[nutritionfacts.org]

"Each one of us, has 46 strands of DNA in each of our cells, coiled into chromosomes. At the tips of each chromome, at the end of each DNA strand, there’s a cap, like the tip of a shoelace, which keeps our DNA from unraveling and fraying. That cap is called a tellamere.

Everytime our cells divide, though, a bit of that cap is lost. And when it’s completely gone, the cell stops dividing or dies. So telomeres have been thought of as kind of our life “fuse.” They start shortening as soon as we’re born and when they’re gone, we’re gone. In fact forensic scientists can take DNA from a blood stain and tell you how old the person was, based on how long the telomeres are.

The thought is, if we can slow down this ticking clock, slow down this shortening, we may be able to slow down aging and live longer. So what do we have to do? Stop smoking—number 1, which has shown to significantly eat away our protective telomeres. But is there anything in our diet that’s accerating the process, speeding up aging? We didn’t know until last year.

120 food item questionnaire. Two foods were associated with telomere shortening—accelerated aging; you tell me which ones: In alphabetical order: coffee, fried foods, high-fat dairy, non-fried fish, processed meat, red meat, refined grains, or high fructose corn syrup-containing soda. I’ll give you a hint, one of them was processed meat. Which was the other one?

It was the fish nipping at our DNA. Eating fish appeared to age people’s DNA 6 years, and processed meat 14 years, in terms of how short the telomeres were of fish and lunchmeat eaters.

So to conclude this, fish and bacon appears to speed aging up, but is there any way to slow aging down or even actually turn back the cellular clock and actually repair and lengthen our telomeres? Yes, but it appears you have to eat vegan.
Dr. Dean Ornish wasn’t satisfied with just reversing heart disease and cancer, so now he’s trying his hand at reversing aging.

There’s a tree, called a bristle cone pine, which is the oldest living thing on earth. There’s one in California that started growing around the time the Egyptian pyramids were being built—about 5,000 years ago—and the tree is still going strong. Scientists found an enzyme in its roots called telomerase, which could actually rebuild the telomeres—and humans have the enzyme too.

The problem, is that no one had ever found a way to boost its activity, but that’s because no one ever tried a whole foods plant-based diet before. In a study funded by the U.S. Department of Defense department, Ornish found that after just 3 months of a whole foods plant-based diet—along with exercise—one could significantly boost telomerase activity.

The accompanying editorial celebrated this breakthrough and hoped that this “exciting outcome…would encourage people to adopt a healthy lifestyle in order to avoid or combat cancer and age-related diseases.”"



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Do you really want to live forever?

It might be true , Vik , on his meeting, keep saying casually that we (audience) will meet after 30 or 40 years.

There is probably no pill or enzyme to reverse aging.
It should come from the entire body functioning optimally from nutrition, exercise, meditation, and proper rest.



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reversing brain aging with berries

5:05 min vid

[nutritionfacts.org]

"A plant-based diet is thought to have played a significant role in human evolution and the consumption of whole plant foods and even just extracts have repeatedly been associated with a decreased risk of aging related diseases. And by healthy aging I’m not talking preventing wrinkles, what about protecting our brain?

Two of the most dreaded consequences of dementia with aging are problems moving around and difficulty remembering things. Dementia robs older adults of their independence, control, and identity. What can we do about it?

Well, fruits and vegetables help reduce the risk of other chronic diseases, might they work for brain diseases as well? There has been a proliferation of recent interest in plant polyphenols as agents in the treatment of dementia. There are 4,000 different kinds found ubiquitously in foods of plant origin, but berries are packed with them, possessing powerful antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. And there’s a subset of a subset called anthocyanidins, natural blue-purple pigments uniquely and specifically capable of both crossing the blood–brain barrier and localizing in brain regions involved in learning and memory. And that’s where we need it. The brain takes up less than like 2% of body weight but may burn up to 50% of the body’s fuel, creating a potential firestorm of free radicals, so maybe these brain-seeking phytonutrients in berries could fight oxidation, inflammation, and increase blood flow, so… this raised a thought-provoking idea. Maybe a nutritional intervention with blueberries may be effective in forestalling or even reversing the neurological changes associated with aging. So did researchers give blueberries to people and see what happened? No, as I noted in an earlier video, they gave blueberries to rats. It would be a decade before the first human trial. But it worked! Blueberry supplementation improves memory in older adults suggesting that consistent supplementation with blueberries may offer an approach to forestall or mitigate brain degeneration with age.

What other blue/purple foods can we try? Concord grape juice had a similar benefit, improving verbal learning, suggesting that supplementation with purple grape juice may enhance cognitive function for older adults with early memory decline. Why use juice and not whole concord grapes? Because then you couldn’t design a placebo that looked and tasted exactly the same to rule out the very real and powerful placebo effect. And also, because it was funded by the Welch’s grape juice company.

This effect was confirmed in a follow-up study, showing for the first time an increase in neural activation in parts of the brain associated with memory using functional MRI scans. But this brain scan study was tiny, just 4 people in each group. And same problem in the blueberry study. It just had 9 people in it.

Why haven’t large population-based studies been done? Because we haven’t had good databases on where these phytonutrients are found. We know how much vitamin C is in a blueberry, but not how much anthocyanidin, until now. The Harvard Nurse’s Health Study followed the cognitive function of more than 16,000 women for years, and found that higher, long-term consumption of berries were related to significantly slower rates of cognitive decline in this cohort of older women, even after careful consideration of confounding socioeconomic status, meaning even after taking into account the fact that rich people eat more berries. The first population-based evidence that greater intakes of blueberries and strawberries were highly associated with slower rates of cognitive decline, and not just by a little bit. The magnitude of associations were equivalent to the cognitive differences that one might observe in women up to 2 and a half years apart in age. In other words, women with higher intake of berries appeared to have delayed cognitive aging by as much as 2.5 years.

Why not just some kind of anthocyanidin supplement? Because there hasn’t been a single study that found any kind of cognitive benefit by just giving single phytonutrients. In fact the opposite. Whole blueberries appear to be more effective than individual components, showing that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. These findings potentially have substantial public health implications, as increasing berry intake represents a fairly simple dietary modification to test in older adults for maintaining our brain."

Pounds and Pounds of blueberries are eaten in the summer without no major health effect on most.

The reason: Impaired digestive system.

There is no benefit gain without resolving this issue and for most, years of eating fried food, fried fats, improperly combined foods cannot be reversed in a short time.

Reversing aging is the result of the body working properly from all angles.

You should have called it YOUTHING!

If I was 21 again, I would be so depressed. I made alot of mistakes and alot of karma and I still had not dealt with unconcious issues trickled down from my parents @#$%& up minds. I can say now with about ten years raw that I am cured and happy. It took a lot of time. I am glad I am here and wouldnt give up my treasures I have now. Just to go back in time and be lost broke and needy.





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They key in reversing aging is not the age itself, it has to do with health, body flexibility, mental abilities.