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The Telomere Effect
A Revolutionary Approach to Living Younger, Healthier, Longer
1 of 3 copies available
Have you wondered why some sixty-year-olds look and feel like forty-year-olds and why some forty-year-olds look and feel like sixty-year-olds? While many factors contribute to aging and illness, Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn discovered a biological indicator called telomerase, the enzyme that replenishes telomeres, which protect our genetic heritage. Dr. Blackburn and Dr. Elissa Epel's research shows that the length and health of one's telomeres are a biological underpinning of the long-hypothesized mind-body connection. They and other scientists have found that changes we can make to our daily habits can protect our telomeres and increase our health spans (the number of years we remain healthy, active, and disease-free).
The Telemere Effect reveals how Blackburn and Epel's findings, together with research from colleagues around the world, cumulatively show that sleep quality, exercise, aspects of diet, and even certain chemicals profoundly affect our telomeres, and that chronic stress, negative thoughts, strained relationships, and even the wrong neighborhoods can eat away at them.
Drawing from this scientific body of knowledge, they share lists of foods and suggest amounts and types of exercise that are healthy for our telomeres, mind tricks you can use to protect yourself from stress, and information about how to protect your children against developing shorter telomeres, from pregnancy through adolescence. And they describe how we can improve our health spans at the community level, with neighborhoods characterized by trust, green spaces, and safe streets.
The Telemere Effect will make you reassess how you live your life on a day-to-day basis. It is the first book to explain how we age at a cellular level and how we can make simple changes to keep our chromosomes and cells healthy, allowing us to stay disease-free longer and live more vital and meaningful lives.
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January 3, 2017 -
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9781478940432
- File size: 318252 KB
- Duration: 11:03:01
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- English
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Suzanne Toren delivers this discussion of the science of telomeres, the protective endings of chromosomes, and the relationship between telomere length and long-term health. Toren carefully lays out the science of telomeres, getting the pacing just right to give listeners time to absorb the information without becoming overwhelmed. She also brings enthusiasm to her performance, encouraging listeners to stick with difficult information about the negative impacts short telomeres appear to have on health and emphasizing hope as she recounts the ways science has demonstrated that people can promote telomere length. Listeners interested in living long, healthy lives will find solid, practical information delivered in an unintimidating way. A.F. © AudioFile 2017, Portland, Maine -
September 1, 2016
Blackburn won a Nobel Prize with two colleagues for their discovery of telomeres, nucleotide sequences that keep the end of each chromosome from deteriorating or fusing with another chromosome. Here she clarifies the lifestyle habits that protect telomeres so that we can live longer and better. With a 200,000-copy first printing.
Copyright 2016 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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