Proteins and DNA: Their role in Anti-Aging
Proteins and DNA: Did you know…
- Proteins are the active mechanisms in our cells, the molecular workhorses of life.
- Proteins float around inside our cells or attach to membranes that are also inside cells.
- When a protein bumps into one of the molecules it can attach to, the protein goes to work and performs the chemical steps of life.
- Proteins give our cells their shape and function.
- Proteins also allow the cells to produce chemicals and release them outside the cell wall, into the extracellular solutions, for example, the blood.
How do proteins know where to go?
Proteins are created in our cells by other proteins interacting with DNA and RNA. The DNA has the assembly instructions for how the protein is put together, and the RNA, very similar looking to the DNA, carries the message to wherever the protein assembly needs to take place, away and out of the nucleus where the DNA is fixed.
How do the proteins and cells know what they are supposed to do?
If a cell doesn’t have the code for a specific protein, the protein doesn’t get made. Some specialized cells produce specific kinds of protein that other cells don’t, even though all the cells in a body carry the same exact DNA. Some genes, or sequences of DNA information that code for the production of a protein, are expressed more or less depending on what kind of cell it is. Hair follicle cells produce keratin protein abundantly, other cells in the same body produce none at all. In a man, testicle cells not only produce sperm cells, but those same cells create a chemical signal to the other cells in the body. That chemical signal that gets released into the blood by the testicle cells is called Testosterone.
The instructions that a cell follows at any one given time are regulated by the role of the cell, defined by the local environment the cell is in. If the cell is in a hair follicle, the cell does what the other hair follicle cells are doing. If a cell is in the testicles, it does what the other testicle cells are doing: producing and releasing testosterone.
Mutations? How do they happen?
Different people carry different genes that have anything from a slight impact on the production of proteins; other genes that differ from person to person create drastic changes. For example, skin color or eye color are defined by whether the cell produces melanin or not. Some genes might also define whether the body produces something critical for health, or the degree to which the body produces that component. If a gene is so broken that it fails to do what it’s working version does, we call that broken coding a mutation. Most mutations don’t produce amazing X-men type effects. Most mutations are just broken mechanisms because the information used to assemble them is corrupted in the DNA. Part of the blueprint for the protein got scrambled, misplaced, or erased, during a mutation, and now the blueprint is virtually worthless.
The great part is that Growth Hormone actually has the ability to reverse mutations in our cells. Maintaining healthy hormone levels is the key way to maximize our cellular regeneration process and efficiency. Please contact us at your earliest convince so we may help you by answering any additional questions and by helping you through the qualification process for legal hGH and/or Testosterone therapy.
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