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Can these foods help you age backwards?

Well, traveling back in time is currently impossible, but healthy food can help support a long healthy life.

So what's happening to our body as we age? Well, first of all, we know that we have remarkably a perhaps endless supply of stem cells.

You've heard about stem cell technology is getting a big push. We think about stem cells as these primordial pluripotent cells that are undifferentiated.

They haven't decided what they want to be. They haven't decided whether they want to be a cartilage in your nose or a piece of your heart muscle or a neuron in your brain.

They're just kind of standing around waiting for instructions and it turns out that we always have stem cells in our body.

Some of you may have had your stem cells harvested from your fat and injected in a joint or a shoulder may have had them injected in your heart muscle.

Some of you have probably traveled to Mexico to get placentals stem cells or embryos stem cells, but that's another subject.

The point is we have stem cells available to us, but they just sit there and twiddle their thumbs until they're called into action.

So what we want to do as we advance in years is to continuously call these stem cells into action.

And the more we're learning about what stem cells do, the more exciting our options become.

First of all, there are foods that support stem cell growth.

Interestingly enough, greens and particularly chlorophyll and spirulina actually have been shown to keep stem cells healthy.

If you really want to know more about this, visit our episode number 165 with the founder of Energy Bits, which are both clorella and spirulina bits that you can chew.

And there's a lot of exciting news on this front.

Perhaps one of the most really exciting news is we know that the wall of our gut is probably the most important determinant for how well we age and for how long we live.

And as I showed in the longevity paradox book, there's very strong evidence that as long as the wall of your gut, which is the same surface area as a tennis court, is intact, then you will continue to be healthy and not wear out.

So why talk about stem cells? Well, it turns out one of the biggest set of stem cells is in the wall of our gut.

The wall of our gut is constantly replenished. We constantly slough off these cells and replace them with new cells.

And the stem cells are what do this?

Now, I've shown in my research that vitamin D is essential to make those stem cells actually turn in to new intestinal cells.

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