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Aging PrematureLarry L. Taylor Definition Aging is known as ‘senescence’ - the state of aging. The word itself comes from the Latin word ‘senex’, meaning "old man" or "old age." Senescence is the process of cellular aging. It is the process of growing older and showing a progressive deterioration of bodily function over a period of time. It is the result of a series of chemical activities in our bodies failing or malfunctioning. Premature aging occurs when your organs cease proper function before a reasonable lifespan has been achieved, what we normally refer to simply as ‘aging’.
You normally think about aging when you see wrinkly, thick skin, grey hair or baldness, or if you see deterioration in movement, general physical debility and decreased brain function. Chronological age and biological age are not the same however. Your chronological age is not so important. Your biological age, involving the changes in your abilities, in your level of fitness and in the general way your body works and reacts is very important and is how we really define the process of ‘aging’. Premature aging manifests itself in numerous ways and can involve any/all your essential organs. The function of your central nervous system, brain, immune system, endocrine system and cardiovascular system are all affected. Your connective and muscular tissues are also affected .Conditions that suggest you are aging prematurely or are affected by the signs of aging include:
...amongst many other factors.
Of course you cannot live forever, no supplement or health regime can promise that! However, it is not necessary for you to experience any of the degenerative conditions, illnesses or deteriorations we commonly accept simply because your chronological age tells you that you should! General medicine tends to focus only on relieving the symptoms of premature aging. The aches and pains of fatigued muscles for example. Yet isn’t it more important to understand why your body begins to malfunction, and look at ways to slow this progression? If premature aging is recognised for what it is and treated properly, or even better prevented, it is possible for you to live longer with a higher quality of life without pain, restriction, or age-related disease. If you can help your cells to stay healthy it is possible for you to remain youthful. In order for you to achieve this your cells require a continuous supply of nutrients as well as the continual removal of waste and toxins.
This supply of nutrients is crucial to enable your organs to efficiently produce the myriad of hormones needed to regulate the functions of each cell. Deficiency of crucial nutrients results in the disruption of your cellular chemistry and consequent cellular stress and organ disintegration. Research into human biochemistry supports this and has shown us how much diseases improve when they are treated with different amounts of specific vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and phytonutrients. Other clinical trials have also shown that supplementation of specific nutrients in correct potencies will reduce your risk of contracting cancer, cataracts, cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer's disease and numerous other conditions associated with aging. Supplementation early on in life gives you protection and maintenance for your future health. Once you reach your senior years you are of course at higher risk of degenerative conditions and nutritional deficiency, most commonly causing digestive problems such as malabsorption, assimilation problems and a generally slow digestion. Additional nutrients are therefore even more essential to repair and rejuvenate your body’s cells and help you back to more youthful and energized you!
But I already take a supplement, so I have nothing to worry about….right? Over 60% of Americans regularly ingest a general dietary supplement or take other steps to help prevent degenerative disease and symptoms of aging. However, the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition reports that up to 30% of the over 65s are unable to absorb vitamins and minerals sufficiently because their digestive systems are malfunctioning due to years of imbalance. Most suffer overgrowth of bacteria in the intestinal tract. This fact reinforces the real need for people of all ages to a) instigate and maintain an overall healthy lifestyle and, b) follow a supplement regime with more specifically combined and complementary nutrients. Premature aging of your brain, circulation, heart, joints, skin, digestive tract and immune system can begin at any time of life. Various factors may cause your body to deteriorate faster including injuries, allergies, toxins, heavy metals, smoking, poor nutrition, stress and inactivity. Bad lifestyle and nutritional, chemical and hormonal imbalances (e.g. low hormone levels, impaired functioning of hormone receptors and auto-immune reactions) are the top reasons for physical and mental degeneration leading to chronic disease and rapid aging. Long-term lack of essential nutrients is more specifically the most common cause of age-related conditions:
Free radical theory Free radicals are groups of unstable and reactive atoms. In excess they attack your body’s cells, stealing electrons from your body's delicate membranes and genetic structure, causing cell damage and malfunction. They come from your food, water, air, smoking, chemical exposure and even exercise. They cannot be avoided, so it is important to provide nutrients to combat them. You can do this by using antioxidants… An antioxidant is a substance that inhibits the above free radical damage. As free radicals continue to scavenge for electrons from your body, antioxidants intercept by offering their own electrons to the free radicals in order to stop them scavenging yours. This converts the free radicals into simple harmless molecules. By doing this antioxidants protect your cells from the oxidative damage that leads to premature aging and disease. A large amount of nutrient research validates the effect diet and supplements can have on your body in the battle against free radical damage. Lifestyle changes of course make a big difference too. To begin the process of treatment your healthcare practitioner needs to determine your health status. He/she may carry out tests for antioxidant status, digestive analysis, immune system function, hormone status and circulatory condition. Your lifestyle will also be discussed for any contributory factors that may require attention. An electrocardiogram (testing heart function), electroencephalogram (testing the brain) or electroretinography (testing vision) may be employed. X-rays and ultrasound may also be used. Prevention, or at least early diagnosis and treatment of disease, is the key to successful health. However, general practitioners are ‘interventionists’ not ‘protectionists’, i.e. they are taught how to intervene with disease and stop the furthering of symptoms, but not in how to prevent the body from reaching that state in the first place. With practitioners being generally untrained in this area, prevention is therefore difficult in a conventional medical society. The responsibility for prevention, or at least recognising and monitoring age-related changes when they do occur, remains with you. Your body gives you continuous signals of its state of health. It is up to you to learn about these changes and recognise what your body is telling you. You can then act accordingly to get your body back to optimum health and maintain a regime to keep it there .Premature aging occurs initially without any actual symptomatic signs. Over time, without much warning you may begin to notice symptoms. More often than not it takes a serious condition to develop, such as a heart attack or stroke, before you realise what is happening and what your body has been trying to tell you all these years.
Aside from disease, general signs can also include deterioration in previously acceptable areas, such as:
There is no need for you to just accept signs of aging. Do not believe people who claim these are signs of "getting older", or who feel that you "will have to learn to live with it". The signs and diseases mentioned here are all preventable and/or treatable and are by no means a ‘normal’ part of growing old. Premature aging is not a requirement of life. It is a sad fact that thousands of people die each year from using over-the-counter drugs in an attempt to mask some of these symptoms (suggested by the US Center for Disease Control). In addition, more than 100,000 people die from drugs ‘correctly’ prescribed by their doctor. (These estimates have been taken from information obtained over the last 20 years.) Some of the most commonly used drugs are as follows: Eldepryl, Selegiline and Deprenyl Possible side effects of these medications include abdominal or stomach pain, dizziness or feeling faint, dryness of mouth, nausea, trouble in sleeping and vomiting. Centrophenoxine Possible side effects include headaches, nausea and muscle stiffness. Isoprinosine (Imunovir) KH3 Nimodipine
Human Growth Hormone – Injectable type It became popular after a study was published by Dr Daniel Rudeman in The New England Journal. This study found that over a short period of time there were improvements in the obvious signs of aging in most of the subjects. Some ‘experts’ suggested it was equivalent to turning back the clock by as much as 20 years. However, this was a short study and most of the participants ultimately withdrew. Dr Rudeman is long deceased. Whereas HGH injections have applications in specific cases where a patient’s own natural production of HGH is impaired, it is not the ‘fountain of youth’ originally suggested and indeed has possible dangerous side effects. Potential side effects of HGH injections:
The synthetic use of the HGH injection also has the dangerous potential to shut down your own natural production of HGH. Should this happen, once injections are discontinued, you are left with no natural HGH production resulting in rapid deterioration of all organs and accelerated aging.
Human Growth Hormone…’natural’ type Over recent years a homeopathic form of HGH has been marketed. These homeopathic supplements contain synthesized HGH in minute quantities (around 1/200,000th of the dose of the injectable HGH). Most scientists report the implausibility of these products however, as if taken sublingually (dissolved under the tongue) the HGH molecule is simply too large to get through the membranes of your mouth and, if taken orally the molecule would not survive the passage to the stomach. Many unscrupulous companies misleadingly market HGH in a ‘spray’ version instead. Again however scientists warn that this would be ineffective because a molecule of this sensitivity could not possibly survive in such a form. Yet another group uses the results of Dr Rudeman’s short study too, and relate it to a totally different product…. HGH precursors are a cocktail of amino acids. High doses of these can and do raise your levels of HGH (measured by Insulin Growth Factor–1 (IGF-1)), but ONLY if you are still young! As you age (40+) they become less effective, and most people over 50 would be lucky to get any benefit at all. Some promoters show convincing graphs of increases in IGF-1 levels with HGH precursors. However, they withhold the fact that these levels can and do fall back to original levels after a few months…and often end up lower than they were before starting the program. This has serious potential for long-term damage to your health. Bottom line… HGH is NOT a ‘fountain of youth’ and could actually reduce your health. It is possible for you to maintain high natural levels of HGH without taking any of the above…and enhance your overall health at the same time! As proof of this click below to see the HGH levels of Warren Matthews, Chairman of Xtend-Life. He does not take hormones of any sort, but instead follows the protocol recommended below. At the age of 54 he had HGH levels of an average healthy 25 year old.
The ingredients... Many ingredients are widely recognised by experts for their anti-aging benefits. However, your body needs ingredients that will also target the vital health of your main organs, and do so synergistically. Your body can then produce the chemicals your cells need to stay healthy. These ingredients consist of a wide range of amino acids, antioxidants, bioflavanoids, neuronutrients, herbal extracts, enzymes and specialized trace elements. They must be combined in specific dosages to enable them to enhance one another’s effectiveness. Many such ingredients continue to gain recognition for their anti-aging value through continued studies... DMAE (Dimethyl Amino Ethanol Bitartrate) minimizes the build up of lipofuscin (age spots) in the brain and has been shown in studies to help with age-related cognitive decline and increase attention span deficits of young and old. RNA (Ribonucleic Acid) is another such ingredient, a micro-molecule transmitting genetic information from DNA that in clinical trials (Dr. S.J. Jellinek) has shown to cause a visible lifting and tightening of the skin, an acceptable alternative to more invasive and synthetic medications. Some of the most important ingredients are not particularly common however due to their expense. L-Carnosine and L-Glutathione are typical examples, with L-Glutathione being around 30 times more expensive than Vitamin C. Also, some ingredients require specific delivery methods to avoid them being destroyed by stomach acid ‘en-route’. L-Glutathione needs to be released in the upper intestine for this very reason and so cannot be effective in an ‘ordinary’ tablet or capsule. It must be enteric coated. As our bodies differ in requirement depending on whether we are male or female, some ingredients, from specific enzymes to various herbal extracts, are also needed to accommodate gender-specific problems – such as for testosterone loss in men (Chrysin) and of course for menopausal and post-menopausal problems in women (Wild Yam, Dong Quai). The formula… The nutrients your organs need are required in the correct proportions, professionally formulated and combined to synergize and produce the best protection and disease-fighting ability. Exact combination and dosage is extremely important as if these ingredients were formulated ‘out of balance’ it is possible they could produce unwanted compounds and do your body harm. It is because of these potential dangers that you should never buy a variety of supplements ‘off-the-shelf’ to cover everything and just take them all! The most advanced and comprehensive formula available today to help you build a good ‘anti-aging’ foundation and achieve optimum health is Xtend-Life’s Total Balance. Total Balance is one of the few supplements that does target all your essential organs, releasing ingredients in such a way as to ensure you receive the full benefits of each one, in an enhanced and synergistic manner, to help build a solid health foundation. This includes not only the above ingredients, but also the release of many others:
The importance of using the above ingredients in specific combination cannot be overemphasized. Their correct and synergistic combination has been shown to increase their efficacy and action by 15 times or more! Xtend-Life Total Balance formula, with the addition of Omega 3/DHA, should be the cornerstone of your anti-aging and overall health regime. Should your budget allow, it is desirable to give your brain and nervous system an added boost by also including Xtend-Life Neuro-Natural General into your protocol.
For assistance with overall health and longevity, reducing premature aging risks, improving your immunity and your resistance against degenerative diseases:
Protocol 2 – Intensive program For maximum effectiveness against premature aging and the most reliable overall health benefits:
NB: If you are a man you could add 3 tablets a day of Xtend-Life Male Rejuvenator for added prostate protection, or if you are a woman you could add 3 tablets a day of Xtend-Life Female Rejuvenator. For More Information on AGING CLICK THIS LINK HERE
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