From Parade Mag 07..... because yall know that wrinkles arent in my vocabulary. “How We Can Stop Normal Aging” “Your body is made up of trillions of cells that live mostly for a few weeks or months, die, and are replaced by new cells in an endocycle. For example, your taste buds live only a few hours. White blood cells live 2 days and your muscle cells live about 3 months. Even your bones dissolve and are replaced over and over again. A few key stem cells in each organ and your brain cells are the only ones that stick around for the duration. All of your other cells are in a constant state of renewal. You replace about 1% of your cells every day. That means 1% of your body is brand new today and you will get another 1% tomorrow. Think of it as getting a whole new body every 3 months. Viewed that way, you are walking around in a body that is brand new since Christmas. You have new lungs, new liver, new muscles, new skin. Look down at your legs and realize that you are going to have new ones by the 4th of July. Whether that body is functioning younger or older is a choice you make by how you live. You choose whether those new cells come in stronger or weaker. You choose whether they grow or decay each day from then on. Your cells don’t care which choice you make. They just follow the directions you send!”
Posted on: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 00:00:56 +0000
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