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This article was originally written by Jill Patton, NBC-HWC, an Experience Life contributing editor and a national board-certified health and wellness coach, for Experience Life.


This article was originally written by Jill Patton, NBC-HWC, an Experience Life contributing editor and a national board-certified health and wellness coach, for Experience Life.

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The bedside table light turns off, you slip into unconsciousness and the business of living is put on hold until you wake up in the morning. Except that’s not really how sleep works. While you’re conked out, the body is busily engaged in a slew of renovation and repair operations that human life depends on. And it’s the difference between good sleep – 7-9 hours a night – and insufficient poor-quality sleep that helps determine how well, nor not so well, we age. Sleeping well and enough helps tame the inflammation ages us and nearly every system in the body. So, if your body is operating in a high inflammation state, you’re aging faster, and in a low inflammation state, slower.

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There are many tools in the wellness toolbox but one you might not yet be familiar with is a favorite of mine known as tauroursodeoxycholic acid or ‘TUDCA.’ It’s been a staple of Chinese medicine for thousands of years, and is now gaining traction in the West as a well-tolerated compound with numerous potential health benefits for your digestion, brain, liver and so much more. Here’s my topline on this important health helper.
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