Aging Cause and Cure

[antiaging]

Wait, so if science is hard, I can just substitute vague assertions and anecdotes?

 

Wow, that'll make my thesis go a LOT faster!

 

Take 2 books on The Scientific Method and call us when you understand it.

 

Go to the longevity section of about.com. It has articles and references to peer reviewed articles where they got the research from.

Here is some of it.

 

Question: How do Antioxidants Slow Aging?

 

Answer: Antioxidants neutralize free radicals, which damage cells, clog arteries and contribute to chronic illness and aging. Antioxidants are found in leafy vegetables, fruits, wine, and chocolate. Antioxidants can also be found in certain vitamins and minerals such as vitamins A, C and E, zinc and selenium.

 

I use the supplements in that article, along with calcium, which is necessary for bones and teeth.

But, I use certain of them in very high doses.

 

http://longevity.about.com/od/researchandmedicine/p/age_radicals.htm

 

Free radicals are a byproduct of normal cell function. When cells create energy, they also produce unstable oxygen molecules. These molecules, called free radicals, have a free electron. This electron makes the molecule highly unstable. The free radical bonds to other molecules in the body - causing proteins and other essential molecules to not function as they should. Luckily, antioxidants can minimize free radical damage.

 

Antioxidants - the Free Radical Sponge:

Antioxidants are substances found in plants that soak up free radicals like sponges. If your body has plenty of antioxidants available, it can minimize the damage caused by free radicals. Get your antioxidants from eating plants. There is some evidence that we can only get the full antioxidant benefits from eating real plants and other foods. Supplements appear not to be as effective.

 

I disagree with the last sentence of that article. I have found supplements to be more effective because they allow for much larger doses to be taken.

 

However, natural vitamin C, which is sold with rose hips, has chemicals in the rose hips that make them much more potent. Purely synthetic vitamin C, with no rose hips, is much less potent. So, you see the chemicals in the rose hips add excipients that cause the full benefit. So, there is a small amount of truth in the last sentence of that article.

 

 

http://longevity.about.com/od/researchandmedicine/p/age_radicals.htm

How Free Radicals Cause Aging:

This theory asserts that many of the changes that occur as our bodies age are caused by free radicals. Damage to DNA, protein cross-linking and other changes have been attributed to free radicals. Over time, this damage accumulates and causes us to experience aging.

 

The Evidence:

There is some evidence. Studies have shown that increasing the amount of antioxidants in the diets of mice and other animals can slow the effects of aging. This theory does not fully explain all the changes that occur during aging. It is likely that free radicals are only one part in the aging

 

I have read a theory in a nutrition book that free radical damage can account for all of the effects of aging.

Books I used to formulate my experiment are books in the Good Health Guide Series. Vitamin C updated, The Disease of Aging, and The antioxidants. You can get on Google and find those books.

 

I was taking 9 supplements in combination to fight aging and high doses of 2 of them. The duration of my first attempt to slow aging was 19 years at lower doses, to get an idea of what was going on. I was about 26 at the chronological age of 40. The duration of the attempt to reverse aging at higher doses lasted for 17 years [During that time I did not need to work for 3 periods of time, 11 months, a year and 5 months, and five months] I got about 10 or 11 hours sleep per day during those three periods trying to force more growth harmone. [Even if I stayed awake I would stay there trying to sleep to fulfill the time.] Most growth harmone is produced in sleep.

 

My method don't show results against aging for almost 3 years and then it is only a little bit. But, as time goes by it accelerates. Cells divide, 2, 4, 8 16 32 -- many more divisions in each succeeding generation so you get rapid acceleration as time goes by.

[mooeypoo]

about.com is not a peer reviewed source, antiaging.. if you say that they have peer reviewed evidence, you need to show a publication in a truly peer reviewed source.

 

about.com is a pop-sci site. For example, they have a section about astrology. Considering the fact astrology is one of the most falsified quackiories (quack-theories) existing, I wouldn't trust about.com's.. anything.

 

Peer reviewed is peer reviewed. That would tell us if the methodology really WAS reviewed, if it was tested, if it was valid.

 

 

~moo