Every second of our lives, the world that we go to work in, go to school in and go home in is in constant battle with the hidden world of our bodies. During this 24/7 battle, there are three important factors that decide whether you’ll be healthy or sick.
Environmental specialist Douglas Mulhall has uncovered that there is much more than what meets the eye when it comes to health, and how important elastic fibers in our bodies really are to wellbeing.
The space between your cells contains things that make your body healthy and sick, including Extracellular Vesicles (EVs) for messaging, elastic fiber and elastin for flexibility, collagen for strength, calcification that makes up healthy bones but also hardens arteries, and enzymes that drive reactions. Part of the Extracellular Matrix was recently named the 80th organ, and it’s the largest organ in the body.
“Most people have never heard of the biggest space in their body or what’s inside it. Nor have they heard of the trillions of tiny particles that run their body’s business every second. Researchers and science books focus on cells and DNA. Yet, without that space, neither cells nor DNA would function. The elastic fibers of the body drive every move we make and every breath we take. In those places, a war rages between the stealthy infections and toxic metals that make us sick, and the immune system that’s supposed to keep us healthy. Welcome to the invisible world of you!” says Mulhall.
Can you share a little bit about elastic fibers in our body and how they contribute to health?
The elastic fiber in your body is truly the Elastic of Life. It drives every move you make and every breath you take. It’s like the strands in a bungee cord.
It’s in your heart, arteries, lungs, tendons, and organs.
It’s made from the longest lasting protein in your body. It stretches 3 - 8 times its standing length then snaps back in a fraction of a second, billions of times in your life. It’s one of the things that lets you give birth then get back into shape. Stretch marks show when the elastic is damaged.
This elastic isn’t the collagen in skin that you’ve heard about. Collagen only gives strength. The elastic gives flexibility.
No one could fix it until recently. After 25 years it starts degrading and isn’t replaced. That’s why your skin sags and your arteries stiffen. No FDA approved drug or surgery is available. But that’s about to change.
What are some ways that people can protect the health of these tiny spaces in our body?
Smoking, chronic infection, toxic metals, repetitive stress, all degrade this elastic. You can slow the damage by eating foods like berries that are rich in polyphenols that protect elastin. Most of the fixes that you hear about for skin elasticity are aimed at collagen, not elastin. The great news is that at least 3 therapies that slow or reverse the hardening of elastin are in various stages of development. That’s one of the things my upcoming book describes. A new product that contains a patented ingredient to restore elastic in skin is called Neolastin. This is based on research at Clemson University in South Carolina.
What are some important factors driving health?
Your immune system has a love-hate relationship with your environment. We depend on the environment for survival, but it alsp trains our immune system to turn against us during chronic environmental attacks. If you get a minor cut or infection, your inflammatory response is designed to patch you up. But if you keep getting cut or infected, the same response turns into an inflammation storm that damages and hardens tissue. We can’t change that defect, but we can reduce exposure to the triggers.. For more information visit www.natureoflongevity.com Read about the upcoming book.
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