Health

How Can You Keep Your DNA Young?

Telomeres protect our chromosomes, with telomere length related to several age-related diseases, cancer, and lifespan.

Michael Hunter, MD
8 min readSep 15, 2020

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Photo by National Cancer Institute on Unsplash

Faust, the eponymous protagonist in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s famous play, asks Mephistopheles in the chapter Hexenküche (Witches’ kitchen) what he can do to improve his…

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Michael Hunter, MD

I have degrees from Harvard, Yale, and Penn. I am a radiation oncologist in the Seattle area. You may find me regularly posting at www.newcancerinfo.com