Dr. David Sinclair

Yeah, and though it's imperceptible, I believe that that's probably accelerating your aging process.

Well, every time you break your chromosome, you're rearranging your epigenome in a catastrophic way that doesn't fully reset, and your cell will lose its identity faster.

I also believe and have some evidence that even going to a rock concert and blasting your eardrums is such a stress on those cells in your ear that the reason that you become deaf earlier is because your ear hair cells are getting older faster.

You don't want to break the DNA.

You don't want to cause catastrophe to your fragile cells in your body because the recovery isn't complete and aging ensues.

Well, here's the good news, that you can have a big impact on your rate of aging by changing your lifestyle.

It turns out your DNA is not your destiny.

It's the epigenome.

So that how you live your life is really 80 to 90% of your rate of aging.

That's good.

It's in your hands.

But it also means that some people mess up their lives.

There are actually twin studies from mostly from Denmark, identical twins, one that goes and smokes and gets obese and goes in the sun.

And they are much older looking than their identical twin, essentially proving that the DNA is not the reason you age.

First of all, they're going to be people in the audience who are listening or watching who have gray hair saying, damn it, I'm not old.

And that's true.

I mean, nobody died of gray hair, right?

And sometimes genetically you can get gray old, but not be physically old.

What is true that's often not comfortable is how old you look is a very good representation of how old you are in your organs as well.

So doing the right thing.