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Vortex Methuselah : healthy long life
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Dec 04: added Ezekiel 4:9 - Food for Life •••
Dec 02: added a Jon Barron article on enzymes •••
Nov 21: added a Jon Barron article, addressed to FDA regulators, on stevia (a sweetener) •••
Nov 19: added a Jon Barron article on mineral absorption and use •••
Aug 22: added three links from Celestine McMahon-Woneis.
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 | Life Extension Foundation •••
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 | "I believe that within the next 12 months, the scientific community will have documented for the first time ever, the reversal of aging of a human cell." — Dr. Michael West, in "Regenerative Medicine Breakthroughs", by Julius Goepp, MD, in Life Extension magazine, November 2008 •••
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| Multi-Targeted Disease Defense: Using Phytonutrients •••
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| Fight Aging! & Longevity Meme newsletters ••• (archive)
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 | AGE-Breakers - breaking the chemical bonds of Breaking Advanced Glycation End Products (AGEs)
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| Beyond Alagebrium ••• (an early, failed, AGE-breaker )
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| Breaking Advanced Glycation End Products (AGEs) ••• (August 2009, work of Torrent Pharmaceuticals •••)
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| Legendary Pharmaceuticals ••• (researching AGE-breakers)
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| Background: "Glycation and Crosslinking of Extracellular Proteins" •••
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| Background: Introduction to the Biology of Aging and Senescence •••
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| Immune response and accelerated aging
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| Immune response accelerates aging ••• (June 3, 2011)
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| Immune Responses Accelerate Ageing: Proof-of-Principle in an Insect Model ••• (article in PLoS ONE)
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| The pathology of many of the world's most important infectious diseases is caused by the immune response. Additionally age-related disease is often attributed to inflammatory responses. Consequently a reduction in infections and hence inflammation early in life has been hypothesized to explain the rise in lifespan in industrialized societies. Here we demonstrate experimentally for the first time that eliciting an immune response early in life accelerates ageing. We use the beetle Tenebrio molitor as an inflammation model. We provide a proof of principle for the effects of early infection on morbidity late in life and demonstrate a long-lasting cost of immunopathology. Along with presenting a proof-of-principle study, we discuss a mechanism for the apparently counter-adaptive persistence of immunopathology in natural populations. If immunopathology from early immune response only becomes costly later in life, natural selection on reducing self-harm would be relaxed, which could explain the presence of immune self-harm in nature.
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| PLoS One is an interactive open-access journal for the communication of all peer-reviewed scientific and medical research.
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| InvestorStemCell.com ••• — includes free subscription to "This Week in Regenerative Medicine"
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| John Scott, thanks for this link
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| Regeneration of Fingers in Marine and Now Thigh Muscle ••• — Posted by iCELL News, on 12th July 2011, in Stem Cell Research
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| Patrick Cox, "Technology Breakthrough Alert" ••• (a newsletter by an excellent researcher on regenerative medicine - intended to help find companies worth investment. This newsletter is sold by Agora Financial as if by a carnival barker, and it's expensive, but high-quality).
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| From Celestine McMahon-Woneis, 22 August 11
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| Ezekiel 4:9 - Food for Life ••• "When sprouting occurs, the grain is partially predigested. This creates vitamin nutrients which help your body digest and absorb the healthy content of the grain. As well, the starches have already started being converted into maltose during the sprouting process, reducing the final maltose content and producing a lower glycemic response."
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| Jon Barron ••• — Immune System; Flu (H1N1, H5N1) & a virus inhibitor; Design of a super food; Book on "miracle doctors"; Alkaline water
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| Jon Barron article on enzymes •••
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| The Stevia Shibboleth (addressed to the FDA regulators) ••• (full article; excerpts from the end of the article below)
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One has to wonder why aspartame, sucralose, and high fructose corn syrup -- all with proven major negative health effects -- are approved by regulatory agencies in the US, Canada, and Europe and are currently in widespread use; whereas stevia is not. Not to be cynical, but perhaps the companies behind aspartame, sucralose, and high fructose corn syrup (G.D. Searle, Royal DSM, Tate and Lyle, and ADM) have a political clout that small independent stevia producers cannot muster for a non-patentable natural sweetener.
If that's true, we can be fairly sure that we will never see stevia approved for commercial use in Europe, Canada, and the US until one of those large corporate entities finds a way to patent it. But wait! Forgive my cynicism! Cargill and Coca Cola are doing just that even as we speak! I think we can look forward to an approval of stevia -- in a patented form -- in the not too distant future. Will this version be safer? No, of course not. It will merely have a different name, Rebiana. Oh yes, and Coke and Cargill will back it. In the world of nutrition regulation, it appears that money talks... and real nutrition walks. It's enough to give you high blood sugar, tiny thymuses, brain tumors, and shrunken sex glands!
I titled this newsletter the Stevia Shibboleth. A shibboleth, as described in the Bible, was a secret word used by the ancient Gileadites to identify outsiders who were unable to pronounce the word correctly. In a sense, we can see that stevia is being used as a shibboleth by regulatory agencies to separate the insiders (the large commercial entities with major political influence) from the outsiders (the purveyors of all-natural healthy products). And just as the Gileadites put outsiders who failed the test to death, so it would seem our regulators would do the same to manufacturers such as Celestial Seasonings who fail the modern Shibboleth test and pronounce their sweetener: stevia.
As I said, this newsletter has been written for those regulators.
Guys, as long as you approve aspartame, sucralose, and high fructose corn syrup as healthy and refuse to allow stevia to be used, calling it unsafe, despite all reasonable evidence to the contrary, you will have no credibility among thinking people. It is tantamount to an open admission that approval has nothing to do with safety -- only what's bought and paid for.
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| "Anatomy and Physiology of the Immune System" (two parts)
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| Flu & Virus Destruction/Inhibition
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| Jon Barron products are available through Baseline Nutritionals •••. Take a look at Super Viragon®, Immunify™, and pHi-Zymes™
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| "proteolytic enzymes have the ability to create optimal health by boosting the immune system, increasing heart health, ..."
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| From Barron's May 09 letter, "Swine Flu - Reluctantly"
http://www.jonbarron.org/baseline-health-program/2009-05-11.php
'The bottom line is that the biggest damage from the swine flu outbreak may yet turn out to be that it is being used as an excuse by the FDA and FTC (and ultimately government agencies throughout the world) to come down on complementary health like a sledge hammer leaving pharmaceutical drugs as their only option. Incidentally, no legislation is required to do this. It can all be done by agency fiat. As I have repeatedly tried to remind people, the real danger to alternative health is not from "big legislation" but from behind the scenes directives that require no public oversight or legislative approval.'
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| How minerals are absorbed through digestion and then actually used by cells -- or not. This article is the clearest and best I've read on the topic, and although it promotes one of his own products I regard it as completely honest ••• -ls
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| A recent article by Jon Barron is the best I've seen on how to think about anti-oxidants. —ls, 01/31/09
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| Design of a super-food, reasons for inclusion of each ingredient
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| Jon Barron's book - "Lessons From the Miracle Doctors"
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| "On this page you can download a free copy of Jon's book "Lessons from the Miracle Doctors", listen to and/or download a free audio version of the book, and read reviews and testimonials from people whose lives have been changed by putting the book into practice!"
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| Alkaline water, good or not? This is an excellent example of Jon's way of analyzing things.
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| The relationship between cellular pH and voltage, impacts on health, the Tennant Biomodulator and its use •••
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| If the collaboration between established medicine and government regulatory agencies does not become more effective new knowledge & practices will eliminate billions of dollars of revenue. For the sake of economic health competition must be suppressed.
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| Pleomorphism ••• (Nexus Magazine, April 1992, an article by Christopher Bird, 1991) — "At the heart of science lies discovery which involves a change in worldview. Discovery in science is possible only in societies which accord their citizens the freedom to pursue the truth where it may lead and which therefore have respect for different paths to that truth," -John Polanyi, Canadian Nobel Laureate (Chemistry); commencement address, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, June 1990
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| Christopher Bird, obituary ••• (June 1996)
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| Kevin: This is where the book you gave me has led. It's possible a friend of mine was saved from a "terminal" illness by a doctor who understood pleomorphism. -leif
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| This kind of theory is why governmentally forced organization of thinking and funding is a great danger. -leif
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| Life Extension Manual •••, by Jerry Emanuelson •••, Futurescience, LLC •••
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| Life Extension Manual, Table of Contents •••
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| Hippocrates Health Institute •••
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| "The Hippocrates philosophy is dedicated to the belief that a pure enzyme-rich, complemented by positive thinking and non-invasive therapies are essential elements on the path to optimum health."
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| A reader of this vortex has reported that his parents had excellent results from a three-week stay at Hippocrates. -leif, March 7, 2010
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| Methuselah Foundation •••
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| Buck Institute for Research on Aging •••
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| Roskamp Institute ••• — research on "inflammage" (inflammation damage, immune system related)
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| "Interleukins are a type of small cell-signalling protein molecules called cytokines that can activate a whole series of inflammatory genes by triggering a dangerous switch called NF-kappaB. The results showed that introducing curcumin in the culture system inhibits NF- kappaB B and prevents it from switching on and promoting further inflammation." ••• — quotation is from Worldhealth.net Anti-Aging News, not from Roskamp, but it addresses the same problem involving NF-kappaB.
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| Donnie Yance ••• — Dr. Mercola interviews Donald (“Donnie”) Yance, an internationally known herbalist and nutritionist who founded the Centre for Natural Healing in 1992, and the Mederi Foundation in 2006. Mr. Yance has developed and taught a proprietary diagnostic and therapeutic approach to energetics and nutrition called the Eclectic Triphasic Medical System (ETMS). Here, Mr. Yance will introduce you to his holistic approach and share some of his vast botanical knowledge, including how you can use herbs to restore your health.
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| Yoga for those living with Parkinson's disease •••
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| Debate over Vaccines and Neurological Damage
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Debate Over Vaccines ••• — Mike Adams, Editor of NatualNews.com
"When it comes to vaccines, Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey get it. They see how the pharma industry is engineering a campaign to silence Dr. Andrew Wakefield in order to suppress the publication of startling new evidence linking vaccines to severe neurological damage.
"At great risk to their professional careers, Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey have found the courage to dare to tell the truth about vaccines and autism. Despite the vicious attacks by the pro-vaccine zealots who will stop at nothing to destroy anyone who challenges conventional vaccine mythology, McCarthy and Carrey have issued a powerful, inspired statement that reveals the truth behind the Big Pharma smear campaign that is intent on destroying the reputation of Dr. Andrew Wakefield before he can publish the final results of this important new study."
A statement from Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey in defense of Dr. Wakefield ••• (original source of the statement)
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Debate Over Vaccines ••• — Mike Adams, Editor of NatualNews.com •••
"When it comes to vaccines, Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey get it. They see how the pharma industry is engineering a campaign to silence Dr. Andrew Wakefield in order to suppress the publication of startling new evidence linking vaccines to severe neurological damage.
"At great risk to their professional careers, Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey have found the courage to dare to tell the truth about vaccines and autism. Despite the vicious attacks by the pro-vaccine zealots who will stop at nothing to destroy anyone who challenges conventional vaccine mythology, McCarthy and Carrey have issued a powerful, inspired statement that reveals the truth behind the Big Pharma smear campaign that is intent on destroying the reputation of Dr. Andrew Wakefield before he can publish the final results of this important new study."
A statement from Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey in defense of Dr. Wakefield ••• (original source of the statement)
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| Dr. Jerry Tennant, interviewed by Patrick Timpone, on pH, voltage, health of cells, and the Tennant Biomodulator •••
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| Dr. Robert Jay Rowen's "Second Opinion" newsletter •••
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| Dr. Rowen saved the life of a friend of mine, said to be terminal by other doctors, but out of danger in a few days under Rowen's care. -leif, 2009
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| Blaylock Wellness Report •••
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| Howard Hughes Medical Institute: Stem Cells, Cloning, Regeneration
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| Frontier Medical Institute, Golden, Colorado •••
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| http://rayandterry.com — Ray Kurzweil, Terry Grossman products. Travelers - take a look at the chocolate shake meal replacement (no sugar at all). One EF participant who travels constantly finds this a "life-saver".
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| Balance Point Health — Binx Selby's program to fix blood chemistry •••
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| Interview with Binx (audio)
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| Related, and pertaining to the work of Ancel Keys, is Mary Enig's "The Oiling of America"
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| 'In 1956, an American Heart Association (AHA) fund-raiser aired on all three major networks. The MC interviewed, among others, Irving Page and Jeremiah Stamler of the AHA, and researcher Ancel Keys. Panelists presented the lipid hypothesis as the cause of the heart disease epidemic and launched the Prudent Diet, one in which corn oil, margarine, chicken and cold cereal replaced butter, lard, beef and eggs. But the television campaign was not an unqualified success because one of the panelists, Dr. Dudley White, disputed his colleagues at the AHA. Dr. White noted that heart disease in the form of myocardial infarction was nonexistent in 1900 when egg consumption was three times what it was in 1956 and when corn oil was unavailable. When pressed to support the Prudent Diet, Dr. White replied: “See here, I began my practice as a cardiologist in 1921 and I never saw an MI patent until 1928. Back in the MI free days before 1920, the fats were butter and lard and I think that we would all benefit from the kind of diet that we had at a time when no one had ever heard the word corn oil.”' —Mary Enig's "Oiling of America"
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| Reg McDaniel — the discovery of glyconutrients
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| Fisher Institute for Medical Research
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| Forest Ward interview with Dr. Reg McDaniel (audio, 2-parts), January 2008, on the above website
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| Question: Does consumption of mixed polysaccharides result in increased generation of stem cells by the bone marrow?
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| For more on this, please contact me. -leif, 07Mar10 (leifsmith @ gmail dot com)
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| 073 The Methuselah Mouse Prize - promoting research to extend the healthy human lifespan
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| Cato : reversing governmental predation & obstruction •••
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| Defending Openspace (in matters of choice regarding health)
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| Canada: The Natural Health Products Protection Association [link]
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| The Natural Health Products Protection Association is federally incorporated as a non-profit company with the sole object of: Protecting access to Natural Health Products and Dietary Supplements. By limiting its purpose to protecting access to Natural Health Products and Dietary Supplements, the NHPPA will focus on identifying and responding to threats facing the Natural Health Product and Dietary Supplement industry. — http://nhppa.org/
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| Mary Enig on coconut oil against drug resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)
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| Celestine McMahan-Woneis, Marcia Smith, Leif Smith, Jerry Emanuelson, Pierre de Rochemont, Paul Zeiger, Carolyn Zeiger
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