[7] Longer Life = Longevity Redwood Shores, California-based billionaire Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle [computer database software] set up and funds a non-profit group The Ellison Medical Foundation [http://www.ellison-med-fn.org][providing $20 Million Annually for research into aging]. "The distinctive human problem from time immemorial has been the need to spiritualise human life, to lift it onto a special immortal plane, beyond the cycles of life and death that characterise all other organisms" - Ernest Becker
[1] Air : We relate to air through the breath. Most of us don't breath properly, which is to say, we take in too little or too much and fail to consume it properly. Develop a method whereby the inhale and exhale are connected in an uninterrupted rhythm, a continuous, circular, flywheel pattern, like a serpent swallowing it's own tail. The breathing should be deep and smooth and regular. When you bring air into your body, visualise sucking in as much energy and vitality as possible; when you expel air, visualise blowing out all the staleness and flatness inside of your body. Simple, it is true, but hardly simplistic when we understand that much of the cellular damage that leads to tissue breakdown [aging] , in other words - is caused by the accumulation of the toxic by products of metabolizing oxygen. Super-oxide free radicals, which is what these garbage molecules are called, combine with fatty acids to produce lipofuscin, which is unstable, repulsive gunk that clogs up a cell like grease clogs up a drain. The more goop you have gumming up your cells, the greater the strain on your metabolism, and the more taxed the metabolism the easier is is for still more poisons to accumulate. Biological studies have proven that the animals with the longest life spans are those with the lowest rates per body weight of oxygen consumption, apparently because they dump fewer super-oxide Since we're stuck with having to breath oxygen until something better comes along, we need to learn to consume less of it and to burn it more efficiently. Proper breathing, in addition, reduces stress, and stress is a major contributor to aging, disease, and death. You must be flexible, not tense. [2] Water : Water , too, is helpful in alleviation stress. Research at Purdue University, the UCLA Medical Centre, and other lovely places has demonstrated the aging can be forced into the slow lane, if not off the road all together, by decreasing the body's temperature. Hypothermia not only slows down the metabolic pump, allowing it to coast a bit and refresh itself, it puts a lid on the autoimmune reactions that contribute to an organism's deterioration. You see, our immune systems tend to be trigger-happy, especially at high, or 'normal' temperatures, frequently attacking the very cells they are hired to defend - not unlike a police department. When the body's temperature is depressed, the immunological cops remain in the station house playing checkers, responding with their pistols, tear gas, and truncheons only to genuinely threatening situations. This saves wear and tear on the body. A technique for bathing is to soak for a half hour or so, then withdraw for 15 minutes, repeating the process four or five times. The hot water causes the blood to rise to the skin surface, where, once you leave the bath, it is in a position to be cooled. Over a period of time, this regular cooling down of the body resets your internal The bathing technique fools the DNA of the body into reacting as if it's host were back in the womb again. The temperature of the womb is a fairly constant one hundred degrees [F] . This potentially cons the DNA into believing that it's in a neo-embrionic environment, thus supplying our bodies with the strongest and freshest hormones and enzymes, because it is the nature of the DNA to lavish life upon the foetal and the young, while depriving those over twenty. [3] Earth : There's probably no subject with quite so many conflicting views about it as there are about food, and it's better to swap bubble gum with a rabid bulldog than challenge a single one of the varying beliefs your average human holds about nutrition, but it is obvious that diet plays an important role. By now, even congenital idiots shut up in cellars in small country towns are aware that excess body fat promotes infirmity and shortens life expectancy. Experiments at Cornell, Montesano Laboratories, the University of California, and the Nebraska Medical School report that severely reduced calorie intake and restricted ingestion of certain amino acids drastically This is counter-balanced perfectly by the immunological effectiveness of cooling your blood [bathing technique]. Eating simply, and small amounts of food at a time. The best kept secret of nutrition is that it's healthier to eat small amounts of 'bad' food than large amounts of 'good'. Another nutrition technique is periodic fasting for five days each month [ie : 1 day per week]. There is nothing like periodic fasting for cleaning out your pipes, and remember it is the accumulated death of cells - their failure to reproduce - that ages and kills a body, and it is the accumulation of toxins that kill cells. How does your sweet little cell get polluted with toxins? From improper breathing and improper diet. Try eating beetroot's as well. Beets build up the blood, stimulate the liver [which is our main organ of purification], and supply the body with nucleic acid , nucleic acid being absolutely essential to the efficient reproduction of youthful cell structure. Ta-da! [4] Fire : With the element of fire, sex enters the picture. Now we know that sex can ease stress, and we know that stress wears out the rubber on the wheel of life. But sexual fire, like the breath of air and the bath of water, makes other contributions to the immortalist program. The human organism is designed by DNA to maintain an optimum of strength and health to sexual maturity - and just a few years beyond. Once it has done its procreative duty, [ and the perpetuation of the species may be the only thing that DNA really cares about] it is kissed off, abandoned to steadily deteriorate. You need to keep your sexual fires stoked so hotly that DNA is fooled into believing that you are just entering into sexual maturity. Maintaining adolescently high hormone levels contribute [with bathing] to prevent the DNA getting a clear fix on your age.
The DNA, to be safe, will support you. [quotes from Tom Robbins : Jitterbug Perfume, 1984 - Bantam Books : isbn 0-553-26844-9] .
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