Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Anti-Aging & Your Increasing Lifespan

Biochemists and anti-aging experts are working at a breakneck speed to learn about how we can increase lifespan, reverse aging, and make anti-aging a veritable solution to those foreboding thoughts of spending our last few years in a state of slumber. We're simply adding months to our lives every year. Whereas when you were born you believed you'd live to age 50, now you'll likely live to 100. Quite simply, you want to feel like you're 50 when you're 100. That's the cornerstone of anti-aging research and preventative measures against living like you're dying.

Anti-Aging: What Age Looks Like

The goal for anti-aging experts is to make biological age elusive so that we live fuller lives. You may know that person who is only 55 years old and sits in a chair all day. They don't exercise, they eat and smoke like they're dying and they welcome it. Another person you know is aged 80 and they're the life of the party. This person looks decades younger than he or she is and still beats people half their age on the golf course. Studies in anti-aging challenge people to live like they are going to keep on living, not live like they're going to pasture.

Technology in Anti-Aging

We know more about age reversal every year in exponential ways. Picture what diseases we could cure ten years from now if technology were over 1000 times greater, or in twenty-five years: a billion times more powerful. Anti-aging experts cling to that not as a hope, but as fact. The human genome project in the 1990's was mocked by skeptics because scientists remained hopeful after 7.5 years when they had only completed 1% of their research goals. However, nobody laughed when those scientists reached their goals of studying cells and biology like a set of software systems. That's because technology and it's affordability and ease of use increases exponentially every year. In fact, our lifespans are increasing rapidly, as well!

Longevity Escape Velocity and Anti-Aging

Your age is moving away from you. That's called Longevity Escape Veolocity by anti-aging experts. Imagine that once you reach 80 years old ready to meet your day of reckoning you're actually ready to live another 40 years & fully independent and lively. Biochemists say that we're going to be adding one calendar year to our lifespans every single year beginning in fourteen years. That means that your lifespan will be running away from you!

Anti-Aging and the Skin Test

The thought of living another few decades may horrify some people. They see their grandparents or their own parents and think, I'd never want to live in THAT state for another minute! This is the opposite reaction of real anti-aging advocates. Here's an example that is simple, but will help you conceptualize how to see anti-aging as a matter of age reversal, not as in living 'too' long. Lay your hand down on a flat surface and pinch the skin below your knuckles for five seconds. If your biological age is young, it will bounce right back into shape because it's elastic. If you're in your forties it will reshape in 3-5 seconds. If you're 70, it may take a whole minute. Now let's say you're 70 but it only takes 10-15 seconds for your skin to reform itself. This is an example of your skin's elasticity, but it's also an example of how you can preserve youthfulness and be a different actual age than you are a biological age. Proper diet, supplementation, attitude, and exercise will help you actually reverse the effects of aging in your life today!

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