
The Telomere Effect

To an extent that has surprised us and the rest of the scientific community, telomeres do not simply carry out the commands issued by your genetic code. Your telomeres, it turns out, are listening to you. They absorb the instructions you give them. The way you live can, in effect, tell your telomeres to speed up the process of cellular aging. But
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We’re going to show you a completely different way of thinking about your health. We are going to take your health down to the cellular level, to show you what premature cellular aging looks like and what kind of havoc it wreaks on your body—and we’ll also show you not only how to avoid it but also how to reverse it. We’ll dive deep into the
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Here you will find a new way of thinking about human aging. One current, predominant, scientific view of human aging is that the DNA of our cells becomes progressively damaged, causing cells to become irreversibly aged and dysfunctional. But which DNA is damaged? Why did it become damaged? The full answers aren’t known yet, but the clues are now
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