Nutrition for a Healthy Life

From the minute we're born, we're aging.

Constant exposure to our environment, the things we eat, and stresses from both inside

and outside our bodies all cause us to age over time.

Aging is highly complex, but scientists are starting to understand what happens at the

cellular and molecular levels.

For example, healthy cells are damaged over time when our immune systems shift from reacting

to short-term problems like injuries and infections, to gradually producing chronic inflammation

throughout the body.

Time also gradually shortens the telomeres that act as protective caps for our DNA-containing

chromosomes.

These and other changes make our bodies less and less able to deal with stress from inside