Tips for Creating Your Own Fountain of Youth

The Fountain of Youth has been a legend for centuries, supposedly able to restore youth and vigor to anyone who drinks from it. It reportedly caused the explorer Ponce de Leon to discover Florida – his voyage was a quest to discover the Fountain of Youth.

To date of course, no one has discovered a real Fountain of Youth. However, what has happened is that most of us are now living longer than ever before. What everyone wants is to translate that extended life into one that is healthy and vigorous. Some people use plastic surgery to remain youthful looking, but that is simply a superficial change.

Although we consider ourselves to have an expected “lifespan” we are not actually programmed to last for any specific period of time. In theory at least, we could live for much longer than we do, but in practice that does not happen. But there are methods that allow us to retard the aging process and remain vital and active. The aging process is inevitable, but its physical effects can be slowed.

Using Diet

Before beginning it should be pointed out that many methods have been used to positive effect on animals. However, their value on humans remains unproved. In part, this is because an adequate experiment would take decades rather than years.

The modification of diet, in which total caloric intake is reduced while ensuring that the nutritional supply of minerals and vitamins is maintained, has been proven to be a successful technique for extending lifespan in animals.

In some instances this has increased the active, normal lifespan by 300 percent. At the same time, it has resulted in a decrease in aging related diseases, including autoimmune disease and cancer. In ‘The Retardation of Aging by Dietary Restriction’, written in 1988, Charles Thomas suggested that these advantages could extend to humans.

Given that 40 percent of all cancers are due to aging, using dietary measures to prevent them becomes extremely desirable, and can result in an extended and healthier lifespan. This can be achieved in much the same way that one would reduce the levels of cholesterol in the body; namely by reducing the intake of meat, fat, and refined carbohydrates, while simultaneously increasing the intake of vegetables and fresh fruit and complex carbohydrates.

This needs to be a conjoined strategy with caloric reduction diets, since caloric reduction is the only method proven to extend life in all species on which it has been tried. It has the effect of lowering the metabolic rate, which in turn reduces the body’s core temperature, and has a corollary effect of reducing oxidation activity in the body. The overall result is a lessening of the risks associated with age-related diseases, and the possibility of those already in the body vanishing.

Experiments that have kept animals on low tryptophan diets have also been very effective, almost to the same degree as calorie restriction diets. Tryptophan is a protein based amino acid that is used to synthesize serotonin in the body.

Serotonin accumulates in the human body as it ages, and a high-protein diet will accelerate the production of serotonin. L-dopa, a drug used successfully to treat Parkinson’s disease, also suppresses the excess build up of serotonin (it has caused women past the age of menopause to begin ovulating again). However, there is no evidence to indicate that L-dopa alone can increase lifespan.

Amino Acids

Amino acid supplements stimulate the production of the growth hormone by the pituitary gland, and have been advocated since the 1980s. In 1990, one study involved injecting elderly males with growth hormone, resulting in positive health benefits.

Negative Ions

A number of items associated with modern life increase the production of positive ions (such as smoking, central heating, and even television). Positive ions encourage increased production of serotonin by the nervous system.

Using ionizers, which produce negative ions, can help counteract this by reducing the serotonin build-up. Ionizers are readily available in stores.

GH3

All human bodies contain the enzyme monoamine oxidase (MAO), which exists to keep the levels of some neurohormones in check. Aging produces increased levels of MAO, which can be limited by the use of prescribed MAO inhibitors, the most successful of which is GH3 – which is claimed to have anti-aging potential.

Studies on animals have shown that GH3 slows the aging process in cells when it is added. By itself it does not extend lifespan, but it does appear to retard the aging process. This is not the same result, of course, but can still warrant inclusion on an ardent program to seek a Fountain of Youth.

Nucleic Acid Therapy

Since the 1970s, the use of nucleic acids (DNA and RNA) to encourage extended life has been encouraged by some – the claim is that an increase in lifespan of 30 to 50 percent in animal studies has been achieved with nucleic acid therapy.

The person behind nucleic acid therapy, Dr. Benjamin Frank, has claimed that RNA derived from food and supplements, once combined with amino acids, sugars, and metabolically associated B vitamins, will cause “normal enzyme synthesis and activation” once it enters the cell. It encourages adenosine triphosphate production, which brings about cell function that is more efficient, and can even cause regeneration.

RNA can be found in a number of foods, notably lentils and chickpeas, along with various seafood (oysters, mackerel, sardines, and anchovies), as well as in brewer’s yeast and animal liver. The suggestion is that these sources are supplemented with commercially available DNA/RNA tablets, using a dose of 100 to 200 milligrams every day.

The benefits of nucleic acid therapy should begin within two months, and include improved strength and fewer wrinkles. Notably, a calorie reduction diet includes many of the foods used in nucleic acid therapy. The benefits are very similar to those of a calorie reduction diet.

In conclusion, there are several avenues to explore that can have the effect of not just lengthening life, but also making that extra time more active and vital, as well as possibly reversing some of the effects of aging on the body. Although no Fountain of Youth exists, the quality of physical life can be enhanced and optimized.

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