process, largely because both nutrition and the physiology of aging are highly complex and multidimensional. Here, we apply the nutritional geometry framework to data from 1560 older adults followed over four years to assess how nutrient intake patterns affect the aging process. Aging was quantified via blood biomarkers integrated to measure loss of homeostasis. Additionally, we extend nutritional geometry to 19 micronutrients. Salient results include benefits of intermediate protein and vitamin E intake. Broadly, we show that there are few simple answers of "good" or "bad" nutrients - optimal levels are generally intermediate, but dependent on other nutrients. Simpler linear/univariate analytical approaches are insufficient to capture such associations. We present an interactive tool to explore the results, and our approach presents a roadmap for future studies to explore the full complexity of the nutrition-aging landscape.

Impact StatementMultidimensional nutritional analyses reveal how the association between diet and healthy aging is hard to untangle, as most nutrients have non-linear and interactive effects in humans.
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The categories of this paper are: molecular
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The categories of this paper are: cancer
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The categories of this paper are: evolutionary
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The categories of this paper are: animal
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The categories of this paper are: immunology
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The categories of this paper are: genetics
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The categories of this paper are: systems
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The categories of this paper are: neuroscience
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The categories of this paper are: synthetic
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The categories of this paper are: developmental
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The categories of this paper are: epidemiology
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The categories of this paper are: cognition
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The categories of this paper are: behavior
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The categories of this paper are: plant
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The categories of this paper are: cell
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The categories of this paper are: paleontology