Living Long or Living Well
Posted on 02 April 2008 by Johnetta Miner
Last night, 04/01/08, ABC aired ’Live To 150. Can You Do It?’ with Barbara Walters as hostess. Longevity, of course, was the overall topic of the show. I had heard, read or seen videos previously, of the individual topics that were presented on living a long life. The BBC News Discovery presented a program on living to age 150. Last night the topics included genomes, preserving or freezing of the body, resveratrol medication, calorie and fat restricted diets, tissue regeneration and centenarians. Watch the video and find out how these centenarians are living to the fullest.
My first thought brought a smile to my face and a chuckle….that being, Barbara Walters was publicly admitting, on national television, to being a card carrying member of AARP and interested in a much longer lifetime.
On a much deeper level, I wondered about those folks who spent $75, 000 to have their bodies preserved and be ‘awakened’ centuries from now. What happens to the ‘pain body’ that Eckhart Tolle wrote about in A New Earth? Will they have to resolve the pain before they can get on with their new life in another era of time? WOW!
Tissue regeneration or rebuilding the body is akin to replacing a part in a car. Instead of going to the Minute Clinic to see a Nurse Practitioner or a Physician Assistant for acute care, maybe we’ll fly to the mall and take the moving sidewalk to have our liver replaced!
Resveratrol can be found in wine. However, it would take thousands and more bottles for tissue and cell repair. Imagine swallowing a pill and just keep going, going and going, as shown in the battery commercial. To recap, resveratrol is found in a variety of plants but primarily in the skin of grapes. It supports antioxidant health by its effect on cell damaging free radicals in the body.
Paul Newman, an 82 year old race car driver and Aubrey de Grey, a British researcher, were featured on the show. The first time I saw and heard Aubrey de Grey speak was on the internet. He expressed his opinion on the process of aging as being a disease that is curable.
The show presented both sides of the same coin of wellness….live WELL(ness) while living LONG. Wellness is a continuum. Review the Wellness Inventory for optimal wellness and get a free report.
I watched the show Tuesday night and I enjoyed it. However I was a little disappointed that they did not talk about anyone who had already lived past 150 years. I have researched people who had lived 150 years or more, such as Li Ching Yun, who died in 1933 at the age of 256 years. As I was researching these supercentenarians, I came across a few of these people that are still alive today that have surpassed 150 years. Of these incredible people, my focus is now on a living, breathing immortal whom I fully believe is nearly 2,800 years old.
My intentions was to find out how these amazing people survive for so many years. I fully believed that if we could model the lifestyle of these supercentenarians, we too could live a much longer and healthier life style. I have summarized what I have found on my main blog: Ben-Abba.com.
Comment by Ben Abba — April 3, 2008 @ 8:27 PM
Thanks for your comment ….I also waited for her to interview a person who is 150 years of age. Although the movie, “The Man from Earth” is fictional, I found it to be a very thought provoking film regarding longevity and the characters’ beliefs.
Watch trailer at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njU5CsrYfKM
Comment by Johnetta — April 7, 2008 @ 5:17 PM