Say thanks to your Telomerase if you look younger than your age naturally!!!

Did you know that people who look younger than their age also live a longer and healthy life that those who look older than their years ? It's true!

You already know that your cells reproduce by dividing in two. From the moment of conception until the final minutes of life, the trillions of cells in your body are regenerating through this process. Over the course of your early years, your cells continue to divide at will with little change in overall health and longevity. This is how the growth process unfolds: Your body is constantly rebuilding, repairing and renewing itself.

The prestigious journal Nature published a groundbreaking article in 1990 that introduced the world to an explanation of the genetic mechanism that involves something called the "Telomere". 

Telomeres and Telomerase

Telomeres are the special structures that prevent the continous loss of DNA at the end of the chromosomes during the course of replication and telomerase is the enzyme that adds the telomeric repeats to the end of your DNA . Telomere is also your biological clock. Each time your cells divide, a small end portion of the telomere is not copied making your telomeres shorter and shorter overtime.
https://www.tasciences.com/what-is-a-telomere/ 

As they shorten with each new division, they cause the chromosomes to fold differently exposing a diffrernt portion of your genome.This is how you can be so different at 72 than you were at 2. This process eventually signals to your cells to "grow old" and stop dividing and that cell line dies off.

Nutritional affects to grow younger

A growing body of research is showing that  certain Nutrients play a huge role in protecting or even increasing, telomere length, thereby affecting longevity.

Researches also found that women who use vitamin b12 supplements have longer telomeres than those who don't. Vitamin D3, Zinc , iron, omega-3 fatty acids, and vitamin C and E also influence telomere length. 

Top 12 anti-aging nutrients

1. Vitamin D
2. Astaxanthin
3. Ubiquinol ( CoQ10)
4.  Fermented foods/probiotics
5. Krill Oil
6. Vitamin K2
7. Magnesium
8. Polyphenols ( Grapes, Cacao, Green tea)
9. Folate ( aka Vitamin B9, Or Folic acid)
10. Vitamin B12
11. Curcumin ( Turmeric)
12. Vitamin A

https://foodandnutrition.org/blogs/stone-soup/protecting-telomeres-right-food/ 

 

https://www.livestrong.com/article/506649-foods-that-boost-telomeres-telomerase/ 

Telomerase as a useful target in cancer fighting

Telomerase was a relevant factor that distinguishes cancer from normal cells. It appeared that its expression and activity is not only limited to cancer cells however, but in this particular cells, the telomerase is much more adundant. Thus, it has become a very-promising target for an anti-cancer therapy. Telomerase is one of the crucial factor to study in oder to improve the cancer diagnostics and therapy or prevention.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3370415/

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/04/170403083123.htm

https://www.fitnessmagazine.com/weight-loss/plans/anti-aging/the-best-anti-aging-foods/ 

https://www.livestrong.com/slideshow/545202-20-anti-aging-foods/