Mike Roussell: Hi guys, Mike Roussell here with another drive into the lab video blog as you can see I am buckled up today. Yesterday, how about you guys called me out and I was having my seat belt on, which I can issue this was mistake. I'm chronic seat belt wear, just forget it, but to get a kick out of the man with your intelligence, you think you buckle up comments.
So, I appreciate you guys looking out for my well being. Couple of comments, questions from yesterday's video blog about using green tea and powered green tea, yes, you can use you know straight green tea in your shakes if you wanted to, the powered green tea just offers a little bit more of a convenience. The other question was, is there a greater any oxidant benefit coming from the powdered green tea versus actual the green tea that you would steak.
I wouldn't imagine so, I think whether you get more any oxidants or not or probably more be a function of how much because you could use you know more powder if you wanted to, it would be easily to -- easily add the more powered green tea into your shake set. I recommend you don't over do it because then the taste really takes over, but anyway, so move it on to the stuff there as I'm going to talk about today with multivitamins and antiaging.
I know I've been talking about the story for a couple days, but immediately, I have that chance to really kind of dig down into the study, but I was able to kind of give it a quick ones over to I'll let you know exactly what it's about. Basically, what it is, it's has to do with telomerase, which I think I had mentioned yesterday. So, telomerase are the structures that sit on the end of your chromosomes, and as your chromosomes replicate these telomerase get shorter and shorter, and then eventually when they're gone the chromosome will degrade and the cells die.
So it's a marker of aging because the more a cell replicates, it's kind of like the older it is and more replicates the short of the telomerase, and into telomerase has been associated with mortality as well. So, what this study did was there was about five or six hundred women, and they gave them food frequency questionnaires basically finding out you know how many times we do eat fish, how often do you take multivitamin stuff like that, frequency of eating questions; then they also measured telomerase in their leukocyte so and some there, I mean you know there are some cells. Now what they found was that the people who took multivitamin on average the multivitamin takers took multivitamins.
A set of multivitamins 75% of the time or 75% of the dates, which would actually pretty impressive and think about it because as a general rule with supplements I think a lot of people have trouble being consistent about it.
Today, what I think was with was with the multivitamin takers that their telomerase were five percent longer, which also then translated into almost ten years, it was like 9.2 years difference in biological age, which is amazing, if you think about it. Almost ten years, so that's really cool and one of the problems with the study was, what do they think you know like why is this, they're showing magical about multivitamins. I don't think it's necessarily and the researchers don't either they're staying magical about multivitamins, but I seems as if though vitamins and minerals and maybe any oxidants play a role in preserving telomerase.
So that's is that these people taking these multivitamins are basically the multivitamin, multi-mineral or whatever is used a protective mechanism from oxidative stress and damage. So, you could really and so you get the same effect by eating lots of fruits and vegetables you know high any oxidant for those things like that. One of the problems though with the study was that, that research none of those hard, it's hard to teach out exactly what those people probably think, I'm crazy talking myself.
It's hard to tease out exactly what the mechanism you know what was the multivitamin or what the vitamin or what was the mineral that was having the effect because you know as you know a multivitamin is going to have 25 or 30 different compounds and bearing the amounts. So just with a food frequency quetionnaires, it's kind of a broad stroke away and getting that more people or eating.
So, bottom line what we're talking right here. Any oxidants, vitamin and minerals very important, so much so that it can add a ten extra biological years to your life in regards to telomerase and aging, which is amazing. I recommend you take a multivitamin everyday, not to meet your vitamin and mineral needs, but as an insurance policy to make sure that you're getting adequate amounts, we use our diet, fruits vegetables, whole grains things like that to get the bulk of our vitamins and minerals, but then we just toss it a multivitamin to make sure we got all our basis covered.
I saw a couple of video, it's a YouTube video; I think I saw it from Doctor Jumper already he had been talking about basically there is some scandals with supplements being tainted with performance enhancers and olympic athletes are getting in trouble. They're making a case that you know the supplement seem to be regulated, and one of the reasons is that because people need the supplements because so many athletes have various vitamin and mineral efficiencies.
So vitamin and mineral supplement is important, but the bulk of this should really come from your diet and it's going to help you live longer. So live longer at the end, it's Friday, so I'll back on Monday with some more video and my folks come over this weekend, hoping, hoping. They're going to watch the kids and we're going to got the movies I'm pulling for terminator, but we've been in movies on probably eight months, so and I'm like triggered terminator for the first time. In eight months when we go to the film and we're waiting to see something we'll both enjoy a little bit.
So hope you guys have a great weekend try to get in some metabolic or some exercise and I'll see you on Monday, okay? Later.
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