* Quit bad habits- one of the best as well as most inexpensive and yet effective ways for you to start preventing sagging skin. Smoking actually damages the cells of the skin, including the precious elastin as well as collagen fibers that keep the skin because of the face taut and smooth that is necessary for the prevention of the wrinkles. The main factor on how you could prevent sagging skin is by stopping habits that only cause repetitive muscle movements that also helps in weakening the fibers that are in your skin cells. Smoking and drinking alcoholic beverages constantly rewards the lips and strains the skin around the mouth with every inhale that you take. Apart from the dangers as well as skin damaging chemicals contained in the cigarettes. These movements will surely cause you deep grooves and even wrinkles around the mouth.
* Limit sun exposure- sun exposure is one of the culprits in making your skin sag. The UV radiation damage the skin cells and causes the wrinkles by breaking the collagen down that is needed for the prevention of the skin condition.
* Moisturize- having a dry skin looks dull, and having both of dry as well as sagging skin is something which is very unsightly. Dry skin cells do not only show flaky appearance but do not have any smooth and filled out appearance of healthy as well as moisturized cells. So, for you to start preventing sagging skin formation, moisturizing could be a wonderful and inexpensive step for you to take.
* Regimen- crumpled skin is totally inevitable; however, prevention is possible. If you only know the proper regimen for skin care. Apart from avoiding bad habits and UV rays, preventing it could be assisted with regular and basic skin care like cleansing, moisturizing, and even by using creams. As long as the condition is not yet coming out, it would be better for you to start your skin care regimen to stop the formation right before it comes out.
* Balance diet- eating foods that are great in antioxidants are good way on how you could have that youthful body around. So, try to consume those foods, drink lots of water and try to maintain them all over.

There is such a lot of chance on how you could handle and stop your skin from sagging. Actually, by doing those things mentioned above could be a great idea on how you could fight aging and its manifestation. So, stay within a youthful body, try to get over with your bad habits, have a healthy skin regimen and have the proper and balance diet.

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The obvious answer if your not getting the result you want right now, is to do something different and look for a line of skin cream with ingredients that have proven potential to help improve your complexion the most.

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An eyelid surgery performed in a Florida center for cosmetic surgery takes about an hour or two.  It is usually performed under local or general anesthesia and the patient can return home the same day, although some opt for an overnight stay.  Small incisions are made in the natural creases of the upper eyelids or inside the lower eyelids to be assured that any scarring will be well-hidden.  Lasers are frequently used to remove the fatty tissue and excess skin.  Lasers can also be used to resurface skin areas under the eyes to help reduce dark circles. 

After having a Blepharoplasty at a Florida center for cosmetic surgery, the patient can usually return to work in three to five days.  The recovery period will include some bruising, swelling and eyelid tightness. Some numbness, dryness, or itching may occur.  Be prepared to experience temporary sensitivity to light.  Consulting with your board certified plastic surgeon is the best way to find out all of the risks and benefits of having eyelid surgery.  He will work closely with you to determine your overall health and suitability for having cosmetic surgery performed.  Soon, you will be thrilled at how much younger you look.

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Fighting with dark circles under the eyes is tiring. But, you’re not the only one who struggles with the tired and exhausted even unhealthy look.

If you want to know the cause, it’s pretty simple. You may rub your eyes due to: lack of sleep, itchy eyes because of dust, suffer from allergies like hay fever, dehydration and even the aging process.

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Just take a look at your current skin care any you will no doubt see mineral oil (paraffin wax, petrolatum), parabens (methyl, propyl) and fragrances which could be any number of thousands of chemicals are present, and also dioxane, known to the state of California to cause cancer.

These are a disaster in anti aging products for oily skin as they clog up your pores so the skin cannot eliminate the toxins and strip away your natural oil which has the effect of making your skin even oilier as it tries to compensate for the dryness!

It’s quite astonishing that the major cosmetic companies can get away with this and the fact they charge so much!

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Gregory S. Bambeck Ph.D. and Michael Wolfson  J.D., M.B.A.

Kent, Ohio U.S.A. 44240

SUMMARY STATEMENT: Cancer, heart disease and diabetes II, the three largest killers of the first and second world nation’s human beings (85%), and their disease antithesis, a healthy squirt from the fountain of youth, are finally defined under a singular unifying global hypothesis. Experimental molecular mapping proves that the regulatory pathway mechanisms define it as a true, real and clinically demonstrated system for the first time. Publicly available, practical and easily workable disease blocking and life extension implementation are readily available to anyone. There are three sections: ABSTRACT; PATHWAY MECHANISMS; PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS. Read on!

ABSTRACT

Full mitochondrial biogenesis is a two phase temporal process consisting of an early phase primarily associated with anabolism, cell replication and the making of over a thousand constitutive mitochondrial proteins that create new, but NADH to OX/PHOS inefficient mitochondria. Between these replication events, cell homeostatic controls up regulate a late phase set of mitochondrial respiratory chain proteins that create efficient NADH to OX/PHOS associated with a shift toward catabolism and autophagy of dysfunctional mitochondria and other cell debris. The early phase (neogenesis) supports cell growth, rejuvenation and whole body vitality in the short term, while the late phase (regenesis) supports cellular housekeeping and repair functions in the life extending long term. The immediate upstream effector of mitochondrial biogenesis is the mitochondrial proliferator co-activator (PGC-1alpha). Its up regulation institutes neogenesis and its down regulation institutes regenesis. Caloric restriction (CR) activates regenesis by up regulating adenosine monophosphate activated kinase (AMPK), while cancer activates neogenesis in the absence of regenesis by down regulation of the same AMPK pathway, upstream of PGC-1alpha. Recent ‘rediscoveries’ show that a cancer cell metabolism proposal of 1980, is correct in its many metabolic particulars. Most cancer cells are mutationally glycolytic fetal enzyme driven ‘sugar junkies’ supported by obligate mitochondrial ATP production inefficiency. Cancer cells are stuck in this cell growth drive state (metabotype), and become relentlessly replicative under the influence of mitogens. Recent genuine discoveries show that inhibition of the life extending CR pathway supports this ‘sugar junkie’ growth state by creating and maintaining inefficient and neogenic mitochondria in the presence of forced hyperglycolysis. Blocking fetal glycolysis and re-establishing the CR pathway pattern creates the regenesis of efficient mitochondria and halts cancer cell growth, and can sometimes even initiate cancer cell apoptosis. We describe the pathway mechanism as a unidirectional feedback loop starting with the CR target, AMPK, and how it regulates mitochondrial biogenesis, the reactive oxygen species (ROS) output, of which, feeds back to AMPK. We also make sense of CR mimetic resveratrol, and its bioavailability in this context, and further employ these understandings to envision simple nutriceutical and lifestyle synergies to fight cancer, the major diseases of aging and even aging itself.

PATHWAY MECHANISMS

To make this easy to understand, we wish to start with some rules of the road. First, when we use the adjective ‘chronic’ or prefixes like ‘hypo’ or ‘hyper’, we are referring to aberrant, unnatural or man-made over impacts upon normal homeostatic systems or typical physiological shiftings in standard metabolic systems. These words are used to emphasize a principal or powerful effect of some kind. Second, since CR is the ‘gold standard’ of life extension, we will use it as a ‘home base’, or reference point, that most of our forays will diverge from, and then return to. Third, we will focus primarily on the unidirectional multi-toggle switch feedback cycle from AMPK to target of rapamycin (TOR) to PGC-1alpha to ROS to sestrin (SESN) and back to AMPK, with the up regulation of AMPK effectively down regulating every other component of the cycle downstream of it. Since the system is a closed feedback loop, everything is upstream of everything else as well as downstream of everything else, like the proverbial snake that eats its tail. However, extrinsic factors affecting any component can over ride their immediate upstream regulators, as we will often point out. Memorizing, or keeping a note pad with this simple AMPK, TOR, PGC-1alpha, ROS, SESN circuit, as a principal reference point, keeps the discussion grounded.

We will begin with a brief outline of the CR pathway. Most simply put, CR activates AMPK which down regulates TOR. Down regulated TOR shifts cell metabolism away from anabolism and toward catabolism, initiates autophagic clean up of cell debris, such as dysfunctional mitochondria and down regulates PGC-1alpha. When down regulated, PGC-1alpha results in the regenesis of existing mitochondria by initiating the transcription of mitochondrial respiratory chain proteins that efficiently link NADH to OX/PHOS ATP production. This causes mitochondrial ROS production to fall, which in turn, down regulates the ROS sensor, SESN. SESN then down regulates its stimulation of AMPK, causing the circuit to rebalance back toward its homeostatic center. Note here that active SESN up regulates AMPK and inactive SESN fails to activate, so its up regulation is active while its down regulation is passive. Thus, continued CR will bypass SESN and chronically up regulate AMPK to constantly enhance the CR pathway to reduce mitochondrial ROS. Elevated ROS is the principal life shortening component in the system, and thus, its repression is the largest single life extender known. This example demonstrates that increased AMPK activity causes a decrease in all the other four (TOR, PGC-1alpha, ROS, SESN) components in the unidirectional feedback loop. Conversely, decreased AMPK activity, as in p53 dysfunctional cancer cells, causes the up regulation of the same four components down stream of it, which incidentally, causes the neogenesis of inefficient mitochondria.

As exemplified by our CR model, AMPK to TOR to PGC-1alpha are the principal mitochondrial biogenesis inputs and their responses, while ROS to SESN are the principal mitochondrial outputs and their responses. We know that there are many steps between each of these five major toggle switches and that there are also myriads of branching pathways and gene up and down regulations stemming into and from each toggle switch, but they will be mentioned in passing only as needed, because it is the central unidirectional cycle that is critical to the cancer, diseases of aging decline and life extension metabolics we key on, herein. Very elegant and evolutionarily apt extensions of this central and related circuits and their nutrient sensing pathways can be found in Science, vol.327, 3/5/2010 p.1210 and vol.328, 3/16/2010 p.324. Lastly, the central focus, here, is on cellular bioenergetics and metabolics because these functions hail back to single cell eukaryotes and have finally earned their seat at the cancer cell control systems round table along with telomeres, growth factors, apoptosis etc. Later, we will see how the AMPK, TOR, PGC-1alpha, ROS, SESN circuit is the exact same circuit controlling cancer and life extension, albeit operating in the opposite direction. We shall also see that cancer ‘cure’, or at least control, and CR share the exact same circuit when operating in the same direction, with mutationally driven hyperglycolysis being the lone but critical cancer stand out. But first, let’s look at each major component in the system.

AMPK stands at the headwaters of the CR pathway. AMPK monitors cellular energy charge by being sensitive to the AMP/ATP ratio, which generally represents the fuel nutrient availability in the cell. High concentrations of the energy rich ATP molecule represent fuel nutrient sufficiency and concomitant low AMP. Conversely, high AMP and low ATP indicate low fuel availability as in CR, which up regulates AMPK via AMPK kinase. Increases in AMPK can inhibit TOR by countermanding the growth factor pathways that activate TOR. Things that activate AMPK inhibit TOR, and things that inhibit AMPK activate TOR. Things that activate AMPK initiate the CR pathway and support life extension and inhibit the cancer metabotype. Standing directly upstream of AMPK, SESN activates AMPK when it self is activated by the cancer cell growth suppressor (p53) or by ROS, mostly of mitochondrial origin. The P53 protein is pro-apoptotic and its inhibition or dysfunction is found in about half of all cancers. Components or systems that reduce AMPK activity shorten life expectancy and promote the cancer metabotype. CR mimetics extend life expectancy and inhibit the cancer metabotype.

This last effect is exemplified by the anti-type II diabetic drug, metformin which is a direct activator of AMPK, causing the typical CR reduction in insulin resistance and the downstream inhibition of TOR. Metformin has been found to increase life expectancy in cancer victims, diabetics and healthy animals. Direct activation of AMPK by metformin enhances the ROS activated SESN switch or can over ride SESN inactivation by faulty p53. Intracellular concentrations of resveratrol in the 20 to 50 uM range activate AMPK similarly to metformin. Dietary free resveratrol rarely attains concentrations above the low single digits of uM. Metformin is our best known chemical example of a CR mimetic.

Now, let us take a brief tour of TOR. In our unidirectional metabolic loop activator model, TOR is the first primary target downstream of AMPK. TOR is a major NADH/NAD redox sensor and a master metabolic regulator switch involved in a dizzying array of integrated pathways, which can be found in a web search under ‘mammalian target of rapamycin’. Fortunately, several major converging and diverging pathways impinge upon and emerge from TOR, allowing us to simplify matters. For instance, mitogens, growth factors, hormones and AMPK act upon TOR through a common intermediate called TSC2. Thus, in a functionally simplified sense, TOR responds to a delicate balance of AMP/ATP energy charge, NADH/NAD redox state, fuel nutrient availability, mitogens, growth factors, growth factor suppressors and genotoxic ROS load. TOR outputs are as multifunctional as its inputs, but are most commonly associated with the integrated regulation of mutually exclusive anabolic or catabolic systems.

The down regulation of TOR by elevated AMPK activity (by CR, for example) institutes a shift toward catabolic efficiency in support of the caloric restriction demands for maximum energy output from maximum fuel conservation under nutrient fuel limiting conditions. In this regimen, another TOR pathway institutes increased mitochondrial respiratory efficiency through the regenesis pathway, and still another TOR pathway up regulates the autophagy of cellular debris and dysfunctional mitochondria. Cellular efficiency, ROS reduction and elevated housekeeping functions increase life expectancy and foster disruption of the cancer metabotype. This process can also be enforced by the TOR inhibitor and foreign tissue rejection suppressor, rapamycin. Rapamycin can facilitate life extension by pulling an end around AMPK and directly inhibiting TOR to switch the cellular drive state from anabolism to catabolism, and also very importantly, push mitochondria into the state of regenic efficiency by down regulating PGC-1alpha.

Finally, as the last major element in the mitochondrial biogenesis input side of the unidirectional loop, a short summary of PGC-1alpha function might be in order. When PGC-1alpha is activated, it turns on over a thousand genes which are devoted to the very complex but singular mega-function of building more mitochondria (neogenesis). As we saw, when TOR is up regulated, it in turn, up regulates PGC-1alpha, and the building of all of the mitochondria except the respiratory chain, is instituted. The respiratory chain transcription elements can only be constructed when PGC-1alpha is down regulated, later. Chronic stimulation of PGC-1alpha via chronic up regulation of TOR by growth hormone keeps mitochondria in a state of neogenesis with impoverished regenesis, which is a high ROS generator.

This nowhere more manifest than in the cancer cell metabtype. When mitochondrial respiratory NADH to OX/PHOS coupling is compromised by neogenesis without regenesis, the mitochondria, although primarily catabolic in function, actually enhance anabolism by supporting increased glycolisis and, thereby, shift the balance of glycolytic products,  mitochondrial feedstocks and NADH reducing power toward cell building, all supported by an increase in the glycolytic to mitochondrial ATP production ratio. In his dissertation at Kent State University on mitochondrial alterations in a lymphoblastic lymphoma transplanted into DBA/1J mice, in 1980, Bambeck reviewed dozens of cancer type cell mitochondria, and saw a pattern. He provided a detailed catabolic chart, a general NADH cell nutrient and building block flow chart and an extensive narrative describing these connections. The AMPK, TOR, PG C-1alpha mitochondrial input side of the CR pathway, only now available, finally supply the control elements that prove his hypothesis, which we have just begun to re-discover in the last two years. It is surprising how accurate this thirty year old description is, considering there was no awareness of AMPK, TOR, PGC-1alpha or the vast array of intermediate connections in this regulatory pathway, at that time. However, even today, our new knowledge still boils down to the control of redox, energy charge and metabolites, which could be monitored even, at that time, in the absence of this modern regulatory pathway knowledge. This was done by constructing metabolic flow charts under different drive states and deducing where control links must exist, even if they were, as yet, unknown.

Just as metformin can bypass SESN by directly up regulating AMPK and rapamycin can bypass AMPK by directly down regulating TOR, T3 thyroxine in its non-shivering thermogenesis mode, can mostly bypass TOR by up regulating PGC-1alpha. In addition to ignoring the TOR anabolic/catabolic toggle, this can help illustrate the temporal duality of PGC-1alpha function.

A single dose of T3 thyroxine binds to nuclear DNA upstream of the mitochondrial biogenesis activator master control system and the PGC-1alpha binding co-activator, and begins transcription. Within five hours, activated PGC-1alpha causes more than 1,000 nuclear genes that are specific to the building of new respiration impoverished mitochondria to begin transcription. These very long mRNAs contain the code for their respective gene products as well as the leader sequences for their respective mitochondrial targets. These mRNAs are exported from the nucleus to the cytoplasm to form translational polysomes where mitochondrial outer membranes become confluent with endoplasmic reticulum. Depending on their signal sequences, these mitochondrial proteins are ferried to their mitochondrial home compartments to take up functional residence. After about 48 hours the thyroxine and PGC-1alpha signal system decays and a late set of nuclear and mitochondrial genes specifying the components of the respiratory chain are activated, causing these poorly coupled neogenic mitochondria to become efficient ATP producing regenic mitochondria. In chronic hyperthyroidism, the neogenic phase is powerfully up regulated relative to the regenic phase and the resultant ROS damage is severe enough to dramatically shorten life. A common term for early hyperthyroidism termination is ‘burnout’, because unlike TOR and its anabolic activated neogenesis function, the thyroxine activation is catabolic.

In the thyroxine activated neogenic phase, there are also a set of uncoupling proteins (UCP) that are produced that allow NADH protons to ‘leakback’ into the mitochondrial matrix without their chemiosmotic potential being captured and stored as high chemical energy ATP. Although this an over simplified description, the net result is that the uncaptured energy becomes manifest as heat, which is easy to measure. Thyroxine also supports catabolism by shifting fuel sources from low energy per carbon sugar to high energy per carbon lipid, and if need be, protein. However, when PGC-1alpha is up regulated by TOR, anabolism is supported and glucose is the preferred fuel. This difference becomes not only important, but highly magnified when we consider the cancer metabotype, later. Chronic up regulation of PGC-1alpha, whether anabolically driven by growth hormone stimulation of TOR or catabolically driven by direct stimulation of thyroxine as in hyperthyroidism, results in an incomplete mitochondrial biogenesis stuck in a high ROS producing neogenic state which can induce cancer and shorten life span via ROS produced genotoxicity and stochastic randomization of proteins compounded by the absence of phagocytic housekeeping functions and DNA repair systems. Chronic neogenesis in the absence of regenesis is not only a cancer cell metabotype inducer but a cancer cell metabotype maintainer, as well.

Another way to uncouple NADH from ATP production is for mitochondria to export NADH to the cytoplasm via the NADH/NAD shuttle system. In growing and dividing cells, the redox and energy charge states always lag, so this system is employed more heavily. Also, in non dividing quiescent cells, citrate in excess of krebs cycle needs can inhibit the ‘committing’ enzyme phospho fructo kinase (PFK) at the headwaters of glycolysis. Fetal PFK is often elevated in cancer cells. Although it is an inefficient ATP and NADH producer, glycolysis can run at explosively fast rates when stimulated. For the sake of brevity, we will not distinguish between the two uncoupling forms in this document.

The above described AMPK to TOR to PGC-1alpha portion of the closed unidirectional loop are the inputs to the mitochondrial neogenesis/regenesis system. The ROS to SESN portion represent the ROS output feedback loop to AMPK. Although the exact mechanism of the mitochondrial output of ROS to SESN is still to be articulated, its requisite path and net results are unambiguous. Increases in ROS eventually leads to activation of SESN, which in turn, activate AMPK to inhibit TOR to down regulate PGC-1alpha to institute mitochondrial regenesis to reduce ROS. SESN gene knockout drosophila die prematurely of age related disorders, and the anti-oxidant vitamin E protects life length function in SESN gene knockouts.

The system, as so far described is more elucidative of life extension than it is of the generation and maintenance of the cancer metabotype, soon to be discussed. Basically, life extension via the CR upregulation of AMPK occurs, mostly due to the reduction of ROS caused by mitochondrial regenesis of efficient ATP producing mitochondria. This essentially puts the adult organism in an extended holding pattern until nutrient energy supplies can support fecundity and other energy intensive functions such as immune surveillance, wound healing and muscle building.

Here is how resveratrol probably fits into the picture. In dietary quantities, free resveratrol enters interstitial cells in too low a quantity to mimic caloric restriction by more than a very modest degree. In these quantities, it up regulates mitochondrial neogenesis more so than regenesis by a moderate but significant up regulation of thyroxine. The purported mechanism is via its mimicry of beta-estradiol activation of hypothalamic stimulation of thyroxine stimulating hormone releasing hormone. But, resveratrol is also a powerful anti-oxidant. In this mixed effect, it acts as a caloric restriction meta-mimetic rather than an actual AMPK stimulating mimetic. It does not significantly up regulate AMPK, but it activates PGC-1alpha without up regulating TOR, so it is not acting like growth hormone, either. This is a huge difference because, like CR elevation of AMPK, it is definitely not anabolic and it sports its own catabolic influence. On the other hand, it is unlike thyroxine stimulation in that it scavenges ROS, evoking a regenesis rather than a neogenesis result, another net outcome of CR. Regardless, resveratrol is more neogenic than regenic in these quantities. How much its mixed CR mimetic function plays into this tortuous scenario, is anybody’s guess, and its numerical impact on the ROS load is unknown. The largest evidence supporting this scenario is that dietary resveratrol’s cancer killing and life extension functions, as seen at in vitro concentrations, some ten times higher, are not significantly manifest. At the dietary levels it would be prudent to force a neogenic default to regenesis just to hedge the bet toward a definitive CR like outcome. Vigorous endurance exercise after an over night fast would probably turn the trick via creating a sugar depletion oxygen debt. In humans, resveratrol followed by exercise, even without fasting, converts glycolytic fast twitch white muscle fibers into aerobic red slow twitch fibers, and increases mitochondrial cell volume from about5% to 30%, with regenic characteristics. Similar results occur in fasting runners in the absence of resveratrol. The experiments we need are rather obvious.

The in vitro life extension and cancer apoptotic effects of  resveratrol in the 20-50 uM range are so enticing that this dietary bioavailability deficiency should soon be overcome. Already, free resveratrol serum levels well above the 20-50 uM target range are being reported, industrially. Also, synergistic molecules like quercetin and co enzyme Q with antioxidants are in the mix. Still, TOR down regulation and mitochondrial regenesis are requirements for full CR impact. We explore these issues in the practical applications section, later. But, for now, our metabolic feedback loop attentions divert their focus onto the cancer metabotype.

From a genetic perspective, cancer cells appear insane. Between the chromosomal inversions, insertions and uneven cell divisions that render cells into a heterogenous mix of  hundreds to thousands of genes in polyploidy or haploidy, add to this, the changed protein complement and its post translational miss modifications, and the result becomes a bewildering array of changes from any given cancer’s not quite fully differentiated stem cell progenitors. Although each cancer cell type retains many of the characteristics of its parent cell type, shot gun analysis, such as 2D electrophoresis and tryptic digest multi-gradient HPLC (high performance liquid chromatography) and MALDI-TOF (matrix assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight) mass spectrometry, demonstrate that no two cancers are alike and that a given cancer is not even like itself. A cancer tumor seems as if it is composed of a heterogenous thematic of a precursor cell type engaged in a hyper-Darwinian selection for survival in an organism that is desperately trying, but failing, to kill it.

Fortunately, even cancer cells must obey the laws of thermodynamics, and they must do so within the constraints of the metabolic tool kit of sugar, amino acid, lipid and nucleotide apportionments and redox (NADH/NAD) and energy carriers (AMP/ADP/ATP) that permit the cell to grow and divide, so as to be able to grow and divide, and so on. Note here, that the sugar and carbohydrates are the cheapest energy source in the earth’s biotic food web. Lipid is a bit pricier, but proteins and nucleotides are very expensive because phosphate and redoxable nitrogen are nutrient limiting, pretty much, planet wide. Thus, sugar is the preferred fuel during cell growth and division (especially during hypoxia), while lipids, proteins and nucleotides are preserved as building materials. These nutrient limitations and metabolic requirements were fixed in stone a billion years before the first multicellular organism existed. In addition, cancer cells share a lot of features with fetal cells. Very importantly, they are always outrunning their fuel and oxygen supply needs, so they take on a hypoxia metabotype that induces blood vessels to grow toward them. This blood vessel growth is called angiogenesis. They also dramatically increase their glycolytic rate, in some cases well over 1000%. Most importantly of all, this changes the glycolytic to mitochondrial ATP production ratio by even a greater percentage, due to mitochondrial paucity and/or inefficiency. Like fetal cells, they become glucose junkies as they parasitize the sugar making hepatic gluconeogenic processes of their host, but unlike fetal cells, they cannot turn glycolysis off.

Because of this hypoxia and its anabolic requirements, cancer cell growth is always neogenically out pacing its regenic function. Many books have been and still will be written about fetal and enviromental bioenergetics and its evolutionary and organismal growth condition implications, and especially now, even more so, that the primary elements of the CR pathway have been clarified, and implicate cancer and other diseases of aging. But, for now, the main points, described above, will suffice.

How all this CR based AMPK feedback loop stuff fits together to arrive at cancer cell intermediary metabolism is an astonishing wonderment and a stunning new achievement. We grant many laudits and heaps of praise for the scientists who slogged through years and hundreds of thousands or even millions of man hours to elucidate the particulars of the regulatory loop and its myriad of attendant pathways. Even though cancer research and CR authors (as well as diabetes and cardiovascular researchers) may not yet know it, their results show that the cancer metabotype and the CR pathway are the exact same pathway, albeit operating in basically opposite directions and under different conditions, with the AMPK loop and mitochondrial neogenesis vs. regenesis as core control elements in both cases, and with cancer cell glycolysis providing its own caveat. The fact that type II diabetes and cardiovascular hyperplasia and cardiac hypertrophy are also outcomes of this pattern, is even more amazing. Readers of this document would easily understand and be pleasantly surprised by the basic cancer connection if they read (and this is a must read) New Scientist, 5/15/2010 p.6, a brief outline, of which, is below, after the Warburg correction discussion.

In the last two years, cancer researchers have proven that the particulars of glycolytic and aerobic metabolism in cancer cells are precisely as previously described in 1980. At that time the hypothesis corrected a flaw in the Warburg aerobic glycolysis hypothesis by postulating that cancer cell mitochondria suffered from an ATP production shortfall resulting in an anaerobic to aerobic ATP differential as opposed to Warburg’s mitochondrial oxygen consumption deficiency concept. This is an important difference because it changes the NADH/NAD, ATP/ADP and substrate flows in the cell. It was also described, in detail, how this shortfall was integrated with glycolytic fetal enzyme activation to force the system to amplify the, as then poorly understood, anabolic command system, to operate in an irreversible state of  cell growth and division, we previously have coined as the cancer metabotype. Interesting methods of attack designed to kill or renormalize cancer cells were envisioned at that time. With our new found knowledge, we might wish to revisit some of these strategies, in a search for synergies. It is remarkably serendipitous how the ‘rediscovery’ of this forgotten system during the last two years is so similarly identical in such a wide array of particulars. In all cases, whether as old discoveries, rediscoveries or new discoveries, the results unambiguously show that the cancer metabotype is obligately and inextricably intertwined with the CR pathway, and with mitochondrial over neogenesis with a paucity of regenesis. It is this synthesis that is the really new stuff.

As an overview, from a metabolic standpoint, most cancer cells are stuck in mutationally up regulated fetal enzyme induced hyper glycolysis supported by down regulated AMPK to TOR etc. driven mitochondrial neogenic ATP production deficiency, in ways that the cell cannot recover from, as it can in fetal cells, at least in normal in vivo circumstances, short of artificial intervention. Under the influence of increased mitogen drivers and decreased or dysfunctional cell growth suppressors, the cell is forced into irrepressible and irreversible rounds of growth and division. We ignore metastasis and other issues, here, as we are focused on the ancient metabolic drive states of cancer cell induction and maintenance as opposed to progression.

What the researchers in the New Scientist review article found was that blocking fetal pyruvate kinase enzyme driven glycolysis with dichloroacetate ‘reawakened’ (their words) mitochondrial regenesis (our words), re-establishing normal glycolytic to mitochondrial ATP production ratios and metabolite flow, and brought cancer cell growth to a virtual halt in brain glioblastomas. Furthermore, previous hospital records showed that up regulation of AMPK with metformin in diabetic lung cancer victims increased survival times. This is the first time, in humans, for it to be shown that CR and anti-cancer therapies share the exact same AMPK control circuit, and with an anti-diabetes drug, to boot. We must also note that the system has been shown to work in numerous mouse cancers, and this is one time in cancer research that mice and men really share an ancient and attackable metabolic control pathway. This is just the early ‘sledgehammer’ phase of the human work. More sophisticated assaults are envisioned with excited expectancy. Let us hope that we don’t have to find too many fetal enzyme blockers, because even thirty years ago, we knew of other such fetal enzyme supporting changes in glycolysis and its attendant anabolic NADPH providing pentose phosphate shunt, in different cancers.

Reducing hyperglycolysis and increasing mitochondrial efficiency are the two key elements in slowing the impact of age related like cancer, type II diabetes and cardiovascular dysfunction. For instance, in the aging adult, cardiovascular ROS damage institutes mitogenic and hyperplasic thickening in the intima of the vascular tree, and ventricular hypertrophy concomitant with mitochondrial decline and a steady state shift from efficient high energy lipid catabolism to low efficiency glucose catabolism. Contrast this to hypoxic fetal conditions, when birth provides abundant pulmonary oxygen followed by full cardiac mitochondrial biogenesis, a rapid shift from carbohydrate to lipid catabolism, a conversion from parasitic high affinity fetal hemoglobin F to free living lower affinity adult hemoglobin A and a decrease in ROS production. The first is a stop-gap response to ROS induced genetic damage, while the second is a finely tuned genetic system response to an energy opportunity. Both are mediated by the AMPK, TOR etc. feedback loop, and judicious stimulation of this loop via CR or its mimetics are shown to yield significant inhibitory impacts on these exact forms of cardiovascular decline. Type II diabetes is a similar whole body response to the same type if insults found in cardiovascular decay, and can be staved off by direct metformin activation of AMPK that lowers insulin resistance and creates cellular housecleaning and mitochondrial regenesis. Metformin has been in use from long before we were even aware of such things as the sestrin feedback loop, mitochondrial neogenesis, regenesis and its relation to fetal hyperglycolysis!

Both neogenesis and regenesis are critical to retaining a juvenile youth state in adult cells. By analogy, neogenesis is like a construction crew that builds a new house but leaves a mess of construction related debris. Regenesis is like the housecleaning and maintenance follow up that makes the house into a livable home. In the aging adult non-dividing cell, both functions are deficient with regenesis being the more deficient, as aging cells tend to progress toward debris ridden hyperplasia. Declining growth hormone and androgenous steroids inhibit neogenic and rejuvenative functions while ROS exacerbates ‘rusting out’ functions and abundant nutrition inhibits regenic functions. This may explain why CR seems to have virtually no impact if started before early middle age. This also may explain how chronic neogenesis, as with growth hormone, yields short term gains with long term ‘burnout’. Conversely, it may explain how chronic regenesis, as with CR, yields long term gains, but with serious quality issues. Perhaps periodic neogenesis with a rapid default to regenesis, as is much more typical of juvenile cells, may provide an optimal result.

A review of these mechanisms has left the two of these authors quite breathless when we consider the scope of its medical implications, both in terms of the medical monetary cost savings, and in terms of the staggering number of quality human life years which might be added to the aggregate. It is quite nifty how key elements of the three greatest killers of the human race, along with a healthy squirt from the fountain of youth, all fit within the framework of a singular, unifying and global hypothesis. Thus, from all that has been articulated in the above document, we define the system.

PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS: THE FUTURE BURNS BRIGHT

One might consider this to be the wild hypothesis part of the document, but based upon the aforementioned findings, the proposals might actually be more sound than a lot of the stuff that peppers the grocery store checkout stands. However we remind everyone that we are not medical doctors, and therefore, not licensed to practice medicine. Nor is it our intention to do so. Any use of the information contained in same is at the reader’s discretion. We specifically disclaim any and all liability arising directly or indirectly from the use or application of any information contained in any of these articles. What we write here, is more so, of a free speculation of ideas engaging over the counter phytonutrients and life style choices.

Recent longitudinal studies show us that dietary sugar is killing us more resolutely than either saturated fat or high protein content, as found in animal products. The diseases of aging, such as diabetes, heart disease and cancer, kill the vast majority of us and excess dietary (extracellular) sugar is a main and growing culprit. However, the previously outlined AMPK, TOR, PGC-1alpha, ROS, SESN cycle shows that the system’s relentless decay yields to the diseases of aging, in spite of dietary sugar, due to intracellular metabolic shifts over time. In other words, even though sugar powered the creation of our lives from inception to birth, it will eventually kill us even if we don’t eat it. This is ‘natural’ aging, and the data clearly shows that unnatural or supra-natural efforts must be made to obtain the unnatural or supra-natural state called life extension beyond the natural or normally expected limit. Face it, caloric restriction (CR) is draconian and is only natural in the sense that, in nature, food sometimes runs out. No organism exists that will ‘naturally’ CR itself in the presence of adequate food. Mega doses of anti-oxidants or a hundred bottles of wine worth of resveratrol a day is, decidedly, unnatural.

That being said, such things have been found to stand the test of time. For instance, the Chinese have been drinking a high resveratrol Japanese knotweed root extract, called itadoli tea, for millennia with claimed beneficial results and no known ill effects save for some occasional intestinal discomfort, found to be mostly due to emodin, a co extract, which incidentally, is not found in modern concoctions. The remainder of this brief discussion is mostly devoted to some unnaturally ‘natural’ stuff that folks might do without having to live a supplement menagerie supported life in near anorexia with its attendant impediments to muscularity, wound healing, immune function, fecundity and others. The focus, here will be on forcing a default state to mitochondrial regenesis, which is the heart and soul of life extension and the inhibition of cancer cell induction and maintenance. Thus, the discussion will completely avoid the well worn school marm admonitions such as ‘eat your vegetables,’ ‘take your vitamins,’ ‘exercise regularly,’ ‘drink plenty of water,’ ‘keep your weight down,’ ‘don’t eat between meals,’ ‘brush your teeth after every meal,’ ‘don’t eat anything that you can’t fit into your mouth,’ ‘holy cow, that sure is a big fish’ and other common sense standard fare that we won’t even mention, here.

It is difficult to tell how much of dietary resveratrol is neogenic and how much is regenic. It cannot be heavily neogenic due to its TOR bypass, catabolic and anti-oxidant functions plus its average life expectancy increasing and rejuvenative outcomes in the absence of increased cancer induction or any true life length reduction. Standard dietary resveratrol also cannot be very strongly regenic because there is no appreciable up regulation in AMPK, no real reduction in cancer incidence, no increase in cancer cell apoptosis and no true life extension. However, much mitochondrial biogenesis is observed, but how much of this is neogenesis converted to regenesis is unknown because most investigators were unaware of the difference.

Progressive nutriceutical supply companies recognize this and are actively pursuing remedies. The essential problem is simple. When resveratrol is eaten, well over 90% of it is sulfonated and glucuronidated in the intestines and in the liver via the hepatic portal system, rendering it water soluble for targeting it for kidney removal to the urinary tract. Free, unmodified dietary resveratrol is typically less than 2 uM during its one and a half hour elevated blood plasma phase following ingestion. Glucuronate and sulfate derivatized resveratrol do not cross interstitial cell membranes and the low free resveratrol in cell microsomal fractions indicate that the interstitial cell extracellular sulfatases and glucuronidases have no general impact. This may not be true at sites of inflammation, but the desired whole body effect appears not to be there. Although we have no retention or turnover numbers on free intracellular resveratrol, it does not appear to accumulate over time.  Experiments have shown that serum soluble free resveratrol concentration in the 20 uM range definitely impact the CR/AMPK pathway. For instance, DMSO solubilized resveratrol, when injected into mice, causes all the desired AMPK and downstream effects in brain tissue.

As mentioned earlier, nutraceutical suppliers are being very ingenious in their attempts to get serum resveratrol concentrations up to the CR mimetic range. One supplier shows, graphically, how micronization of resveratrol dramatically increases free resveratrol up to and well beyond the minimal required AMPK activating range. Other suppliers are creating encapsulated, solubilized and time released formats. One supplier provides lozenges for sublingual delivery. Resveratrol mixed with synergizers such as quercetin and co enzyme Q, are also offered. We eagerly await their time based serum data, and even more so, their intracellular AMPK up regulation data.

Here’s a quick and dirty home remedy. You can dissolve up to about 500 mg of resveratrol in a shot of 86 proof booze, or flavored schnaaps for the more faint of heart. Solubility is mostly dependant upon alcohol content, so the same should hold for a glass of wine, but it may take a while to dissolve. Besides, the smaller the volume, the better it is for non-intestinal absorption. Take a slug, swirl it around in your mouth for a full minute before swallowing, kick back, and enjoy. Dissolving is what you might call the nanonization technique. It has been shown to enhance buccal and aerodigestive absorption by as much as 800% above dietary methods, and it does not increase the kidney metabolite load one whit. Anyway, many of the medical gurus out there tell us that 10-20 grams of ethanol a day, is good for us.

Then, there’s the stretch (or even strain) of your imagination beyond the orbit of Pluto, plan. Human beings have daily circadian and monthly lunar cycles for a reason. Anyone who has read about the circadian melatonin cycle knows what we’re talking about. The fact that human females have a lunar cycle length receptivity cycle, and that in small, tight knit groups, cycle together, is no accident. The seasonal based cycle was replaced by the lunar cycle because conditions made it happen. What made it happen, you query? We never thought you would ask.

The mutational force is the primary evolutionary driver, but it is accidental, generational and is usually a losing proposition, with rare selective advantage. But, the winners support population survival in the form of multi-generational adaptation. The selection advantage of a switch from a seasonal to lunar cycle must have been powerful, simply because it was forced into existence. Consider the following. Over 99% of the last two million years, or so, of human evolution, has been devoted to the slow steady conversion from gathering, to scavenger gathering, to hunter gathering, while the remaining less than 1% is called civilization. Having excellent 3-D color vision, but poor night vision, the night light of the full moon became a great advantage as it advanced geographical food acquiring range and easier pickings. Being bipedal and having prehensile dexterity in a shrinking dryas ecosystem were great evolutionary pre-adaptations and opportunity vs. death drivers for proto-humans.

This dynamic food energy switch created full moon super-nutrition followed a remaining month of being trapped in standard fare. This tuned up a monthly cycle of high, then haphazard nutrition, which caused elevated body fat that could conveniently support fecundity, two weeks after the full moon, during the pitch black nights of the new moon. Since nobody looks ugly in the dark, and besides, there being nothing else to do but stumble around like blind idiots, a nutritional match was made in heaven. In addition, sexual glue is social glue. This was already operating in the context of a proto-hominid large brained noisy critter, with its ecological niche pushing a movement toward even more brain growth, symbolic representation as language and a pre-civilization social tool kit simply awaiting large enough population numbers to invent neat stuff like cities, war and jacuzzies. Thus, the African stage was set, and fortunately for us, all four acts played out before we, as the genetic evidence shows, were almost extincted.

This pattern would also be reflected as a natural nutrient driven cycle of low and high AMPK activity and a regular neogenesis and regenesis cycle, which may have assisted us in becoming the longest living primate. The long parturition period, the interminable time stretch from birth to sexual maturity and the creation of history, in the need for elders to pass all that big brained accumulation to the next generational batch of dull witted dimbulbs that seem to arise with each generation, could have helped to assist this life lengthening admixture. In the context of this paper, that is, if there still is any context, this kind of long winded speculative wannabe has just got to be followed with a circadian/lunar cycle recipe format.

The advent of commercially available high concentration bioavilable resveratrol would open the door to possibilities that will really bring the troops home. At full dose, it would bias the system toward true CR mimicry of AMPK driven mitochondrial regenesis, while at one tenth full dose, it would bias the system toward the neogenic meta-mimicry we described in detail, before. Since neogenesis takes several days to complete, while regenesis is much quicker, a circadian/lunar cycle plan that forces the system into lengthy defaults to life extending regenesis, might look something like this: Low dose neogenic resveratrol could be coordinated with anti-oxidants, dietary nutrient loading and/or power based exercise for five to seven days, or so, then followed by high dose resveratrol coordinated with daily food avoidance between dinner and breakfast and/or high oxygen utilizing endurance exercise prior to breakfast in a more extended time frame, say about three weeks, to entrench mitochondrial efficiency, cellular house cleaning and a shift away from glucose toward fat burning. Here we have something for everybody. Lounge lizards could reap the benefits of the phytonutrient pattern only effect, while the more restless spirits among us could enhance those effects by dietary and exercise regimens. Either way, organs and tissues other than cardiovascular and skeletal muscle could become larger recipients of resveratrol’s benefits. Numerous daily, weekly and monthly variations of the theme could be envisioned. One plan might be to include one meal a day to cause chronic fasting default to regenesis and/or with exercise to assist regenesis with glucose nutrient debt and/or a CR mimetic to activate the AMPK life extension loop.

A very interesting rat study of intermittent CR has put the world of CR afficionados on its ear. Using alternate days of ad libitum food supply and total fasting, in rats, results in no long term CR, as the rats make up for fasting by feasting between fast days, while ending up with life extension comparable to CR. This more or less jives with the down regulation of PGC-1alpha to regenesis turn on time frame. In fact, this study is the actual proof of principle, since life extension by CR can’t happen without it. This also jives with our notion that, at least partial neogenesis followed by regenesis, won’t hurt life extension, and you can avoid the misery and downside risks of genuine CR.

An interesting question emerges here. Since regenesis is a CR long term life extension holding pattern, how long is it good for? By this, we mean: Once mitochondria become efficient, how long do they stay efficient before they need restimulated to become efficient again? In other words, how many days of feast can one ‘get away with’ before each day of fasting? If regenesis is good for a week, then a one day a week fast is a small price to pay. Not only that, if 18 hours of fasting works as good as 24, then all one would needs do is miss breakfast once a week. Can this be supplemented with a low dose resveratrol regimen that would accentuate the effect?

We need experiments and we need them earlier rather than later. But rats live five or more years, and rats are not people, (as opposed, off-times, to the other way around). Over the counter metformin is over a decade away, if ever, and rapamycin is too dangerous to become street legal in any time, dimension or reality. Metformin, when used with growth hormone to mechanistically force the system to toggle back and forth between neogenesis and regenesis could ultimately turn out to be the greatest anti-aging plus rejuvenation achievement of all time. This could truly cause cells to behave more like they do in the juvenile stage. The timing, dosage and testing required in such a scenario would be critical. This is playing with some real big mojo, here, and it would be illegal without a prescription under a doctor’s care. Only people, at least in their early middle years, say past thirty, could participate in such a program, safely.

Fortunately, at present, we have resveratrol, which is freely obtainable and we know enough about CR and mitochondrial neogenesis and regenesis, to get answers, fast, and in humans instead of rats. Human volunteers and tissue biopsies that measure CR via AMPK activity and mitochondrial biogenic state from krebs cycle enzymes vs. cytochrome content, can allow us to follow the system status through time. The system is well enough defined, by now that the meanings of these assays point to causation rather than correlation. A wide array of experiments could be rapidly conducted, and could pinpoint which timings, conditions and regimens are optimal, whether there are any down sides and what other items might be included. Ideally, we may find a CR mimetic dose schedule of resveratrol, a better mimetic or a mixture of synergistic components that require no life style changes outside of normal prudent health practices … except for that magic pill, of course.

AFTERWORD

Not very surprisingly, there is very little cross talk between the cancer metabolism, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, life extension and diet/exercise research communities. Today’s specialization doesn’t really allow for it, and the areas of work do seem far afield of one another. But there are other reasons. For one, the cancer metabolism field, although rather ancient, is perceived to be actually, new. This has much to do with the hugely bitter and public battle that led to Warburg’s demise in 1956. The whole field of research became verboten, and one liners like “that was proven false a long time ago” and “we don’t even look into that area any more” were almost sheep mentality mantras. Another reason is that, who would have ever guessed that any such connection between cancer and life extension could even possibly exist, and even if it did, that it would simultaneously lead to the fountain of youth and the slaying of the monster hiding under the bed. Throwing in cardiovascular disease and diabetes, to boot, is more icing than any cake can stand. But in reality, it isn’t too big to believe, because this is all soon to become common knowledge. Anyone who reads the three review papers referred to in this article can readily observe that it has become too obvious by now for the connections not to be seen by droves of scientists. And we don’t mean the small connections. We mean the big ones, the really big ones.

Gregory S. Bambeck Ph.D.  e-mail: gregorybambeck@yahoo.com

Michael Wolfson  J.D., M.B.A.  e-mail: mwolfson@stanfordalumni.org

Copyright © by Gregory Bambeck and Michael Wolfson  June 11, 2010.

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Beautiful skin is attainable for people of all ages, but it is a goal completed a lot quicker to achieve when you’re young. Along with aging, detriments like wrinkles, dark spots, crow’s feet, and loosening skin may make having perfect skin appear like a near impossibility for many folks. However, if you’re somebody who has fought with attaining clear, smooth, youthful skin in past times, then you may be very impressed to know that reaching your goal doesn’t have to be tough or pricey. You won’t need to purchase ineffective drugstore treatments or costly, dangerous medical procedures, because with NuSkin products and solutions, you can easily obtain the beautiful skin you desire.

The NuSkin brand is renowned for its premium quality anti-aging products, in addition to its healthy skin care creams, moisturizers, face peels and scrubs, body washes, acne remedies, hair care products, dental hygiene products, sunblocks, and cosmetics. Everything you need to appear beautiful can be offered by NuSkin, from your head to your toes and everything in between. The brand’s anti-aging lines include ageLOC and Nu Skin 180. These both use unique, groundbreaking formulas to hydrate all your skin, smooth it out, get rid of wrinkles, and fade crow’s feet. Used in combination with other products, including the brand’s moisturizers along with the Nutricentral brand of skin type specific daily care remedies, your skin will be fresh, lustrous, and stunning. You should not need to reveal your age if you don’t wish to – and when you notice how you look after using NuSkin, you won’t prefer to!

Even if you are not planning to avoid or slow aging on the skin, NuSkin has something to provide you. If you’ve got an acne problem, then you need not bother with testing a huge selection of various drug store treatments that often do nothing but make your problem worse. Instead, test Nu Skin’s Clear Action line of acne cleansers – your pimples will disappear and your current skin will appear perfect. And if you need to take care of the skin on your body along with the skin on your own face, NuSkin offers a number of body treatment items, such as body cleansers, body moisturizers, creams, soaps, foot care treatment options, sunblocks, as well as shaving gels and deodorants. Because of this you can be confident in the NuSkin brand name to reinvigorate, rejuvenate, and beautify every part of your respective body, from your face to your foot.

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From birth, the pituitary gland found in your brain is responsible for one important process in developing human growth. It is specifically that of producing the human growth hormone or HGH. This hormone is the precursor of all the bodily functions that can lead to growth and development. Bones get stronger and longer. The muscles get leaner and sturdier. Body tissues continuously generate into new and stronger ones. All the major development necessary to consider full realization of the human potential is made possible with the help of the human growth hormone.

The GHR1000 (HGH For Sale) can help your body continue producing this very important constituent especially during old age. It will be during the latter part of a person’s life when the body ceases to efficiently create HGH. As the individual gets older, the amount of HGH supply in the body decreases. At the age of 23, a person’s muscles and bones reach full maturity. And as the brain slows down in motivating the pituitary gland to secrete this precious hormone, the need to use GHR1000 (HGH For Sale) is imperative. With lower growth hormones, the body decreases in endurance and energy. Weight gain, weaker eyesight and poor coordination are the results of the body’s lack of essential hormones to keep the body healthy.

Human growth hormone shots are given only to those who have deficiency so great that it affects the normal brain function. For maintaining your vitality, you may safely use non prescription products to sustain HGH circulation in your body. There are now GHR1000 (HGH For Sale) supplements that can help you keep that vibrant energy and youthful appearance. And be glad that you can now keep your physique functioning at its peak.

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Staying young is not forever. One day or another you have to grow old. Growing old is not just physical but also a mental phenomenon. Your thoughts and feelings affect your age. You cannot stop your body from growing old, but you can prolong the whole process. If you want to treat your signs of aging, first you need to know, what you have to treat, therefore, it is important to know the aging symptoms. Aging symptoms is not all about wrinkles and saggy skin but also about the internal changes in the body that lead to aging.

Signs of aging can be divided into two parts, internal and external. Internal changes affect your activities and external changes affect your beauty. You need to take care of both of them. However, before you find the solution you must know the problem completely. Here is the list of the common symptoms of aging and their causes.

Internal aging symptoms

• Loss of mass: After the age of forty-five you may lose seven pounds of weight after every ten years. As you grow old, your body works less and so demands less food. Decrease in food portion consistently reduces your weight.
• Reproductive cycle fades away: After a certain age, a man and a woman are no more able to reproduce. This usually happens for women in their late forties or early fifties and for men in their late fifties.
• Bones become fragile: As you grow old, the body no more produces new cells and so the bones become fragile. During old age, the body, no more repairs the cells. Therefore, a bone fracture in an aged person is very difficult or impossible to fix.
• Loss of memory: You might have noticed that your grandparents forgetting things and places or repeating the same words and sentences. This is also a common sign of aging.
• Diabetes: As we get old, the body fails to produce enough insulin. So, the body cannot digest or use up the sugar that we take in. This sugar is then passed into the blood without being digested.

External aging symptoms

• Wrinkles: This is a common sign of aging. Wrinkles are caused when the body uses up all the fat stored below the skin. Due to this, the skin gets loose and forms wrinkles.
• Age spots: The root cause of age spots is over exposure to sun. Hormonal changes, lack of exercise and poor diet are also some of the causes. The age spots are brown in color. There are many creams available in the market that can treat age spots.
• Dry skin: As the skin gets old, it losses its power to retain moisture and so, old people experience dry skin which can also be itchy. Dry skin can be treated in many ways.
• Saggy skin: Saggy skin is also called as loose skin in simple language. The skin becomes loose. As we get old, the skin no more remains tight and becomes saggy.

So, if you experience any of these signs of aging, then you can be sure that you are now getting old.

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But it’s never that easy is it?

Modern day medicines nearly always work but always bring side effects with them – and sometimes these adverse effects can be so bad that the person simply gives up on their meds and decides to simply take their chances with the condition - feeling that the medication side effects are spoiling their quality of life.

Thousands of people every day search online for a way to lower blood pressure naturally. Supplements can certainly help – and a google search will bring up thousands of suggestions – but how do you get started if you want to take a more natural approach to things?

These are my simple tips  – follow two of them and you’ll see a difference. Follow them all and you’ll be well on your way to better health.

1. Walk for a total of thirty minutes each day.
   It doesn’t need to be all at one time – two fifteen minute walks will be just fine
2. Take three “salt free days” each week.
   It’s not easy but you can do it if you focus on checking packaging and aim for natural foods – I go for fresh fruit, fruit smoothies, raw veg with dips and yogurt.
3. Lose 5% of your body weight.
   That’s seven pounds if you weigh 140 pounds – twenty if you weigh two hundred and so on.
4. Learn to relax more using a breathing technique
   Yoga can help with this – so can self hypnosis CD’s or MP3 files. You can also buy breathing systems that teach you to relax using biofeedback.
5. Take a blood pressure supplement every day.
   I recommend ALISTROL – click the link in the box below for more information about it.

I think these are all more or less equally important but in my own case it was when I added the Alistrol supplement to my daily routine that I saw the biggest difference.

If you’re interested in a natural way to lower blood pressure then give these suggestions a try. They’re easy to follow and they really do work. Read more in the links below:

Gary Hill is a health journalist.

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