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Heal Thy Self with Dr. G

#31 - Biological Age Knowledge Bomb, Special Guest Dr. Saman Faramarzi | Heal Thy Self w/ Dr. G

Heal Thy Self with Dr. G

Wellness Loud

Health & Fitness, Alternative Health

51.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Knowledge bomb: telomeres; what are they? How do they control our biological age? Dr. G’s best ways to keep young. Special Guest: Dr. Saman Faramarzi (Dr. Sam - https://www.instagram.com/dr.sam.nd/) is a Licensed Naturopathic Doctor and the founder of SAFA Life and Wellness, a concierge naturopathic clinic in Los Angeles, California. Dr. Sam likes to ask her patients how they want to FEEL, LIVE and BE every day. She then partners with her patients to help them achieve their health goals through the many modalities in her toolbox. Dr. Sam’s greatest joy is helping her patients become empowered to make choices to improve their health and change their lives. Heal Thy Self is a show based on empowerment. Empowerment of you, the viewer such that you can be your highest self on every level. Through knowledge, we will be giving you the information you need to make informed decisions. We lead you to water, you deep dive in. Be sure to like and subscribe to #HealThySelf Hosted by Doctor Christian Gonzalez N.D. and check out our YouTube Page with full video of every episode. (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCztQQ--xORWtJCwHmaa_buA) Follow Doctor G on Instagram @doctor.g_ (https://www.instagram.com/doctor.g_) Citations: Oeseburg H, De boer RA, Van gilst WH, Van der harst P. Telomere biology in healthy aging and disease. Pflugers Arch. 2010;459(2):259-68.Shammas MA. Telomeres, lifestyle, cancer, and aging. Curr Opin Clin Nutr Metab Care. 2011;14(1):28-34.Ornish D, Lin J, Chan JM, et al. Effect of comprehensive lifestyle changes on telomerase activity and telomere length in men with biopsy-proven low-risk prostate cancer: 5-year follow-up of a descriptive pilot study. Lancet Oncol. 2013;14(11):1112-1120. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/heal-thy-self/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, all right, everyone, welcome to Heel Thyself. We have another show on the books, and it's going to be an amazing one because I got some really good information for you.

0:14.0

Some really powerful information to take control of our health

0:18.0

and stuff that you ain't never known.

0:20.0

Also, I have an amazing guest.

0:22.0

A dear friend of mine, and someone who has some really good knowledge bombs for us,

0:26.7

an expert in our field and I'm really excited to have run.

0:29.0

So without further ado, let's get started.

0:46.3

everyone wants to be young everyone wants to feel good right the fountain of youth what fountain of youth? Well, what we want to go into is how we can reduce our biological age, which is different than our chronological one, right? I'm a 35-year-old

0:52.1

man. What is my body? What is my biology of it? So I want to talk about

0:56.5

something called telomeres, telomeres, telomeres. It sounds like something you may have

1:01.8

never heard or you may have heard all the time.

1:04.3

Regardless, within that spectrum, we need to know about what telemears mean, what they're implicated in,

1:09.9

and how we can maximize our telomere health.

1:13.5

So if you go on PubMed, which is a huge scientific database,

1:17.6

you'll see about 25,000 articles on telomeres.

1:20.0

And that's for good reason, right?

1:21.6

Because it's connected to aging, aging, aging,

1:25.1

in all organisms, including humans.

1:27.7

So there is a quote by Dr. Masood Chamas.

1:32.1

He is out of Harvard Cancer Institute,

1:34.6

the Dana-Farber Institute, and he says

1:36.4

Telemeer shortened with age, and the rate of telomere shortening

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