Common Sense Eating & Exercise

 Although there is a great deal of con­tro­versy among sci­en­tists about the effects of ingested food on the brain, no one denies that you can change your cog­ni­tion and mood by what you eat.  

 ~ Arthur Win­ter   

Prin­ci­ple 2
Eat­ing Fruits and Veg­eta­bles – Water Rich Food 

Jack Lalane Power Juicer

 Just as we learned of the impor­tance of oxy­gen, DNA and the lym­phatic sys­tem, we must now pro­vide the foods and flu­ids the body needs to prop­erly deliver nutri­ents to our cells and carry away waste.  This means antiox­i­dants, amino acids, vit­a­mins, min­er­als and water.  Not only do we need to pro­vide these build­ing blocks, but we need to deliver them in the most assim­i­l­able (usable) form pos­si­ble.  If you have a prob­lem with your veg­etable intake or even if you don’t, I highly rec­om­mend spend­ing the 100 dol­lars for a qual­ity fruit and veg­etable juicer. The stan­dard juice is 2 apples, 2 stalks of cel­ery, 5 car­rots and you have your daily require­ment in one glass. This and a cou­ple sal­ads for fiber and you are totally com­plete in water rich foods for the day. It has been found that red beets actively repair DNA dam­age. Red beets are extremely agres­sive and should only be added to other juices. It is sug­gested that you try half of a medium red beet once or twice weekly.  Do not be sur­prised when your urine dark­ens tem­porar­ily as this is nor­mal when drink­ing beet juice.  Juic­ing can make an incred­i­ble dif­fer­ence in your life and I don’t mean the organic juice off the shelf.  If it isn’t made while your wait­ing for it, your drink­ing the wrong stuff.  Seri­ously invest in a juicer, they have a long life­time and will all­ways be there for you.  

Now with­out giv­ing a class on Bio Chem­istry, we are going to have to under­stand some DNA basics if we plan on grasp­ing Human Longevity with a healthy lifespan. 

DNA Strand

 A lot of infor­ma­tion has been touted about get­ting 5 to 10 serv­ings of fruits and veg­eta­bles, and for good rea­son. It is not just that they are low in fat, they pro­vide the crit­i­cal build­ing blocks that will sup­port your DNA repli­ca­tion.  This in turn slows down the aging process.  Once we achieve the cor­rect body weight, we must remem­ber that the body repli­cates itself every two years. The way it does this is through the DNA that exist in the nucleus of every sin­gle cell of the body. The DNA con­sist of two chains of com­plex chem­i­cal com­pounds called nucleotides. These nucleotides come in four base forms called ade­nine, cyto­sine, gua­nine or thymine which con­nect like lad­der rungs and form a code unique to each form of life. The lad­der is then twisted into what sci­en­tists call the dou­ble helix, which looks like a wind­ing stair­case. Now each time the lad­der twist, that is called a gene. Now in between the twist, there are sec­tions of nucleotides that sci­en­tists still do not under­stand.  What we do under­stand is that there are genes that make you sus­cep­ti­ble to dis­ease and genes that pro­tect you from them.  Every sin­gle per­son has mutated genes.  There are approx­i­mately three bil­lion base pair in every cell and over 50 tril­lion cells in the human body.  

The DNA in each cell is cre­ated in 46 dif­fer­ent strands and wrapped around pro­tein mol­e­cules called his­tones to form 23 pairs. One set of the pair comes from the Mother and the remain­ing set comes from the Father.   These DNA wrapped pro­tein are called chro­mo­somes.  At the end of each chro­mosone is a repet­i­tive pat­tern of DNA called a Telom­ere.  The Teleomers hold the DNA in place to the pro­tein his­tone like shoelace tips keep a shoe lace from unraveling. Remember the DNA is con­stantly coil­ing and uncoil­ing (pulsing)around the pro­tein and needs to be held in place for proper replication.    

As we age (DNA dam­age), the telom­eres grow shorter with each DNA repli­ca­tion even when the DNA is prop­erly pro­tected and nour­ished.  Our goal is to min­i­mize this through breath­ing, nutri­tion and exer­cise. It is impor­tant to under­stand that your DNA is dynamic. Every­day based on what hap­pens to you, your DNA is in a con­stant state of repair.  This means… you guessed it, replication. It might be a bruise or a cold, or just get­ting an X-Ray, lack of a vit­a­min, min­eral or enzyme, build­ing muscle,  it could be just breath­ing in pol­lu­tion or any one of mil­lions of things but what­ever it is, your body will have to repli­cate new cells.   

The good news is that through your diet, you can strongly influ­ence the DNA Repli­ca­tion Process to make almost per­fect copies. The prob­lems that affected your par­ents don’t have to affect you, because you now know that you can alter your DNA for the bet­ter.   

On the flip side, if you do not eat prop­erly to nour­ish your DNA, it mutates and replaces the mil­lions of cells you lose on a daily basis with bad copies and you age.  Now under­stand, you don’t have a choice in this and there is no magic bul­let. Eat right and make “Good Copies”. Eat bad or expose your DNA to tox­ins and make “Bad Copies”. Con­sider this the quick start oper­at­ing man­ual on how the body func­tions.  Now what is crit­i­cal to under­stand is that the body uses the nucleotides code of your DNA to pro­duce over 1 mil­lion vari­a­tions of pro­tein. So now you need to know what a pro­tein is.  

If we look at DNA as the Body’s blue­print, Pro­teins are the labor force in the body with over one mil­lion spe­cial­ties.  

Pro­teins are strings of Amino Acids that form together to cre­ate a pro­tein that can act as an enzyme crit­i­cal to the meta­bolic func­tions of the body. They are also pro­duced as actin and myosin in the mus­cu­lar struc­ture and act as the frame­work to main­tain the cel­lu­lar struc­ture. Other pro­teins are impor­tant in cell sig­nal­ing, immune responses, cell adhe­sion, and the cell cycle.  Amino Acids in their most usable form are abun­dant in fruits and veg­eta­bles.  Meats (Beef, Pork, Poultry and Fish)  most be bro­ken down by enzymes into amino acids for the body to use them.  Despite what you might have heard about need­ing two sim­ple car­bo­hy­drates to form a com­plete pro­tein, the truth is that all Plant Life must con­tain all Amino Acids to exist. Sim­ple car­bo­hy­drates are things such as white rice, bleached flour,potatos with­out the skin. Basi­cally plant foods that have been refined and processed for fla­vor and texture.