How Our DNA Can Make Us Look Older or Younger

The DNA inside-our-cells hold the blueprint for how we look in the future, and its largely up to us whether it’s a gradual or rapid appearance of aging. Part of the reason this is so intriguing to me is that we can strengthen this blueprint through common healthy habits done with consistency. Our DNA is inside each of our cells just like a memory bank or computer that holds a copy of instructions on how to continue to build replicas of itself.

The Science of Epigenetics: the science of epigenetics shows that while our DNA sequence stays the same, factors such as diet, stress, sleep, toxins, and activity can influence how genes are turned “on” or “off” and in turn affects our aging and disease risk.

When we think of the fact that our body is made up of several trillion cells and that these cells have DNA inside each of them that instructs how the next cell generation is made, it becomes more important to us, to not do things to our body that mess up these instructions, which pretty much happens every year to build the several trillion new generation of cells! This is involving, bone cells, heart cells, lung cells, skin cells, and all the cells that give the elasticity and shape to our body!

Bad habits to our body are a lot like a bad environment in a kitchen where a recipe is exposed to these conditions and though the recipe gets hard to read, you still have to prepare the recipe the best you can, very likely the outcome will not taste or look like it was originally supposed to.

When we breathe in smoke and other pollutants instead of clean oxygen, drink fluids filled with processed sugars, phosphoric acid and caffeine, instead of good clean water, eat processed foods made inside a plant instead of from a plant, get caffeinated instead of rest and rejuvenation and then top it off by staying out of the sun like as if we’re vampires and think it better to take laboratory produced vitamin D- we give our DNA no choice but to build a more sickly generation of cells, causing what we see as premature aging or diagnosed as one of the chronic diseases.

The neat thing is that even a person that has had years of bad habits can start turning this around by practicing basic healthy habits, this is why someone can look years younger than they used to years earlier.

Diet: keeping plenty of fruits and vegetables in our diet will help us get the daily antioxidants to get rid of the oxidation that otherwise will build up in our body. Oxidation is what causes rusting on a scratched vehicle and will have a similar effect on our cells causing our DNA to give out mixed signals on how to build the next generation of cells, causing our appearance to begin to change.

Water, Exercise and Sweat, helps our body push out the toxins that build up in our body assisting our body’s elimination process. When our body only gets to eliminate these toxins through urination and feces, the chances go up that they will build up in our body causing premature aging and degenerative disease.

Our body was created by a Master Creator that designed it to fight aging and degenerative disease, and it only asks for some basic tools to do its job…

These 7 primary tools are:

1. Clean Air.

2. Clean Water.

3. Healthy Balanced Diet.

4. Activities, connectivity, and Exercise.

5. Sunshine.

6. Things that Challenge the Brain.

7. Good Deep Rest, and stress relief.

Our healthy habits are to our several trillion cells like a recipe that is inside a laminated page that is protected against a tough kitchen environment. The chances that this recipe will continue giving clear easy to read instructions years later is much better.