Are Your Telomeres In Trouble?

Living in the 21st century affords you many luxuries. High-speed computers… cell phones… air conditioning and LCD TVs. But the chemicals and industrial solvents that make them possible are poisonous. We’re now floating in a sea of space-age, lab-created, synthetic molecules. And they’re flowing through your blood as you read this letter. They’re a part of life today, and we now have a new way of measuring their effect. One of the things that happened is the environment is causing your telomeres to shorten. Let me give you the example of the number-one risk factor for heart disease – high homocysteine levels.1 High homocysteine is a way to measure the inflammation that’s going on inside your body that’s being caused by all these foreign substances. High homocysteine then does more damage by blocking blood flow across your body and damaging the lining of your arteries. And most doctors know nothing about another damaging effect of high homocysteine. It shortens your telomeres. High homocysteine in your blood can triple the speed at which your telomeres shorten.2 One of the reasons homocysteine has such a damaging effect on these tiny tips to your DNA is that homocysteine cuts off telomerase. Telomerase is the enzyme your body uses to rebuild the telomere. So the environment is giving you a double whammy. First homocysteine shortens telomeres, then it cuts off the enzyme your body uses to repair the damage. Short telomeres are so prevalent in people with heart di...
Source: Al Sears, MD Natural Remedies - Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Tags: Anti-Aging Heart Health Nutrition DNA heart attack heart disease homocysteine nutrients telomerase telomeres Source Type: news