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DNA Diet/Anti-ageing All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, and each man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven stages! Had the bard lived in contemporary times he may well have rewritten the introduction to one of his most famous monologues.
And just how did those pre-diluvial patriarchs live almost a full millennium? Methuselah, according to the Bible, died at 969. Noah managed 950, Jared made 895, and Lamech shuffled off his mortal coil at a mere 777. So what happened? How did those old patriarchs live so long. Did the Earth's solar orbit change? Was there a genetic deterioration? Was the pre-diluvial atmosphere or nutrition a factor? I's one of the mysteries scientists are still trying to unravel. But age, in our current era, is no longer the badge of wisdom and respect it once was. In the new millennium, fortune favours, not the brave, but the young. So what happens to the normal person when the natural ravages of time take their toll? By the time you get to about forty, you start objecting to the platitudes of age being a natural process.
Dr S Baijnath, Medical Director LEC claims: " The ageing process is not just a passage of time. It refers to the deterioration of cellular function that takes place within the body after a certain age." Says Dr Richard Brink, a Family Physician : "Theories of age are quite interesting. Some people consider ageing to be a disease, some people consider ageing to be a natural, physical phenomenon. The most popular concept of ageing is that there is a genetic program that runs in our cells that only allows for so many replications, where after the cells will then decay and die."
Joe Campanini (Age 57), MD Life Extension Clinic: "I have always been a positive person but since I have been on the program - and it is really difficult to explain - but you feel young. You have so much energy and so much enthusiasm for life. You feel good." Says John Blackman (Age 58), a business consultant: "You feel good. You think to yourself, gosh I did not feel like this two years ago. I felt tired and couldn't get on with life. I couldn't be bothered. Now if someone makes a suggestion, I am ready to go. You have more vigour in your life."
BUT - is there a downside to HGH?
Dr S Baijnath : "Obviously there are side affects if human growth hormones are taken in very high dosages, and according to the clinical research, side affects were elicited when levels at eight times the normal body production of human growth hormone was used." HGH already promises an active, healthy lifestyle well past the age of 150, and it may be the first milestone on the road to eternal youth.
CONTACTS:
Dr Richard Brink
Joe Campanini (Age 57)
John Blackman (Age 58) |
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With new breakthroughs in anti-ageing technologies, it seems the act now comprise far more than seven stages. They grey generation is exploding. As life spans increase, old preconceptions are falling away. In spite of a constantly changing world, many companies are benefiting from the skills and experience of older employees, which their younger peers just don't have. In fact, the wisdom, experience, and temperance that age brings are pre-requisites for the truly demanding positions of leadership. Think about it, how many really young presidents have there been?
In fact, these days, ageing is increasingly being treated more like a disease. A disease for which, many scientists believe, there is a cure.
But as science unravels more and more about the structure of our DNA, it has found that human growth hormone, or HGH, is one of the keys to the way cells age. After 21, the body produces less and less HGH. But when synthetic HGH is added to ageing cells, the patient experiences a dramatic reversal.
The movement towards HGH began with a Dr Daniel Rudman, an endocrinologist from Wisconsin. He found that HGH altered the lean muscle to body fat ratio in a test group of older overweight men significantly. He stated that men on his HGH treatment experienced a reversal of ageing, by up to twenty years.
Says Dr Brink :"The problems with using these hormones in an unnatural situation, would be twofold. Firstly one would be lulled into believing you are feeling a lot better and a lot stronger and therefore you must be reversing the ageing process, where in fact, you are running a risk of all the side effects, bone thickening, increase of inter-cranial pressure, increased organs' size. The second thing is that, simply because one feels better that one is actually better. One may look better from the outside and feel that one has more energy, but I have no doubt that if I had to administer amphetamines to my patients the would feel very much the same, but once again, the side effects would not be worth taking the risk."
Who knows, maybe we're simply rediscovering the secrets of our pre-diluvial patriarchs. But in a modern world faced with overpopulation, is this really what we need and are we prepared to face the consequences?