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Extra-Virgin Olive Oil: The Small Daily Habit That Helps You Age Better

Why extra-virgin olive oil is such a strong health investment - and roughly how much you need for it to really count.

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Ben Jones MD PhD
Feb 28, 2026
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A photograph of olive oil being poured into a cast iron pan on a stovetop. Overlaid text reads, 'The daily habit that helps you age better.'

If a drug lowered your risk of dying early, cut your chances of a heart attack, helped protect against type 2 diabetes, and nudged dementia risk in the right direction, every doctor’s surgery in the world would have a poster about it. It would be on prescription. It would probably cost a fortune.

And yet there’s something exactly like that - but it’s not…

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