According to Dr. Edmund Chein, head of the Life Extension Institute in Palm Springs, California, we age because parts of our DNA get shorter and shorter. However, he has discovered that bioidentical hormone therapy can stop and possibly even reverse the aging process. Here, he discusses why we age.
We age because the telomere on our DNA, that portion of human DNA that controls lifespan in cells, gets shorter and shorter shorter and shorter. Why? Because the telomerase, or enzyme that keeps the telomere healthy, does not repair it. Why not? Because as we get older our bioidentical hormones drop, and that causes aging.
In order not to age, we have to reverse the process. Some signs of aging that we can see are wrinkling. The human cells on our body are dying. Our heart cells are dying so our blood vessels die and we get high blood pressure; our brain cells die which is why we get Alzheimer’s disease; our lymphocytes die which is why we get cancer.
So the signs of aging are diseases that are the result of various cells in our body which are dying. The more diseases you have, the more signs you have that you are aging. Of course small children get diseases, too, but they are either genetic or infectious, not related to aging.
Hormone Levels Drop
In the past, scientists believed that our hormone levels dropped because we aged. Today we know that the converse is true: We age because our hormone levels drop.
We know that maintaining hormone levels can prevent age-related diseases and turn back our biological age, thereby increasing our health span and life expectancy. Most of all, it improves our quality of life by bringing our hormone levels up to those of a young adult.
The cells of our bodies reproduce every several months or years, depending on what type of cells they are. But the young cells do not keep us young. A wrinkled mother skin cell will produce a wrinkled daughter skin cell.
How do these cells know our biological age? The information about our biological age is communicated to the DNA by hormones. As hormone levels in the body decrease, less hormone is attached to the cell wall, and a weaker electrical signal is given to the DNA of the reproducing mother cell.
This is the signal that tells the DNA that our body has aged. Therefore, the daughter cells will be reproduced in the old or diseased state of the mother cells.
By increasing the hormone level, the DNA of the mother cell can be signaled to work again. Once the DNA receives the signal that the body is that of a 20-year-old, it will reproduce young, healthy daughter cells, and these cells will reverse our biological age.
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