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Prevent Chronic Disease TODAY With These Foods & Nutrition Insights w/ Dr. Jeffrey Bland EP 1442

The School of Greatness

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The Epigenetics of the Immune System

Scientists can now track the biological age of your immune system. They do that by actually looking at how the genes in your immune cells are undergoing injury or change. The actual measurement we use is the number of methyl groups that are stuck on to the genes of the immune system. When you do that, people that are 30 may have immune system function at the epigenetic level of a 60-year-old. Before you may find a 60- year-old that has the immune system of a 30-year old.

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