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Welcome to to Ask Good Questions Podcasts, broadcasting live every Wednesday,
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we will reach for a higher purpose in money and life,
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as well as a focus on health and wellment. Now,
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let's join your host, Anita bell Anderson as together we
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start with Asking Good Questions.
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Hello, and welcome to the Ask Good Questions podcast. This
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is your host, Benita bell Anderson, and I'm so happy
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that you're here today. We have got a fantastic guest
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and topic to talk about today. We're going to talk
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about how fast you are aging. So with that, let
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me invite to the proverbial podcast stage, doctor Eldred Taylor.
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Hello, Benita, Hey, how are you doing? So good to
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see you again.
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I know it's so good to see you. I'm so
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excited for this this episode because we are going to
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delve into I want. I want you to tell me
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how I can really slow down my aging. That's what
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I want. Okay, Taylor, Okay.
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All right, okay, right, all right, we'll do.
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I want to give just a brief intro for him
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and then have him say a few words about his background,
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because this is a medical professional that has really stepped
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up his game as far as how to take care
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of the whole person. He's really getting the hormones and
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lifestyle and your brain and how how everything with your
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mindset fits in.
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Yeah, yeah, so I wanted.
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To I knew that he was really delving into this
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whole thing with slowing the aging process, so that's why
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I wanted to have him come on and chat about this.
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Do you want to say a few more words about
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your background?
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Well, okay, I am. I am originally an obguy. N
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That's what my training was in. I trained at Emory University.
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I live in Atlanta, and that's where emory is that's
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what got me here. I'm married to another doctor and
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we worked together. But I started out being interested in
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bioidentical hormone replacement, and my wife and I wrote a
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book called Are Your Hormones Making You Sick? So that
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was my initial kind of divergence from conventional medicine. And
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then from that I started to get really interested in
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stress and how stress affects hormones, and we wrote a
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book called Stress Connection. And then as I have become
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older I'm sixty five now, I went I came to
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a crossroads and it's like, am I going to get
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better at sixty five or am I just going to
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retire and fade away and sit in a rocking chair
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until death comes? And I took the other road. I
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was like, instead of me just sitting around waiting on death,
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you know, maybe I can get better, Maybe I can
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reverse my aging. Maybe I can do even more than
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what I did when I was younger. So I set
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out on a path to do that. And that's what
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created this ageless blueprint, is that I tried to find
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that blueprint for myself. And you know, my chairman of
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my department in my ob Juan said, never do anything
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to a patient that you wouldn't do to yourself, or
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to your wife, or to your mother. And so if
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I'm going to do that for me, I feel almost
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obligated to try and share that. And you know, anybody,
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you know, when we talk about being ageless, you know,
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you can be forty and feel like you're eighty, or
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you can be eighty and feel like you're forty, and
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it's it's a process to that, and that's what we'll
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you know, we can talk about today. How do you
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how do you how do you process that? What processes
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helped you to reverse aging?
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Yeah, well, you know, I don't know anybody that doesn't
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think about this. You know, pretty much all of us
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are wondering about this topic. So let's kind of start with.
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You know, I have had my my biological age tested,
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and but what's the difference between the chronological age and
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the biological age.
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Well, you know, your chronological age is how many years
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have passed since your birth certificate says you were born,
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So that's your chronological age. But your biological age is
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how fast or how slowly is your are your organ
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systems aging? All right? And the primary aging aging process
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is stress. And when I say stress, stresses can be
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physical stress, it can be emotional stress, it can be
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environmental stress. And when we talk about reversing aging, that's
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going to be the number one thing we're going to
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talk about. There's really five points I want to make
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and we'll get to that. But yeah, your chronological age
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is what's on your birth certificate and what is and
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how many years have passed, But your biological age can
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be vastly different. You can be ten years younger than
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your chronological age because your organs have been treated correctly
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by how you eat, how you think, how you sleep,
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are you can abuse your body. All we've seen people,
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you know, let's say drug addicts who have not taken
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care of themselves. They look sixty and they're thirty, you know,
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because they have abused their body, and you can see
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it on their face, you can see it in their skin,
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you can see how they walk, how they talk, and
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you can say, you know, that person looks old. And
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there's a song that says everybody wants to live forever,
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but nobody wants to grow old. And that's, you know,
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that's kind of how life feels. We want to live,
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but we don't want to grow old.
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Well, are you saying that there is a test that
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can really actually reveal your biological age.
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Yeah, now there's a couple. Now, one is it's a
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test that I use, and I think there's some other companies.
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It's called true Diagnostics, where it looks at epigenetics, and
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epigenetics means you know, you have your genes. And a
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lot of people think, oh, while it's in my family,
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you know, I got this genetic you know, whether it's
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hypertension or cancer or whatever. But that's not true. You
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don't really have a gene for cancer, you don't have
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a gene for a high blood pressure. Really, it's these
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things called epigenetics, these triggers that either turn a gene
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on or turn a gene off, and they are primarily
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turned on and off by your lifestyle. And so if
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you can change your lifestyle, if you can change what
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you eat, how long you sleep, how you think, and
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how you think about age, it's probably the most important.
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You know, when I said, hey, am I just going
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to sit in a rock and chair and die? If
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you if you think like that, that is exactly what
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will happen. You know, as a man thinks in his heart,
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so is he. But if you look at age as
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something that you know, the way I look at it
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is that I am wise. Now, you know, wisdom only
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comes with experience. So there's a lot of people who
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are talking about a lot of different things. But when
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you look at aging as something that is enviable, that hey,
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I am you know when they I had patients asking
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me if I was going to retire, and I'm like,
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why would I retire? I know more, I've experienced more,
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I've seen more patience, I've had more experiences. So I
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look at aging is that I'm I'm that wise person
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who can help younger people navigate this thing called life.
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Yeah, well, is there some one thing that really surprised
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you when you first really started learning about the difference
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between biological and chronicle age? What surprised you the most?
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What surprised me the most is what you were talking
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about as mindset? Okay, what you think? Your thoughts have
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so much power that you really don't understand. And I'll
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tell you, I don't know if you know Joe de Spenza,
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he's big on this IP.
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I spent a week as because of you. You reminded
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me of him and I was listening to one of
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his He has these nighttime meditation things on YouTube right.
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Right, nighttime meditations, daytime meditations, and he talks about and
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he can prove it scientifically that meditation changes your biology
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and there's no doubt about it. We did a seven
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day advance workshop and it was all about meditation and
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guided focus and all this. And he had a group
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of people that he measured some biological markers before the
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seven day conference and then afterwards, and there were dramatic
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changes in inflammatory markers, in markers of GI inflammation, all
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kinds of markers that he looked at. In just in
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seven days, he changed the genetic expression of most of
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these people. And just being in the room was really experienced.
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It was over two thousand people there and we did
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over thirty five hours of meditations in seven days. And
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that's something that I couldn't I couldn't have done a
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year ago. It's no way I can meditate for that
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long because it is a practice that you have to learn.
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You have to practice meditation, and so that was probably
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the most surprising thing. It really is about how you
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think about yourself and about your environment, and that's what
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stress is. Stress is your perception. And so if you
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perceive something is stressful, you set off all these chemicals
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that begin to aid you prematurely. But if you can
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perceive your life as being joyful and grateful and loving,
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it changes your whole biology instead of being judgmental and
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angry and hateful. Those thoughts aid you because they set
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off chemicals in your brain and your body that start
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to well, really is inflammation, but it just starts to
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aid you prematurely. So that's probably the most surprising thing
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because a lot of people think, you know, it's what
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kind of medication or exercise or whatever, And exercise is important,
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but meditation is the most important. And I apologize to
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my patience and every time I talk that for the
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first twenty eight years of me practice in medicine, I
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did not advocate meditation. And meditation is probably the one
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self healing thing that you can do and it doesn't
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cost you any money.
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Well, you can make it up now, right.
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Yeah, I am, I am making.
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It up now. Well, okay, let's stop for a minute again. Okay,
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so you've said a couple of times that term epigenetics,
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and I'm beat. And there's probably some people that are
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not familiar. I don't know if I could give a
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good definition. How would you define epigenetics.
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So epigenetics means it's above your genes. So you actually
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they said that you only really express about ten percent
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of your genes. But all of those genes have a purpose.
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So the best way to explain it is that genes
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are like piano keys and the epigenetics that is what
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plays the music. So you can play something that's in
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perfect harmony and it's great, and that's when your body
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is in balance and in harmony and your epigenetics are
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playing all the right genes all right, so that you
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live healthy and you live a long life and all that,
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and that's influenced by the stress. How well you sleep,
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how well you eat, how well you move, and how
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well your social connections are supporting you. So those are
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the five pillars, the five lifestyle pillars that play the
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right music. Okay, so just think you have all of
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these genes that can be either turned on or turned off.
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So there's genes that aid you and those are usually
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the stress hormones. When you're under stress, is fight or
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flight are you can have what we call the reparative genes,
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which is parasympathetic, which is what we call rest and digest,
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and those are the ones that making sure that all
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of the keys are in tune. You know that they're
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playing the right music. So that's the best explanation I have.
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You have a piano, what keys are going to be played?
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And you know if you play a flat note, everybody here,
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you know, everybody knows that that's off and it throws
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off the whole music. And so that's how you have
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to look at your genes. If your sleep is off,
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if your stress is off, if your nutrition is off,
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it's a possibility that your epigenetics will play the wrong key,
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and then if you don't correct that, it ends up
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with disease and even death. So that's that's probably the.
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Yeah analogy. Yeah, Well, so you're talking about genes expressing themselves.
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So I think of two things. I think about the
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environment and lifestyle choices. That seems to be is that
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the biggest things that will make a determination on which
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genes are expressed lifestyle.
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Environment, lifestyle. And again it's it's stress. And you got
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to think of stress being any kind of everybody thinks
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stresses emotional stress, but there's environmental stressors the air that
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you breathe. Now you're in Hawaii, so your air is