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.

A practical explanation of the Concept of Programmed Cell Death.

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
errors, or loss of information through different age levels.

It should come as no surprise that the degree of accuracy in DNA reproduction goes down as we get older. This slow break down of the human DNA is what the Australian scientists call the aging process, and it helps to explain why middle age and older people are more susceptible to diseases, especially chronic disease.

Now the part you've been waiting for: The researchers found that if you start taking vitaminB12 and folic acid (B9) daily when you are in your 30's or 40's, the DNA displayed 44% less errors in its reproduction with new cells. If you add lipids (Salmon Oil), you can reduce the error rate in DNA reproduction even more.While it is hard to say what, exactly, this means in terms of reducing the effects of getting older, it has to be better with the addition of B12 and folic acid than without.

O.K., so you're older than fifty. Can adding these supplements help you? Research in this area is not conclusive, but logic tells you it couldn't hurt. Like they say on TV, "Ask your doctor...".

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.

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