How to Turn Back Your Biological Clock

Inflammaging is chronic low-grade inflammation that develops with advanced age. It accelerates the process of biological aging and contributes to many age-related diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease, atherosclerosis, type 2 diabetes, cancer, and chronic heart diseases. Inflammation is clearly one of the root causes of most diseases. It causes us to age more rapidly, but if we implement certain lifestyle changes, our actual age might be higher than our biological age. Yes, I can show you how to turn back your biological clock!

All eight steps in my book “Unleash Your God-given Healing” decrease disease and inflammaging. Why? Because they enable your God-given immune system to work as God intended. Fasting is another way to keep inflammation and aging processes in check. COVID-19 is looking for weaknesses in our armor. And inflammation is behind the top comorbidities which are causing an exaggerated reaction to the virus in the form of a cytokine storm—heart disease, type 2 diabetes, lung disease, and kidney disease

Age is the number one risk factor for complications with COVID-19. Obesity as seen in this article, is the number two risk factor. So anything we can do to improve our biological health and reduce our BMI to within normal ranges will help.

A few years ago, I was involved in an online week of intermittent fasting with 7500 other people and Dr. David Perlmutter. He is a well-respected neurologist and bestselling author who has also become quite a proponent of intermittent fasting for the health of our body and brain.

Interviews were posted during that week and below is a part of a very interesting discussion about Inflammaging with Dr. Jeffrey Bland:

Dr. Bland – There are many, many studies now demonstrating that if you can reverse the biological age of your immune system if you do time-restricted feeding or fasting. “Yes,” he said, “You can repattern the immune system through the process of autophagy, to get rid of these senescent zombie cells and to replace them with young, fresh, active immune cells through a process of how you eat, when you eat, and the amount you eat. Dr. Bland even referenced studies that were done in the 1950s and 1960s showing that caloric restriction in animals could lead to upwards of a 30% increase in their longevity.

Dr. Perlmutter: I’d like you to tell us more about that, how that might be beneficial for our immune function. The process of autophagy activates the ability of our body to cleanse damaged cells while also simultaneously leading the renewal of new immune cells. By getting rid of these damaged cells that are the building blocks of inflammation, you’re also getting rid of the burden of inflammation. Dr. Bland says that this enhances the resilience of your cells to be able to handle the stresses of living including coping with viruses—yes even Covid-19 more effectively.

According to Dr. Bland, “It’s not just what you eat, but it’s how you eat and when you eat. And this is also important in modulating our biological function, our biological age, and our process of aging.

Fasting reverses the biological age of our immune system. This is great news as we continue to face covid-19 and as I put a plan in place to prevent the recurrence of my cancer. This autophagy is key to our health and allows our biological age to be younger than our actual age. That’s good news. And after one week of intermittent fasting, I’ve reduced my body weight by three pounds.

With my body tending towards blood sugar issues, I use intermittent fasting to help balance my blood sugar. I do avoid fasting for more than a few days due to my tendency towards type 2 diabetes and hypoglycemia.

So here’s what I do to lower inflammaging. I simply don’t eat anything until 12 noon three days a week. That means I only drink water or drinks that contain no calories like black coffee or herbal teas. This also helps to keep my body weight down. I’ve had many friends who lost many pounds using intermittent fasting.

What are you doing to reverse the biological age of your immune system? Would your doctor approve for you to do intermittent fasting several times a week. Keep in mind, that this is generally not advisable for those with type1 diabetes.

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How to Turn Back Your Biological Clock

For Your Health,

Ginny

Ginny Dent Brant is a speaker and writer who grew up in the halls of power in Washington, DC. She has battled cancer, ministered around the world, and served on the front lines of American culture as a counselor, educator, wellness advocate, and adjunct professor. Brant’s award-winning book, Finding True Freedom: From the White House to the World, was endorsed by Chuck Colson and featured in many TV and media interviews. Unleash Your God-Given Healing: Eight Steps to Prevent and Survive Cancer was released in May 2020 after her journey with cancer and was recently awarded the First Place Golden Scrolls Award for Memoirs, a finalist in Serious Writers Book of the Decade, and Second Place in both Selah Awards for Memoirs and Director’s Choice Award for Nonfiction at the Blue Ridge Mountain Christian Writer’s Conference. It recently received the Christian Authors Network’s (CAN) Gold Award for Excellence in Marketing for reaching 62.5 million people with a message of cancer prevention and survival. It was written with commentary from an oncologist and was featured on CBN’s Healthy Living Show, Atlanta Live, and CTN’s Homekeepers along with over 75 media outlets. Learn more and cancer and wellness prevention blog and book information at www.ginnybrant.com. Ginny is on YouTube