Topic: Stress and Telemeres (Have you heard of them?)
kam
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Dr. Oz made the omentum--the dangerous belly fat that hurts your heart--into a household word. Now he's got a new vocabulary word he wants you to know--telomeres.
Just like the tip of a shoelace keeping the threads of the lace from fraying, a telomere keeps the chromosomes from fraying, too. A properly functioning telomere will keep chromosomes healthy, which allows them to reproduce cells.
But if you are worn down by stress, your telomeres will break down. "And then guess what? You can't reproduce your cells anymore," Dr. Oz says. "And when you can't reproduce cells, you're old and you're frail."
Dr. Oz says telomeres contain new information about aging that is vitally important. While doctors used to think that only certain organs could rebuild themselves, they now know that all our organs can be replenished with new cells if we have functioning telomeres.
"Aging is not about avoiding breakage--that's not what it's about. Aging is about repairing what's broken," he says. "When you lose the ability to repair, you become frail."
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This might be more a theme for Medical, but actually telomeres might prove to be very important for us. I'm not talking about the telomeres in our cells, but the ones in the Lyme bacteria.
They are extremely unusual in their DNA arrangement and are called "hairpin loop telomeres". A few viruses have the same structure, for example African Swine Fever Virus, but the only other bacterium known to have them apart from Borrelia is Agrobacterium.
This is the world's top bug used for genetic engineering , and has recently come under suspicion by some ILADS docs for possible involvement in Morgellons disease.
Best wishes Elena
quote:Originally posted by kam: Dr. Oz made the omentum--the dangerous belly fat that hurts your heart--into a household word. Now he's got a new vocabulary word he wants you to know--telomeres.
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, and has recently come under suspicion by some ILADS docs for possible involvement in Morgellons disease.
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