What Are Telomeres and Why They Are Important in Anti-Aging
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 29 March 2020
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Today the topic is telomeres. I really want to break this down very simply so you can understand what telomeres do and why telomeres are important.
What are telomeres?
A telomere is the DNA structure at the end of chromosomes. It can be compared to the plastic end of a shoestring that protects it from fraying.
You can look at chromosomes as the entire DNA strand with everything connected to it. So, think of it as the entire shoestring.
DNA are sections of genes. But, the entire collective chain of DNA is the chromosome.
Telomeres are basically DNA structures at the end of chromosomes that shorten with each division.
Telomeres:
• Protect the ends of chromosomes
• Are related to lifespan
• The shorter the telomere the less gene expression and repair
• Are considered junk DNA (but they do have a purpose)
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| 0:00.0 | So if you guys have any questions whatsoever about keto or intermittent fasting, whether you're starting |
| 0:05.3 | keto as a new person or just need to debug your program or you have a question about a product, |
| 0:10.6 | call one of our keto consultants. They'll be able to help you. Call 540-299-1557. That's 540-299-1557. |
| 0:21.6 | Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminute Fasting Podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight. So today the topic is telomeres. I'm going to try to break this down in real |
| 0:48.7 | simple terms so you can really get it. So telomere would be compared to the end of a shoestring, |
| 0:53.8 | that little plastic protective |
| 0:55.8 | thing that protects against frang. So if we compare the shoestring to a telomere, the telomere is the |
| 1:02.1 | end part of the shoestring. It's the DNA structure at the end of chromosomes. You can look at a |
| 1:08.4 | chromosome as the entire DNA strand, strand, with everything connected to it. |
| 1:13.5 | So you have the DNA, which is the blueprints, and basically DNA are sections of genes, |
| 1:18.7 | but the entire collective chain of DNA is the chromosome. So telomere is basically a DNA structure |
| 1:25.0 | at the end of chromosomes that shorten with each division. |
| 1:29.7 | So I'm going to give you another analogy. Let's say, for example, I'm going to copy you, |
| 1:34.6 | with a little scanner. And I have to grab onto your arm or your wrist to copy you. So I scan your |
| 1:41.3 | entire body, okay, makes a copy of you, similar to what's happening in the body. |
| 1:46.4 | You're constantly making copies of the DNA. But the problem is I can't scan backwards. And part of your |
| 1:53.2 | wrist in hand is not being copied. So I make a copy, but the copy is going to be just a little |
| 1:58.7 | shorter than the actual body because I'm holding the wrist |
| 2:01.3 | in hand. So then I'm going to make a copy of the copy. I'm going to grab the wrist, scan again, |
| 2:05.5 | and I'm going to keep doing this over and over and over. Every time it divides, okay, these telomeres |
| 2:12.1 | are going to get shorter and shorter and shorter and shorter because part of the copy mechanism has to |
| 2:17.4 | attach to the telomere. Now, one thing about a telomere mechanism has to attach to the telomere. |
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