Diet Coke is my coffee - has been for years.
I’m probably a dead woman walking.
No worries. Buried far from the lede is this gem:
Researchers also looked at the effects of diet soda and fruit juice on telomeres; while "100 percent fruit juice was marginally associated with longer telomeres," they write in the American Journal of Public Health, diet sodas and non-carbonated "sugar-sweetened beverages" weren't associated with telomere length.