Thursday 20 December 2012
Dr. Andrew Weil - Healthy Aging - full show (short)
According to Dr. Andrew Weil, there's a lot we can do to stay healthy as we age. The Harvard M.D. is a best-selling author and director of the program of integrative medicine at the University of Arizona. In his new book, Dr. Weil shares his secrets for living better longer. It's called Healthy Aging: A Lifelong Guide to your Physical and Spiritual Well-Being.
Anti-Aging Keynote Speaker Ellen Wood Wows Audiences!!
Anti-aging expert, Grow Young Guide Ellen Wood, as seen with Deepak Chopra and Marianne Williamson on her website, http://www.howtogrowyounger.com, is a dynamic, enthusiastic speaker. Audiences and event planners rave about Ellen Wood's presentations on How to Grow Young! Ellen is a speaker, anti-aging coach, columnist and author of "The Secret Method for Growing Younger." For bookings, contact Ellen through her Keynote Speaker page on http://www.howtogrowyounger.com. Put JOY in the code on the SHOP page for 20% off her book and/or CD.
Abraham Hicks - An Easy Way To Change Old Beliefs
Published on Sep 23, 2012
Abraham, through Esther Hicks, speaks of the most important message of the great teachers.
It was my intention to make this video as simple as possible in order to keep the power of the words...although words don't teach. You may forget the words, but you will never forget how they made you FEEL.
I've made this video as a fan of the Abraham teachings. It's been a blast since I've started remembering who I am. My infinite thanks to Esther and Jerry Hicks for their invaluable work.
Notice: All Abraham material is Copyright by Abraham-Hicks Publications, whose website is at http://www.abraham-hicks.com.
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Staying Physically Active - Research on Aging
Published on Oct 6, 2011
Use it or lose it! Being physically active is one of the keys to staying healthy. Join expert Jacqueline Kerr, PhD, as she discusses her latest research on the benefits of exercise, what is recommended, and how to get started in a routine that is realistic and manageable to maintain.
Series: "Stein Institute for Research on Aging" [10/2011] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 20493]
Wednesday 19 December 2012
The Five Tibetan Rites - The RIGHT Way, Anti-Aging Tip from Ellen Wood
Tuesday 11 December 2012
Staying Physically Active - Research on Aging
Use it or lose it! Being physically active is one of the keys to staying healthy. Join expert Jacqueline Kerr, PhD, as she discusses her latest research on the benefits of exercise, what is recommended, and how to get started in a routine that is realistic and manageable to maintain.
Series: "Stein Institute for Research on Aging" [10/2011] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 20493]
Life Extension
This video explains how genetic medicine, nanotechnology, bioprinting, cryonics and several other developments may in future be used to increase the human lifespan.
More information can be found at http://explainingthefuture.com/life.html, or across several chapters of my book "25 Things You Need to Know About the Future". This is published by Constable in January 2012 -- for more details see http://explainingthefuture.com/25things
Longevity Subliminal Program
This Video Is Not Intended To Be A Cure All For Illness Or Dis-ease.Please Consult Your Physician.This Video May Be A Tool To Assist In Your Health And Well Being.The Mind Holds The Key To Health, Sickness, Success And Failure.This Is A Just Listen Audio Program Therefore You Do Not Have To Sit And Watch The Entire Length Of This Video.The List Of Commands Should Be Spoken To Yourself At Least 20 Times A Day.The Commands In This Audio Recording Are Embeded In The Ocean Wave Format Are As Follows:
My Immune System Heals Me.
You See Yourself Healthy Within.
My Body Is Well.
I Recapture My Youth.
It's Ok To Live Past 120.
I Release The Past.
Wellness.
My Cells Replicate Perfection.
You Are Whole And Complete.
I Am Healthy.
I Am Well On All Planes Of Existence.
Longevity.
You Are A Radiant Picture Of Health.
I Am Youth.
My Body Is A Miracle.
I Accept And Allow.
You Are Young
I am happy And Grateful.
Harmony.
Vibrant Continuous Energy.
My Life Force Is Strong In Me.
You Are Eternal.
My chakras Are Cleansed And Balanced.
Easily Effortlessly And Naturally.
You See Yourself Healthy Within.
I Activate My
Perspectives on Life Extension and the Prospect of Youthful Aging into Advanced Years
By Coralie R. Darsey Malloy
With information and references from Wikipedia.
My birthday is on New Year’s Eve and as I continue to take
my journeys around the sun the prospect
of turning 70 in 2012 has added to my lifelong interest in remaining youthful
and strong as we age and whether it is actually possible or just a pipe dream
of aging baby boomers who cannot confront the reality of their own mortality.
Whatever it is there is a burgeoning interest and scientific study in life
extension, immortality and youthful aging. I wrote this article to present some
of the perspectives, ideas, beliefs and answered questions about the
possibility and/or probability within some of this issues and concerns. One
thing is inarguable is that humanity has already extended their lifespan over
those of our ancestors. Whether we will continue to be able to do so will
remain to be seen…and experienced. If extended longevity does not occur in our
lifetime there is a very real possibility that it will for future lifetimes.
Youth is generally the time of life between childhood and
adulthood (maturity). Definitions of the specific age range that constitutes
youth vary. An individual's actual maturity may not correspond to their
chronological age, as immature individuals can exist at all ages. Youth is also
defined as "the appearance, freshness, vigor, spirit, etc., characteristic
of one who is young". Youth is a
term used for people of both genders, male and female, of young age. The term
"youth" usually refers to individuals between the ages of 16-24.
Around the world, the terms "youth", "adolescent",
"teenager", "kid", and "young person" are
interchanged, often meaning the same thing, occasionally differentiated. Youth
generally refers to a time of life that is neither childhood nor adulthood, but
rather somewhere in-between. Youth is an alternative word to the scientifically-oriented
adolescent and the common terms of teen and teenager. Another common title for
youth is young person or young people.
The term youth also identifies a particular mindset of
attitude, as in "he/she is very youthful". The term youth is also
related to looking, feeling and BE-ING young or in a state of
“youthfulness.” It is aptly interpreted
in a quotation by Robert Kennedy. “This world demands the qualities of youth:
not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of
imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for
adventure over the life of ease."
With more people living into advanced years there is a
growing interest in the idea of “youthing while aging. This view involves new
constructs within self-concepts. The
self-perception of youth is influenced by several variables such as peers,
lifestyle, gender and culture. Youthfulness in this context involves different
stages of life and how a person makes choices which will affect their
future. Those who are genuinely
interested in aging well and life extension science involves a number of
co-factors.
Life extension science is an umbrella term that is also
referred to as anti-aging medicine, experimental gerontology, and biomedical
gerontology, is the study of slowing down or reversing the processes of aging
to extend both the maximum and average lifespan. Some researchers in this area,
and "life extensionists" or "longevists" (those who wish to
achieve longer lives themselves), believe that future breakthroughs in tissue
rejuvenation with stem cells, molecular repair, and organ replacement (such as
with artificial organs or xenotransplantations will eventually enable humans to
have indefinite lifespans (agerasia) through complete rejuvenation to healthy, strong youthful conditions.
The sale of putative
anti-aging products such as nutrition, physical fitness, skin care, hormone
replacements, vitamins, supplements and herbs is a lucrative global industry,
with the US market generating about $50 billion of revenue each year. Medical experts state that the use of such
products has not been shown to affect the aging process, and many claims of
anti-aging medicine advocates have been roundly criticized by medical experts, including
the American Medical Association. However, it has not been shown that the goal
of indefinite human life spans itself is necessarily unfeasible; some animals
such as lobsters and certain jellyfish do not die of old age, and an award was
offered to anyone who could prove life extensionist Aubrey de Grey's hopes were
'unworthy of learned debate'; nobody won the prize. The whole question of life
extension has branched out and Bioethicists question the ethical ramifications
of life extension.
There has been and continues to be extensive research on how
diet, lifestyle, nutrition and supplements and how they may or may not extend
life or add to the quality of it during the aging process. The many diets
promoted by anti-aging advocates are often contradictory. A dietary pattern
with some support from scientific research is caloric restriction. The
free-radical theory of aging suggests that antioxidant supplements, such as
Vitamin C, Vitamin E, Q10, lipoic acid, carnosine, and N-acetylcysteine, might
extend human life. However, combined
evidence from several clinical trials suggests that β-Carotene supplements and
high doses of Vitamin E increase mortality rates. Other substances proposed to
extend lifespan include oxytocin, insulin, human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG),
and erythropoietin (EPO). Resveratrol is a sirtuin stimulant that appears to
extend lifespan in simple organisms such as nematodes and short-lived fish.
Some supplements, including
the minerals selenium or zinc] have been reported to extend the lifespan of
rats and mice, though none have been proven to do so in humans, and significant
toxic effects were observed. Metformin is another supplement that may extend
lifespan but the studies are only in preliminary stages. Interestingly there is
a tea called Jiaogulan that has been dubbed China's “Immortality Herb” but more
studies need to be done to confirm any of the above findings. The discussion
whether aging should be viewed as a disease or not has important implications.
It would stimulate pharmaceutical companies to develop life extension therapies
and in the United States of America, it would also increase the regulation of
the anti-aging market by the FDA. Anti-aging now falls under the regulations
for cosmetic medicine which are less tight than those for drugs.
The anti-aging industry offers several hormone therapies.
Some of these have been criticized for possible dangers to the patient and a
lack of proven effect. For example, the American Medical Association has been
critical of some anti-aging hormone therapies. Even if some recent clinical
studies have shown that low-dose GH treatment for adults with GH deficiency
changes the body composition by increasing muscle mass, decreasing fat mass,
increasing bone density and muscle strength, improves cardiovascular parameters
(i.e. decrease of LDL cholesterol), and affects the quality of life without
significant side effects.
The evidence for use
of growth hormone as an anti-aging therapy is mixed and based on animal
studies. An early study suggested that supplementation of mice with growth
hormone increased average life expectancy. Additional animal experiments have
suggested that growth hormone may generally act to shorten maximum lifespan;
knockout mice lacking the receptor for growth hormone live especially long.
Furthermore, mouse models lacking the insulin-like growth factor also live
especially long and have low levels of growth hormone
People suffering from rare condition known as Laron syndrome
have mutation in the gene that makes the receptor for growth hormone. It’s theorized
that that mutation may hold a key to life extension. Dr. Longo said that some
level of IGF-1 was necessary to protect against heart disease, but that
lowering the level might be beneficial. A drug that does this is already on the
market for treatment of acromegaly, a thickening of the bones caused by
excessive growth hormone. “Our underlying hypothesis is that this drug would
prolong life span,” Dr. Longo said. He said he was not taking the drug, called
pegvisomant or Somavert, which is very hard to obtain. There is a considerable
amount of scientific controversy regarding anti-aging nutritional
supplementation and medicine and it is important that consumers educate
themselves and make informed choices before looking for a magic bullet with
their anti-aging and longevity goals.
There are a number of authorities that categorize aging as a
disease. Many critics dispute the portrayal of aging as a disease and scientist
Leonard Hayflick, determined that fibroblasts are limited to around 50 cell
divisions, reasons that aging is an unavoidable consequence of entropy.
Hayflick and fellow biogerontologists Jay Olshansky and Bruce Carnes have
strongly criticized the anti-aging industry in response to what they see as
unscrupulous profiteering from the sale of unproven anti-aging supplements.
In the United States, product claims on food and drug labels
are strictly regulated. The First Amendment (freedom of speech) protects
third-party publishers' rights to distribute fact, opinion and speculation on
life extension practices. Manufacturers and suppliers also provide
informational publications, but because they market the substances, they are
subject to monitoring and enforcement by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC),
which polices claims by marketers. What constitutes the difference between
truthful and false claims is hotly debated and is a central controversy in this
arena.
Research by Sobh and
Martin (2011) suggests that consumers on the anti-aging bandwagon are driven to purchase
products that will provide hoped-for
results (e.g., keeping a youthful skin)
or to avoid a feared-self (e.g., looking old). The research shows that when
consumers pursue with this in mind their expectations for success drive their
motivation. Even when their purchases do
not provide the desired outcome they continue to search and buy similar items
in a driving desire to avoid what they fear within their aging process. In this
rapidly advancing aspect of consumerism it is good to maintain a “buyers beware”
mindset. Anything that sounds too good to be true may be. This emerging branch
of science and medicine is bringing interesting possibilities for healthy aging
and life extension but it still has a long way to go for anyone to “know for
sure” that ageless living is truly possible.
Nanotechnology is a
branch of medicine that could give rise to life extension through the repair of
many processes thought to be responsible for aging. K. Eric Drexler, one of the
founders of nanotechnology, postulated cell repair machines, including ones
operating within cells and utilizing as yet hypothetical molecular computers,
in his 1986 book Engines of Creation. Raymond Kurzweil, a futurist and
transhumanist, stated in his book The Singularity Is Near that he believes that
advanced medical nanorobotics could completely remedy the effects of aging by
2030.
Some life
extensionists suggest that therapeutic cloning and stem cell research could one
day provide a way to generate cells, body parts, or even entire bodies
(generally referred to as reproductive cloning) that would be genetically
identical to a prospective patient. Recently, the US Department of Defense
initiated a program to research the possibility of growing human body parts on
mice. Complex biological structures, such as mammalian joints and limbs, have
not yet been replicated. Dog and primate brain transplantation experiments were
conducted in the mid-20th century but failed due to rejection and the inability
to restore nerve connections. As of 2006, the implantation of bio-engineered
bladders grown from patients' own cells has proven to be a viable treatment for
bladder disease. Proponents of body part replacement and cloning contend that
the required biotechnologies are likely to appear earlier than other life-extension
technologies.
The use of human stem cells, particularly embryonic stem
cells, is controversial. Opponents' objections generally are based on
interpretations of religious teachings or ethical considerations. Proponents of
stem cell research point out those cells are routinely formed and destroyed in
a variety of contexts. Use of stem cells taken from the umbilical cord or parts
of the adult body may not provoke controversy. The controversies over cloning
are similar, except general public opinion in most countries stands in
opposition to reproductive cloning. Some proponents of therapeutic cloning
predict the production of whole bodies, lacking consciousness, for eventual
brain transplantation.
For cryonicists (advocates of cryopreservation), storing the
body at low temperatures after death may provide an "ambulance" into
a future in which advanced medical technologies may allow resuscitation and
repair. They speculate cryogenic temperatures will minimize changes in
biological tissue for many years, giving the medical community ample time to
cure all disease, rejuvenate the aged and repair any damage that is caused by
the cryopreservation process. Many cryonicists do not believe that legal death
is "real death" because stoppage of heartbeat and breathing—the usual
medical criteria for legal death—occur before biological death of cells and
tissues of the body. Even at room temperature, cells may take hours to die and
days to decompose.
Although neurological damage occurs within 4–6 minutes of
cardiac arrest, the irreversible neurodegenerative processes do not manifest
for hours.[27] Cryonicists state that rapid cooling and cardio-pulmonary
support applied immediately after certification of death can preserve cells and
tissues for long-term preservation at cryogenic temperatures. People,
particularly children, have survived up to an hour without heartbeat after
submersion in ice water. In one case, full recovery was reported after 45
minutes underwater.[28] To facilitate rapid preservation of cells and tissue,
cryonics "standby teams" are available to wait by the bedside of
patients who are to be cryopreserved to apply cooling and cardio-pulmonary
support as soon as possible after declaration of death. No mammal has been
successfully cryopreserved and brought back to life, and resuscitation from
cryonics is not possible with current science. Some scientists still support
the idea based on their expectations of the capabilities of future science.
Another proposed life extension technology combines existing and predicted future biochemical and
genetic techniques. SENS proposes that rejuvenation may be obtained by removing
aging damage via the use of stem cells and tissue engineering, removal of
telomere-lengthening machinery, allotopic expression of mitochondrial proteins,
targeted ablation of cells, immunotherapeutic clearance, and novel lysosomal
hydrolases. There is no scientific evidence that supports this strategy, and Robin Holliday called SENS "overly
ambitious".
Some of the other strategies being considered for
future are gene therapy. This is a
process where artificial genes are integrated with an organism to replace
mutated or otherwise deficient genes. Targeting catalase to the mitochondria
resulted in a 20% lifespan increase in transgenic mice, and improved
performance in AAV therapeutically infected mice. In The Selfish Gene, Richard
Dawkins describes an approach to life-extension that involves "fooling
genes" into thinking the body is young. Dawkins attributes inspiration for
this idea to Peter Medawar. The basic idea is that our bodies are composed of
genes that activate throughout our lifetimes, some when we are young, and
others when we are older. Presumably, these genes are activated by
environmental factors, and the changes caused by these genes activating can be
lethal. It is a statistical certainty that we possess more lethal genes that
activate in later life than in early life. Therefore, to extend life, we should
be able to prevent these genes from switching on, and we should be able to do so
by "identifying changes in the internal chemical environment of a body
that take place during aging... and by simulating the superficial chemical properties
of a young body".
History of life
extension and the life extension movement
In 1970, the American
Aging Association was formed under the impetus of Denham Harman, originator of
the free radical theory of aging. Harman wanted an organization of
biogerontologists that was devoted to research and to the sharing of
information among scientists interested in extending human lifespan. In 1976,
futurists Joel Kurtzman and Philip Gordon wrote No More Dying. The Conquest Of
Aging And The Extension Of Human Life, (ISBN 0-440-36247-4) was the first popularized book on research to extend
human lifespan. Subsequently, Kurtzman was invited to testify before the House
Select Committee on Aging, chaired by Claude Pepper of Florida, to discuss the
impact of life extension on the Social Security system.
Saul Kent published
The Life Extension Revolution (ISBN 0-688-03580-9) in 1980 and created a
nutraceutical firm called the Life Extension Foundation, a non-profit
organization that promotes dietary supplements. The Life Extension Foundation
publishes a periodical called Life Extension Magazine. The 1982 bestselling
book Life Extension: A Practical Scientific Approach (ISBN 0-446-51229-X) by
Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw further popularized the phrase "life
extension". In 1983, Roy Walford, a life-extensionist and gerontologist,
published a popular book called Maximum Lifespan.
In 1988, Walford and his student Richard Weindruch
summarized their research into the ability of calorie restriction to extend the
lifespan of rodents in The Retardation of Aging and Disease by Dietary
Restriction (ISBN 0-398-05496-7). It had been known since the work of Clive
McCay in the 1930s that calorie restriction can extend the maximum lifespan of
rodents. But it was the work of Walford and Weindruch that gave detailed
scientific grounding to that knowledge.[citation needed] Walford's personal
interest in life extension motivated his scientific work and he practiced
calorie restriction himself. Walford died at the age of 80 from complications
caused by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Money generated by
the non-profit Life Extension Foundation allowed Saul Kent to finance the Alcor
Life Extension Foundation, the world's largest cryonics organization. The
cryonics movement had been launched in 1962 by Robert Ettinger's book, The Prospect
of Immortality. In the 1960s, Saul Kent had been a co-founder of the Cryonics
Society of New York. Alcor gained national prominence when baseball star Ted
Williams was cryonically preserved by Alcor in 2002 and a family dispute arose
as to whether Williams had really wanted to be cryopreserved. Regulatory and
legal struggles between the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Life
Extension Foundation included seizure of merchandise and court action. In 1991,
Saul Kent and Bill Faloon, the principals of the Foundation, were jailed. The
LEF accused the FDA of perpetrating a "Holocaust" and "seeking
gestapo-like power" through its regulation of drugs and marketing claims. In
1992, the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine (A4M) was formed to create what
it considered an anti-aging medical specialty distinct from geriatrics, and to
hold trade shows for physicians interested in anti-aging medicine. The American
Board of Medical Specialties recognizes neither anti-aging medicine nor the A4M's
professional standing.
Even though there are
numerous scientists claiming that life extension and radical life extension are
possible there aren’t any international or national programs focusing on
radical life extension. There are political forces staying for and against life
extension. In 2012 in Russia, and then in USA, Israel and Netherlands the
Longevity political parties started. They aimed to provide political support to
radical life extension research and technologies and ensure fastest possible
and at the same time soft transition society to the next step - life without
aging and with radical life extension and provide such the access to such
technologies to the most of the currently living people.
Leon Kass (chairman
of the US President's Council on Bioethics from 2001 to 2005) has questioned
whether potential exacerbation of overpopulation problems would make life
extension unethical.] He states his opposition to life extension with the
words: "simply to covet a prolonged life span for ourselves is both a sign
and a cause of our failure to open ourselves to procreation and to any higher
purpose . The desire to prolong youthfulness is not only a childish desire to
eat one's life and keep it; it is also an expression of a childish and
narcissistic wish incompatible with devotion to posterity. John Harris, former editor-in-chief of the
Journal of Medical Ethics, argues that as long as life is worth living,
according to the person himself, we have a powerful moral imperative to save
the life and thus to develop and offer life extension therapies to those who
want them.
Comparing
perspectives on the subject of life extension Transhumanist philosopher Nick
Bostrom argues that any technological
advances in life extension must be equitably distributed and not restricted to
a privileged few. In an extended
metaphor entitled "The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant", Bostrom envisions
death as a monstrous dragon who demands human sacrifices. In the fable, after a
lengthy debate between those who believe the dragon is a fact of life and those
who believe the dragon can and should be destroyed, the dragon is finally
killed. Bostrom argues that political inaction allowed many preventable human
deaths to occur.
There is a whole other potential of study on life extension
and although there is little hard evidence to support it many in the whole
person field of healthy aging believe that the energetic aspect can transform
one’s biology and promote healing and living into advanced years. However, that
is a whole other topic and this blog focused more on the biological aspects of
longevity and other perspectives will be added.
The Science of Healthy Aging: Living Better, Not Just Longer
Ellen Hughes, MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine; Former Director of Education, Osher Center for Integrative Medicine discusses healthy living and aging. Series: UCSF Mini Medical School for the Public [2/2010] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 17630]
Exploring Life Extension, the ImmInst documentary
This video presents perspectives on life extension and some of the questions surrounding it. Life is a precious gift and whether we youth or "age" as we go through the years is dependent on numerous co-factors that science is exploring. One thing is for sure life extension is already happening and people are living into more advanced years than at any point in human development.
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