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Page 22 | Abby's Magazine | instagram.com/abbyshealthfood As we covered in this article, we are born with specific cells, called stem cells, which are able to divide, creating new cells of any type needed in the body. These are embryonic cells, in that they never became a specific cell type: muscle, bone, organ cell, etc. Those cells are fixed. But these stem cells are not. They contain the full blueprints for every type of cell there is. But… we only have so many of them, and they can each only divide so many times. So, when we injure our cells, accidentally, through workouts, or just through the normal hammer and pound activities of the day, these stem cells divide to create new cells to replace the old, injured cells, or to create new muscle cells to grow muscle. And every time they do, a tiny piece of the telomeres in the stem cells gets snipped off, shortening them. These telomeres are like tiny tails, and their length determines how many more divisions that stem cell can make to create new cells, before it can make no more. Now, while it's been found that these telomeres can be lengthened again to some degree (just look at Jack Lalanne, the golden age bodybuilder who lived, quite healthily, to 96), anything that would needlessly destroy cells, causing these stem cells to use one of their divisions would obviously be something we don't want. And toxins entering our body through food, water and air do this more than anything else. accelerate the aging process how By David Minkoff HOW TOXINS HARM OUR CELLS As of 2022 there were an estimated 350,000 chemicals used in the world, most of which get into our water supply. And according to the CDC, less than 100 of them are regulated by the Safe Drinking Water Act. That's a fifty-fold increase since 1950. These toxins stress our nervous system, raise cortisol levels, mess up our hormones, directly damage or kill cells, and even cause trouble for our unborn children, disrupting the process by which both their nervous systems and immune systems form. In short, they cause a great deal of harm to our cells, significantly increasing the need of these stem cells to divide and create new cells, snipping off a piece of the telomeres from the stem cells each time. Now, we know this, we know how harmful they are. But let's put this into perspective. Someone born in 1950 started out life receiving 50 times less toxins going into their bodies than a child today. Their mother had grown up receiving even less than that and so had less to pass onto them before birth as well. And they grew up on this much smaller toxic load. So, the amount of toxins injuring or destroying cells was much less. But now look at where we are today — 50 times as many chemicals as we had then, and many of them are much more toxic. These very definitely have an effect on our health. In some cases, it's quite obvious, but in most cases it's something we don't notice,