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The secret to longevity? Ask a yellow-bellied marmot
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March 09 -- What if you were told there was a completely natural way to stop your body from aging? The trick: You'd have to hibernate from September to May each year. That's what a team of UCLA biologists and colleagues studying yellow-bellied marmots discovered. These large ground squirrels are abl
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