Essential Life Facts for Growing Older

Nine Facts About Growing Older

1. Death is the number one killer in the world.

2. Life is sexually transmitted.

3. Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.

4. Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day. Teach that person to use the Internet and they won’t bother you for weeks, months or even years.

5. Health nuts are going to feel a little sheepish someday, just lying on a hospital bed, dying of nothing.

6. All of us could take a lesson from the weather.  It pays absolutely no attention to criticism.

7. In the 60’s, people took acid to make the world feel weird.  Now, the world is weird, and people take Prozac to make it feel normal.

8. Life is essentially carbohydrate induced. . . This all started because someone was tempted into eating an apple.

9. Don’t worry too much about old age; it doesn’t last that long.

 

What is the “Fountain Of Youth” as We Know It Today?

  1. A ketogenic or carnivorous diet placing one into ketosis regularly slows aging and reducing the risk of dementia dramatically (1, 2).
  2. Berberine Plus 500mg twice a day if you are at all insulin resistant has been shown to stop progression to diabetes and insulin resistant, improve weight loss, reverse symptoms of PCOS and has notable research demonstrating anti-inflammatory properties (3) all of which are know to  slow aging.
  3. Vitamin D 1000-5000 IU Daily (4.)
  4. 6-8 hours of restful sleep nightly (5.)
  5. At least 15-30 minutes of HIIT exercise 5-6 days per week.
  6. Stress reduction through journaling, meditation, hypnotherapy or story telling/reading.
  7. Daily expression of gratitude, Doc Holiday was right . . .

Check out my recent video talking about this an answering over 100 of your ketogenic related questions:

References:

  1. Veech RL, 2004, “The therapeutic implications of ketone bodies…,”Prostaglandins Leukot Essent Fatty Acids, 2004 Mar;70(3):309-19.70
  2. Ott A, Stolk RP, Hofman A, van Harskamp F, Grobbee DE, Breteler MM. Association of diabetes mellitus and dementia: the Rotterdam Study. Diabetologia. 1996 Nov;39(11):1392-7. doi: 10.1007/s001250050588. PMID: 8933010.
  3. Yin J et al., Efficacy of Berberine in Type II DM, Metabolism, May 2008
  4. Gallagher JC. Vitamin D and aging. Endocrinol Metab Clin North Am. 2013 Jun;42(2):319-32. doi: 10.1016/j.ecl.2013.02.004. Epub 2013 Apr 9. PMID: 23702404; PMCID: PMC3782116.
  5. Scott, S.B., Graham-Engeland, J.E., Engeland, C.G. et al. The Effects of Stress on Cognitive Aging, Physiology and Emotion (ESCAPE) Project. BMC Psychiatry 15, 146 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-015-0497-7