A new way to slow aging....Today's post:  Tuesday, 10-9-2018

There are many ways to slow aging.

1.  A growth hormone for repairing and making new nerves and brain cells, BDNF, is released by effective but not excessive vigorous cardio and effective strength training.

Taking the omega 3 DHA or eating wild caught fish high in it boosts this effect.

Studies show the mitochondria and nerves that serve your muscles tend to stay in their youthful state.

A Stanford study found this prevents chronic diseases and lengthens life at the same time which makes the years of worthwhile life of exercisers decades longer!

Eating and drinking harmful ingredients and foods and drinks, tend to block this effect.  So does using tobacco or nicotine or breathing tobacco smoke.  So avoiding them all 100% of the time not only prevents things that speed aging, it allows the exercise you do to slow it down!

2.  All your cells work better with a youthful supply of energy.  That energy is generated in each of your cells by your mitochondria.  If they are all healthy and plentiful, everything in your body tends to work well. 

If your mitochondria die or worse become senescent and nonfunctioning but block healthy ones your important parts of your body such as your brain & heart work more slowly or stop.

Statin drugs harm your mitochondria and so are contraindicated for all uses by anyone who wants to avoid increasing their rate of aging.  (There are much better ways to lower small particle LDL and inflammation and prevent heart and cardiovascular disease that do not have this problem.)

For older people who no longer make their own CoQ10, taking the supplement of the ubiquinol form of CoQ10 your body uses increases the health and output of your mitochondria that still work OK.

Research found that PQQ found in kiwifruit and some other foods when given as a supplement increased the number of mitochondria!

Even better, other studies found that taking PQQ upgraded somewhat damaged mitochondria to healthy AND, best of all, killed off and removed senescent mitochondria that were slowing down the healthy ones!

There is some evidence that quercetin and rhodiola also do this.

3.  Now, a flavonoid in apples has been shown to cause senescent mitochondria to undergo aptosis so your immune system can remove them!

The flavonoid fistein found in onions and apples kills and removes senescent cells to slow aging!

Medical News Today reported this research:

A compound found in apples can slow down aging. A natural compound called fistein, found in apples, can help slow down aging. One key factor in the aging process is known as "cellular senescence," or the aging of the cell.

"....senolytics, which are molecules that target and destroy senescent cells to slow down or prevent the aging process, can effectively prolong an individual's lifespan and improve their health."

"....Of all the compounds they looked into, the one that was most effective was fistein, which naturally occurs in many fruits and vegetables — including apples, strawberries, onions, and cucumbers.

When treating aging mice with fistein, the team saw that it reduced the levels of senescent cells in the animals, prolonging their lifespan and contributing to better health."

PQQ & quercetin also are thought to also do this, Dr Al Sears found the UC Davis study saying PQQ does so. I also saw a reference saying quercetin does this.  Quercetin is also found in onions!  Rhodiola prevents age related decline in muscular performance which may be because it does this also.

Notably PQQ, likely rhodiola, and maybe quercetin do this in the mitochondria.

4.  It’s hard to get truly 100% organic apples.  But organic apple sauce and organic onions are also available.  Best of all onions have anti-cancer phyto-nutrients too!

Wash organic apples in a water and sodium bicarbonate solution. Pat dry and peel and core the apples and then wash the peeled apple chunks in sodium bicarb. You can dice the chunks also.

Peel and dice some organic yellow or red onions. 

Then steam both together and when just tender put them into warm olive oil.

The resulting dish will give you high bioavailability of the fistein and quercetin and many of the anti-cancer nutrients in the onions.