A study found a positive association between red meat consumption and telomere length.

“the red meat in telomeres is quite interesting because red meat I think was the only thing that lengthened telomeres that we know of if you look at that study they say the only thing that did this was red meat they were not aware of anything else that can do that so perhaps there's other things out there but I've never seen anything else have that result it's quite a unique finding for telomeres”

“red meat actually studies it I mean if people go online and google that right now red meat see linear lengthening they'll find it in an instant”

“if red meat were affecting longevity then why do we see studies like this one which associate the consumption of red meat with increased telomere length the study name of the study is the relationship between peripheral blood mononuclear cells telomere length and diet unexpected effect of red meat you can look that up at the conclusions there was an unexpected correlation of telomere length with the frequency of consumption of red meat”

“what we're seeing here is a really fascinating association are telomeres the best indication of longevity no probably something like clock genes are uh epigenetic indicators epigenetic clocks are i would love to see a study looking at red meat consumption and epigenetic clocks uh epigenetic markers of human longevity or dna age but at least in terms of telomeres which was one of the best markers we had at the time when that was done there's an association positively the more red me people eat the longer their telomeres are”