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Let's have a look at standard American aging. Barbara had a baby when she was 34, gave up exercise and gained 50 pounds. Exhausted and depressed, Barbara thought youth, energy and optimism where all in her rearview mirror.
John and Barbara weren't getting old; they had let their bodies decay. Most aging is just the dry rot we program into our cells by sedentary living, junk food and stress. Yes, we do have to get old, and ultimately we do have to die. But our bodies are designed to age slowly and remarkably well. Most of what we see and fear is decay, and decay is only one choice. Growth is the other.
John, 55, had fallen even farther down the slippery slope. He was stuck in the corporate world of stress, long hours and donuts. At 255 pounds, he had knees that hurt and a back that ached. He developed high blood pressure and eventually diabetes. Life was looking grim. Finish
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A new you, or the same old you - you choose!


Whether you are 6, 16 or 65, your body replaces 300 BILLION cells every day. That's the good news, but there’s a catch. Beginning at about 30, the new cells are not as healthy as the cells they are replacing. Your body is made up of trillions of cells that live mostly for a few weeks or months die and are constantly replaced by new cells. For example, your taste buds live only a few hours, white blood cells live about three months. Even your bones dissolve and are replaced, over and over again. A few key stem cells in each organ and your brain cells are the only ones that stick around for the duration. All of your other cells are in a constant state of renewal.


Although people may think of their body as a fairly permanent structure, most of it is in a state of constant flux as old cells are discarded and new ones generated in their place. Each kind of tissue has its own turnover time, depending in part on the workload endured by its cells. The cells lining the stomach last only five days. The red blood cells bruised and battered after traveling nearly 1,000 miles through the maze of the body's circulatory system, last only 120 days or so on average before being dispatched to their graveyard in the spleen.


You replace about 1% of your cells every day. That means 1% of your body is brand-new today, and you will get another 1% tomorrow. Think of it as getting a whole new body every three months. Though not entirely accurate, it’s pretty close. With that in mind, you are walking around in a body that is brand-new since three months ago – new lungs, new muscles, new skin, etc. Take a look at your legs and realize that you will have new ones in another few months.


The key to staying younger longer is to keep producing healthy cells

Whether your “new body” is functionally younger or older is a choice you make by how you live! You choose whether those new cells come in stronger or weaker. Your cells don’t care which choice you make, they just work with what you give them.


Exercise, and your cells get stronger; don’t exercise, and they decay. When you exercise, your muscles release specific substances that travel throughout your bloodstream, telling your cells to grow. Sedentary muscles, on the other hand, let out a steady trickle of chemicals that whisper to every cell to decay, day after day after day. An active lifestyle can tip the balance in your body toward growth and renewal.

Men, who go from sedentary to fit, cut their risk of dying from a heart attack by 75% over five years. Women cut their risk by 80% - and heart attacks are the largest single killer of women. Both men and women can double their leg strength with three months of exercise and most can double it again in another three months. This is true whether you’re in your 30s or 90s.


Eat more “real” God-made-food, full of enzymes and nutrients, and less “fake” man-made-food, full of preservatives and void of enzymes and nutrients, and you can change your body. You can restructure how you look, how you feel, how you perform, how you think, and how you age. It’s not a miracle or a mystery. It’s the biology that God gave you, and put you in charge of!

Why not decide to become the new you today?
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