Do telomeres control aging?
Do telomeres control aging?
Dr. Dean Ornish president and founder of the Preventive Medicine Research Institute and clinical porfessor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco about a study in The Lancet Oncology. In our study we looked at telomeres, which are the ends of the chromosomes that control cellular aging.
Does rejuv support telomere structure and function?
The traditional Chinese herb astragalus has been proven to support telomere structure and function. Rejuv supplement contains two powerful astragalus extracts: Cycloastragenol and Astragaloside IV.
What are telomeres made up of?
Every cell contains a nucleus with genes and chromosomes. The chromosomes are made up of DNA molecules that are a hundred million bases long. They are long, repetitive sequences of DNA at the end of each of our chromosomes. These sequences are called telomeres. When a cell divides, the genetic material inside that cell needs to be copied.
What happens when the telomere gets too short?
The bottom line is this. When cells divide, telomere shorten and bad things happen when telomere get short. As an analogy think of DNA as a long row of bricks and of DNA replication as a bricklayer walking backwards on top of a brick wall, laying a new layer on top of that row.
