We all want to eat the kinds of foods that make us feel better, live longer, but there's

so much conflicting information out there, so many nutrition opinions.

Welcome to the Nutrition Facts podcast, I'm your host, Dr. Michael Greger.

It's my job to give you the information you need to make the healthiest choices possible.

Did you know that as we age, our telomeres shortened telomeres are a series of DNA sequences

that protect the ends of our chromosomes from becoming afraid or tangled?

As it turns out, a plant-based dad and lifestyle can effectively reverse either aging by

elongating telomeres.

Here's the story.

Identifying simple strategies to prevent or delay age-related diseases is a major public

health concern, but how could you measure the effects of such strategies?

Telomere length is a reliable hallmark of biological aging and the risk of developing age-related

chronic diseases.

What is a telomere?

And why does it matter how long they are?

Telomere comes from the Greek for end part, oh, our chromosomes.

Telomeres capped the ends of our chromosomes like shoelace tips to essentially keep our DNA

from fraying.

Telomere length is important since there's a minimum length required, but every time ourselves

divide, a bit of the telomere is lost, and once they get too short, the cell can die.

That's why telomeres are sometimes called the molecular clock of cells.

Every year they get shorter and shorter, kind of like life's fuse, but in some people

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