How You Control Your Health

February 16, 2010

Interview with William Sears, M.D., author of the book Prime-Time Health: A Scientifically Proven Plan for Feeling Young and Living Longer

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Mike Carruthers:
How healthy you are and how healthy you stay is in large part up to you.

William Sears, M.D.:
I think that many people don’t realize for example, that their bodies make their own internal medicine – that if you do certain things, your body is a walking pharmacy.

Dr. William Sears, author of the book Prime-Time Health…

And this won The Nobel Prize, this particular discovery, that the largest endocrine system in your body is your endothelium, which is the lining of your blood vessels (it’s larger than a surface of a tennis court) and in the lining are many glands ( I call them millions of microscopic medicine bottles) and those medicine bottles will spew out just about all the medicines you need to stay healthy.

This is one of the reasons that exercise is so important.

When you move the blood flows faster across the surface of this (I call it silver lining) and unleashes this giant pharmacy inside and that’s what keeps you healthy.

And what kind of medicine is released into your blood vessels?

Medicines that regulate your blood pressure, the blood sugar, your blood cholesterol - medicines that are anti-depressants, medicines that are anti-arthritis, anti-inflammatory. And if you think about it, I’ve just mentioned most of the medicines that people take and it’s right there in your own pharmacy within.
 

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