What Are Telomeres & Why They Are Important in Anti-Aging – Dr.Berg on Telomeres and Aging

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so today the topic is telomeres I’m gonna try to break this down in real simple terms so you can really get it so telomere would be compared to the end of a shoe string that little plastic protective thing that protects against frank so if we compare the shoe string to a telomere the telomere is the end part of the shoe string it’s the DNA structure at the end of chromosomes you can look at a chromosome as the entire DNA strand okay with everything connected to it so you have the DNA which is the blueprints and basically DNA are sections of genes but the entire collective chain of DNA is the chromosome so telomere is basically a DNA structure at the end of chromosomes that shorten with each division so I’m gonna give you another analogy let’s say for example I’m gonna copy you okay with a little scanner and I have to grab onto your arm or your wrist to copy you so I scan your entire body okay it makes a copy of you similar to what’s happening in the body you’re constantly making copies of the DNA but the problem is I can’t scan backwards and part of your wrist in hand is not being copied so I make a copy but the copy is going to be just a little shorter than the actual body because I’m holding the wrist and hand so then I’m gonna make a copy of the copy I’m gonna grab the wrist scan again and I’m gonna keep doing this over and over and over every time it divides okay these telomeres are gonna get shorter and shorter and shorter and shorter because part of the copy mechanism has to attach to the telomere now one thing about a telomere is is part of what’s called junk DNA and I’m gonna do a separate video on junk DNA but junk DNA is not non-functional it has a purpose but realize this out of all of your DNA only 5% is responsible for making your tissue to make proteins the rest is considered junk DNA but it does have a purpose the telomere is part of that junk DNA so telomeres basically protect the ends of chromosomes the Greek word for Telos means end and morose means part so it’s the end part and they found it’s related to your lifespan there’s actually a rare genetic to with certain children that are basically born old and they have a body of a seven-year-old and when they tested them they had very short telomeres so over time when your DNA keeps dividing over and over the telomeres shorten and you get less gene expression which basically means you’re getting less activation of certain genes especially related to repair so when you’re very young your DNA inside your cells have a huge capacity to keep up with the damage when you’re older okay because you have less telomeres you basically have a hard time keeping up with a repair and that’s how it relates to aging now how do you explain cancer cells that can live forever well they produce an enzyme called telomerase which can counter this shortening effect so a telomerase is an enzyme that allows for the replacement of these short bits of DNA in fact in the 50s there was this lady who had cervical cancer and they extracted this cervical cancer and they started to reproduce these cells okay out of her body over and over and over over a period of decades okay and that cancer was able to reproduce 20 tons of cancer cells I think about it one ton is 2,000 pounds so that’s just an example of what happens with cancer cells that keep dividing and they just take over the body now you’re gonna see a lot of research coming up in the next 5-10 years on this enzyme now there are some research studies going on right now in humans they’ve been doing research on bacteria yeast and animals but now they’re gonna actually start doing it in humans and so it should be quite interesting what we do know right now is there is a plant called astragalus that has the ability to boost telomerase and it seems like it has some interesting properties anti-aging properties increasing your immune system decreasing your frequency of eating sick improving your sleep increasing your memory so the studies right now are inconclusive so if you go out and get this product I have no idea if it’s going to extend your life even by one day now what I’m interested in is taking the top reasons why people die heart attacks stroke kidney failure cancer lung disease and then teaching you what you can do to take your weak link and strengthen it because if we can actually eliminate the top reasons why people die you’re going to live longer regardless of your telomeres now in a lot of videos that I’ve done before I relate a lot of the reasons why people die to high insulin okay and high carbohydrate diets and this is why if you’re new to my channel you need to learn more about it so I put a link down below you need to do healthy keto and in a minute fasting to take that weak link whether it’s your heart or your immune system or your kidney and make it stronger so you actually can extend your life alright thanks for watching if you’re liking this content please subscribe now and I will actually keep you 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