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Today's anti-aging experts give you the skinny on what's hot and
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Originally Published February 14, 2005 -- Your
Wellness Guide
Newest Anti-aging Advice from America's
Top Gurus
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For additional
anti-aging advice:
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Denise Austin Prescribes "Anti-Aging Pill"
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I
don’t know anyone who across the board likes to age. Do you? If
you do, I want to hear about it. For the rest of us, we reach out
with open arms toward any anti-aging advice. Whether we embrace the
advice or not may be another matter, but we sure like to explore
fountain-of-youth options.
I
spoke with three of America’s top anti-aging gurus to see what they
had to say about your longevity. |
Power Aging
Expert Gary Null
In Gary Null’s opinion, there are five main anti-aging trends happening in
the U.S.
Calorie
Restriction
-- restricting your calories even if you are not on a diet
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Improvement of
Calorie Quality
-- the concept that not all calories are equal, such as an apple is better
than a spoon of sugar even if in the end they contain the same amount of
sugar
Inflammation
Reduction
-- “This is the single most contributing factor to the aging process,” says
Null.
Examining
Cause and Effect
-- a realization that what we eat and how much we exercise really does have
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Gary Null
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Challenging of
Information
-- the questioning of previous information, which promotes new studies with
better results
Offering an
interesting point of view, Null who is the author of
Power Aging says “The worst thing that
people can do is focus on aging. Instead, be concerned with why you are
prematurely aging. Try to be honest with yourself. If you clean up your life
and make positive choices, you won’t be manifesting the disease of premature
aging.”
Personal Vitality
Coach Jodi Jones
The author of
The Vitality Connection, along with
co-author Michael J. Grossman, M.D., Jodi Jones says there is a difference
between the biggest and the newest anti-aging trends.
The biggest and
most long-lasting anti-aging trends she says are those of a healthy lifestyle
that include an improved dietary intake, exercise, and supplementation.
Additional big trends include anti-aging measurements that can help direct your
lifestyle choices, such as reducing inflammation, optimizing your weight, and
balancing your hormone levels. She also says that “Reducing your hip-to-waist
ratio is another measurement, which is getting your waist to be smaller than
your hips. There is a formula that we look at, and it will be different for
females than for males.” More fat around the waist is a strong indicator of
your increasing risk for heart disease, stroke, and diabetes.
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Jones says she
doesn’t pay too much attention to the newest trends because they tend to be
somewhat fad based and focused on chemical anti-aging. And with regards to
an upswing interest in human growth hormone injections to slow down aging,
she cautions saying that she prefers to focus on exercise, nutrition, and
supplementation unless a client needs the injections for true medical
reasons.
Life Extension
Expert Terry Grossman
Like a Star Trek episode, Terry Grossman says the concept of living forever,
or at least for a few hundred years, may be within our grasp. The co-author
of the thought-provoking book
Fantastic Voyage, along with Ray
Kurzweil, says that anti-aging is based on what he calls Bridge 1, Bridge 2,
and Bridge 3 strategies.
“Bridge 1
is today’s strategy of exercise, nutrition, and supplements. We are, in a
primitive way, beginning to reprogram our biochemistry.” But he doesn’t
believe this form of anti-aging will prolong life past 120 years.
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Jodi Jones
Terry Grossman, M.D. |
“If we want to get
past 120 years, we’re going to need new gene therapies,” says Grossman, which he
says is the Bridge 2 of the unfolding biotechnology revolution. This includes
the cloning of tissues, adult stem cells, genetic repair therapies, and blocking
the expression of bad genes, such as cancer-producing genes.
Bridge 3, says
Grossman, is not just like out of science fiction, instead better. “It is the
use of nanotechnology-AI or artificial intelligence to expand our lifespan in
the hundreds of years and may be the end of death.” Enabling the body to
rebuild its body and brain at the molecular level, Grossman says this technology
is an elegant solution that may arrive as early at 2025. For example, you could
inject your body with bioengineered white blood cells that would kill infectious
diseases and cancer cells.
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