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Anti Aging |
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Anti Aging |
Photo: Determining How Long a Cell Will Live Is Not a Simple Process The term "Anti-aging" has become so commercialized that we hear the word and automatically think "remove wrinkles around the eyes". In this section, however, I want to talk about deeper reaching matters, not cosmetics. Most people understand and accept the role their gene pool plays in health and disease. If you are a male and every male in your family has a history of heart disease and dies of a heart attack by age fifty-eight, your chances of living much beyond that age are not great. There is another way of looking at this you probably have not heard so much about. A way that offers hope to you, despite the poor gene pool. Some scientists feel that each cell in your body is genetically "wired" or pre-programmed to live for a defined period of time. When that time is up, the cell will die on its own. But there are things you can do to prolong the life of your cells. Things you can do that help prevent premature death of vital cells. If you are over forty years of age, give or take, you have begun to realize when you cut your finger, bruise a leg or hurt your arm, you don't heal as fast as you used to. Under the rules of programmed cell death, the explanation for this is that you start off life with, say, 100 cells designated as "healing cells". Some will die off during the early years, so that by the time you are twenty-five, you have lost 10. By thirty-five years of age, you have lost an additional 10 healing cells. By the time you are forty, you have lost an additional 15. You may have noticed, first, that the loss of healing cells is increasing as you get older. And you realize that while you started with 100 healing cells, you are now down to 65. The simple truth is that 65 healing cells can not do as good a job as 100 can. Nor can they do it as quickly. Let's take a different type of cell now, say heart cells. We'll start with the same 100 cells, but this time, (remember, this is just a hypothetical example) I will tell you that research shows you need at least 65 good heart cells to keep your heart pumping the amount of blood your body needs to stay active and healthy. And suppose I tell you that research shows once you get below 30 heart cells, your heart will no longer be able to function at all. You will die at that point. In the example above, you are just entering mathematical middle age. Now it occurs to you that you are already at a critical point in you life where you heart is no longer able to keep you strong and vibrant. You are starting to "slip down the tubes" and you're only forty! It is not my intention to depress you, but to make you more aware that the process of "slipping down the tubes, health wise, is nothing more than just another chronic degenerative process. When you are twenty, you have al the cells you need; once you hit around forty, you are starting to feel the effects of too few cells in critical areas. There is another, perhaps more scientific explanation I should tell you about. DNA scientists at Sydney
University in Australia have been mapping human DNA. They are tracking the decay of DNA chains and aging, and their research shows that at certain ages, our DNA reproduces with more
It is also possible to improve the situation by using frequency devices to repair damaged DNA. Unfortunately, there is little research to indicate exactly how this should be done, and most "evidence" does not have genuine scientific support. That said, I run DNA repair frequencies regularly for my wife and myself. | ||||
