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7 Responses to “Size Matters: Talking About Telomeres”
Thank you for making a really complicated topic, hilarious! Me love you long time!hahaha So, is this going to get rid of my spots? Or does me working out 5 times a week mean I’m slowing the spots? Or am I just better off now that I found a Sephora in the Chestnut Hill Mall on Sat. (Who knew?) and I’ll just stay on top of good foundations? Oh the agony! You want to join in the bike race with us and keep the telomeres long?:o)
heh heh. You’re welcome. So the spots. Even the geeks who are all up in telomere grill all day refer to finding the mechanism to lengthen telomeres without letting cell growth get out of control as a “hitch” or a “trick” at the moment. So Dr. Lifestyle and Nurse Sephora are your best bets right now.
I’m so annoyed that I forgot to mention the link between weight gain and insulin resistance and telomere shortening! While that study by the AHA and published in “Circulation” is 5 years old now, it’s still recent evidence right down to your DNA strands that extra pounds and unbalanced biochemisty will shorten your lifespan, or the quality of it at least if you do manage to rack up the years.
I’m going to keep digging because I’m intrigued and I can’t wait to see some stuff about bioidentical hormone replacement therapy (hopefully) stabilizing telomeres.
HEATHER, this was amazing. Jodi is right, you took a terribly *yawn* complicated topic and made it so fun to read! Every time I am consumed with thinking about the aesthetic aspects of training (when that rears its ugly head) something like this reminds me that there is SO much more to training than the aesthetic. It is so easy to forget that we really are a bunch of cells, which need to be in balance, and that we need to keep them healthy!
OMgosh, I completely agree! When Jodi told me the title to your post, I said, “I know what a telomere is, it’s a thing, that has an enzyme, and it’s on the end of something, and, well, I know what it is but I can’t tell you.” And now I can tell anyone what it is! Thanks for breaking it down into chewable chunks. But not big chunks of (fruits/vegs)-no TMJ-just long telomeres and gorgeous skin. haha!
OMGoodness I love you!LOL
Thank you for making a really complicated topic, hilarious! Me love you long time!hahaha So, is this going to get rid of my spots? Or does me working out 5 times a week mean I’m slowing the spots? Or am I just better off now that I found a Sephora in the Chestnut Hill Mall on Sat. (Who knew?) and I’ll just stay on top of good foundations? Oh the agony! You want to join in the bike race with us and keep the telomeres long?:o)
I’m so annoyed that I forgot to mention the link between weight gain and insulin resistance and telomere shortening! While that study by the AHA and published in “Circulation” is 5 years old now, it’s still recent evidence right down to your DNA strands that extra pounds and unbalanced biochemisty will shorten your lifespan, or the quality of it at least if you do manage to rack up the years.
I’m going to keep digging because I’m intrigued and I can’t wait to see some stuff about bioidentical hormone replacement therapy (hopefully) stabilizing telomeres.
HEATHER, this was amazing. Jodi is right, you took a terribly *yawn* complicated topic and made it so fun to read! Every time I am consumed with thinking about the aesthetic aspects of training (when that rears its ugly head) something like this reminds me that there is SO much more to training than the aesthetic. It is so easy to forget that we really are a bunch of cells, which need to be in balance, and that we need to keep them healthy!
OMgosh, I completely agree! When Jodi told me the title to your post, I said, “I know what a telomere is, it’s a thing, that has an enzyme, and it’s on the end of something, and, well, I know what it is but I can’t tell you.” And now I can tell anyone what it is! Thanks for breaking it down into chewable chunks. But not big chunks of (fruits/vegs)-no TMJ-just long telomeres and gorgeous skin. haha!
Another fabulous post Heather.
Who knew? But chalk another one up for exercise, clean eating, and an healthy dose of Vitamin D!
Thanks, Heather!
PLEASE put whatever you learn about bio-hormones on. I’ll sell my leg for that info! And anything you learn about joint health, too. I creak alot…;o)
Ok Ok, I just wrote a post and put something in it I want her to blog about. Get in line, will ya! Geesh!