Information for Patients: You Can Live a Longer Healthier Life Now
Scientists have learned that a mutation or change in a single gene can double the lifespan in some animals. They have also learned that most things that decrease lifespan and make us age faster don’t cause mutations. They cause changes in which genes are switched on or activated or switched off or deactivated. The science of gene regulation is called epigenetics. Increased abdominal fat, tobacco smoke, and stress switch on genes that should be switched off to make us age faster and develop chronic illnesses like cancer, hardening of the arteries, and diabetes sooner. Medications like lisinopril. losartan, statins, spironolactone, eplerenone, metformin, and empagliflozin all block the bad effects of these genes that are switched on and should be switched off. When you take these medications together and you have type 2 diabetes, you live 8 years longer and heart attack or stroke are delayed by eight years on average. That proves humans can live longer healthier lives now. Ask your doctor about beginning optimal medical therapy. That is all you need to get these benefits. It works so much better because it blocks the things that make you age and get sick faster.