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“A recent study published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience demonstrated that while most forms of exercise slow down age-related decline, dancing has even more profound benefits. Considered a psychosocial intervention, dancing combines the mood-elevating effects of increased social interaction with improvements in brain function, cardiac fitness, and overall quality of life. Mastering new rhythms, steps, and formations, in combination with increased social engagement, provides a boost to brain activity that creates additional cognitive benefits.”
― Sayer Ji, Regenerate: Unlocking Your Body's Radical Resilience through the New Biology

“Epigenetic factors, or factors beyond the control of your genes (such as diet, lifestyle, environmental exposures, and mindset), almost exclusively determine your life-span and quality of life.”
― Sayer Ji, Regenerate: Unlocking Your Body's Radical Resilience through the New Biology

“In fact, certain foods and lifestyle practices can unlock immense self-regenerative energetic resources within your cells, optimizing DNA expression and making them more important in affecting your health than any other single factor.”
― Sayer Ji, Regenerate: Unlocking Your Body's Radical Resilience through the New Biology

“MSG tricks our taste buds into finding a nutritionally vapid substance loaded with semi-synthetic ingredients designed to be ravishingly delicious. Inevitably, over time, real food appears less attractive and less satisfying of our cravings.”
― Sayer Ji, Regenerate: Unlocking Your Body's Radical Resilience through the New Biology

“Today, our industrialized food culture divests us of the deeply rooted evolutionary symbiosis between the animal and plant kingdoms, as well as the biological information plants provide, putting us at greater risk for a wide range of diseases.”
― Sayer Ji, Regenerate: Unlocking Your Body's Radical Resilience through the New Biology

“Indeed, the Casimir effect and other zero-point energy-harnassing processes are operative at the most fundamental building blocks of our biological architecture. [p. 88]”
― Sayer Ji, Regenerate: Unlocking Your Body's Radical Resilience through the New Biology

“Wherever you may be on your life’s journey, every day you can make choices and decisions that will help make your body more capable of regeneration and radical resilience.”
― Sayer Ji, Regenerate: Unlocking Your Body's Radical Resilience through the New Biology

“What we eat, drink, and inhale, then, are critical determinants of the structural and functional integrity in our bodies.”
― Sayer Ji, Regenerate: Unlocking Your Body's Radical Resilience through the New Biology

“Green and yellow vegetables are wonderful sources of antioxidants and beta-carotene, which promote clear skin.”
― Sayer Ji, Regenerate: Unlocking Your Body's Radical Resilience through the New Biology

“This doctrine has been rejected as a form of magical thinking, but the New Biology explains a possible scientific mechanism by which these two seemingly unrelated entities—the walnut and the human brain—mirror one another so literally and poetically. Because plants and animals have co-evolved intimately over countless millennia and have become dependent on one another for various functions, the visual homologies may speak to the existence of an informational bridge through which genetic/epigenetic information has flowed. Thanks to the New Biology, we now know that exosomes allow plants and animals to share RNA-coded genetic information of significant impact with one another. As the entire biosphere participates in this exosome-based information-sharing network, it is plausible the resemblance of walnuts to the mammalian brain reflects their intimate genetic connection and interdependency? Not surprisingly, abundant research has established that walnuts boost cognition, including inferential verbal reasoning abilities,66 especially supporting the brain health of the elderly when consumed daily. Researchers from Harvard University and Brigham and Women’s Hospital estimated that women who are 70 years or older saw a reduction in cognitive decline equivalent to two years.67”
― Sayer Ji, Regenerate: Unlocking Your Body's Radical Resilience through the New Biology

“distance running has shown me that suffering and joy are two sides of the same coin. If you persist beyond what you thought your limitations were and succeed, you can build the confidence and resilience that is your birthright.”
― Sayer Ji, Regenerate: Unlocking Your Body's Radical Resilience through the New Biology

“Music, which may be the most ancient form of human expression and ecstatic experience, has the potential to restore hormonal and immunological balance and improve neurodegenerative disorders by stimulating the formation of new brain cells and neural connectivity.”
― Sayer Ji, Regenerate: Unlocking Your Body's Radical Resilience through the New Biology

“When we allow our evolutionary compass to guide us home to ourselves, we naturally gravitate toward certain foods and avoid others. In the next chapter, we will explore some of the frontiers in the science of food and energy and learn how to assess new inventions, sidestep those that make us sick, and navigate toward the inputs that best align with what our bodies need and crave at a cellular level.”
― Sayer Ji, Regenerate: Unlocking Your Body's Radical Resilience through the New Biology