Slowing the aging process and preserving our youthfulness should begin as early as possible and not just something that’s addressed later in life.
Although we’d all like to live in a fantasy world and believe that regaining our youth is as simple as drinking a magic potion or slathering on the newest cream, eventually we have to return to reality. There is no magic potion, lotion, cream, drink or gadget that will make the years drop away or take decades off the body.
However, the search for the elusive “fountain of youth” is no longer a fairy tale. Thanks to modern science, we are now aware that the real key to natural and ongoing healing and longevity is to protect the cell’s DNA…specifically the telomeres.
Telomeres
Inside the nucleus of each cell are genes arranges along twisted, double-stranded molecules of DNA called chromosomes. At the end of the chromosomes are stretches of DNA and these are the telomeres (think of the plastic tips on shoelaces).
These act as little caps that keep the sticky ends of chromosomes from randomly clumping together which would inhibit the expression of genetic information.
But, their duties don’t stop there. Along with protecting our genetic data these “caps” make it possible for cells to divide and evidently hold some of the secrets to how we age and get diseases. Each time a cell divides, the telomeres get shorter. This shortening process is associated with aging, cancer, and a high risk of death. It is now thought to be a major key that explains the process of aging but also holds the promise of not just slowing aging but potentially reversing it.
Studies performed at the University of California, San Francisco and the Preventive Medicine Research Institute found that our genes are not our destiny and that lifestyle changes can change how our body ages. This exciting discovery suggests that exercise and healthy eating are the real keys to longevity.
A small study involving 35 men in their 50’s and 60’s, researchers, at the Preventive Medicine Research Institute and the University of California found that the 10 participants who adopted several healthy lifestyle changes for five years experienced a 10 percent lengthening of their cell’s telomeres, indicating that the cells would have a longer lifespan.
Thus it seems that telomere length is considered to be a marker of aging, healing and health and science is now revealing that many types of health problems can also be reversed by restoring and rebuilding your telomeres.
Shortened telomeres force inefficient gene function that locks into place problems involving inflammation and immune cell aging which drive the rate of aging and risk for diseases. In time, your DNA eventually becomes damages beyond your body’s ability to repair it. Once your biological processes fail, you die.
Imagine the real possibility of being able to slow or even stop or reverse the damage done by aging. It would be your own personal magical “fountain of Youth.”
Lifestyle Choices
According to experts, the best anti-aging treatments are indeed our lifestyles. This means that the amount of exercise we get, the foods we eat, and the daily habits we keep are the real contributors.
Poor nutrition, obesity, lack of exercise, stress and insufficient sleep all cause production of free radicals that can significantly speed up the telomere-shortening process leaving us wide open to disease.
Although we can’t see our telomeres, the job of keeping these tiny but powerful entities from being whittled down by lack of exercise, stress, insufficient nutrients and processed foods laden with trans fats and other harmful chemical additives is yours alone.
You and you along have the power to affect the rate of telomere shortening.
Clearly the way to preserve health and lay the foundation for a young body is by protecting your telomeres and the two known strategies for preserving telomere length are exercise and nutrition.
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