The Aging Revolution And Ideal Weight

The Aging Revolution is moving us forward at four years of additional life expectancy per decade. This trend is expected to continue until the average lifespan becomes 100 in the year 2050. This is amazing progress considering life expectancy was 45 a hundred years ago, but it is consistent with the four years per decade progress.

It is equally amazing that it wasn't until 1920 that The American Medical Association declared that it felt physicians were generally now doing more good than harm. Before that, it was more harm than good. I still remember, as a child, that people dreadfully feared going to the hospital, because most people that went to the hospital died. Luckily now, we go to the hospital brimming with optimism, and know we are going to get sophisticated, high-tech, medical diagnostics and treatments. We have made a lot of progress in just fifty years.

The one thing you must have though, to be healthy and live long, is a number. That number is your ideal weight. I have seen the best in fitness and health, and those people had an ideal weight number as sacred as their social security number. To live long and avoid the diseases of overweight and aging, you must know your ideal weight number and stick close to it your whole life.

I met a physician one time who was still practicing at 103 years old. She was spry and bright and still contributing medical service on a steady schedule. She had a thumb rule that she only ever ate "vegetables and bit of protein." That was her slogan. It worked really well.

I have also met champions of fitness. They have slogans too, but it was their ideal weight number that was most important to them. They also knew how to calculate it in a second.

It's just this simple: Forget BMI, though that is a good number to know too, and don't get hung up on insurance charts, as they are made by insurance companies to promote their own interests. The way to calculate your ideal weight is this: Take your height, give a hundred pounds for your first five feet and five pounds per inch thereafter. That's all there is to it. If you are five feet, ten inches tall, your ideal weight is 150 pounds. Six feet tall, 160. I am six feet, one and three quarter inches tall, and my ideal weight is 168. I like that number, I look the best at 168, and I stay close to it.

So this is a thumb-rule for success in fitness and in longevity. Remember, you are working to slow your metabolism. High energy foods speed your metabolism. Just give a kid candy and watch him run wildly around. I have even seen fun science project books that show how you can use Oreo cookie filling, the white stuff, to make toy rocket propellant with, because there is so much sugar, fat, and energy in it. I have also read the formula that a single king-sized snickers bar, at 541 calories, has enough energy in it to bring a gallon and a half of water from freezing to boiling! That is a lot of energy, and you use to have two for a snack?

I am also pleased that this website is read around the world. My tracking device shows that "the sun never sets" on my work and I am pleased to share it with everyone. Thank yous go out to the nice people who have sent me great book reviews recently too! Live happy and take time to enjoy life each day.

Dr. Doug Ikeler http://www.ikelerbooks.com/

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Patrick Swayze And Pancreatic Cancer

Patrick Swayze just died of pancreatic cancer. My mother died of it too, years ago. The thing the two of them had in common was they smoked. They both also loved animals. Patrick loved horses, my mother loved cats.

Pancreatic cancer doesn't just happen to good people. You have to work at getting it. If a person smokes cigarettes heavily for years, they are going to get lung cancer or pancreatic cancer. Smoking not only sends tars and ash into the lungs, but also down into the digestive system.

The pancreas is very sensitive to toxins and can become inflamed by gastric reflux, bacterial infection, and the chronic irritation of cigarette smoke and it's carcinogens. It has never ceased to amaze me how a grown person can smoke cigarettes! With all the knowledge now about how it causes cancer and how bad smoking is for you, you would think a light would go on somewhere and the person would stop. Surprisingly, they don't.

My mother was a heavy smoker, and reportedly, Patrick Swayze was too. Three packs of cigarettes a day are going to do harm. If not sooner, then later. My mother even had been in to have small growths removed from her tongue years before she got pancreatic cancer, and that still apparently didn't impress her. Patrick had warning signs as well.

The only up side to my mother dying of pancreatic cancer was that she never heard the diagnosis. She had premonitory signs that lead her doctors to wonder if she may have had a bad vertebral disc, since she had had back problems for years, but it wasn't until I told her to set an appointment to have more aggressive tests done, like an MRI and complete blood panel, that my mother finally got the diagnosis for her spinal discomfort.

Tragically, she slipped into a coma the weekend before her tests were to be done and she never awoke to hear the diagnosis or face her imminent death. I guess that part was not tragic, but salvithic for her to not have to know she was going to die soon. Three weeks after her diagnosis, she passed away.

In our mechanical society we often think of ourselves as somehow repairable, fixable, or strong like a piece of steel. The exact opposite is true. We are made of one hundred trillion tiny cells that are delicate like jelly and can be easily destroyed. Smoking and drinking are horrendous habits. Alcohol denatures your proteins and is a carcinogen too. Denatured proteins do not function well. Neither do cells that are coated in tars and carcinogens. If you smoke or drink, my recommendation is that you stop immediately. There are many methods and groups available to help you. Make the choice and do it today.

Dr. Doug Ikeler http://www.lifeextensionbooks.net/

No More Heart Attacks

Heart attacks are the number one killer in America. They can also come with a scary first symptom: sudden death. Many a death is described with the terms, "I don't know what happened, He just dropped dead!"

Heart attacks can be completely eliminated or drastically reduced in our lives. We need to think in terms of our coronary arteries and keeping them clear of fat. Fats store everywhere in our bodies and they like to follow the paths of least resistance. An open artery is a great place with little resistance for fat to accumulate in.

The now common triple bypass and quadruple bypass surgeries are something few people truly need to have done. If you are being told you need a cardiac bypass surgery, get a second opinion with a doctor that knows how to help you get on an ultra low fat diet. In a few weeks, your symptoms will disappear and your need for surgery will too.

Leanness is the secret to longevity. That is why I have a BMI calculator on this web site. The leaner you are the better. 20 is an ideal BMI. If you are below that you are either a model or someone who eats right every day.

Heart disease, cancer, stroke. Those are the three big killers of our day and surprisingly, all three are very preventable! Read more about this topic and learn of the technologies and techniques of real life extension in my book.

Dr. Doug Ikeler www.lifeextensionbooks.net

Linus Pauling, Vitamin C, and Prostate Cancer

Mega doses of Vitamin C are no longer a fad health practice since the passing of two time winning Nobel Laureate, Linus Pauling. Dr. Pauling was a chemist and won his Nobel prizes in chemistry and peace. The Nobel in peace probably took a lot less studying to achieve than did the Nobel in chemistry, which anyone premed can tell you is the dividing line between those who go on to Med School, and those who don't.

Pauling lived to the age of ninety three and finally died from prostate cancer. He touted the benefits of vitamin C and took about twenty grams of it daily himself. Again, that is 20 Grams,

not twenty milligrams, which we know today is more than enough. Pauling also proclaimed that all vitamins are beneficial, and took large doses of the rest of them as well.

Pauling's real secret to longevity though was his practice of eating less. He had a slogan that said to live longer, eat half what you are eating today, take Vitamin C, and make love every day! The vitamin C most likely had a negligible improvement on his overall health. The eating half as much is what really kept him living longer, and the making love every day is what kept him so happy!

His prostate cancer is what finally got him. Prostate cancer occurs in most men as they get older. It's percentage of incidence is comparable to a man's age too. Sixty percent of men in their sixties have the presence of prostate cancer cells in their prostates. Eighty percent of men in their eighties have prostate cancer cells. At ninety three, Linus Pauling fell into the percentage of men that are ninety percent likely to have cancer cells in their prostates.

The good news for men is that the presence of these cancer cells does not necessarily mean they are going to die of prostate cancer. The cell changes are limited and do not spread radically. Sometimes they do, but most often they just create a slight hypertrophy of the prostate. Prostate cancer is the number one cancer that kills men. It's death rate is analogous to breast cancer in women.

Remember, you can reduce your incidence of all cancers by 95% by eating a low fat, low calorie diet. That sounds hard, but it is actually easy. Eating right is a skill and all you need to give it is a little practice.

Dr. Doug Ikeler http://www.lifeextensionbooks.net/ http://www.drdougikeler.com/

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Celebrating My 100th Post

This is my 100th post on this blog site and I have to say it is an on going delightful experience! I am fascinated by the people who read my blog from around the globe. England, Germany, Australia, Chile, Argentina, Israel, South Africa, and Russia are a few of the places I have tracked visitors from.

My on going goals are to bring everyone the latest and most fun and interesting information on life extension technologies and techniques. I am also committed to being brutally honest about pills and snake oil products that claim life extension properties, but are more than likely bunk. Resveratrol is the latest of these products and I completely doubt it has any effect on making you live longer.

I want to note the passing this year of Dr. Roy Walford of http://www.walford.com/ who died at age 79 of ALS, Lou Gehrig's Disease, and did not have a chance to realize his life extension goals of living well over one hundred. He, along with Dr. Clive McCay of Cornell University, produced the quantified data that showed life can be extended in all animal species by fifty to sixty percent through a caloric restriction with optimal nutrition diet. We honor all the contributions made by Dr. Walford.

Even as a college student, when I was living at Wilshire Animal Hospital and working for Dr. Ian Coster, I was practicing the CRON diet, which I started at age twenty. I have slowed my metabolism, and it's effects over the past thirty years have been dramatic. I feel sorry for my contemporaries as they are already seeing the deleterious effects of a lifetime of overeating and drinking alcohol and smoking. All they can do from here is try to slow these processes down.

Here's to the next One Hundred Posts on my blog! During that time I will be downloading more of my first life extension book, in reverse order, so it can be read entirely from this blog, and I will be soon publishing my next book, Life Extension II, to bring further depth and detail to this exciting technology of how to live dramatically longer!

Dr. Doug Ikeler http://www.lifeextensionbooks.net/

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How To Prevent Getting Cancer

Cancer literally means "crab." The name was used by the early Greeks because they noticed "legs" growing out of tumors. Cancers spread by growing radially outward and sending shoots of new growth along paths of least resistance through blood vessels and between other tissues.
Benign tumors are abnormal over growths of cells too, but they are usually contained and even often encapsulated in their own fibrous pouch. A benign tumor is easily removed, sometimes by even just sliding your hand around it and ligating off the blood vessels that supply it. Cancers are not easily removed and even with wide margin excision, unseen streams of cancer cells can be trailing off very far from the central mass.
Our immune system fights off cancer cells constantly, and it is estimated we generate about five cancer cells each year. With a properly functioning immune system though, you easily kill off these cells and they live a short life. About ten percent of all cancers spontaneously remit. That means the immune system suddenly fires up to peak performance and kills off all of even the worst cancer cells and tumors. Sometimes tumors even just drop off a person, depending on their location.
With a ten percent spontaneous remission rate, the association of miracles is made. Miracle drugs, miracle foods, miracles from above. I have seen many of these touted miracles, like laetrile when I was younger, and even yucca tree sap, now that I am older, and none of them work. It was just a coincidence that a person was taking that remedy, like shark cartilage, when they were lucky enough to spontaneously remit.
Real cancer prevention comes from caloric restriction with optimal nutrition. The over growth of cells in a body is mostly caused by too much energy in the system. Insulin-like growth hormones are an example. So called "oncogenes" otherwise known as cancer genes are usually just normal growth genes reactivated by the tidal flow of too much caloric energy being pumped into a body's system. Studies in animals and people have shown that even with the "genes" for cancer being present, the animal or person does not get the cancer on a calorie restricted diet. And this result comes with a 95% reduction in all cancers for animals or people who are calorie restricted. Those results are enough to impress me. So I have chosen to live this life style of eating right. It's a lot easier than you think. You just need to know the techniques! They are all in my book. Buy it today, share it with a friend, and prevent getting cancer which is a horrible and preventable disease.
Dr. Doug Ikeler www.ikelerbooks.com

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one hundred dollars per week. In a year you'll have that five thousand dollars.

What mission would you want? Let your imagination run wild for a while. What great endeavor would you undertake if you had no limitations? Would you be the first person to set foot on Mars? Would you convince NASA to build a hundred mile wide radio telescope out in space to search for extraterrestrial life and intelligence? Would you convince Congress to fund it? Would you act in a movie that sends you to stardom because you moved our very souls in a drama of the human experience? Would you end world hunger? Would you cure cancer? Just by spreading the word of this book, you can prevent many of your friends and family from getting cancer. It is a medical fact that calorie restriction reduces the incidence of all cancers dramatically!

These are the questions you must ask yourself as you take on this longer life. You're going to have a lot of time on your hands. You'll be entering a new age of fulfillment too. I personally have a hundred years planned. I hope my dietary formula takes me to 125, or even to 150, but I know I will easily make it to 100. At age fifty one today, I'm mapping out all the things I want to do for the next fifty years. I plan on working in human medicine for the next twenty five years. I hope to contribute great advances in life extension as well as produce treatments for some of the neurological diseases like MS (Multiple Sclerosis) and ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease).

This will be my second medical career after the rich and full medical career I have already had in veterinary medicine. You too, can take on whole other careers and fulfill the dreams of your life. If we all lived 120 to 150 years, you could have four to five complete careers. Think of the possibilities!

I met a physician years ago who was still practicing at 102

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