Telomeres

What are telomeres?

• Telomeres are protective caps found at the end of a strand of DNA that prevent your DNA from fraying and sticking together.

What do telomeres do?

• Telomeres shorten each time a strand of DNA divides
• When a telomere reaches a certain shortness, the DNA either dies or enters into a state of dormancy

My Question

• I wanted to know what external factors decrease the length of your telomeres?
• I also wanted to know what an individual can do to address these problems.

How do you keep your telomeres long?

• Based on the information I found I have created a health plan including the following catagories: diet, stress relief, and exercise

What Is a Telomere?

Diet

Diet: Daily

• To keep your telomeres as long as possible research suggests that a Mediterranean diet can help preserve telomeres

Diet: Weekly

• Eating a balanced diet and the right quantity of food can also help you lose weight and boost your immune system
• Having an extreme amount of stress this week? Believe it or not diet can also help with stress managment

Diet: Monthly

• Make sure that you eat foods from a variety of foods groups

Diet: Yearly

• Eating organic foods may help save your telomeres

Exercise

Exercise: Daily

• At least 30 minutes of exercise daily can benefit a persons overall health and help your imune system

Exercise: Weekly

• An average amount of exercise per week can also help reduce stress which also helps your body

Exercise: Monthly

• The more you can vary the muscles you are exercising the better
• Each muscle has a unique role in maintaining your health

Exercise: Yearly

• As you exercise more your body begins to gain a routine of recovery and cell replacement

Stress Relief

Stress Relief: Daily

• Getting a sufficient amount of sleep can help reduce stress
• Also a healthy diet and a valid amount of exercise can help reduce stress

Stress Relief: Weekly

• Making lists and having a high level of organization in multiple aspects of life is helpful to reduce stress

Stress Relief: Monthly

• Having a reasonable amount of sociality in life also benefits health

Stress Relief: Yearly

• Make sure you adress abnormal amounts with the proper remady
• The amount of stress you have can change what you need to do to manage that stress

What I learned

• I learned that there are many aspects that shorten your telomeres
• But the good news is that there are also lots of ways that you can lengthen your telomeres

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Conclusion

• Telomeres may only be part of the aging process but taking better care of your telomeres leads to better health all around
• If you want to know more you can view my presentation with the link provided on the sheet and click on the links in my resentation or you can do some research of your own

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