The foods of youth (scientifically backed up)

16.11.2017

Wouldn't it be cool if we could tell cells to rejuvenate themselves? And this within hours?

Impossible, magic, miraculous, ... or maybe the future?

You'll discover it here!


When we want to make something younger, we have to know what made it old in the first place. Or what protects it from becoming old. 

We need to know what characteristic it is that makes a cell "old".

At the end of the chromosomes there's something like a cap (called telomere) that protects the DNA strains from damage. With each cell division, this cap becomes smaller and smaller. This process is called telomere shortening and occurs naturally as we age.

When the telomere's length is not adequate anymore, the DNA is prone to damage, and this damage can make the cell behave differently, in a negative way. The cell understands when it's time has come, when it does more harm than good, and as a response, it becomes "senescent". It does not divide anymore, but stays metabolically active. The cell commonly adopts an immunogenic phenotype, which acts more pro-inflammatory. And ageing is highly correlated with increased inflammation levels in the body (that's why antioxidants are hyped so much, they are anti-inflammatory).


This is for the very interested ones among you ;P

(Otherwise just skip this part)

"As we age, our tissues accumulate senescent cells which are alive but do not grow or function as they should. These old cells lose the ability to correctly regulate the output of their genes. This is one reason why tissues and organs become susceptible to disease as we age. When activated, genes make a message that gives the instructions for the cell to behave in a certain way. Most genes can make more than one message, which determines how the cell acts.

Splicing factors are crucial in ensuring that genes can perform their full range of functions. One gene can send out several messages to the body to perform a function - such as the decision whether or not to grow new blood vessels - and the splicing factors make the decision about which message to make. As people age, the splicing factors tend to work less efficiently or not at all, restricting the ability of cells to respond to challenges in their environment. Senescent cells, which can be found in most organs from older people, also have fewer splicing factors."

(source of the citation)


Okay, now back to the caps.

As the caps exhibit a protective function, we should take care of them! It has been believed that once the telomeres shorten, there's no way of adding length again. Fortunately, we have research ;P

A team led by Professor Lorna Harries, University of Exeter, has recently discovered a way to actually take care of the telomeres and to reactivate the senescent cells!

This means that the telomeres become longer again and that the cells function the way they should.

HOW? How were the researchers able to do so?

They discovered that a group of chemicals can turn back on certain genes called "splicing factors". These genes usually are being turned off as we age. When the researchers applied these chemical compounds to cells in cell culture, they observed that the splicing factors turned back on and following that, the senescent cells looked physically younger, started to behave more like young cells and even started dividing again!

And: They had longer telomeres! The caps grew back! Yay.

But most importantly: The rejuvenation happened just within a few hours!

This is fucking fast and furious! Cells can age backwards just like that, it does not even take a day. And it does not even take a harmful chemical to do so.


I will reveal now what the compounds were that the scientists applied:

The compounds are called Resveralogues. These are analogues of a compound called resveratrol that naturally occurs in red grapes (and thus wine, but you would need to drink hundreds of liters of it to get a considerable amount, so don't even try...), blueberries, and dark chocolate (I fucking <3 100% chocolate!). 

You can learn more about this magical substance in my previous article here.

A handful of organic blueberries and some 100% chocolate each day will certainly not harm you ;) 

Permission to eat (dark organic) chocolate just given.


By the way, did you know that chocolate contains compounds belonging to the theobromine family which themselves belong to the same group as caffeine? Cool, right?

Some weeks ago, I used to treat myself with some dark chocolate in the evening and wondered why I didn't sleep very well these nights... Found out later about the theobromine (I'm really very sensitive to stimulants) and now I'm eating chocolate in the morning or before a workout, because (next cool fact) it increases pump and blood flow and, as we just learned, focus. 

And it makes you happy :D #serotoninprecursor

I swear I'm gonna bring out a real chocolate pre-workout supplement!!!


Now back to what this article is actually about:

The quintessence really is that your food matters! It can have an impact on how you look, how you feel, and even on how fast you age!

For me, food is not just pleasure in the moment. Food is functional.

It can either be protective or destructive.
It can fuel your activities and your brain, or it can make you sleepy and foggy.

It t can make you happy or depressed and stressed.


It's all your choice.

xoxo


Access the research paper here.

The Health Diva Blog by Nicola Schinz
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