In our previous blog post which you can read here, we gave you four foods you can add to your diet to naturally “ramp up” your stem cell production.
They’re very common foods accessible to everyone but are powerhouses when it comes to your stem cells.
Today, we’re going to let you in on a few enemies of stem cell growth.
Things you can avoid to keep your stem cells happy and their production chuggin’ along.
Without any further adieu, let’s get into it.
NUMBER ONE: INFLAMMATION
In the blog post we mentioned above, all of the foods had one thing in common.
The fact that they drastically reduced inflammation.
Although they had a host of other benefits, reducing inflammation was the common theme.
Why?
Because aside from the other negative health effects inflammation brings, derailing your stem cell production is one of the biggest.
Inflammation decreases your bodies ability to support, grow and maintain stem cells.
Conquering this single step will not only increase your overall health, but your stem cells greatly.
NUMBER TWO: OXIDATIVE STRESS
Oxidative stress is when your body has more free radicals than antioxidants. Free
radicals are molecules with an uneven number of electrons.
That means they easily react with other molecules. Free radicals can cause chemical reactions in your body because they are so reactive.
These reactions are called oxidation.
When there are more free radicals than can be kept in balance by antioxidants, the
free radicals can start doing damage to your body.
Specifically, free radicals have been known to damage fatty tissue, DNA, and proteins in your body.
Foods such as blueberries, blackberries, and raspberries help you combat oxidative stress.
NUMBER THREE: SLEEP
Sleep isn’t a suggestion, every human being on the planet knows that.
Every single one of us goes to sleep at night, no questions asked.
If a human being doesn’t get enough sleep, we don’t function properly the next day.
When we neglect our sleep over a long enough period of time we can suffer severe health problems and, in a worst case scenario, we can die.
When you don’t get enough sleep, you body goes into survival mode.
Certain functions slow down and others stop working. Only the necessities are left functioning at full capacity.
One bodily function that is greatly affected?
Yep. Stem cell production.
Your body doesn’t have enough energy to grow and maintain your stem cells so after enough time stem production will come to a stand still.
Whatever your stem cell related goals may be, if you’re looking to naturally increase them, avoiding these three things will sky rocket your bodies ability to produce them.
These things take little effort, little time, and are “brain dead” simple.
Do yourself a favor…
Implement one of these things today.
You stem cells, overall health, and future self with thank you.
