Ageing is a curable disease!
Today I am turning 37:)
Those who know me, know that I want to live at least 150 years and I believe that ageing is overrated. I simply never believed in being defined by numbers.
Now it seems I might have been right:)
It's interesting that when I share that I want to live more then 150 years, people most of the time respond: “Oh no, I don't want to suffer so long and live in sickness”.
Somehow as humans we accepted the disease as a fact and we can't imagine old days in health...
But it doesn't have to be like that! It's not set in stone that we have to be so sick when we grow old.
We accept it as a norm, but what if that doesn't have to be true ?
More and more scientists talk about it and show us evidences that we don't have to age the way we know it.
So why not get interested?
Seems like our body's capacity for health and longevity is much bigger that we think!
“Over the last twenty years, the rules in the anti-aging field have clearly changed . If you make good daily decisions that benefit longevity and pair those with new technologies that can prevent and reverse disease and ageing , it is possible to add at least 50 % to the age of the longest lived human. Hence living to 180 is a realistic and achievable goal, at least if you are willing to do the work along the way to get there. “ Dave Asprey, "Superhuman"
People always believed in genes controlling our destiny. But this way of thinking is outdated and not true anymore!
“There is shocking new science proving that DNA
does not control our life span”
Bruce Lipton
There are maybe genes that impact the symptoms of ageing, and longevity genes that control the body’s defences against ageing but "we haven't identified a singular gene that causes ageing. And we won’t. Because our genes did not evolve to cause ageing.”
David Sinclair "Lifespan : Why we age- and why we don't have to"
There is more and more proof these days that it is not Genetics but Epigenetics* that causes our ageing. The thing is that the epigenetic changes can be reversed!
(* epigenetics- the influence of our environment on gene expression rather than alteration of the genetic code itself )
To understand it better :
In every cell we have DNA ( same in every cell) .
So what differentiate nerve cells from skin cells?
Epigenetics that tell the cell which genes should be turned on, and which should remain off.
The way the caterpillar becomes a butterfly, by virtue of changes in epigenetic expression that occur during metamorphosis. It’ s genome never changes but the expression of genes
( epigenetic) does change
SO WHY DO WE AGE?
David Sinclair (phd) believes there is a single cause of ageing: loss of information!
There are two essential types of information in our body: genetic and epigenetic. Epigenome is responsible for switching on and off the genes, so the right proteins can be created.
Unfortunately with time this part gets a bit messed up.
The genes are switched on and off in the wrong order and it causes cells to lose identity- they don't know anymore if they should be a liver or a kidney cell or any other.
Nervous cells are no longer nervous cells the are becoming let's say skin cells!
That's why when we age! When we are young there is this beautiful symphony, but when we get older the orchestra starts to play wrong notes . We forget things, we lose the full capacity of for example retina.
The cells still have the capacity to be the right thing ( the DNA does not change) but the reader ( the genome) can’t read them properly. Notes are there just the musician makes mistakes.
Bruce Lipton , stem biologist, when interviewed he said that he was able to keep the line of cells alive in his lab much longer then usual by simply changing the water in their growth medium everyday. In other words he made sure those cells had a clean environment , and as a result they gained longevity. They died when on of his assistants forgot to change the water...
It's the environment that we live in, our daily food choices, our lifestyle, emotions we are having, thoughts we are thinking that decide when we will age. Not the age number itself.
And those choices are not always easy in a short time, but in a long run, they can prevent us from suffering and ageing the way we see people ageing today.
"Ironically , we are often distracted from making good long-term decisions for our longevity by the very instinct that is meant to keep us alive. For example our desire not to die from starvation leads us to consume too much sugar for a quick boost of energy. This keeps us alive in the short term and increases our chances of dying in the long term. To have a perfectly functioning body and mind long past the age when you can no longer reproduce , you must build practises that prevent you from falling prey to those base instincts that make you short -term thinker.” Dave Asprey, "Superhuman"
WHAT WE CAN DO TO LIVE LONGER & HEALTHIER?
There are few things we can do according to David Sinclair :
Eating less often -means being hungry for a part of a day ( doesn't mean starving etc.) Sinclair skips breakfast, sometimes lunch . There is emerging evidence that we can cheat this process through periodic calorie restriction, regularly skipping a meal or fasting for a few days, that way the body cleans itself much faster
Lower protein intake , aiming for vegetable-rich diet: The reduction of amino acids (found in meats) leads to the inhibition of mTOR (which can help protect mitochondria from damage). Evidence on the reduced risk of heart disease, cancer and other diseases is now widely accepted.
Exercise: More frequent exercisers have larger telomeres in studies. Exercise appears to shift cells into survival mode, raising NAD levels which in turn activates the survival network, growing oxygen-carrying capillaries in muscles. High-intensity interval training appears to be the most effective form.
Lower as much as possible exposure to pollution and toxins PCBs and other chemicals in plastics; solvents and pesticides; food treated with sodium nitrate such as beer, cured meat, and cooked bacon; radiation from x-rays, gamma rays and UV light.
Take pills reversing ageing:) Scientists claim they will be available in 5 to 10 years listen here to know more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nXop2lLDa4 And the most important thing from my perspective as a practitioner, and what Bruce Lipton, stem cell scientist addresses in his studies:
CHANGE YOUR THOUGHTS AND YOU WILL CHANGE YOUR BIOLOGY we know by now that environment is responsible for gene expression. Blood is the environment of cells- so what is in the blood is extremely important . And blood chemistry is is controlled by the brain. What ever picture is in your mind, your brain translates it into the chemistry that is send to your blood. The Happy picture releases happy chemistry, sad picture releases sad chemistry etc. Your thoughts are creating your blood chemistry and the blood chemistry is controlling the genetics. So our thoughts are controlling our biology. When you change your thought you change your biology. This video explains it so well:
books:
1.David A. Sinclair PHD
2. Dave Asprey, "Superhuman"
videos :
Bruce Lipton
David A. Sinclair PHD
podcast :
Dave Asprey, Tony Robbins & Peter Diamandis
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