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.
