The Lancet: Healthy Lifestyle Changes Actually Change our Genes
The results of Dr. Dean Ornish's five-year study on the effect of comprehensive lifestyle changes on telomerase activity and telomere length in men with prostate cancer
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In this study in the premier medical journal, The Lancet, Dr. Ornish and a team of scientists, including Elizabeth Blackburn, who shared the 2009 Nobel Prize for her work on aging, reveal the results of a ground-breaking study showing that healthy lifestyle changes actually change our genes.
Telomeres are the little caps on our chromosomes that protect our genes, and are therefore associated with cellular aging.
The study found that after five years a group of ten men at risk for prostate cancer, all who followed all the fundamentals of a healthy lifestyle – diet, exercise, stress management and social support – had longer telomeres than the control group. Telomeres are the little caps on our chromosomes that protect our genes, and are therefore associated with cellular aging.
Read the full study here.
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