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462 days ago
Not much new in the world of living longer recently. Or at least, I haven't been doing my fair share of research in the last month, so I don't have much to report. I've been getting into vitamins online recently, and as a spin off, I found a weight loss shake that has enough vitamins to give me my essentials, without popping little hard gel caps (I hate swallowing pills!) The reason for these weight loss shakes is obvious. I need to lose weight. I've been putting it off for awhile now, just something I figured I'd get around to eventually. Well, eventually finally arrived. Eventually is today, and I'm ready to finally lose that weight. I took a big step recently (literally) by climbing the stairs at a parking lot near where I live. Getting to the top of the seven story garage nearly killed me. I practically crawled back down, and decided to give my heart a rest for the rest of the day. I'm going back tomorrow to see if I can make any progress, I'm hoping a week of weight ...
509 days ago
That's what they say. Restrict the calories, live longer. It's more complicated, but in layman's terms calorie restriction seems to be one of the keys to prolonging aging (though, obviously not CURING aging, that's a whole different matter). So, I've been restricting my calories. The most common method is intermittent fasting. This involves planned periods of no eating. The usual period is 15 to 18 hours. In other words, I would eat a solid, filling, healthy dinner like chicken and spinach massala, and then not eat until lunch the following day. It's pretty simple, not terribly difficult to do once you begin to plan the fasting periods, and it definitely helps with the weight loss. The other method is to simply decrease the amount of food you eat per meal. Have several small meals per day, and bring your total calories in at roughly 60% to 40% of what you would normally eat. This method usually leaves me hungrier for a longer portion of the day because I feel I've never had enough ...
540 days ago
The concept of people today living 1000 years sounds ridiculous. "How," you say, "Can that be?! Do I just take the best multivitamins. Spend money at the vitamin world, keep my washboard abs, and poof, I'm 1000?" Yes, and no. Taking vitamins, staying healthy (the abs, part), and maintaining a lifestyle around maintaining your body are key elements. If you chain smoke, pound down vodkas, and spend your spare time having unprotected sex for kicks, don't plan on hitting the big one zero zero zero. On the other hand, just because you practice yoga and buy your foot at Earth, Wind, and Flour, doesn't guarantee you a longevity ticket. But you're in the drawing. Here's how it works: The technology and medicine isn't currently available to allow people living today (say, a 75 year old man) to live to be 1000. The modern 75 year old man is going to die. But a 5 year old... A 5 year old boy has roughly 80 years to grow before he's ripe for death. during ...
568 days ago
I've been watching old science fiction films recently. The Red Planet. This Planet Earth, Forbidden Planet, The Thing from another Planet. Anyway. There's good guys, usually humans. Then there's bad guys, usually whatever's from the different planet. Sometimes it flip flops, but you get the gist. The Bad guys always have some wildly ambitious scheme, which can only be accomplished through the subjugation or destruction of people. Often the baddies want to rule the world. But even more often the baddies want to live forever. That's right. life everlasting seems to be a more villainous goal in fiction than world domination. Go all the way back to Dracula, or fuck, even Icarus. Dudes who want to live forever never meet pretty ends. My first encounter with such "evil" was in the feature length version of duck tales, where huey, duey, and louie stop a tyrannical bassett hound from drinking an elixir that grants everlasting life. Even in the video games I play, the most ...
592 days ago
So, Barbara Walters is back in the news again. Okay, she's always in the news, but now she's talking about something I actually care about. Resveratrol. A recent 20/20 investigative report scooped out the possibilities of life extension and (believe it or not) living for ever. They even interviewed Aubrey DeGray, mentioned here in my last post. Barbara Walters led the investigation, and she came out with puppy dog eyes for the new research developing ways for people to live longer. And just about the right time, because I'm not too sure how many years old Baba has left. One of the gists of the piece was "take resveratrol." As I may have mentioned resveratrol is the potent antioxidant found in red wine and the skins of red grapes. New research is showing how effective resveratrol is at extending the average age of communities who consume a good quantity of the little nutrient. Most of the 20/20 piece was about the resveratrol, but it also mentioned the effects of diet ...
