"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."Immanuel Kant, German philosopher (1724 - 1804)Aging is the Challenge - Nourishing Your Cells is the Solution Before we tell you more about the genetic test we need to give you some information as to why it is so important to know what’s going on inside our bodies. The moment we are born we begin the aging process. We have the weapon to fight disease and aging with something called superoxide dismutase. We get half of it from our mother and half from our father. It’s our natural antioxidant that fights and neutralizes free-radicals. In our population, 60% of us have only one functional superoxided dismutase gene and 20% have no functional gene. That is why introducing antioxidant formulas into our daily regimens are vitally important. Antioxidants could be considered a sort of life insurance policy against aging and its visible effects. It’s a weapon in our arsenal to fight those pesky free radicals that rob us of a longer life expectancy. Antioxidants are our protectors and lower our risk of developing many diseases and illnesses. Again, free radicals are basically little marauders bouncing through our cells causing damage everywhere they go. You might wonder why and how they are formed in the first place. In our bodies we have a process called oxidation. It creates free radicals and it goes on every day through our normal metabolic processes and through exposure to our environment and the damage it can cause. This may sound very scary and perhaps that’s a good thing. It’s time to arm yourself with the information you’ll need to improve the health and wellness of yourself and your family. Everything we do, from each breath we take, the food we eat and even the sun causes oxidation within our bodies and with it free radical formation. Let’s compare our bodies to an automobile. Say you buy a beautiful, brand new car and with no thought to the consequences you leave it outside with the hood, trunk and doors open. Imagine you allow it to sit outside like that through every kind of weather imaginable. Eventually the car would begin to rust and one day it would be too late to repair. You’d be looking at a rusted heap of metal. Our bodies are like that that car in many ways. We too are a machine that needs to be well-cared for. If we allow free radicals to run rampant through our bodies and do nothing about it we will have deterioration of our bones, joints and connective tissue; our organs will wear out and our immune system will break down and become unable to fight off disease and all the visible effects of the aging process. You could say we can "rust" just like an automobile. Every day two processes are going on in our bodies. On one hand our cells are being damaged. On the other hand we’re repairing our cells. If there is no balance between the two processes going on we’re in trouble. Unfortunately in most cases we have more damage than we can repair. The more the cumulative damage piles up we get to the point of critical mass and cell damage occurs. This can cause the cells to spin out of control and we get a disease like cancer. Every day we lose more and more cells. As we lose those cells that produce collagen, elastin and more skin we then begin to see our skin wrinkle, sag and become thin. Now we have a much harder task to bring our bodies back from the ravages of time and the damage we’ve allowed to happen. In a perfect world our repair system would remain healthy or could increase its ability to repair our cells on its own. Unfortunately that isn’t the case. Human beings have a love/hate relationship with oxygen. As we evolved we needed oxygen to increase our energy supply. As our cells became more complex through our movement and intelligence, our body required more energy. Through the Krebs cycle, oxygen became a way of producing this much-needed energy. As we breathe in oxygen it combines with the sugar in our cells and tiny energy pellets are produced in the cell’s mitochondria. (Mitochondria are the cells’ power sources) The more energy pellets we have (They are called ATP molecules) the younger, healthier and longer we live. Producing lots of ATP is wonderful. It let’s us live energetic lives. The downside is that every action has a reaction. We can now give you nourishing solutions. By using the right nutritional building blocks in their proper amounts to neutralize free radicals we can minimize daily damage to our cells. Our repair system is now better able to prepare for the days when we are flooded with free radical damage. By boosting and enhancing our repair system, more damage can be fixed. Now we can keep up and have a reserve for those unforeseen ‘free radical bursts,’ like viral and bacterial infections. You may not like to hear this, but inside you right now are cancer cells, virus, bacteria and other nasty invaders just waiting to attack. When our blood cells detect a threat by these hostile little devils they release free radicals. It makes sense because we want to destroy these bad cells and demolish their DNA. So not all free radicals are bad. Life as we know it really is a balancing act. |
Discover - the Science
On a strictly DNA basis, humans are surprisingly alike. Despite our apparent differences, the DNA between any two people is 99.1% identical. That 0.9% variation in DNA, however, is hugely important, accounting for all of our genetic differences.
"Each of us has a unique chemical makeup that induces various responses to foods, drugs and the environment. The reason we are different is that our genes are different."