Stopping the Clock from the Inside Out
How Telomere Biology Is Advancing Personalized Medicine
Publisher Description
This book is about our ability to halt the ravages of age and it reveals how everyone can use the Nobel Prize winning science of telomeres to become more youthful, energetic and healthy, every day. Telomeres stop your DNA from unraveling. Today we have the know how to slow that process – and even correct it – to beat the biological clock and prevent disease.
For the first time in medical science, we can tell ‘cellular’ time. Like the rings of a tree trunk, our cells are telling us their age through the length of their telomeres. Our biological age can now be determined.
So if we can tell cellular time, then we can assign the cell its biological age. In essence, our telomeres function as our biological clock. We know mechanical clocks can be reset, so why not our biological clock? This is the true essence of Anti-Aging medicine – slowing down this clock and findings ways to potentially ‘turn back the clock’ from inside our bodies, with our telomeres.