The Healing Power of Gratitude - Bruce Lipton Explains Telomeres

Gentlemen, gentlemen, I want to thank you for attending this traditional funk family farms Thanksgiving dinner. Thanksgiving is a very special time of togetherness and a time to express our

gratitude

and it was interesting because I was reading in my dear friend Benjamin Franklin's edition of Poor Richard's. Almanack has a comprehensive look at the nature of

gratitude

and how it affects our lives and I would really love to read this before we serve our Thanksgiving dinner, whatever you are waiting for, may it be peace of mind, contentment, health, it will surely come, but only when you are ready to receive it with openness and gratitude of all the characteristics necessary for a happy and morally decent life, none surpass gratitude, happiness and health are the just rewards for living and being grateful.

Wow, I remember when I first read that I doubted that. gratitude you give me health and happiness but now I know different yegor yegor how sweet of you to remember my birthday listen let me blow out the candles make a wish and then we will have a party later oh yes another year would be wonderful well you I know that whole story that Ben Franklin He told us about gratitude and health. Well, it actually works and now we scientifically know why. Because within each of us is the Fountain of Youth. What is the Fountain of Youth in the cell?

They are special parts of the DNA so when you open the nucleus of the cell the chromosomes come out in its 46 chromosomes 23 from your mother and 23 from your father but what is a good chromosome what it is is a sleeve of protein wrapped double helix of the DNA and the meaning of this is

telomeres

, as you can see in this image of an of DNA after the genes, which means that it is a part of the DNA that does not program anything, it is just extended DNA. I said why would you have extended the DNA at the end and the answer is profoundly simple and it is if you understand how.

DNA reproduces first, there is an enzyme that comes in when it is time to reproduce the DNA and that enzyme is called helicase. Remember that DNA is the helix and a helicase box means enzyme, it is an enzyme that breaks the helix and as the helicase moves down, the DNA splits it into two separate strands as illustrated in this image of here single strand DNA is one that we're focusing on and you can see where all the little red marks are on the DNA, that's where the genetic programs are, but at the end of the DNA there are different little marks and here it is where is the telomere.

I say why should we have a telomere at the ends of the DNA chain. At the ends there are extensions of DNA, but these extensions do not program genes. They're just extra pieces of DNA, as you can see in this illustration, the red part of the DNA that's where the genetic programs are, but at the end the green part of that DNA is the extra extensions called

telomeres

and I'm saying, okay. Why do we have telomeres? Well, this is the most important reason of all, because when the enzyme that copies the DNA comes in, it's called polymerase, it's like a train that lands on the DNA as the tracks go down and as the polymerase goes down the tracks. tracks, leaves them behind.

In the waking state, there is a copy of the DNA that you were writing on, so as you train it moves down the DNA strand, it creates a duplicate piece of DNA behind it, that's how DNA reproduces, but the The serious part is when the enzyme gets to the end of the chain, guess what, it can't copy the piece of DNA it's sitting on because the next move of that enzyme, that little train will go off the track, so why what is important? As you see, when the polymerase enzyme releases the DNA. the new DNA fragment is shorter than the first copy and I say why it is relevant because every time the DNA is copied the last fragment cannot be copied so every time the DNA is copied it gets shorter and shorter and shorter and then what?

What will happen is good, if you run out of the telomere portion, the next time you copy the DNA, you will cut out a part of the gene and that's when the diseases of aging and depression start, that's when the DNA runs out of a telomere at the beginning. It was thought that telomere length would determine how long you could live because it determined how many times the cell could divide. A scientist back in the 1960s named Leonard Hayflick did a calculation and said that if telomeres were that many units long and you lose a little bit every time the cell divides, how many times can the cell divide?

I mean well, why is that important? Because we are talking specifically about the stem cells in our body that divide all the time replacing worn out and broken cells that die. every day, so the stem cells have to keep dividing and their progeny contribute to the repair, but now there is the problem of how long the stem cells can last and the simple reason is that when the stem cells become exhausted, in That's when we start aging very quickly and that's when illness and depression are characteristic, so the whole point of this with Leonard Hayflick was that he did a calculation and said, "Oh, if you count the number of cell divisions and look at the life of an individual, guess how long an individual can live around one hundred and twenty." years Wow, how convenient is that about how long people live, so it was believed that our lifespan was actually determined by the length of these telomeres.

Well, something exciting happened. A female scientist appeared in the photo by the name Elizabeth Blackburn and what does she see? I saw at the ends of the DNA where the telomeres are there is an enzyme called telomerase telomerase is an enzyme that adds extensions to the telomere so if the enzyme is working the American teal gets longer and longer I said what would be the consequence of increasing the length of telomere, sure you can divide cells over and over again without running out of telomere DNA, so what are those things that activate that Salameh? What if those things that inhibit telomerase first let's go over the things that actually stopped the enzyme from working, these are the things that will cause you to age prematurely and begin to express all the hallmarks of illness and depression associated with aging and I said well, what are those things?

Well, first of all, poor nutrition, poor nutrition will cause the enzyme to stop working and aging will happen much faster and then you get into things like child abuse, domestic violence, and post-traumatic stress disorder. I say, why did that influence the enzyme? Well think about it this way when people experience abuse or when they live in a world of violence how much they really want to live there is an underlying psychological story I don't want to be here violence stress I don't want to be here that's an unconscious belief but guess what belief will stop the telomerase enzyme from working and you will die sooner according to the desire of that belief and there are two very important factors that will also inhibit the enzyme number one is the loss of love or actually not having any self-love and the meaning of that is without The love life is more a life of isolation and that kind of isolation doesn't really encourage anyone to want to live longer, so when you lose love or don't have any self-love, we will shorten our lifespan and then we will have a very significant influence.

The enzyme thing has no purpose, just think about what that means, you wake up in the morning with nothing to do, nowhere to go and all of a sudden what's the feedback? I have no reason to be here. Well, that belief is interesting. in the biology of belief it is the factor that can deactivate the enzyme and that is why, for example, many people when they retire have a very short lifespan after retirement, why they lose their function, they lose their purpose in life and feedback from the nervous system. the system is fine, I am not doing anything and therefore unconsciously that individual will cancel the enzyme and will have a much shorter life and then the positive things that will improve his life will give him a longer and healthier existence on this planet are things that activate the enzyme.

Good nutrition and exercise, of course, increase our health and this will activate the enzyme because it says we are trying to stay healthy and alive. Happiness and gratitude. That is the most important. Happiness and gratitude means that you love your life so much that you want more. So you will unconsciously activate the enzyme to increase and improve your life, this is also associated with a positive outlook because if you have a positive outlook that means you are looking towards the future and again the feedback says that then we will have to activate the enzyme. At the same time having that future and the last two aspects that improve the enzyme and give you a long life are very important and that is again having that self love, appreciating yourself, which means I am enjoying and appreciating my life, experience it. and when you are. in love, that of course drives you to stay even longer and that will activate the enzyme and lastly and most importantly, be in service, which means you have something to do and the system feedback says I can't and now I have.

To be here longer I have something to do and that is why being in service is one of the most important things to extend your telomeres and keep you close. In conclusion, information about telomeres and telomerase is very important because they represent the equivalent of a Fountain of Youth in each cell and between your mind and your cells, biological belief reveals how your consciousness and your thoughts can extend your telomeres by activating the telomerase when you appreciate life, when you have gratitude and when you seek love and happiness on the planet. They can prolong your life, they are so interesting that they are very

power

ful in changing your life and turning it into a life of happiness, joy and health for a long time.