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so today I want to talk about the

anti-aging benefits of using olive oil

there’s an interesting study I’ll post

down below that exposes someone’s blood

to damaging hydrogen peroxide it’s a

very powerful oxidizing agent with and

without olive oil now when you expose

anything to hydrogen peroxide you’re

gonna get oxidation but apparently olive

oil has a phenol which is a final

nutrient it’s a very powerful

antioxidant so the results of the study

showed significant reduction and

oxidative damage to someone’s DNA as you

age your genes become more damaged you

become more susceptible to getting

damaged and you have less repair and the

actual length of your chromosomes get a

little bit shorter there’s something

called telomeres which is a protein that

kind of protects the end of your genes

so when these become shorter there seems

to be a very big relationship between

your longevity okay

shorter telomeres means you don’t live

as long and that makes sense because the

more damage you have to your genes or

breaks and your genes the more diseases

you’re gonna have now phenols are a very

powerful antioxidant that can counter or

neutralize oxidants okay what’s an

oxidant well the original definition was

exposing something to oxygen and you’re

losing an electron okay so a free

radical is an unpaired electron if you

take an atom and you have let’s say two

electrons and let’s say it’s spinning

it’s going to be very very symmetrical

and it’s going to be very stable but if

you’re getting rid of an electron and

you only have one electron apparently

the atom now doesn’t spin that well and

get out of control and it’s going to be

looking for other electrons to stabilize

itself so it’s going to rob and steal

electrons from other tissues in the

nearby area and there’s millions of

these things so you can see that these

free radicals are very damaging to

tissues okay for example when you expose

oxygen to iron you get rust okay it’s

very excited well that’s what happens

inside your body

your body makes oxidants and you get

them from the environment okay and your

body also makes antioxidants and you can

get those from your food but the phenols

which is a final nutrient in the olive

oil is very protective against your DNA

especially in the mitochondria

now why is that well what’s unique about

the mitochondria is that it has its own

DNA okay so you have the DNA inside the

nucleus in all the cells then you have

this external mitochondria that has its

own DNA it uses the DNA from nucleus as

well but it also has the ability to make

its own DNA and there is some type of

communication between the two but the

fact that you have mitochondria with DNA

that is outside this highly protective

vault this nucleus of the cell makes the

DNA very susceptible to becoming damaged

especially from oxidation and in the

mitochondria that’s where you have the

energy Factory so you have all this

oxygen and fuel being burned up there’s

get a lot more oxidation free radicals

in that area and many chronic diseases

including cancer originate in the

mitochondria probably for that reason

now here’s the big problem most of the

oils out there I’m talking about

vegetable oils are not antioxidants okay

there are oxidants they create damage to

the body and I’m talking about soy oil

corn oil cottonseed oil canola but olive

oil is definitely the opposite of that

it’s an antioxidant it gives

anti-inflammatory properties so

definitely use olive oil in your salad

make sure it’s extra virgin thanks for

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