How to Lower Your Biological Age with Dr. Denise Furness
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Gene Expression Levels
There are some genes that we want turned on at certain times depending on exercise or if we're exposed to a chemical. So what happens from a gene expression level, and I'm going to try to explain it, but just think of your DNA double helix within that is the code only for bases - adenine, thymine, guine, cytosine. We have this code, but if we have sort of methyl groups sitting on top of the DNA, the things that need to come and kind of turn the gene on can't actually get there. They can't attach because there's these methyl groups literally blocking it. And so when someone is leading a life where they are
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