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Your genes are not your fate - Dean Ornish

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Dean Ornish shares new research that shows how adopting healthy lifestyle habits can affect a person at a genetic level. For instance, he says, when you live healthier, eat better, exercise, and love more, your brain cells actually increase.

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Walking for three hours per week for only three months cause so many new neurons to grow that it actually increased the size of people's brains.

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