Real anti-aging methods Part 2….Today's post:  Tuesday, 1-23-2018

1.  Last Tuesday, 1-16-2018, we posted on proven ways to slow and even partially reverse aging by doing a very good job of eating right and only eating that way; getting regular exercise – both strength training and short amounts of relatively vigorous cardio; and we posted on keeping your telomeres long which in some ways directly stops aging.

2.  The first set of things work in part because they do keep your telomeres long and even seem to repair short telomeres and make them long again!

Also having a good social life and dealing well with stress has been shown to make your telomeres get longer where the reverse makes them shorter. 

When your cells have long telomeres, they make accurate copies and there is little or no aging.  When your telomeres get too short, they make bad copies, which is what causes aging.

We also listed a supplement that helps your telomeres stay long, astrgalus; and those that cause glutathione release such as NAC and alpha lipoic acid may also prevent your telomeres from getting shorter by protecting your telomeres from oxidation during exercise and stress.

2.  We then posted on taking ursolic acid plus strength training as a way to prevent frailty and muscle wasting after age 65 to 85. (Note this does NOT require taking anabolic steroids.)

Since then my research found that it may be that ursolic acid appears with other factors that are aromatase inhibitors to prevent testosterone from converting to DHT and those that prevent testosterone from conversion to Estradiol -- both of which increase the net or free testosterone that IS a natural anabolic steroid.

The herb Holy Basil was tested by Doctor Al Sears to reduce estrogens from aging and ingesting pseudoestrogens like BPA with a net gain of free testosterone. He found research showing this and was able to get this effect for his patients!

Holy Basil also has ursolic acid.  But these other factors that prevent the increase in things that reduce free testosterone that go up with age otherwise and these effects may be the effective anabolic factors.

*Note that exercising your larger muscles in your legs and buttocks and lower back and the larger muscles in your upper back and chest with heavy weights tends to increase testosterone release.

So does eating enough high quality protein with whey being most effective.  So does taking zinc and fenugreek and Tongkat Ali and enough vitamin D3.

Taking creatine helps you to lift more weight and recover in a way that builds muscle also.

*Growth hormone release, separate from testosterone, also prevents frailty and keeps you strong and competent. 

Doing the heavier strength training with enough weight for you that you have to pause to catch your breath at the end of the set releases growth hormone. 

So does pushing your limits a bit on vigorous cardio enough to have to rest or slow down to catch your breath. 

Ursolic acid itself may work. Some evidence says it does. 

But the natural spices that contain it plus the exercises we know slow aging may increase their anti-aging effects with these factors – AND they each prevent frailty!

3.  These exercises plus NOT eating hybrid wheat or high fructose corn syrup or artificial sweeteners or drinking any soft drinks PLUS taking DHA and the herb Bacopa also release BDNF that repairs and grows new brain cells and nerves.  So they help you stay mentally competent instead of having your brain shrink and stop working.

4.  Lastly, besides your telomeres being long, if the mitochondria that generate the energy for ALL your cells, and do the most for your heart and brain that have the most of them, stay numerous and healthy, you have the mental energy to do things and the physical energy to do them and do them at a normal speed.

Exercising and all these ways to prevent disease and stay healthy tend to keep your mitochondria healthy.

Taking the ubiquinol form of CoQ10 that your body makes while you are younger helps to maintain the health of your mitochondria.

Exercise with enough protein and rest tends to keep your mitochondria healthy.

Knowing to NOT ever take statins or beta blockers that harm mitochondria and using more effective and safer methods instead helps keep your mitochondria healthy by protecting your mitochondria from these substances shown to harm them.

Taking the new supplement PQQ may help grow new mitochondria.  But its most important value may be that it does triage for your mitochondria that have been harmed.

PQQ has been tested to restore lightly damaged mitochondria to health.  But of more importance, it induces aptosis on severely damaged or senescent mitochondria and helps your body remove the debris.  This makes the remaining mitochondria healthier and more effective.

The supplement quercetin is not known to grow new mitochondria but some reports show that it too induces aptosis on severely damaged or senescent mitochondria and helps your body remove the debris.  This makes the remaining mitochondria healthier and more effective.

Conclusion:

Using these methods slows aging and even reverses it after it has begun to some extent.

AND, these methods ensure that you don’t just live longer in a walker or nursing home, you stay energetic and healthy and mobile and able to live a life worth living for decades longer!