Dr. Edmund Chein is head of the Life Extension Institute in Palm Springs, California. Here, Dr. Chein discusses how his process relates to recent prize-winning advances in medicine, most notably the recent 2009 Noble Prize in Medicine.
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 2009 was given to the work scientists conducted to discover how telomere and telomerase control our health span and life span.
Everybody’s cells have DNA, and every DNA has a region called telomere. When this region is long, the cell is healthy and young. When it is short, the cell gradually dies or gives birth (replicated) to aged-looking daughter cells. So in order to have good health or longevity, we must make our telomeres long. If you keep them long, your cells will be youthful and live for a long time.
Telomerase is an enzyme in our cells which keeps the telomere portion of our DNA healthy and long, to the point of being capable of giving human cells immortality in laboratory conditions. How can you keep your telomeres long? By activating your telomerase to work. How do you activate your telomerase to work? By bringing all your bioidentical hormones up to 20-year-old levels, because all our cells are beautiful, young and healthy at that age.
Age Reversal
Since writing my book Age Reversal, first published in January 1998, I have been proposing the mechanism in which hormones in our bodies play a role in activating the telomerase, which in turn prolongs the telomere portion of our DNA. This process keeps the cells young and healthy, thus accomplishing our goal of extending health span and longevity.
Now I am particularly excited because the 2009 Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded to three scientists who work on telomere and telomerase research.
The Nobel Committee has validated my position by awarding the Nobel Prize in Medicine to these three scientists, who showed how telomerase works to lengthen the telomere portion of our DNA and thus achieve youthful cell replications and perpetual non-dying cells in the laboratory.
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