Anti Aging Vitamins & Telomerase
My Dad never looked his age. He married a woman sixteen years younger, but no one would have thought he was so much older. Was it genetics? Or good nutrition, that made Dad stay young?
He insisted on natural foods, what today we would call organic. He always put real maple syrup on his pancakes, not that corn syrup, artificially colored stuff.
Also, Dad always took vitamins, long before it was popular.
When I was a little girl, Dad took me downtown to an awful smelly vitamin factory. There he placed an order for exactly what he wanted us all to have in a vitamin. They were gigantic red vitamins. I used to call them footballs.Dad made sure each of us took one every day. That was in the 50s.
Here we are nearly sixty years later, and finally they are understanding why vitamins are important for all of us to take.
Read through the article below and you will see what science has discovered regarding aging and vitamins. If you don't take a daily multi-vitamin, you may now realize it can be a better investment than health insurance, which most Americans don't have and can't afford.
And if your doctor does not recommend vitamins, please share this with him!
New Study: Vitamins Alter Aging
The next time you hear some nay-saying doctor claiming that there is no evidence that vitamins actually do anything show him this:
A new study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that multivitamins can keep you younger, longer. It shows that people who take a daily multivitamin had younger DNA.
The study found that those who took a multivitamin daily had 5.1 percent longer telomeres than non-users.1
Telomeres are the key to aging. And it’s not just your life span that’s affected… Short telomeres dramatically boost your risk of serious diseases. One study of 60 to 75 year olds showed those with short telomeres had a 300% higher death rate from heart disease and an 800% higher death rate from infectious diseases.2
In case you haven’t been following the amazing advances in telomere biology, telomeres are part of your DNA. They can be found in every cell in your body, and are critical to youthful cell function. But as your cells divide, your telomeres get shorter… and the shorter your telomeres, the older your cells behave.
Think of them as a kind of countdown clock for aging. You see, as your cells age, they’re less able to defend against toxins and free radicals that damage your body. So you tend to become more susceptible to a wide variety of age-related diseases.
Worse, when your telomeres completely run down, cell division stops. And that’s bad news. Because when new cells no longer replace damaged ones, you die.
Or looking at the glass half-full—if you can lengthen your telomeres, you’ll be healthier and live better longer.
And now this new study shows that you can take a significant step toward doing that with vitamin supplements. But you can’t take just any. There are specific vitamins that lengthen telomeres that your formula needs to have.
There is also new state-of-the-art breakthrough therapy involving telomeres that can stop—and even reverse—your body’s aging process.
How to Keep Your Telomeres Longer With Nutrients
The study was full of good news. It turns out that vitamin B12 supplements increase telomere length. And vitamins C and E prevent telomere shortening, increasing the life span of cells.3
Why are B12, C, and E so effective at maintaining telomere length?
It’s their powerful antioxidant activity. Your telomeres are extremely vulnerable to oxidative stress … and that’s exactly what antioxidants protect you against. This helps keep your telomeres long. And that, in turn, will help you live a longer and healthier life.
These vitamins can be easily – and inexpensively – added to your supplement regimen. Plus, it’s always a good idea to start with a diet that is full of foods that give you as many of the vitamins and minerals that keep you healthy. Here’s a list of good food sources of telomere supporting vitamins B12, C, and E.
Please note - This list is good, but if you buy foods that are not organic, you are adding a variety of toxins to your intake, which range from bovine growth hormone (in meats & dairy products) to pesticides, herbicides, insecticides, waxes, agar agar, msg, genetically modified foods, parabens, and other substances. If you wonder why you should avoid these, it has to do with your hormones. Hormones tell the body all kinds of things from how much insulin to put into your blood stream thus providing you with energy to when to sleep. Imbalances in the hormones can cause early puberty or early menopause, infertility or miscarriage.
In Europe, both bovine growth hormone and genetically modified foods have been banned because of health issues. They have socialized medicine in Europe, so they don't want to increase their health care costs. America is a capitalist nation, which in the past fifty years has become increasingly fascist allowing corporations to create foods and pharmaceuticals without concern for the health of the nation. That is why in 2009, America is rated 37th in the world for health. We are below all the European nations with France and Italy being in first and second place respectively.
Foods Sources of Vitamins B12, C, and E
| Vitamin B12 | Vitamin C | Vitamin E |
| Beef (Grass-fed)* | Kiwi | Turnip Greens |
| Beef Liver* | Strawberry | Spinach |
| Salmon* | Orange | Broccoli |
| Haddock | Grapefruit | Almonds |
| Tuna* | Mango | Peanuts |
| Trout* | Red & Green Bell Peppers | Olive Oil |
| Milk* | Raspberries | Kiwi |
* Grass-fed Beef & Beef Liver (get organic beef to avoid bovine hormones, pesiticides & genetically modified foods) Salmon & Trout (avoid farm raised fish, they are fed a variety of genetically modified grains, which have been treated with chemicals) Tuna (avoid canned fish - buy fresh or fast frozen Tuna) Milk (always buy milk that is free of bovine growth hormone -rBGH)
But, diet alone won’t give you the level of vitamins that you need to prevent your telomeres from shortening and to maintain health and longevity. That’s why you need to supplement your diet.
Not All Vitamins Are Equal
Before rushing out to buy these supplements, here’s some information to help you make the best buying decision.
Vitamin B12 – Dr. Al Sears of Wellness Research and Consulting recommends taking at least 100 mcg per day. Although, he says he has advised some of his patients to take as much as 500 mcg per day or more for improving things like brain function and energy levels.
Vitamin C – Dr. Al Sears claims based on his own experience, taking up to 3,000 mg per day is a good amount if you're currently in good health. He always recommends pregnant women get at least 6,000 mg per day. And in times of stress or sickness, you can take up to 20,000 mg.
(Please do some research on this and make up your own mind. You will find there is some controversy on how much Vitamin C is good. Due to the work of Dr. Linus Pauling, people have been taking large amounts of C, but if you check the work of Dr. Nick Hall, a neuro-immunologist, you will find that this may not really be as wise as previously thought. I have personally found that Vitamin C can quickly put down any onslaught of cold or flu, when taken in large amounts as stated her by Dr. Al. but I am on the fence as to how much we should take after listening to Dr. Nick Hall. So do your own research on this Vitamin.)
Make sure to get the natural form of vitamin C and not the synthetic form. In one particular study, natural vitamin C was 148% more effective than the synthetic form. And it stayed in the test participants’ systems longer.4
Vitamin E – Your vitamin E should be “Mixed tocopherols”. It’s also important to watch out for the kinds of tocopherols that are in it. Your body is better able to absorb them in their organic “d” form.
Many vitamin manufacturers use the inferior synthetic “dl” form. Studies actually show that natural vitamin E has twice the bioavailability of the synthetic form.5 That means your body is able to absorb more of the vitamin. So be sure to get the natural “d” form.
Dr. Al Sears recommends 200 to 400 IU of mixed tocopherols a day. Unlike vitamins B12 and C, vitamin E is a fat-soluble vitamin, which means it needs fat to get absorbed in your body. So be sure to take it with a mean that contains fat.
You can take all of these supplements separately, or, as was found in the study, you can take a multivitamin that combines all of these vitamins at these levels.
But if you want to use a multi-vitamin, shop with caution.
When buying a Multivitamin - Avoid ones containing iron
The study revealed that iron supplements have a negative effect on telomeres … they cause them to shorten. So don't buy any multivitamin that contains iron.
While you’re shopping, keep in mind that most brands usually don’t contain more than 100% of the RDA for most nutrients. The RDA is the minimum you need to prevent nutrient deficiencies, but not enough to lower your risk of serious disease or have a positive impact on your telomeres as in the study.
For vitamin B12, C, and E, the RDA for adult males is 2.4 mcg, 90 mg, and 22.5 IU, respectively. Way below the levels that were found to be beneficial in the study. So, as you can see, you’ll have to be a smart shopper when it comes to selecting the right multivitamin.
A superior multivitamin will have: at least 500 mg of vitamin C, 200 IU of vitamin E, and 100 mcg of B12. This will give you much more than the RDA amounts.
The multivitamins on drugstore and supermarket shelves may not be the best choice for you. They often fall short of the vitamins and minerals you need most.
They can also fall short in terms of quality since many of them are synthetic instead of natural. Private labels will cost more, but they will contain natural vitamins in the right dose of anti-aging nutrients. You can check Dr. Al Sears's website for his formula.
Taking a multivitamin is the first step to better health for everybody. And now, we have proof that taking one can actually help you change your genetic age.
The Telomere Discovery has resulted in a New Supplement
As a result of studies involving telomeres, science has made another cutting edge discovery in anti-aging health, the enzyme telomerase.
There’s a gene in your body that activates your telomerase enzyme. It acts like a genetic switch. It can stop the shortening of telomeres and even re-grow them. But this genetic switch turns off when you are born.
A ground-breaking new supplement called TA-65
Now the emerging science of telomere biology has found a way to turn this genetic switch back on with a ground-breaking new supplement called TA-65. It’s a natural extract that comes from the Astragalus plant. It activates your telomerase gene. That means you can actually stop, and even reverse your body’s aging process.
Dr. Al Sears and his Wellness Research Foundation recently hosted a special seminar with Dr. Bill Andrews, who is one of the leading telomere biology researchers in the world. He is one of the people who discovered telomerase activation with TA-65.
Both Dr. Bill Andrews and Dr. Al Sears explained this scientific breakthrough in detail. They presented the steps that lead to the discovery of TA-65, how it works, and also shared their personal stories with it. If you want to learn more about it, you can visit their websites listed below.
Conclusion
Whatever choices you make in your life, it is important that you have health. The richest man is poor if he is not healthy. My father knew that. He made sure we all took our vitamins and he set a standard for us to follow in life.
If Dad were alive today, I am certain he would be excited by this newest scientific breakthrough, TA-65. He would have added it to our vitamins when he placed his order at the factory.
You and I don't go to the Vitamin factory, we buy our vitamins at the store or online. Please, take the time to examine your vitamins, and keep these things in mind when buying them:
1) Buy Natural Vitamins
2) Avoid Tablets - they are filled with fillers & hard to break down in the body.
3) Check for Fresh Vitamins - like Dad, getting them straight from the source is the freshest you can buy.
4) Take them with meals
5) If you need Iron, take it separately, not in your multivitamin.
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