Why Do Our Bodies Age?
For thousands of years famous explorers have searched to find the solution to stop or reverse the aging process. Today people turn to harsh treatments like chemical peels and Botox injections. But not any of those solutions are solutions to the core problem. Our cells divide every day and the new cells’ DNA does not get a perfect copy.So the core problem is that our CELLS age. The most obvious aging of our cells that we see is in our skin as we develop wrinkles, age spots, dryness, discoloring and more. In every cell we have our chromosomes and the end caps ...
Violence Causes Aging
A new study suggests that being exposed to violence causes us to age faster than normal. In a recent study scientist measured the Telomeres of children under the age of 10 who are subjects to domestic violence, physical maltreatment by an adult or bullying. The kids who were exposed to such types of violence were showing a faster shortening of Telomeres and with that a more rapid aging process. Shale, a post-doctoral researcher at Duke Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy in Durham, N.C. says that unless there is a significant change in these children's life's to non-violence ...
Stress related Diseases shorten Telomeres
Most recent research is indicating that Stress is having an impact on our Aging process. It not only affects our hormonal balance and with that which organs in the body are being turned on or off. When we are in stress we are in a fight or flight mode which means that a lot of body functions, such as digestion and metabolism is put on the side burner. Our eyes, dilate, blood pressure goes up, heart is beating faster and we breath heavier and more rapidly. Now scientists are finding some effects that are not so obvious but ...
The Search for Links Between Telomeres and Anti-Aging
Since telomeres were discovered and the mechanism behind them elucidated during the 1970s, there has now emerged the question of the relationship between telomeres and anti-aging. Before discerning the relationship between telomeres and anti-aging, let us take a look at what telomeres are. Telomeres are repetitive DNA strands found in tail ends of chromosomes. Telomeres are the ultimate arbiters of whether a cell will continue dividing or not: as long as the telomeres of a cell are long enough, the cell can still divide, but for each division, the telomeres get shorter. The telomere will shorten to the extent that the ...
The Benefits of Why We Should Continue Telomere Research
Telomere research is a very integral segment of cell physiology. Telomeres are repetitive sequences of DNA found at the tip of a chromosome. In 1970, a Russian scientist Alexei Olovnikov first noticed that the tips of chromosomes do not divide at all, and so he then suggested that whenever a cell divides, some parts of that "tip" shed off, until the loss is so substantial such that the cell cannot divide any further, and so dies. A little while later, Elizabeth Blackburn, while doing postdoctoral studies at Yale, determines that these telomeres are repetitive DNA sequences at chromosome tips. The ...
Telomere Products and What They Can Mean for Your Life
An exciting team of Noble Prize winning scientists have made telomeres popular. They have even brought about a bit of authenticity to the link between telomeres and anti-aging. One of the ingredients discovered is called teprenone, which people are using in different anti-aging lotions and skin care products. It is also sometimes called Renovage. So, why are telomeres important and how do they work, and what can the latest telomere products do for us? I always think it's important to explain it in the most basic way possible. Let's just break it down like this. Telomeres are on the end of ...
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Test- How Much Longer Will You Live
Many aspects cause the body to age including lifestyle, nutrition, environment and genes. Essentially looking at the length of someone’s Telomeres they know whether one has become biologically younger or older than other’s born at around the same time.
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Reverse Aging
Premature aging can be reversed by reactivating an enzyme that protects the tips of chromosomes, as a study in mice suggests.
Mice were engineered to lack the enzyme telomerase and were shown to become prematurely decrepit. However, they bounced back to health when the enzyme was replaced. The finding, published online in “Nature”, hints that some disorders, characterized by early aging could be treated by boosting telomerase activity.
It also offers the possibility that normal human aging could be slowed by reawakening the enzyme in cells where it has stopped working, says Ronald DePinho, a cancer geneticist at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, who led the new study. “This has implications for thinking about telomerase as a serious anti-aging intervention.
With the discovery of Telomerase scientists are now seeing that growing younger is a real possibility. We all have the gene to produce telomerase but it is switched off like a light bulb. They were exploring the possibility of inserting a gene for telomerase into cells that were aging or creating a drug that would turn on the telomerase gene. Then they found a natural chinese compound that appears to turn on the gene.
It is an ancient herb that grows in temperate northern climates. This herb is called Astralagus. It contains a small amount of a molecule throws on the switch and the telomerase gene kicks on. The problem is that you can not just take the herb, eat it and stop aging. In order for it to work you need very large amounts and a specific process to extract the molecule that turns on the switch. It needs to be pure, free of toxins and be from only a certain species of the plant.
Dr Bill Andrews is the top researcher on the topic of Antiaging in the world at this point. Whenever you hear him speak or read articles with him about Aging you will hear him say- “Bad things happen when Telomeres get short”. What does that mean and what does that have to do with our Aging process?
Is Aging a Disease and Is It Curable?
It seems that since the beginning of time there has been a search for the fountain of youth, the secret Elixir to staying young forever. Many scientists, religious leaders and cults have gone far to find this secret and many believed to have found. Is there such a secret Elixir or not?
Fist, we have to understand what Aging really is. Some say it is a disease and others say it is just normal since human beings have always aged for as far as one can go back. But if we originate to the single cell that was the first living organism, which did not age and could divide and live indefinitely then should we not have the same life expectancy?
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Why Do Our Bodies Age?
For thousands of years famous explorers have searched to find the solution to stop or reverse the aging process. Today people turn to harsh treatments like chemical peels and Botox injections. But not any of those solutions are solutions to the core problem.
Our cells divide every day and the new cells’ DNA does not get a perfect copy.So the core problem is that our CELLS age. The most obvious aging of our cells that we see is in our skin as we develop wrinkles, age spots, dryness, discoloring and more.
In every cell we have our chromosomes and the end caps of those are called Telomeres. Every time our cells divide, those Telomeres get shorter. This is a protection mechanism to keep most of the DNA coding, on the inside of the chromosome, intact. However, that shortening of the Telomeres is the core reason WHY our BODIES AGE.