Full Transcript Telomeres and Biological Aging 0:00 So we get to biological reversal, which is the goal that I was focused in in terms of doing these studies. 0:08 And we started with telomeres because there was testing for telomerase easily available as blood tests 10 or 12 years ago when we And I won't spend much 0:18 time on the science of telomeres, but basically telomeres are little end caps on end of our chromosomes. 0:25 And they're vital for allowing cell replication to occur. 0:32 Last time I checked, there were 2,500 PubMed studies and so forth related to telomares. 0:39 What we know is that every time we have a cell replication, we lose just a little bit of that end cap. 0:44 And while that end cap is intact when we're young, cells replicate as they should. 0:50 The replication goes smoothly and so forth. 0:55 But as we age and as those end caps deteriorate, then you start having problems with the quality of the replication and it leads to aging acceleration, 1:08 mortality increases, as well as chronic disease. 1:12 Bill Anders is a well-known scientist here in America and there's a quote here where he says, every time our cells divide, 1:18 our telomeres get a little shorter and every they shorten, ourselves age. 1:24 Elizabeth Blackburn was one of three people, American scientists, who received the Nobel in 2009. And she says in this quote that, 1:33 "'Tilamere slows the rate at which telomeres degrade and research indicates people with longer telomeres have less risk of developing the common illnesses 1:42 of aging.'" So that's what telomares are all about. 1:45 So the idea was, Could we re-lengthen, could we slow the process of telomere loss and in fact could be re lengthen them? 1:53 And so on the screen right now is a study from Professor Cavinson in 2003 where he shows that the pineal gland peptide induces telomerous activity,
Self-Testing and Telomere Reversal Results 2:06 we won't go into the mechanics of that, basically resulting in teloner lengthening. 2:12 And that was remarkable because slowing the loss of telomeres and lengthening them is one of the holy grails in all of science. 2:22 And to my knowledge, while there are some claims out there, there is no one that can on a consistent basis lengthen telomerase except the Russians and now, 2:33 of course, our clinical study. 2:35 So what I'm showing next is my results over a period of time. 2:40 I mean, a good scientist, I think, experiments on himself, much like this parachute is famous for doing and so forth. 2:48 And then you start testing on all of your loved ones and your friends and you hope that they continue to be your So, in 2014, this is before I met Professor Cavinson. 3:01 It's before anything about peptides. 3:04 I was 68 at that time, and my first telomere test showed that my telomeres were equivalent to someone of a 75-year-old. 3:12 In other words, when they measure the end of my chromosomes and look at the telomeres, they can sort of equate that to a biological or to chronological age. 3:22 So my telomer age, as we call it, was 75. Or in other word, my telemers had accelerated loss and I was seven years younger, 3:32 or you might say older than my chronology age not a good situation for a 68 year old that accelerated aging. 3:41 No. 3:42 Two years later, I was retested and at that point I had been on the peptides for about a year, had met Professor Cavinson, 3:49 so forth. 3:49 I'm now 70 and, at this point, my telomeres are equivalent to a 68-year-old. 3:55 So I've gone from seven years older telomere-wise to two years younger. 3:59 Two more years later, 2018, I'm 72. My telomer age is 44. I'd been on the peptides, you know, for about three years plus. 4:09 2019, i'm 73 chronologically. 4:12 my teloner age was down to 35. And then the most recent test. 4:18 Holy cow, look at you. 4:22 Yeah. 4:23 No wonder you look younger! 4:27 I was 76 at this point. 4:30 And my telomere age, as we call it, was equivalent to a 23-year-old male. 4:36 Amazing. 4:38 That's really impressive. 4:39 Yeah. 4:40 So I decided to to decrease the attention on the telomeres because I was concerned that Vess, my wife, who you know, was going to leave me for a mature 4:52 older man.
Stress, Pregnancy, and Athlete Case Study 4:54 But you could always claim immaturity when you do something that annoys her. 4:58 You could also always say, look, I mean, the equivalent of a 23-year-old, we know that the adult male really doesn't mature till, 5:06 what, 26 is the current number? 5:08 I thought it was forever. 5:11 Well, possibly. 5:13 No, Vest wouldn't buy that anyway. 5:15 I know she wouldn. 5:16 She doesn't by that nonsense. 5:17 In any event, this is very impressive. 5:19 So that was in 20. Have you tested since 2023 or are you just riding away? 5:24 I'm in the process of retesting beta testing with this new company right now. 5:28 Oh, wow. 5:28 Okay. 5:29 Well, that'll be interesting. 5:30 When do you expect to get results from that? 5:32 Four weeks. 5:33 All right. 5:34 We'll have to check in with you in September. 5:36 Yeah. 5:37 These lab tests are not like, you know, running down to the local lab where they do a lipid test and so forth, and you get the results two days later. 5:49 They're much more complicated. 5:52 It wasn't just me. 5:53 This is a photo of Tora Bright. 5:58 Tore Bright was a three-time Olympic gold and silver competitor and was an Olympic Gold and Silver winner in snowboarding, 6:08 skiing, And of course, the Olympic doctors, I guess they do extensive testing. 6:15 I was stunned to find out that they did telomere testing, but then I understood why, because we won't spend the time on it today. 6:22 But what we know is that the number one situation that causes accelerated telomere loss is stress of all things. 6:33 And of course these athletes, Tora had been, you know, skiing since she was about five or six years of age and she is now chronologically 32. Her doctor, 6:42 limbic doctor tested her for telomerase and her telameres were equivalent to a 56-year-old woman. 6:48 Yeah. 6:50 I was going to ask you about the stress anyway because that came up earlier in our earlier interviews. 6:55 And I just want to say to the audience, because we're going go long on this podcast, that if you take nothing else away from this episode, 7:04 it's the massive impact, the chronic stress that is not dealt with properly will have on your ageing, really, on accelerating your aging, 7:17 at least from a telomere perspective. 7:19 Yes. 7:20 In fact, Elizabeth Blacksburg, who I mentioned earlier, Nobel Prize and so forth, professor at UC San Francisco, she's done extensive studies on stress 7:32 and telomares. 7:33 And what they've discovered is that if a woman is pregnant, And she's not happy about being pregnant or there are financial issues. 7:44 She's a single mother. 7:46 There's death of loved ones in the family, you know, just a very difficult pregnancy. 7:58 average with 15 to 20 percent shorter telomeres at birth than a woman giving birth where she was happy about having the child, 8:07 money wasn't an issue, she's got a supporting spouse, you know, all these kinds of things. 8:11 It's that powerful it can be passed down to an unborn child. 8:16 Yeah. 8:17 Well, I mean, there's a lot of talk about generational stress being passed down to a child and that may be part of it. 8:26 Yeah, we put Tura on about an 18-month program of telomere bioregulators and two years later we retested her. 8:35 Now she's two-years-old at this point, but her telomares were equivalent to 31-year-olds.
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