The aging process is for the greater part no mystery anymore. It consists for a great part of daily damages done on the macroscopic, tissue, cellular and genetic levels. These add up as the years are passing. These damages have specific causes like oxidating agents, sun beams, mechanical wear and tear, psychological stress, lack of some nutritional components and too much of others, like fat.
Another component of aging is the reduction of the telomere chains at the chromosome ends, as each cell division occurs. When these are shortended enough, cells stop dividing. However, the body has means to repair these ends again, with an enzyme called telomerase. The rapidity of the aging process depends on lack of efficiency in this repair process. The above mention aging causes also slow down this repair process.
The factors causing aging, also causes other diseases like cancer and coronary heart disease. Both aging and these diseases can in great extend be prevented with the knowledge possessed today, and the damages can in great extend be reversed. The components to achieve this are:
-Adequate dayly food containing whole cereals, peas, beans, vegetables, fruit, fish, mushroms, fouls and seafood, and with just a moderate amount of red meat.
-Just a moderate amount of fat.
-Ideally most fat one eats, should be of the type mono-unsaturated. One also needs some poly-usaturated fat of the types omega-3, and omega 6, but not too much of omega-6. The consumption of saturated fat should be very little.
- In order to achieve right fat balance, most of the fat supply should come from sources like olive, peanuts, canola, fish, nuts, sun-flower, etc. Then you will get a good balance between mono-unsaturated fat (olive, canola, peanuts), poly-unsaturated fat of the omaga-3-type (fish) and poly-unsaturated fat of the omega-6-type (sunflower).
-Just a very moderate amount of butter, soya oil, margarine, corn oil and palm oil. A high consumption of these fat sources gives you too much saturated fat and poly-unsaturated omega-6-fat.
-Just a very moderate amount of sugar, refined flour or refined cereals.
-Do not add more salt to the food than you need. Most people consume too much salt. However, some salt is needed. If the weather is warm and you are in high activity, you need more salt than by cold weather and low activity. Prefere sea-salt, beacuse of its content of valuable minerals.
-Just a moderate consumption of tranquilizers/stimulants as alchohol and coffeine, but in moderate amounts these contribute to slow down the aging process.
-No smoking or tobacco usage.
-Supplements of specific nutritional components like vitamins, minerals, lecitin and some essential fatty acids.
-Adequate training, that both gives a muscular load, work up your condition and stretches out your body. To stretch out, yoga-exercizes are ideal.
-Adequate rest and stress-reduction. Daily meditation is a method of achieving this. Natural relaxing agents or spesific tools for meditation or relaxation may also be useful.
-Supplements of specific anti-aging agents like anti-oxidants or human growth hormone.
-Use of spesific anti-aging agents to apply upon the skin surface.
-To protect the skin against excessive sun exposure.
The amount one needs of nutritional supplements, like vitamins and minerals, differs very much according to a person`s health condition, work load and exposure to environmental stress. A person having a poor digestion, doing high performance sport or being exposed to a high amount of environmental stressors, may need more than a person in an average situation
Monday
Some words about anti-aging and disease prevention
Tuesday
Telomeres and Telomerase - the new Buzz words in anti-aging?
The 2009 Prize Nobel for medicine received for scientists for their early work on the biology of the Telomere. But what are Telomeres and Telomerase and they have to do with anti-aging?
It is used to think that our bodies get old and simply wear. But scientists believe now that ageing is not only a consequence of life; It has actually programmed right in our genes.
What is a Telomere?
The Telomere is a region of DNA at the end of each of our chromosomes. Our cells cannot replicate end our chromosomes and the advice of our chromosomes shorten each time our cells divide. It is a claim controversial that Telomere shortening is the main cause of aging, but evidence began to accumulate in support of this theory - especially since the experiments involving an enzyme called telomerase demonstrated to reverse the Telomere shortening.
If it were possible to lengthen Telomeres, it is theoretically possible that we could extend our life - or at least, our senior years with young and vitality.
Are there products that support health Telomere?
Several companies are researching ways to increase the production of telomerase. Some have developed tools which include genetic engineering and vaccines DNA - very expensive proposals. But a company has developed a product that will support health Telomere and at an affordable price. This company is Isagenix.
Isagenix is?
Isagenix is an international society of health and wellness with an exceptional range of products without compromise. Isagenix leads the nutritional field of cleaning and reconstruct the body. Isagenix' formulator Master, John Anderson, worked with William h. Andrews, Ph.d., Sierra Sciences, to develop a natural in support of Telomeres. (Dr. Andrews currently holds 35 we issued patents in the field of telomerase and elongation Telomere.) This new Isagenix product will be released to the public in August of 2011.
Interestingly enough, Isagenix made "Product B" - the temporary name for the next version - available for certain Isagenix independent Associates. I am lucky enough to be one of these people and I am currently produces b in conjunction with Isagenix Products: Isalean shakes, clean life, Ionix Supreme and the daily essential vitamins for women. I am looking forward to the result!
CFPs: none of us are going to get out of here alive! The products of any company which may extend life expectancy will be highly sought after. Time is a product that will always be in demand.