Life Extension Books by Dr. Doug Ikeler

Our Virtual Organ And A Piece Of Knowledge Just Added To Google

2010-10-22T08:33:00.000-07:00

It's rare to have a piece of knowledge that is not yet on Google! But here is one: I posted a question on FaceBook as to what organ is in our body, that has more cells in it than the rest of our body, but yet is not at all a part of our body, and is instead, a "Virtual Organ" within our bodies? The answer, which no one got, is Our Digestive Mass. That is, our digesting food, combined with the normal flora and bacteria in our intestines, that create a virtual organ for digesting our food for us. Interesting huh? Now that piece of information is on Google! Provided by me :) Also, to my FaceBook friends, I am no longer on FaceBook as my account was disabled. They don't tell you why, but it could have been for promoting my book, or having too many friends (1800) on Facebook too fast. Anyway, it was fun while it lasted.
Dr. Doug Ikeler
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Health Care Reform Or Insurance Reform?

2009-11-20T13:53:00.000-08:00

The debate rages on about Health Care Reform. I guess the part that constantly disturbs me the most, is that this debate has nothing at all to do with health care. It is entirely about Insurance Reform and how to get more people being forced to buy more insurance from an already multi-trillion dollar a year industry!

Health Care itself is not even about health care. It is about disease treatment. There is not a single program the government offers, or the insurance companies offer that is in any way concerned with keeping you healthy. They are delighted that the American population is getting fatter and sicker by the day, and paying more and more each year to get medical services, which they need more and more each year. The spiral grows and the insurance companies are laughing all the way to the bank!
Having gone to both veterinary college, and human medical college, I can tell you the one outstanding difference, was the price. Let me give you a few examples: Pet hospitalization overnight: about $20, human $2,000. Pet hysterectomy: about $250, human $25,000 Pet insurance per year: about $100, human $10,000. The list goes on and on with the notable feature being that all human medical costs are 100 times as much, for exactly the same thing!

If you made the price on human medical services the same as they are at a veterinary hospital, the human medical industry and the veterinary medical industry would be exactly the same size: twenty billion dollars a year in revenues. Medicare fraud alone is currently three times as large as the entire veterinary industry, which frankly delivers the most amazing services at the best prices on the planet.

Fifty years ago, a person might carry what was then called "Major Medical Insurance," which was for use if you got really sick and ended up in the hospital. Some people had it, but not very many. Also, fifty years ago, hospitals were mostly owned by Churches and Cities. Now they are all owned by Corporations. Which means they are now only concerned with profits. Your health is a far distant third or fourth concern to these corporations. See if they'll help you for free when you're really sick and can't afford it. The church owned hospitals use to.

The only real answer to this debate is that the government should offer free health care by opening up it's already free locations like the VA hospitals and medicare. If you don't want to buy health insurance, head down to the VA for care. Just like public schools are free, so should some version of medical care be.

It's a fool's game, and the insurance companies are trying to balloon a two trillion dollar a year industry into a ten trillion dollar a year industry. Don't think so? Wait and see what happens.

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God's Speech To Adam

2009-11-09T10:28:00.000-08:00

"We have made thee neither of heaven nor of earth,
Neither mortal nor immortal,
So that with freedom of choice and with honor,
As though the maker and molder of thyself,
Thou shalt have the power out of thy soul's judgment,
To be reborn into the higher forms, which are divine."
-----God's speech to Adam from Pico Della Mirandola's
Oration On The Dignity of Man-----

I just love this quotation as it speaks so powerfully on your
power to choose and create your own destiny!
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are on a mission you rally your greatest resources and your greatest capabilities. You set the highest standards and lead the way. You exalt and engage every one around you. Your purpose is clear and your goals are exactly defined. This is when you are really living.

With my five Cat Hospitals, we were definitely on a mission. We were more than in business. We were out to prove something and elevate the standards of care for all cats that came into our lives. We weren't shy about it either. We let the world know we were the best and we were ready to show you. Just bring in your kitty and see.

At the level of mission, you really contribute too. We saved thousands of cats from "convenience killing" and found them new homes in our adoption centers versus just putting them to sleep for the convenience of their owners who were moving and couldn't keep their cat. We saved thousands of cat's lives by delivering a higher standard of medical care and through diagnostics to solve problems medically and behaviorally versus just watching the problem and hoping it would solve itself. We really contributed to the betterment of our patients. From fulfilling our mission, we all gained the wealth of an emotional pot of gold that we get to keep for the rest of our lives.

What could you do in your life to live at the level of mission? Do you have a mission? What mission could you take on? What exalted purpose would you like to actualize? Search your heart. We all have something of greatness to contribute. Maybe you have an invention you would like to bring to market. I have known many people with a great idea or invention that they never actualize because five thousand dollars stood in their way. Five thousand dollars is nothing. If you have to, get a part time job at night to save up an extra

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Slow Your Biological Clock

2009-10-24T08:40:00.000-07:00

I realize I am the only one selling this message, but the key to longevity is to Slow Your Biological Clock. That is achieved by Slowing Your Metabolism. Even the experts don't get it when the evidence is right in front of their faces.

I heard a fitness lady on television the other day telling viewers to never skip a meal, because that will slow your metabolism. Surprisingly, that's what you want. Weight is ultimately the issue, because if you are overweight, your metabolism runs faster. Your body sees the need to burn off those excess calories and does so by making you hotter and using futile heat cycles to get rid of all that excess energy.

The studies show that even your basal metabolism can be slowed by as much as sixty percent. Using a calculator and doing the same math that you used in high school to calculate which car would get to Chicago fastest, which person do you think would get older faster if they had the faster metabolism? You go it!...Tubby.

Fasting is a method of life extension. Some people in the life extension CR community only eat every other day. Early animal studies too accomplished a fifty percent reduction in food intake by only feeding the animals every other day. I have skipped some meals along the way, but fasting is not my favorite method of caloric restriction. Eating right and counting the calories is.

So the exciting take-home message is you can live decades longer than you ever imagined and the method is here and available today. It's all in my book and it's easy to do.

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The Arcuate Fasciculus, Thomas Parr Oldest Man To Live Past 150, and The Emotional Funneling Cure

2009-10-19T12:45:00.000-07:00

A little known, but incredibly important structure in the human brain, is the arcuate fasciculus. This is the arching band of neural tract fibers that connects, and integrates, the other areas of the brain. This bundle of nerve fibers allows us to speak about our thoughts, think about what we see, and know how to put it all together. Without it, we would be a lot dumber.

All animals have an arcuate fasciculus, but the human brain has the largest and most invasive form of it. It may actually be the key to our intelligence. Monkeys have a less elaborate version of this neural tract, and dogs and cats have an even less developed form of it too. I guess I bring up the topic today because I continue to wonder why so few people can succeed at dieting. Is it related to their intelligence?

It might be, but I truly believe everyone is capable of dieting successfully and living at ideal weight. The real problem is emotional funneling: The misinterpretation of other emotions as hunger. This is a common problem in our society as all emotions are taught to be suppressed, even from childhood, and we suffer tremendously as a result.

In my book, I teach you how to stop evaluating your emotions incorrectly, and how to express them better and manage them better too. It's a shame we aren't taught the fact early in life that all people wrestle with their emotions, and that they should be expressed in a healthy manner. Who can express anything today, with political correctness and a lawyer waiting to sue you around every corner.

Get my book to learn more and I stand amazed at how many people come to this web site to learn more about Thomas Parr, the first man to live over 150!

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

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The Aging Revolution And Ideal Weight

2009-09-24T08:17:00.000-07:00

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.

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Patrick Swayze And Pancreatic Cancer

2009-09-16T09:19:00.000-07:00

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

2009-09-11T12:32:00.000-07:00

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

2009-09-09T12:07:00.000-07:00

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.

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Celebrating My 100th Post

2009-09-06T12:05:00.000-07:00

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!

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How To Prevent Getting Cancer

2009-09-04T08:05:00.000-07:00

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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Are Hot Dogs Good For You?

2009-08-27T12:25:00.000-07:00

It depends on the type of hot dogs you are talking about! These two in the picture would be good for anyone!

My father told me that when he was a kid and hot dogs entered the food market, they were touted as the ultimate in nutrition! Imagine that, as they fall easily into the class of food we call "junk food" nowadays. They are composed of ground up, usually non-choice pieces of meat, and lots of fat and other fillers. So are they good for you? Let's just say there are better food choices, but if you want a hot dog once in a while, have one. Just add it into your calorie count for the day. That's the way I do it.

The real concern regarding life extension though, is the quantity of how much food you eat. Even if you eat nothing but the highest quality foods, too much of them are still bad for you, and eating too much of them is easily achieved. I saw a woman on a weight loss program that ate a bag of apples for a snack. She thought they were healthy, so "Hey, the more, the merrier, right."

Well, not exactly. The more the worse. A good thumb rule is only ever have one of anything a time. One apple, one sandwich, one drink. That's more than enough.

Real Life Extension is achieved through caloric restriction with optimal nutrition. Optimal nutrition is the easy part, just pick good foods. Caloric restriction is easy too and is the "How To"

subject of my book.

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

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years old. She said the secret is all diet. She said she only ate "vegetables and a bit of protein" at every meal. She was an amazing woman, and she was right on track.

Higher education makes life very interesting. After my years in human medicine, I plan on getting a third doctorate degree in either astronomy or psychology. I'll see how I feel about it when I reach age seventy-five. Studies at the doctorate level are the most fascinating because they take you to the frontiers of knowledge in that area. Some unknowns still amaze me. Do you know that no one really knows how anesthetics work? They work well, but the mechanisms of action have never been elucidated. There are still massive unknowns in how our brains work. Neuroscience is an open field of discoveries waiting to happen. The greatest unknown is the universe itself. What if we could understand how it started? What if we knew how it will end? Don't worry though, the universe is predicted to exist in it's present form for a trillion years. That's nine hundred and eighty-five billion years to go!

We've then talked about healthy, both mentally and physically, now let's talk about wealthy, both mentally and physically. How do we enrich our lives? With a hundred years to go, what else brings us the joys and pleasures we all desire? I think travel is essential to understanding our world and putting our lives in perspective. Where have you travelled to so far? Where would you like to travel to? What would be your dream vacation? Why don't you make a plan to make it happen?

Travel brings reality to the myths you may be harboring in your mind. I thought the French were going to be rude and brutal. They were not. They are polite, helpful, fun, interesting, and very friendly people. My whole preconception of France changed after I traveled there. The Eiffel Tower is real-

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Dieting Success And The BiModal Mind

2009-08-22T10:20:00.000-07:00

Ever wonder why diets come with a 97% failure rate? Here's the answer: You have two halves to your brain! The logic centers, on the left, get it all perfectly. Eat right, exercise, maintain optimal weight. It's all so simple! For the left brain anyway. The right brain doesn't get it and even inverts or reverses the comprehension of the diet plan you are trying to complete. So you are left in a state of self-conflict that gives everyone that uncomfortable feeling when they are trying to diet. That state of anxiety is why most people quit dieting within two weeks of starting. Fascinating, huh?
The right brain, that is your right cerebral cortex, functions on a completely non-verbal level and it is often times called "unconscious" because it is mute, in the traditional language skills sense, at least. The right brain though, actually does speak, but in images, and often times this is the key to dieting success. The right brain also does not understand negatives. So you have to be extremely careful with your internal self-talk. Saying to yourself, "I don't want to be fat," says to your right brain, "I .... want to be fat." Scarey, isn't it?
The right brain also does not understand english, but messages are loosely translated as they go occasionally across your corpus callosum, the thin layer of connecting neural fibers that attach the left cerebral cortex to the right. The messages get misunderstood frequently because the left brain loves negatives, double negatives, and saying the opposite of what you really mean. New compliments in our society include, "that's sick, that's bad, and are you kidding me?" which are all negatives, reversed, and very confusing to your right brain.
So you have to learn dieting in images as well as in english. I have met many an obese person who can tell you exactly how to diet and how to be very successful at it. So why are they still obese? They are in constant conflict with their right brain and struggle and fail with the dieting process. Oprah Winfrey and Kirsty Alley are classic examples. They both can give expert advice on dieting, but are both very overweight. Kirsty has even been up to 228 pounds.
So what is the solution? First always speak to yourself in positive supportive words like, "This plan allows me to eat healthy and feel good," and "I like the steps I've taken to look and feel better, and yesterday I ate just perfectly." Sounds simplistic, but these phrases your right brain can understand clearly. Also, think in images. My favorite is the picture of the funnel. Emotional funneling is why most people overeat. Picture all your feelings of stress, boredom, anxiety, loneliness, and depression being funnelled into one emotion: Hunger! That's the problem. People think they are hungry because they are mislabeling their other emotions into the one they know how to manage; hunger, with food!
So use this new picture in your mind. Think of Arrows that go straight to their answer:
Tired=====>>>>>lay down and rest. Bored=====>>>>>Find something interesting to do. Lonely======>>>>>Call a family member or friend. This new image is already speaking to your right brain. It's already working for you! And when you stop funnelling > your emotions into one, you will become an extraordinary dieting success! Get the rest of the details from my book at: http://www.lifeextensionbooks.net/
Dr. Doug Ikeler

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ly high up too. It gave me the creeps as I went higher and higher to the top with the girders narrowing in on me. I had to keep walking around at the top of it because if I stopped I could feel it moving and swaying a little, which at one thousand feet up, is very unnerving.

South Africa is a peaceful country, unlike the way it is depicted in the news media. My preconception was that we would have to dodge bullets as soon as we left the airplane and entered a race riot that would surely encompass the airport. You probably have to look hard to find racial conflict in South Africa. What I saw was two races living happily together, enjoying the beauty of the land and the riches of it's resources. The lions surprised me too. One afternoon, we went to a lion preserve and after we had toured it's open spaces and come back and held the lion cubs, I walked to where the buses were parked. Our bus was beside a large fenced-in field with a group of lions in it. I sat down by the fence to relax and wait for our tour group to return. The lions saw me and got up and strolled over and sat down right beside me and waited with me as the afternoon sun was setting.

We communed on a primitive level, but we understood each other and engaged in a nonverbal communication of greeting, interest, and appreciation for the joy of each other's company. My wife at that time was enchanted by the majesty of those creatures. I told her they are our cousins and we share a common ancestor from millions of years ago. Our relatives, but now of a very different race. They carried with them a nobility that we all should aspire to.

Egypt gave me a sense of all that can be lost. Seven thousand years ago it was the greatest nation on earth. There is far more than the three pyramids in Giza you always see. There

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Are You Full Of Foam Cells?

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Key cells in our immune system are called macrophages. Translated literally to "Big Eaters," these macrophages have lives of their own and go where they want and do what they please. In fact, twenty percent of all our cells are mobile are direct themselves to where they are going and what they are doing. Macrophages though are huge and can gobble up dead cells and debris anywhere in your body. They are key to the healing process and key to clearing up infections. I have seen micro-movies showing macrophages each taking in dozens of bacteria per second.
Macrophages though like fat, and if it is readily available, they will go and fill themselves up on it and then hide in sequestered areas of the body. Once full of fat, these macrophages appear foamy or bubbly inside, thus the name "foam cells." Sometimes even creating hidden areas like the plaques in your blood vessels that are called atherosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries. Once they hide in a plaque, they change and they no longer are fighters for the immune system. They now are a problem to the immune system.
So how do you prevent your macrophages from becoming foam cells? Eat a very low fat diet. A diet composed of ten percent fat or less will actually even reverse the accumulation of atheriosclerotic plaques in your arteries. You don't need to have cardiac bypass surgery. You can reverse heart disease with diet alone. Making dietary choices has never been easier than it is today. The fat content of almost all foods is right on the label of the food you buy. So look for foods that are ten percent fat content or less, like the skim milk I buy, which has zero calories from fat. The raspberries I buy are zero percent fat too. It's just that simple. If a food is more than twenty percent fat by total calories, then try to avoid it.
A fatty meal will actually even cloud your blood for many hours with milky white fat. This fat will even stick to the walls of a blood tube and distort your blood results. That's why your doctor has you fast before doing a blood test. Keeping fat globules out of your blood stream is easy and it will keep you from getting heart disease, cancer, stroke, Alzheimer's disease, diabetes, and all the other most common diseases causing death today.
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are hundreds of pyramids. And temples the size of small cities. Math and science started there. Medicine started there. The riches of the Pharaohs dwarfed by far any riches of today's billionaires. But now, Egypt is a third-world country, barely able to supply water and electricity to it's people. What happened? Was their downfall inevitable? Maybe. History has shown that no great nation dominates the world for more than four hundred years. And strangely, four hundred years is the cycle. It made me wonder if the United States is on the decline side of the curve of our peak in the sixties when we accomplished the impossible and put astronauts on the moon. That was certainly our peak. What have we done since? What will we do in the future?

We should have gone on to Mars and established a moon base and Mars colony. We should have large telescopes on the dark side of the moon where our view of the universe would be incredible. We should have created a compelling future for America, the likes of which would still be inspiring and engaging us today.

Wealthy is the second state of being you want to achieve in life. Wealth is more than money. It's how you feel about yourself. Do you feel rich? Do you have all you want? Do you have all you need? Do you want more? Isn't it amazing how one single object, the dollar bill, can be the center of our lives?

My observations of life, from having worked so long with people and animals, is that all of life comes down to just three things: Eat, survive, and reproduce. You can reduce these three things down to one, survival, if you like, because that word alone covers everything else. You eat to survive and reproduce to survive too. But just as we can reduce all of life to one word and one function, surviving, we can expand all of

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Resveratrol and The French Paradox

2009-08-09T06:55:00.000-07:00

Resveratrol is the new snake oil in the world of life extension. It came out of the studies from France that are known as The French Paradox. So here's the thinking that generated this new highly hyped, but still unproven, elixir of life for living longer no matter what else you do to yourself.
The French people live statistically longer than the populations of most other developed countries. The French are also known for their red wine. Even Jeanne Calment, a French woman who lived to 122 years old, loved the French red wine. She also loved chocolates, but that's another story. So putting two and two together, it must be the red wine that is making the French people live longer, right? Maybe, but I am doubtful the red wine has anything to do with the French people living longer.
They are probably living longer "In Spite Of" drinking red wine, which is my own personal theory. Having travelled to France several times and truly enjoying each of my trips there, I did notice the one thing that most likely is why the French people live longer than most. They Eat Less! French meals are small and you almost feel ripped off after paying fifty dollars for a meal that could fit on a teacup saucer. France though is the only country I have travelled to, among thirty others, that does eat right. Amazing for this to be their national standard.
The French Paradox is also exaggerated by the curiosity that the French like to eat cheese with their red wine. They also like fatty meats and butter on everything. Still the answer here is that they don't eat much of these cheeses, meats, and butter. Their portions are very small. I even clearly recall a three dollar ice cream cone I had that had three scoops of ice cream on the cone that were each the size of a marble. Not very satisfying for the price.
So this resveratrol will most likely fall to the wayside just like Vitamin C did after Linus Pauling was done hyping it. Because that's all it was, just hype. The skins of red grapes are probably not bad for you, but eating too much of them probably will be.
So the French Paradox comes with a lesson learned. Eat less. Eat right. And you will live longer. Eat resveratrol and overeat and drink heavily and you surely won't live longer. It fascinates me still how even great scientists can get so distracted over the prospect of selling some new extract that they ignore the real scientific evidence right in front of their eyes. Life Extension is currently only achieved through Caloric Restriction with Optimal Nutrition. These are known, proven, and even quantified life extending effects. Calorie restriction slows your basal metabolism. That's how you and all the other animal species this has been tested on live longer. It's easy to do and you can learn how in the pages of my book.
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life to a million words and millions of functions, like contemplating, traveling, studying, choosing, engaging, analyzing, loving, and striving to name a few.

From eat, survive, and reproduce, we can see how our whole lives revolve around their equivalents of food, money, and sex. Money is so important to us because it truly represents our survival. In our modern world it is hard to survive without any money. With a lot of money, you can more than survive, you can thrive. With more money you can have more food, more shelter in the form of a bigger house, and more sex because money is an attractive feature for anyone, ugly or handsome. The ultimate survival guarantee is a fortune. That's why people play the lotteries. If you won a hundred million dollars, you know you could spend a million dollars a year for a hundred years. You would have all your wants and needs fulfilled. Money is the ultimate tool for survival.

With money being so important in our lives, though, isn't it strange that "the best things in life are free?" When you're with the love of your life, is this something you can purchase? I met the love of my life when I was a poor student completing my pre-veterinary courses at UCLA. I lived in the back apartment at Wilshire Animal Hospital in California. I had very little money to work with so I used my creativity to make a romantic evening. For about a dollar, I would cook a dinner to be eaten by candlelight at my vet hospital apartment and then take my sweetheart to the beach for an evening stroll along the shore. I would point out the stars, constellations, and planets and talk about the wonders of the universe. These were the most romantic evenings we could remember. Other women I've told about these evenings, too, said they wish they could have had such romance in their lives.

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"The First Wealth Is Health," Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Having grown up in New Hampshire, I had the benefit of that "Live Free Or Die" New England independent thinking to shape my childhood. I also had the good fortune to be exposed to great books by Ralph Waldo Emerson and his buddy Henry David Thoreau. These men weren't afraid to think differently and express their ideas to the public. Luckily they weren't inhibited by political correctness and the associated law suits that come with today's attempts to express something other than the media-confined, perfectly-phrased, sound-bite niceties that limit us to a very narrow modern existence. Can a person even get angry any longer? What about raising your voice? Nope, those two behaviors will bring you charges for sure.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, like Benjamin Franklin, knew even in their times, that being healthy was far preferable to being ill. Isn't it amazing that more illness exists today than did a hundred years ago? We live longer now, but do we live healthier? Obesity was a rarity in Emerson's day. People worked too hard to get fat. And there was not the leisure activities that fill our days, and our years with 3568 hours of media entertainment. Back then, a good book was as far as the entertainment went on a day to day level. Medical science intervenes to keep us alive today, but a century ago, people were generally healthier.
I enjoyed the family photo albums of my grandparents and relatives that I had from a century ago. You could see in the photos what filled their daily lives. They had picnics and read books and socialized with friends and family. Today we seek solitude. When was the last time you went on a picnic? What was the name of the last book you read? How often do you have parties at your house each year? In our modern lives, most people will answer, "never", "don't recall", and "we don't", to the previous questions.
So, our new definition of personal peace is that of solitude, and not finding peace within ourselves and amongst our community. A new state of loneliness has emerged where the television is more of a companion than your spouse. I have married friends who tell me the biggest problem in their marriage is that they feel lonely all the time. How can you be lonely when you're married? We have gained so much with our modern technologies, yet we have lost a little more of what makes life great.
Some things never change though. The first wealth is still health, and I imagine it always will be.
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Our least romantic evenings were when we would go to an expensive restaurant, wait two hours for a table, have a cranky waiter, and spend a hundred dollars for the hassle of being there. In Southern California I rarely enjoyed myself going out to eat. The restaurants were so busy and they didn't care if they were nice to you or not.

The joy of seeing your child born has to be the very best thing in life! Does making a baby cost anything? Does hearing her first laugh cost you a dime? Does hugging and holding your child cost money? Our lives are so full of the most wonderful things. You can live richly and happily with very little money at all.

So why do we pursue riches so vehemently? Why do people even kill for money? I think it comes back to our basic survival instinct of "kill or be killed." People think they will not survive without that money. In actuality they will, and they would be far better off just getting a job and learning higher skills to make more money in time.

I think the most important thing to do with your money is enjoy it. You should take a portion of each paycheck, decide on a figure, say five or ten percent, and do with that money whatever you want. Buy some new clothes, put it in a savings account for a trip you want to take, get an ice cream cone. The key being you should consciously spend your money on what you want. You earned it, and this reminds you that working is not just to pay your lousy bills, but to make your life great.

I have always thought how you make your money is important, too. If you make a lot of money but you hate your job, then your life is not better. There are empty jobs. Making money on the stock market or by turning over (flipping) houses is a way to earn a living, but is it rewarding? Do you

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Thomas Parr Oldest Man To Live Past 150

2009-08-01T09:13:00.000-07:00

I am writing a second article about Thomas Parr because there is exceptional interest about him on the internet. For my own search results, Thomas Parr is number one for this blogspot. It goes to show people are interested in his life and in the possibility of living to 150 years of age.
Thomas Parr, otherwise known as "Old Parr" in England, is buried in Westminster Abbey and his tombstone claims he lived to 152 years old. Born the son of a farmer in Winnington, Shropshire, England, Thomas Parr lived a quiet life that allegedly began in 1483. He died in 1635 and was given the honorable place of burial in Westminster Abbey Church by King Charles the First. Back then, people were actually buried inside the churches to guarantee their ascension to heaven and eliminate the possibility of their being sent to hell. He was said to have married late in life and even had children after he was one hundred years old. Controversy surrounds The Thomas Parr 152 year life span, but he was interred by the King of England, and even back then, they had reliable records.
Modern science confirms we are built to live 150 years. The only known and proven method for getting there is by Caloric Restriction with Optimal Nutrition. It was said that Thomas Parr was a vegetarian and lived a simple farming life until he moved to the city late in life and was debilitated by the "change of air" that the city life brought him. The next oldest person is Jeanne Calment of France who, with accurate records, lived to 122. She loved red wine, chocolates, and bicycling. She was also independently wealthy after the passing of her rich husband.
Old Parr's autopsy focused heavily on his genitals with remarks that they appeared to be in good working condition and showed no signs of deterioration due to his advanced age. Whether or not Thomas Parr actually lived 152 years will never be proven or dis-proven. We can only acknowledge that he is recorded to have lived that long in one of England's most prestigious burial places. Autopsy results were of a cursory nature in the sixteen hundreds too, as medical science was still doing more harm than good. It wasn't until 1920 that the AMA, The American Medical Association, itself stated that it felt medical doctors had reached a point in there practice of medicine where they were as a whole doing more good than harm.
We have had less than a century to use this medical knowledge to improve our lives. But improve them we can, and we can go on to break Thomas Parr's record of longevity. There are people alive today, born in the twentieth century who will live well into the twenty second century. Learn more about this technology and technique in my book on Life Extension at
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Recommended Daily Allowances. Do you need them every day?

2009-07-26T08:26:00.000-07:00

One of the great servants of the food industries' productive process is The Recommended Daily Allowances of certain vitamins and minerals. Do you really need your RDA of vitamin C or Calcium or Vitamin D? What happens if you don't get them? Well nothing actually, because you don't need your RDAs of every vitamin every day. The Recommended Daily Allowances of vitamins and minerals is based on deficiency syndromes that only occur after very prolonged deficiency of a vitamin. The one most people are familiar with is scurvy and it occurs if you go over a month and a half with no vitamin C at all.

All the RDAs are based on the concept that if you are getting your RDAs every day, then you can go forty five days without that vitamin or mineral and not get the disease. You won't get the disease either if you're getting a little of the vitamin along the way too. Just like the British Navy discovered when they started adding a little lime juice to their sailors diet on long voyages.

So without this pressure to eat everything you can every day to get your RDAs in, you may discover that dieting is a lot more easy. You are awash in nutrients. I wouldn't worry about ever getting a deficiency disease. Especially if you eat a variety of foods. The last recent case of scurvy was reported on a woman in England who ate nothing but peanut butter sandwiches and milk. She ate what is called a mono-diet and did eventually get scurvy. Few people eat the exact same things every day, so again deficiencies would be hard to produce.

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come away a better person because you bought a house lost in foreclosure by some unfortunate family and resell it for a twenty-two thousand dollar profit? What if you had instead helped the people to keep their house and refinance it into a better loan so they wouldn't have lost it in foreclosure?

When I chose to become a veterinarian, at age ten, I couldn't think of a better way to earn a living and do so much good on a day-to-day basis. I still feel that way, but I have chosen to change professions and work in human health care because I see a world full of agony. Misery seems to be the norm for the average person in our world. Happiness should be the norm. With all I know about human and animal medicine and behavior, I could no longer sit back and watch people suffer because, in turn, they are the ones who make animals suffer.

People are eating more. A lot more than they used to. This translates into a lot more animal suffering as the meat industry slaughters more animals for people to eat. The average person should be eating half what they are eating today. They would be far healthier if they did. Overeating is the scourge of our modern world. Is this the future we've always wanted?

The take home message on money then is how much do you want to earn and how do you want to make it? The wealth you want is determined by your mind and your will. Riches are a mixed bag of good and bad. I have also seen that when the good goes up, the bad goes up as well. I enjoyed life fully and travelled around the world when I was just a poor college student. I have also enjoyed life fully and traveled around the world as a rich five-hospital-owner veterinarian. You could then ask, "When was life better?" I would say when I was a poor student.

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When my ex-wife and I use to travel the world together, it was almost not worth going. We would have to do a mountain of work to get everything ready for us to be gone two weeks. Then, when we got back from our vacation, everyone and everything would be busting loose, and we would end up having to hire and fire more people and undo the two weeks of disaster that occurred while we were gone. Our home phone would typically have about nineteen emergency call-me-as-soon-as-you-walk-in-the-door panic calls that would completely neutralize any relaxation that might have occurred on the trip.

When I was a college student I had no debts or mortgages to worry about either. After a trip overseas, I would have time to reminisce on the experience and how it broadened my horizons and changed my perspective on the world. With my vet hospitals, I would return to a pile of bills to be paid, and the stress of getting caught up again. So, wealth comes with a price. It was a price I chose to pay, but I do look back on it differently now. If you want to be wealthy, I say go for it. If you chose to live modestly, that is an equally wise choice. My advice to everyone about money is: "Earn more than you need and spend less than you earn." This is a formula you can never go wrong with.

As I write these last few pages for you, I feel the sadness of a departure. We have had a wondrous voyage together. We have shared a great secret and yet an amazing fact of life. You are built to last 150 years. This is a fact. How you spend those years is up to you. If you eat twice as much, you will age twice as fast, and only live to sixty or seventy. If you drink alcohol or smoke cigarettes, you will shorten your life even further. My mother only lived to sixty years old. She showed me pre-

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cisely what happens to you if you smoke cigarettes constantly and overeat every day. If she hadn't smoked at all and had eaten only 1200 calories per day, my mother would be alive and well today. She would be able to enjoy seeing my triplets and my older daughter, Ariel. She could enjoy staying in the castle I live in, as my father recently has. So much was lost in her life by two bad habits. It saddens me still.

So the third thing you want to be in life is wise. Again, healthy, wealthy, and wise. As I said before, I have never met anyone yet I consider to be wise. I am still waiting. Perhaps wisdom has gone away. Who has time to be wise when we are bombarded every year with 3,568 hours of media stimulation? How many people do you know who ponder their lives and philosophize about being? Who do you know who reads and studies great works of literature and takes time to think about and know the universe?

A real change for the worse has been cell phone technology. Now people never have a thought of their own. It never ceased to amaze me how many people would stand talking on their cell phones right in the middle of my office visits with them, while I was evaluating their cat. I always regarded a person yelling into their cell phone during a doctor's visit as nothing short of rude and inconsiderate. No one ever has to think again, too, as cell phones can show you movies, connect you to the internet, and let people call you wherever you are! It is a continuous mode stimulus-response device. Perfect for the unconscious automatons.

My hope is that people of intelligence on this earth will turn off the technology for five minutes and put forth their better efforts. That they see past the inane chatter of the moment and search for higher thoughts. Our patterns of

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thought have no ceiling. We can evolve higher and higher thoughts onto infinity. Look how far along we have come in just two thousand years! Man's greatest thoughts for transportation in the year 50 BC was a horse-drawn carriage. Compare those thoughts to the ideas of men who envisioned supersonic aircraft and rocket ships that took us into outer space. It seems we're lacking a long range plan, too. What is the destiny of America? What is the destiny of mankind? Our future is our thought. Will we cling to the misinformation of the past or embrace the thinking of a future that will embolden us all?

I want to say goodbye for now with a metaphor that we shared will all our clients who lost their pets. Life has many sad moments. For me, saying goodbye is always sad. As I said before though, to live well you must grieve well. Let your feelings out. Remember, this whole book is about your feelings. You are not hungry. You are just confusing your feelings of sadness, loneliness, and discomfort with hunger. Don't stuff your feelings down with food. Let your feelings out and appreciate what they are telling you. I look forward to one day meeting you personally, so that we can be together again....

"Just this side of Heaven is a place called Rainbow Bridge. When an animal dies that has been especially close to someone here that pet goes to Rainbow Bridge. There are meadows and hills for all our special friends, so they can run and play together. There is plenty of food, water, and sunshine, and our friends are warm and comfortable.

All the animals who had been ill and old are restored to health and vigor. Those who were hurt or

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July 20, 2009 Celebrating 40th Anniversary of Man Landing On The Moon

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When I was a boy in the sixties, the future was bright and technology had all the answers. How far have we come in these past forty years since Neil Armstrong landed on the Moon? Living longer is now a very real option through medical advancements and dietary techniques. Get on board for living dramatically longer with my book on Life Extension!

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maimed are made whole and strong again, just as we remember them in our dreams of days and times gone by. The animals are happy and content, except for one small thing, they miss someone very special to them whom they had to leave behind.
They run and play together, but the day comes when one suddenly stops and looks away into the distance. The bright eyes are intent, the eager body quivers. Suddenly, one breaks from the group, flying over the green grass, faster and faster. You have been spotted and when you and your special friend finally meet, you cling together in joyous reunion, never to be parted again. The happy kisses rain upon your face, your hands caress the beloved head, and you look once more into those trusting eyes, so long gone from your life, but never once absent from your heart.
Then you cross The Rainbow Bridge together...."
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The Emotional Funneling Cure

2009-07-18T16:32:00.000-07:00

Dieting is so unsuccessful in most people because of a little known phenomenon called Emotional Funneling. This is the misperception in a person that makes them think they are hungry, when actually they are stressed, bored, anxious, tired, annoyed, lonely, or any of a myriad of other emotions. They funnel all their emotions into one: Hunger. The reality though is that most people never, or rarely, ever experience hunger. We eat so often and so much, that true hunger is essentially unknown in American society. Real hunger can be primarily detected by your stomach growling. Even then, you may not be actually hungry. It may be just your stomach reacting to it's daily cycle response of expecting food at a certain time of day.
The cure for emotional funneling is to remove the funnel and see straight lines to the end state you are trying to consciously or unconsciously achieve. If you are tired, lay down and relax. If you are bored, find something interesting to do. If you are lonely, call a friend or family member. The key is to feel your feelings and identify your real emotion and state, versus just letting your discomfort be funneled once again into the thought that you are hungry, because you're not!
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Life Extension Concepts Catching On!

2009-07-16T16:10:00.000-07:00

I am pleased to see that the general concensus about Life Extension Technologies is catching on! I even saw recent media information about Slowing Your Metabolism to live longer. That is the very thesis of my book! So share this information with your friends, because we live in a new era. This is the twenty first century! We can chose how long we want to live. Lives over a hundred years are now the new norm.
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Be Proactive. You are The Creator.

2008-12-01T08:28:00.000-08:00

Are you living by design or default? Asked a different way, have you created the life you have totally dreamed of, or are you living out a dreary existence that is nothing like you thought life would be as a child? Many people find this question hard to answer, and the people with the most dreary lives are the ones who more commonly say they are living by design. Isn't that strange? They are probably so ashamed to admit that working as a cleaning lady or managing a McDonald's at age forty nine is so far afield from what they should have done with their lives that they can't even admit they are living a life of default. Default is a bad place to be. It means you did not have a plan for your life or a future compelling enough to make you aspire to noble greatness within your working years. I have told many people along the way, "If you don't have a plan for your life, someone else does". How many people in corporate America are charting the course and designing the future. The answer is sadly few are. The guy at the top might be, but the masses below are only following along and "doing their job". I am not proposing a revolution or a walkout on the good jobs that keep us all alive. I am merely suggesting that each of you take a look at your life and start shaping it so that your are "Living The Dream". For health and fitness, I spend an entire chapter of my book showing you how to Design For Yourself A Compelling Future. Without the most exciting events and experiences waiting for you on the horizon, you are condemned to live out a life of default. Sad but true. Today is your chance to be different. Today is your chance to squeeze more juice out of life. With my book, you will be someone others look to for inspiration. Be the star. Give others hope. You're the one. Be it!
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The Tainted Lens of Perception

2008-11-29T10:01:00.000-08:00

We all think we know the answers to everything, but do we? Our perceptions are so skewed and prepatterned that we pre-see everything before we even take a look at it. Which begs the question, can we ever be objective about anything? True objectivity is a rare beast. This is the very core of a good research scientist. A person from a good childhood sees life as good and has the capacity to give to others and contribute to society. A person from a bad childhood cannot give to others because they never had anything given to them. They don't know that pattern. Also, people who are overweight and obese cannot "see" that they are doing tremendous harm to their health and happiness by continuing to overeat. They also don't know how to eat right because of the patterning they were given early in childhood. I still personally remember asking my parents to take us to McDonald's and thinking that was quite a treat and special occasion to be able to eat there. In high school too, I was in McDonald's All American Band and got a card that let me eat at McDonald's for free for a year. That was special too. Now though, I never eat at McDonald's because I know how deleterious the food is and how artery-clogging their menu can be. It took some powerful new knowledge to over-ride the old behavioral patterns I had about it being fun and special to eat at McDonald's. The same goes with life extension, until you have the powerful new knowledge that is contained in my book, you simply do not "know" that living dramatically longer is easily within your reach. Take a moment to examine your paradigms, and examine your knowledge and conditioned patterns of thinking, and see if you can't at least be open to new ideas for a moment. New ideas that could extend your lifespan by fifty years or longer. We live in an incredible age, but the speed of learning is the new competitive advantage. Without faster and deeper learning, you are left in the dustbin of life, doomed to live out the poorest patterns of behavior that you were chanced to have put upon you in your life so far.
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The Covey Principle

2008-11-23T08:25:00.000-08:00

Having just gotten a new copy of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey, I felt compelled to read it again, though I have read it twice years ago. On page 11, he says something profound. He says we should get away from the cultural norms of maintaining lifestyle ( I assume that means The American Lifestyle of overeating, drinking, and smoking ) and using drugs and surgery to treat our health problems, and that we should instead live a principle centered life that prevents diseases and problems and aligns our lifestyle with universally accepted principles of health. I couldn't have said it better myself! This is what my book is all about. Doing it right. Living healthy. Making a Life Extension Lifestyle your lifestyle. It all comes down to choice. Do you want to live longer or not? If you say not, then I say your have not designed for yourself a compelling future. For if your future was compelling, you would never want your life to end. Sounds pretty obvious, but you would be amazed at how new that information is to many people. So check out my book, and apply it's principles. It covers more than eating right. It also tells you how to design a future that brings you daily happiness and fulfillment. That's what it's all about. Living more and living longer.
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Dr. Doug Ikeler

How To Live Longer

2008-10-17T06:57:00.000-07:00

Life, life, wonderful life! It's all we have and we need to appreciate every moment of it! So how do we get more of it? Thus far, there is only one known method for dramatically extending life and living a lot healthier. That method is caloric restriction with optimal nutrition. Put in simpler terms, eat less and don't eat junk food. Most people somehow have gathered the limiting belief though that they can't eat less, because they think they will starve to death or something. Nothing could be further from the truth. Anyone can learn to eat less, eat right, and enjoy that type of life style. It doesn't happen in thirty seconds though, and so I guess since it requires something more than the attention of a commercial break, few people will be able to do it. I have been doing it for the past thirty years and I have seen wonderful results. People who meet me think I am in my mid-thirties and even wonder if I am old enough to be a good doctor. They are surprised to discover I am fifty years old. Exercise is another issue. I do not promote vigorous exercise daily. I believe in light exercise and an active lifestyle. A thirty minute walk is more than enough exercise each day and going shopping at the mall or playing a sport you enjoy is plenty of exercise too. The key is enjoy yourself and be active. Follow the methods in my book and you will live dramatically longer than you ever expected. People only expect to live around seventy five years today. That is half a life. People a hundred years ago only expected to live thirty to forty years. That is a quarter of a life. People who read my book and those in the future, will expect to live one hundred and fifty years, which is the full life we were born to live out in happiness and productivity. Live longer, it is all you can really achieve in life!
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Dr. Doug Ikeler

Nature Versus Nuture, The Debate Continues

2008-10-12T07:14:00.000-07:00

The nature versus nurture debate is an old one, and yet it has no entirely correct answer. Are we simply a product of the genes we were dealt at birth? Or do we have the capacity to go far beyond the potential of our genes. First, it should be noted that our genes define the limitations of our bodies, but those limitations have a huge parameter. We can be of average strength, or we can train and condition ourselves to lift five hundred pounds! We will never lift as much as a gorilla can though, because they are genetically built to be stronger. We can never be as strong as a draft horse or an elephant either, but we can certainly far exceed "average" human capabilities. The same goes with intelligence and human longevity. You can become educated to know as much as the smartest people on earth. A person of average intelligence can rise to above average intellectual capability simply through learning. I personally went through twelve years of college and feel I know quite a lot. In terms of longevity, you are genetically built to last one hundred and fifty years. You lose half those years by overeating and speeding up your metabolism. The current pandemic of obesity today is so prevalent, that nobody even notices it. A "Dancing With The Stars" contestant claimed "She is not fat". Looking at her, she clearly is. She has a big belly and big thighs. Maybe she thinks she isn't fat, but to those of us who know bariatrics, she is. So how do we train and condition ourselves to live to 150 years old? Simply buy my book and learn the methods I teach in it. It's the best investment in life on the market!
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Dr. Doug Ikeler

Breast Cancer Prevention even with BRCA1 and BRCA2

2008-10-12T06:50:00.000-07:00

Breast cancer is entirely preventable. Studies show that the supposed "genes" for breast cancer are not a perfect determination for a woman getting breast cancer. Genes are simply bits of DNA information. There are no "Cancer Genes" in our bodies. BRCA1 and BRCA2 are genes that can be present, but it is their interaction with the bodies' environment that creates cancer. We are each a "phenotype", which means we are the product of our genes and our environment. Comparable animal studies have shown that even when an animal has the "gene" for breast cancer, it only will get breast cancer under certain environmental conditions, namely hyper nutrition. These studies showed that the animals kept on a calorie correct diet did not develop breast cancer ninety five percent of the time, even though they all had the genes for breast cancer. Pretty amazing results, huh? That is why I teach you in my book how to eat a calorie correct diet. The modern surge of cancer in our society is a result of our overeating. Fat is a co-carcinogen and enhances the effects of other carcinogens. Bodies full of fat are just asking to develop cancer. So, if you are a woman, and you would prefer to not get breast cancer, buy my book today, and get on the path to preventing cancer in yourself. It really is possible.
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Dr. Doug Ikeler

Free Book On Life Extension

2008-10-06T11:26:00.000-07:00

Who wouldn't want to live longer? I guess people who are not happy in life would not want to extend their misery. Also, people who are unhealthy physically, may not want to exist for decades longer. This is where my book comes in. I teach you not only how to add years to your life, but also life to your years! After all, a great life is about being healthy, wealthy, and wise.
My book is free based on savings alone. I have seen that all tractor trailer trucks now have a fer ring on top of the truck that deflects air in an aerodynamic pattern up over the truck and above the trailer. This aerodynamic add-on must save a truck thousands of gallons per year in fuel costs. Thus, a trucker can't afford not to have one, especially if it pays for itself in the first year of operation alone. The trucker then enjoys cost savings for years to come after that. I remember when my father was on the school board and they purchased a water mist injector system for the school's furnace. It made the furnace burn ten percent more efficiently, and so it paid for itself in the first year. My father said our high school couldn't afford not to install it. The fuel heating cost savings were tremendous. The same formula works with my book. You are going to eat less as a result of applying it's principles, and therefore, you are going to save money on food. My conservative estimates are that the book pays for itself within the first month of you reading it. It also saves you a hundred thousand dollars over the three or more decades that it extends your life. In other words, you can't afford not to buy it! What a deal!
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Dr. Doug Ikeler

Free Book For Dieting

2008-10-05T09:20:00.000-07:00

One of the wonderful gifts that comes with buying my book is that it is actually free! Free in the sense that it saves you money for the long term. When I owned five veterinary hospitals, I often coached my employees on how to save money on just food alone. They would typically spend five dollars on breakfast at McDonald's, five dollars on lunch at Burger King, and then ten to twenty dollars eating out at Applebees for dinner. That's thirty dollars a day on junk food! That also adds up to a thousand dollars a month for food alone and you're not even eating healthy! So I easily found ways to help them eat for half the price they had been eating at and eat much healthier at the same time. There is an old adage that few people know. It is "Quality Costs Less". Quality products and quality food are actually less expensive in the long run than something cheap is. This is counter-intuitive and few people get it, but it is a fact. The quality costs less principle applies to everything from cars to food to houses. If you buy my book today and apply it's principles to your life you will save one hundred thousand dollars or more over the next thirty years and you will be healthier too! Is there a better deal out there? I think not.
Buy today and begin saving your money, your health, and your life. My book is free within the first month of using it and it delivers savings for decades to come. My best wishes go out to you.
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Dr. Doug Ikeler

Weight Loss Is A Cure For Arthritis

2008-10-01T08:19:00.000-07:00

Arthritis in the knees is a common occurrence for people as they get older than forty. Younger people get knee arthritis if they exercise too heavily. My business attorney had to go in to have both his knees and his hips surgically replaced by the time he was sixty. He was a lifelong marathon runner. His example alone keeps me from running. Here's the reason arthritis occurs so commonly in our knees. The weight convergence of our bodies is four pounds to one at our knees. That means all your upper body mass is represented as four times the weight as it sits on your knee joints. Think of the weight of your car at four thousand pounds sitting on the ground side of its tires and the weight being a thousand pounds on each tire covering an area the size of your hand. So then, with every pound of weight you lose, you take four pounds of pressure off your knees. If that isn't bad enough, running triples the pressure on your knees. Each pounding jog puts three times the down force on your knees as walking does. That's a lot of force! No wonder our knees become arthritic! So give your knees a break and lose that weight! My book is the best instruction manual on how to lose weight painlessly, without hunger, and easily. I have used it's techniques to stay slim and trim my whole life. Get started today and avoid the deleterious changes that arthritis can bring to you. You need your knees. They are meant to last a lifetime!
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Dr. Doug Ikeler

How Long Can We Live?

2008-09-29T07:34:00.000-07:00

To answer the question, "How long can we live?", we need to put it into perspective. In seconds, you could possibly live for five billion of them. This is roughly comparable to the number of bits of information in our genetic code, which is thought to contain five billion bits of information. In minutes, you can expect to live about eighty million of them. The popular song from the Broadway show "Rent", tells how there are 525,600 minutes in a year. That's a lot of minutes. In hours, you can expect to live about a million of them, maybe even a million and a half. That is a lot of hours, considering it takes about ten thousand hours to master a subject, like becoming a veterinarian, or an expert golfer, but that still leaves nine hundred and ninety thousand hours to have fun with. In days, we are built to live for fifty five thousand days. To put that into perspective, if you read one page a day in a modestly sized book of two hundred pages, it would take you two hundred and seventy five books to span your lifetime. Most people don't even read a hundred books in their lifetime, so you have plenty of time for reading. Remember, leaders are readers, and you can't ever know too much. Michael Faraday achieved scientific prominence because he was not happy with just being a printing assistant. He self educated himself to the point of being one of histories greatest scientists. And finally, in years, we are built to last for one hundred fifty years. That is an incredibly long lifespan. Think of all that you could accomplish in a hundred and fifty years! Design for yourself a compelling future and create a masterpiece out of your life. You only get one, so live it to the fullest! My book can tell you how!
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Dr. Doug Ikeler

More People Who Could Benefit From The Book Life Extension

2008-09-27T06:40:00.000-07:00

More people who could benefit from my book on Life Extension include: Thea Burch, Nick Coffin, Lenny Jonas, Tom Klinger, Bob McDevitt, Al Warner, Jerry Springer, Pat Benater, David Lee Roth, Chrissy Steele, Todd Kibbee, Pat Paulson, Richard Thoresen, Elizabeth Thoresen, Vernon Starr, Andrew Kaufman, John Davis, Steve Davis, Elliott Davis, Martin Mull, Steve Smith, Linda Goodman, Pam Rottman, Sarah McMackin, Ronald McDonald, Josh Anderson, Tom Wilton, Luey Armstrong, Patti Smythe, Cher, Madonna, Ricki Lee Jones, Terri Fisk, Carlton Fisk, Babe Ruth, Michael Faraday, Emily Lamothe, Gary White, Larry Toth, Steve Stoddard, Patricia Coster, Jeffrey Coster, Matthew Priddy, Nicholas Coster, Candice Coster, Peggy Ann Garner, Bea Arthur, Steve Saunders, Christine Chang, Issac Tucker Burr, Carl Sagan, Nick Sagan, Nick Lyle, Mike Kiley, Debbie Hunter, Tim Gowen, Karen Gowen, Marcia Finley, Jean Wasson, Kristin Walker, Tehlina Hinson, Allison Meyers, Mona Lisa, Lisa Bell, Lori Bell, Mick Jagger, Elton John, Ryan Starr, Paul Davies, Richard Dawkins, Eric Chung, Dick Clark, Richard Clark, Punky Meadows, Pink, Durk Pearson, Sandy Shaw, Tiffany Million, Doug Dirks, Sarah Palin, Katie Couric, Paris Hilton, Whoopi Goldberg, Tom Selleck, Connie Seleca, John Tesh, Richard Burton, Allison Titus, Alfred Ikeler, Santa Claus, Tipper Gore, Al Gore, I Robot, Billy Mumy, Danny Bonaduce, David Cassidy, Elizabeth Taylor, Gene Simmons, Richard Simmons, Paul Stanley, Stanley Eisen, Richard Nixon, Patricia Nixon, Jane Wilson, Mickey Wilson, Linda Sebastian, Lolly Sebastian, Stanley Sebastian, Ruth Sebastian, Holly Hughes, Nora Ogaz, Shawna Middaugh, Bob Maxey, Steve Harris, Lane Wrecker, Donald Douglas, Doug Shinsato, Doug Ike, Sharon Austin, and of course, Penelope Cruise. These people and more can all benefit from my book on life extension. Living long is what it is all about. With my technologies and techniques, a lifespan of a hundred and fifty years is even possible.
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Dr. Doug Ikeler

Binge Eating Breaker Formula

2008-09-27T06:00:00.000-07:00

For those of you on a diet, here is the best formula for stopping a binge eating attack: Get a small handful of cereal and put it in your mouth. It should be about a mouthful. Hold the cereal there as long as you can and swish your tongue through the wad. After you have held the cereal in your mouth and chewed it up and swallowed it, Get a large glass of water (16oz, a large tumbler) and drink it. Fallow this buy chewing gum for as long as the gum will last. At the end of chewing the gum, you will discover that your impulse to eat a pint of chocolate ice cream is now gone and you solved the whole problem with about fifty calories of intake. These are the techniques and technologies that I describe in my book. For weight loss and longevity, their is no better book on the market. Buy it today.
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Dr. Doug Ikeler

Best Anti-Aging Book Available

2008-09-26T14:43:00.000-07:00

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Dieting Success And The Bimodal Mind

2008-09-26T11:32:00.000-07:00

What makes for a successful dieter? Only three percent, three in a hundred, ever lose weight and keep it off after starting a diet. There is clearly a reason these people succeed where everyone else is failing! The answer is in our bimodal mind. The two halves of our brain function similarly, though in many ways, very differently. The left half of our brain has language and can understand negatives. The right side has only symbolic language and cannot understand any negatives. In fact, it functions only on positives! Positive intent, I have heard though that the road to hell is paved with positive intent. So it is clearly not enough. The left brain understands math and analysis. Our right brain does not understand math and thinks in terms of global impressions versus linear analysis. So clearly there can be great conflict within ourselves when trying to determine what to do in any given situation. Eat the ice cream sundae or stay on a healthy eating pattern? Go to the movies or do your homework and get an A? Stay in a relationship or get out now while the going is good? These are the mutual opposites that we are confronted with daily. So how do we overcome these conflicting impulses? The answer is in aligning our bimodal minds. You have to buy my book to get the answer on how to do that, because I am here to sell books and help people live dramatically longer. The book is actually free though if you just add up your food expenditure savings within the first month. One month, Free Book, Thirty to Fifty years longer life! I would say buy it today! Once your brain is aligned, the dieting becomes effortless because you are no longer in a state of self conflict. You do the right things and eat the right way because no part of you is saying to do otherwise. Doesn't that sound wonderful? It is, and this is why some people succeed so effortlessly at dieting and others never succeed and only end up gaining weight after they try to diet for a few weeks. The key is a book order away....
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Dr. Doug Ikeler

How To Avoid Prostate Cancer

2008-09-22T12:41:00.000-07:00

Prostate Cancer is one of the leading causes of death in older men. It's prevalence increases by ten per cent per decade as men get older. So by age ninety, ninety percent of men have prostate cancer. Though it is a cancer, it is generally benign and most old men have it without knowing it. If it spreads though, it can be devastating and deadly. Linus Pauling got prostate cancer by age ninety and believed he had slowed it's appearance by taking massive doses of vitamin C for most of his adult life. Oddly, the vitamin C didn't slow the appearance of his prostate cancer as he came up in the middle of the curve for the formation of prostate cancer in older men. He believed massive daily doses of vitamin C extended his lifespan too, but it was actually his caloric restriction that slowed his aging and allowed him to live longer. He consciously ate half as much food as he normally would have, which is what the CR society members do daily. Linus also had sex daily as he believed that lengthened his life too. It sure made it worth living! The prostate is particularly sensitive to the accumulation of fat in its parenchymal tissues. Thus a very low fat diet is recommended to avoid prostate cancer and all other cancers as well. Fat is a co- carcinogen, though it is not a carcinogen in itself. Fat invites cancers to grow. That is the take home message. These techniques are described in my book as I show you how to live a life extension style life and avoid the diseases of aging and death by heart disease, cancer, and stroke. http://www.lifeextensionbooks.net/ http://www.drdougikeler.com/ http://www.blogger.com/
Dr. Doug Ikeler

Kidney Disease Caused By Obesity

2008-09-20T10:39:00.000-07:00

Obesity is such a pandemic problem in our society that we fail to realize how many different diseases it causes. The top twenty five diseases of our day are caused by overweight and obese bodies. This is why I am on such a mission to eliminate excess weight from our populace. Few people know that obesity is a major cause of kidney failure. With obesity comes hypertension and fatty infiltration of our body tissues. This causes overworked and chronically failing kidneys as well as fatty liver, hernias, gall stones, prostate cancer, breast cancer, uterine cancer, gout, osteoarthritis, stroke, carpal tunnel syndrome, colon cancer, polycystic ovaries, asthma, congestive heart failure. Should I go on? I can. Anyway, you get the point. Obesity is the root problem for our diseases today. Our kidneys are built to last for a hundred and fifty years. Kidney disease should be rare in our society, but it is becoming more common. With all our modern medical science, you would think we would become progressively more healthy as a nation, but sadly, the opposite is currently true. We presently spend more than two trillion dollars per year on health care in the united states, but are we the healthiest nation on earth? Far from it. We are the most obese nation on earth and getting heavier! Two trillion dollars per year is enough money to send manned expeditions to Mars every three months! What a incredible age of discovery we would enjoy if we preferred space exploration to Big Macs! The diseases of aging are reversible, so you should start on my program immediately. You can live tremendously longer. Learn the simple techniques and fully explore your human lifespan potential.
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Dr. Doug Ikeler

How Much Should I Weigh?

2008-09-19T08:08:00.002-07:00

This is a common, yet absolutely essential, question for optimal health. If you don't know what you should weigh, then you don't have a number to guide you for tracking and measuring your health. Most all obese people don't even have a bathroom scale and they say they won't get one. They prefer the denial plan. An average home scale is fine, but get a quality scale if you are working to become a life extensionist. They are all reasonably accurate. Every fitness champion works with a number, their weight, as the most significant measure of their health. So what is the best method for calculating your ideal weight? It is this: Take your height and give 100 pounds for your first five feet. Add five pounds for every inch above that. It's so simple! So if you are five feet, ten inches tall, your ideal weight is 150 pounds. If you are five feet, four inches tall, then your ideal weight is 120 pounds. If you are shorter than five feet, subtract five pounds for every inch that you are under five feet. Write down your ideal weight and work at getting to it or less as you eat a calorie correct diet each day. These methodologies are all described in my book. Buy it today and get on track to living at ideal weight for 150 years!
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Dr. Doug Ikeler

Anti-Aging Vitamins

2008-09-19T08:08:00.001-07:00

The anti-aging vitamins are none. There is simply no such thing as an anti-aging vitamin. The hype on vitamins is from the days of deficiency diseases. The most studied deficiency was scurvy. The British Navy was powerful and yet still weakened by this nutritional disease. Once they figured out that a little lime juice prevented scurvy, they were ready for long voyages that allowed them to conquer the world. What fascinates me more is the belief in vitamins. During World War Two, the Germans were convinced that the Americans had a special substance, which was vitamin A, that allowed pilots to see at night and see even keener during the day. The enthusiasm for vitamins continued after the war and continues today. In my book, I point out that we are awash in vitamins from just eating a healthy diet. Even white refined sugar has other elements in it besides glucose. It also contains chromium and other trace elements. So even a Twinkie has some nutrition in it, though I am not recommending a Twinkies based diet. The secret to longevity is total calorie count each day and slowing your metabolism. The more you slow your metabolism, the greater the effect of longevity! That fact stirs me every day. So, don't worry about vitamins at all. You are rejecting more vitamins than you can possibly utilize each day, so your urine is getting most of the vitamins you take. Read my book. Study it's methods. Real life extension is easy and can be a part of your life. It has to be. Take vitamins though, if you feel you have to. I know many people who can not let go of that limiting belief.
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Dr. Doug Ikeler

The Meaning Of Life

2008-09-19T08:08:00.000-07:00

The meaning of life is staying alive! We accomplish this through three basic efforts. Eat, survive, and reproduce. We eat to fuel our bodies with energy so that we may move around to find more food, shelter, and reproductive partners. We survive by avoiding harm and loss that occur in front of charging Rhinos and Tigers. We reproduce to keep our genes alive and living on to the next generation. If you don't reproduce, you are no longer alive in the next generation, though some would argue you are still alive if your brothers and sisters reproduce. Food, money, and sex then are the three arenas of our lives. Money represents survival. If you win the lottery and get one hundred million dollars, you feel pretty certain you can stay alive for the next fifty years, because you would would have two million dollars a year to live on. That should be enough to buy lunch with. Jeanne Calment of France, lived to be 122 years old. Her lifespan is well documented, so we know people can live past 120. She also smoked cigarettes up until age 117. She realized smoking would shorten her life. What an epiphany after 100 years! She also loved chocolates and red wine. It would have been amazing to see how long Jeanne Calment might have lived if she had cut out the cigarettes, chocolates, and wine! She might have been the first centenarian to break the 150 year age barrier, though Thomas Parr of England, is thought to have already done it. His life was less well documented, though I would think if he was buried in Westminster Abey, they would have tried to accurately record his age. Life is wonderful. It is all we really have. To lengthen your life, shorten your meals. Ben Franklin said this as an axiom. He knew even then that gluttony was one of the seven deadly sins. Less sinning and more living. That's the answer. If anyone has a better meaning of life description, post me a comment on it. I'm sure others will have a very different perspective.
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Dr. Doug Ikeler

Oldest Man That Ever Lived. Thomas Parr Age 152.

2008-09-17T11:26:00.000-07:00

When I visited Westminster Abbey in England, I noticed a man's tomb within the church that mentioned he was 152 years old. Quite stunning, but certainly not impossible. Being that he was burried in 1635, you might wonder how accurate their records were. Perhaps there was some error, perhaps not. The human lifespan potential is estimated at 150 years and so far, we have one guy who has supposedly made it! Jeanne Calment, of France, lived to be 122 and no one questions the validity of her age. Some just live right and avoid the diseases of aging. We are all built to last 150 years, but the variable lies in how well you take care of yourself. I like to watch the television show "The Biggest Loser". I am still amazed they get away with calling these fat people the biggest losers. But that is what media people commonly get away with. It is almost as bad as the McDonalds slogan, "Super Size Me". I can hear the corporate fat cats still laughing at everyone dumb enough to walk up to a McDonalds counter and say "Yeah, Super Size Me!", knowing they are already obese and getting fatter. What I notice in these super obese contestants is that they show the signs of aging far sooner than someone slimmer would. A man I was focused on last night had completely gray hair, he looked like he was in his seventies, and he weighed four hundred pounds. This man is only one year older than me! I have almost no gray hair, I look like I am in my thirties, and I weigh one hundred seventy five pounds. There is quite a difference between us! So the take home message today is keep you weight low and eat right and avoid toxic habits, like smoking, drinking, and overeating. That's what my book is all about and I tell you exactly how to do it. Remember you are one hundred trillion cells strong. Treat each one of your cells like a baby and they will keep you alive for a century and a half. That knowledge alone is enough to keep me eating right every day!
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Dr. Doug Ikeler

Is Alcohol An Antiseptic Or An Anesthetic?

2008-09-15T11:45:00.000-07:00

Alcohol is all the above. It is a disinfectant, a paint thinner, an antifreeze for your car, and considered a beverage by some, who are dumb enough to drink alcohol. Alcoholic consumption causes over one hundred thousand deaths per year. Drunk driving, falls, cirrhosis of the liver, cancer, and strokes are some of the modalities by which alcohol kills people. Isopropyl alcohol is also called rubbing alcohol and is used as a disinfectant. It denatures proteins, like all alcohols do and it kills bacteria by breaking down their cell walls. Methanol is a paint thinner and car antifreeze. I have a rule in life that I don't drink anything you can run your car on. This is probably good advice for everyone. Ethanol is the type of alcohol that beverages are made of. Alcohols result from the fermentation of grains, sugars, and fruits. People mostly drink alcohol for it's mind altering effects, which generally is a depressant effect much like anesthesia. In my medical studies, I learned that alcohol was the first anesthetic and surgeons used it to knock someone out so they could operate on them. Today people use it to knock themselves out to avoid the discomforts of reality. In my book, I describe the need for us to feel our feelings to truly be happy. We all must grieve our losses and anesthetizing them away only puts them off for another day when they will come out and make us feel even worse. Let your feelings out. Share them with a friend. Those who grieve well, live well.
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Dr. Doug Ikeler

Cancer Cure And Life Without Alcohol

2008-09-14T12:04:00.000-07:00

As I discuss in my book, life without alcohol is wonderful! I can't imagine being an alcoholic. I have watched friends throughout the years drink booze and wonder how in the world they could have ever gotten interested in guzzling poison! Would anyone consciously choose such a behavior? Surprisingly, No! It was put upon them early in childhood and in their teenage years and the alcohol was somehow linked to associations of pleasure that stuck with them the rest of their lives. Throughout my life, I have tried to be objective about trying and especially continuing, toxic behaviors. Like with drinks, I had a martini once and I couldn't believe how ghastly it was. And people drink martinis every day? Something is missing here. What's missing is an intelligent thought. I also tried a scotch whiskey once. It burned all the way down my esophagus. I can't imagine burning your digestive tract in this manner on a daily basis. So why is alcohol still with us? Someone had an intelligent thought in the early nineteen hundreds and tried to get rid of it, but the dumb people made their own, and the laws prohibiting alcohol were rescinded. At least for one moment in history, people tried to do something intelligent and right, with prohibition. Alcohol is a carcinogen. People who drink a lot get cancer more. If we got rid of alcohol, cigarettes, and obesity, cancer would become a disease of the past. It wouldn't disappear completely, but it would no longer be our number two killer. Number two! This is certainly a great cause for concern. As long as celebrities keep drinking though, like Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan, the glamour of guzzling poison will continue.
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Dr. Doug Ikeler

How To Prevent Cancer

2008-09-14T09:26:00.000-07:00

Cancer is a huge fear for our health. It is insidious, which means it comes on unnoticed. It is oftentimes untreatable, spelling the end and no cure. And it is surprisingly preventable. Most people think cancer just happens to them. Actually, most people bring cancer upon themselves. Our greatest cause of cancer is obesity. With ever increasing body masses, we are seeing an accompanying rise is the rates of cancer. So what can a person do to prevent themselves from getting cancer? Several things. First, study the methods in my book. Dieting is not simple and you need the right information to accomplish it successfully. With eating correctly, orthorexia, you will dramatically reduce your chances for cancer. Laboratory studies have been done that showed when mice even had the genes for cancer, their rates of cancer were reduced by ninety five percent when they were kept on a calorie correct diet. Their overfed lab mates got the cancer. Cancer is the overgrowth of cells. Cells need excess energy and the accompanying hormones that stimulate them to grow to become cancer. All of our two hundred different cell types can become cancerous. Two hundred different types of cancer. That is something to worry about! Beyond eating right and maintaining ideal body weight, you need to avoid the common carcinogens. Alcohol is the biggest one. Alcohol turns into acetaldehyde in your liver and this is the chemical they use to tan leather. Do you want your insides turned into leather? Or worse yet, alcohol denatures your proteins. Protein is what we are made of. Denaturing it is the quickest way to damage your body. I haven't had an alcoholic beverage in over twenty five years. I have only had about five in my whole lifetime. Fried food is also to be avoided. It is full of free radicals from the frying of fat and these free radicals oxidize your cellular components. We are made of one hundred trillion cells. Each one is like a little piece of jelly. Together they are strong, but think in terms of taking good care of each one of them. Cancer is preventable!
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Dr. Doug Ikeler

Red Wine And Life Extension

2008-09-13T11:43:00.000-07:00

One time in downtown Denver, I found myself standing beside Keith Richards, of the Rolling Stones. He was fairly slight (skinny) and no where near as tall as me. He looked very old too, with deep wrinkles on his face and a gaunt look about his body. Then I wondered how much Red Wine this guy has probably drank in his life. I have never even had a single glass of Red Wine in my life, though I have smelled it and it whiffed of lighter fluid. That's what it smelled like to me anyway. I realize a wine connoisseur can detect the bouquet and woodiness of a wine, but frankly, we are talking about drinking poison here, so I could care less. I don't care if a wine connoisseur can detect the smell of dinosaur farts in a wine. To me, it is poison, and we could equally discuss the value of drinking gasoline or kerosene.
So with all the red wine Keith Richards has drank in his life, why doesn't he look younger? Duh, it's because red wine does not make you live longer and the lies surrounding it are there to make you drink more of this poison. Keith Richards looks really old. He is sixty four today and shows the aldehyde effects of having drank so much alcohol in his lifetime. That deep wrinkly skin wasn't always there. He actually looked pretty good when he was young. A lifetime of smoking and drinking and doing drugs has brought Keith to the wrinkly old man, at the young age of 64, that he is today. He should have read my book!
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Dr. Doug Ikeler

Is A Head Full Of Gray Hair A Good Thing?

2008-09-13T07:01:00.000-07:00

An old man asked his Doctor,
"Is a head full of gray hair a good thing?"
His physician replied,
"It is if you ask someone who's bald!"

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Dr. Doug Ikeler

A Great Website For Generating Links

2008-09-11T14:18:00.000-07:00

A Great Website for generating links to your website for increased ranking is:
www.linkhelpers.net Let me know if you have any questions.
Dr. Doug Ikeler

Is A Glass Of Wine Good For You?

2008-09-10T11:55:00.000-07:00

The question arises if a glass of wine per day is good for you. My answer is absolutely not! The wine and alcohol industies, just like the tobacco companies, are always looking for a way to sell you their poison. No amount of alcohol per day is good for you, not even one glass of red wine. No amount of smoking is good for you either, even though cigarette ads use to tell people that smoking made them relax and breath deeper. Cigarettes do make you breath deeper, because of the emphysema they give you. Alcohol denatures your proteins and destroys your tissues. We are made of protein. Why would you want to put a poison in your body that destroys those proteins? I saw a picture of Ken Osmond on the internet. He played Eddie Haskel on The Leave It To Beaver television show. He is 65 years old now and looks like crap. His skin is heavily wrinkled, he has age spots all over his face, and he looks like a very old man. I can guarantee you he had a problem with alcohol during his life. Jerry Mathers had a problem with weight and suffers from type two diabetes. I guess being a television star is no preventative from becoming unhealthy with age. I worked with Danny Bonaduce in a movie while I was going to UCLA. He had a problem with alcohol and drugs and he looks like he did today. When are we going to wake up as a society? Will we ever? As long as misinformation is the dominant source for our behaviors, it won't be anytime soon! Be the exception to the rule. Buy my book and apply it's technologies in your life. You can look young at sixty five and you can live to one hundred fifty, if you do it right. Jeanne Calment of France lived to 122, so we haven't got far to go to beat her record. You can control your rate of aging. Apply my techniques and see the wonderous results!
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Dr. Doug Ikeler

People I Want To Thank

2008-09-09T11:49:00.000-07:00

These are the people I want to thank: Mildred Ikeler, Alfred Ikeler, Fred Ikeler, Doug Ikeler, for having the same name as me, Tucker Burr, Ian Coster, Pat Coster, Frank Lavac, Bob Maxey,
Bruce Ward, Mimi Ward, Melony Ward, Erwin Ward, Carla Messer, Scott Blood, Linda Blood, Cindy Marx, Roy Walford, Clive McCay, Sarah Palin, Douglas Campbell, Carol Campbell, Kristin Adair, Cristina Salas, Janet Shapan, Nicolas Lyle, Michael Kiley, Roy Brown, Gary White, Lolly Sebastian, Linda Sebastian, Wendy Ward, Timothy Gowen, John Davis, Steve Davis, Vernon Starr, Steve Smith, Andrew Fagan, Tom Klinger, Richard Thoresen, Elizabeth Thoresen, Larry Toth, Steve Stoddard, Steve Henry, Marcia Henry, Heather Mortenson, Allegra Miller, Jane Harris, Susan Barrett, Robert Cunniff, Ann Beaudry, Jenny Saxton, Susan Austin, Susan Holt, Jeffrey Aldrich, Micheal Allen, Celeste Aumand, Nancy Babbitt, Lynn Bacon, Bobbie Balcom, George Baker, Lance Baker, Thomas Baldwin, Peter Barth, Dianne Bashaw, John Bascom, Kelly Burch, Ben Burch, Thea Ikeler, Cindylee Bashaw, Peggy Bashaw, Regina Batchelder, Richard Beach, Joseph Bates, Pam Bates, Martin Bemis, Debbie Benware, Micheal Blaine, Debra Brown, Joanne Burrows, Denise Bushway, Deborah Campbell, Ronald Campbell, Peggy Catani, Jane Cobb, Jane Wilson, Andrea Crabtree, David Crosby, Kevin Davey, Kevin Cross, Bonnie Dalzell, Debbie Day, Charles Dearden, Rebecca Erisman, Rebecca Anderson, Terri Fisk, Carlton Fisk, Linda Emerson, Annette Graves, Daniel Gmyrek, Howard Goss, Kimberlee Gunnerson, Jenny Strobel, Kimberly Phillips, James Healy, Diane Harris, Edward Hatch, Dana Hodgkins, Cathy Jo Hoke, Debbie Hunter, Debra Horton, John Hurd, Alan Johnson, Alanis Morrisette, Pat Benatar, Eddie Van Halen, David Lee Roth, Barbara Ives, Barbara Hold, Harry Jacobs, Douglas Jones, Doug Ike, Steven Kinson, Scott Kemp, Violet Kinney, Pamela Kmiec, Douglas Lear, David Kopacz, Pamela Lauren, Terri Lawrence, Candice Leary, Laurie Luther, John Page, Ross Patterson, Nancy Putnam, Ray Ramsey, Tammie Remick, Karen Ryan, Darby Schumacher, Wanda Strout, Dianne Weston, Kevin Wright, Douglas Young, Stan Stotz, and of course, Jerry Koerber. Feel free to drop me a line and let me know how you are doing. With many Thanks, Dr. Doug Ikeler
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The Best Health Care Websites

2008-09-08T12:44:00.000-07:00

The Best Health Care Websites are listed below. I also included the Best McCain Palin Websites
because I support them to victory!
www.webmd.com
www.cdc.gov
www.uhc.com
www.whitehouse.gov
www.kp.org
www.unchealthcare.org
www.healthline.com
www.ikelerbooks.com
www.lifeextensionbooks.net
www.drdougikeler.com
www.mccainpalinvictory2008.com
www.johnmccain.com
www.palinforamerica.com
I can't get enough of that Sarah Palin! She truly is America's Sweetheart!
Dr. Doug Ikeler

Aging And Denatured Proteins

2008-09-08T09:07:00.000-07:00

As my book is on Life Extension and the ways to avoid aging, I want to tell you about denatured proteins and aging. If you look old, you are old. If you look young, you are young, as there is a tremendous amount of variability possible in our rate of aging. A person fifty years old can look anywhere from thirty to seventy, as I have seen both wild extremes. We are aging faster in our high intake big eating society. Eating more speeds up your metabolism and increases your rate of aging. Eating less, slows your metabolism and makes you live longer. White hair, wrinkled skin, loose skin, and big bellies, give clue to the amount of protein denaturation a person has experienced. Skin becomes less flexible as it gets more cross-linking of it's proteins. Sun is the most damaging to skin as it causes rapid cross-linking. My advice is stay out of the sun. Or, wear a wide brimmed hat, sun screen, or carry an umbrella to block the sun from your face.
The agents of protein denaturation include, heat, like from the sun, alcohol, acids, heavy metals, like lithium, and other poisonous chemicals too numerous to list. I have long been an advocate of staying out of the sun, not exercising heavily, not drinking alcohol, and avoiding drugs and chemical exposure. This plan has worked well for me as I have slowed my rate of aging by half. Many people increase their rate of aging by double or more. Especially methamphetamine addicts, who look decades older while they are still chronologically young. So take charge of your health and your rate of aging. Buy my book and apply the technologies and techniques I describe to reduce your aging now. It truly can be done. I have seen it work.
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Dr. Doug Ikeler

Is Food Better Cooked Or Raw?

2008-09-08T08:49:00.000-07:00

You might wonder where all this cooking came from originally. I do, especially since some health experts tout that raw food is better for you. Actually, it's not. Cooked food is better because it is more digestible. Plants have tough cellulose as their structural material and heating vegetables softens this cellulose so the nutrients inside can be released. The same goes with meat. Heat denatures the proteins in meat and makes them more easily digestible, like when an egg white turns white when it hits the frying pan. Overcooking is not good because then the nutrients are damaged, which you don't want either. So it's the sweetspot of the balance point you are trying to achieve and modest cooking to heat the food nicely is where you want to be. Learn all about eating right in my book called Life Extension. It tells of the technologies and techniques that make people live dramatically longer. You can order it online at www.lifeextensionbooks.net
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Dr. Doug Ikeler

Is Diet Coke Bad For You?

2008-09-07T13:15:00.000-07:00

Many questions and concerns surround Diet Coke because it is sugar free and contains an artificial sweetener called Aspartame. I remember the days decades ago when cyclamates were used to artificially sweeten food and then they were discovered to cause cancer. That left us all wondering thereafter if any artificial sweetener was safe. Surprisingly, Aspartame is! It is made from two amino acid molecules and an alcohol. Amino acids are in all protein, so it's no different than eating a piece of meat. The amount of alcohol in a can of diet coke is so little, you would get more alcohol from eating a piece of ripened fruit. Amino acids and alcohols are in a lot of things we eat and they are neutralized and detoxified readily in our digestive system and liver. So there is nothing bad about Diet Coke. It is my choice for a beverage when soda is included with a meal. For the best information about eating right, weight loss, and extending your life dramatically, purchase my book on life extension. It is available at www.lifeextensionbooks.net
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Dr. Doug Ikeler

Why Don't I Want To Exercise?

2008-09-07T12:37:00.000-07:00

Does anybody like exercising? Only the people who have conditioned themselves to become addicts of exercising, the gym junkies. I can't tell you how many people fall into this trap: They get all hyped up, usually after January first of each new year, and they decide they are going to get a 24 Hour Fitness membership and exercise every day, to lose weight and look better. Good plan, but here is what commonly happens. On the first day, they go in and exercise like a maniac, and then they wake up the next day, sore, tired, and in pain. They never go back to the Balley's or which ever gym again, even though they signed a two year membership that automatically charges their credit card twenty five dollars a month. In my book, I tell you the secret of exercising, how much you need each day, and how to get the right exercise without any gym membership ever. You can purchase my book at www.lifeextensionbooks.net Exercise has a place in our health. It is largely misunderstood and underutilized as a component of healthy living. Buy my book today and start living well and enjoying the exercise you do each day!
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Dr. Doug Ikeler

Why Don't Diets Work?

2008-09-07T12:25:00.001-07:00

Diets don't work because people go off of them quickly, usually within a few days. The problem is change, which is interpreted by the right side of your brain as something bad. Our brain is a survival machine. Anything that alters our day to day patterns of behavior says to our brain, "This could kill me". Consistent patterns and habitual behaviors are what our brain clings to the most tenaciously. Unconsciously, (meaning to the right brain-without words) following our daily routines is the pattern of survival. It's kept you alive this long, it should keep you going another day. I talk extensively about how to alter your behavioral patterns in my book. I want to sell more books, so I can't give away the secrets for free. You can purchase my book online at www.lifeextensionbooks.net Within it's pages you will learn the master techniques of dieting and weight loss and you will learn how to do it effortlessly, painlessly, and without hunger. My book has all the answers you have been looking for! Buy it today, and see how easy dieting can be!
Dr. Doug Ikeler

How To Use Your Neurophysiology To Live 150 years!

2008-09-06T18:29:00.000-07:00

Neurophysiology is just the functioning of your brain and nerves. All of your behaviors are the result of your neurophysiology. Here's an interesting question though? Are you your behaviors, or are you above your behaviors? Let me ask you this. Can you put down a brownie? Or is it that once it is in your hands, it's all over with and you are going to eat it come hell or high water?
Okay, so you may be saying, "Oh Yes, I Can Put Down A Brownie". To that I say, "Go Try It". Few people are capable of reverse order behaviors. Those being the ability to do something the opposite of what you normally do. Like at a party. Do you always have a drink? What if you became a non-drinker? I haven't had an alcoholic beverage for over twenty five years. And it's not because of religious or moral reasons. I just think it is completely stupid to guzzle poison to try to think you are having fun. Being a non-drinker, I had the opportunity to observe drinkers, especially during veterinary medical college. My classmates would drink themselves into oblivion while I stayed sober and had the most fun dancing and sweet talking the ladies. Alcohol was clearly a depressant and my drinking classmates would sit moping at the bar as the drugging effect of beer took over them. So it's time to be something more than an unconscious stimulus response automaton and live by design, so that you can be more than your behaviors and reach up to heights of living that you never before imagined! I talk thoroughly about how to do this in my book, which you can purchase at www.lifeextensionbooks.net It's the greatest book in the world and it is on it's way to becoming a million seller! Live, Love, Learn, and Leave a Legacy! It also tells you how you can explore your human lifespan potential and live up to 150 years. Jeanne Calment of France already made it to 122. If she can do that well, you certainly can do twenty three percent better and make it to 150. I'll see you in 2108!
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Orthorexia, A Disease Or A Misdiagnosis?

2008-09-06T08:17:00.000-07:00

Orthorexia means "correct appetite", so how can it be a disease? I personally think this is a misdiagnostic label for what is actually anorexia, which means "no appetite". Physicians like to coin new terms for diagnosis just like psychologists like to create new labels for neurotic behavior in people. It's good for business! And it makes their textbooks thicker!
What happens in orthorexia is the person becomes obsessive-compulsive about eating only healthy foods to the point where they are anorexic and not eating enough, just like a true anorexic does. Honestly, you can't go wrong eating healthy food, but you do need to eat enough of it. Calorie count is critical because too much caloric restriction even with optimal nutrition is deleterious and resembles the self consumptive effects of starvation.
In my book, I teach you at length how to eat the right mount of food each day. This is how to achieve life extension! Making healthy choices for what you eat is a good idea too, though food is surprisingly generalized and you get nutrients from everything you eat, even twinkies and brownies. So don't let the latest hype fool you into not eating right. The orthorexics are really anorexics and have no resemblance to people who eat right and exercise and stay fit and trim.
A lot of great health is to be had in our lifetimes. Buy my book and get on the band wagon of the new generation of centenarians working to live 150 years and beyond!
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Dr. Doug Ikeler

Life And Santa Claus

2008-09-05T19:44:00.000-07:00

The Four Stages of Our Lives Can Be Described In Terms of Santa Claus:
1. In the first stage of life, you believe in Santa Claus.
2. In the second stage of life, you don't believe in Santa Claus.
3. In the third stage of life, you are Santa Claus and
4. In the fourth stage of life, you look like Santa Claus.

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Cats, Cats, Cats!

2008-09-04T13:26:00.000-07:00

The oldest cat ever has lived 37 years and is still going. In my veterinary career, I saw a cat 29 years old and one 26, and several that made it past 20 to 21, 22, and 23 years old. The 26 year old cat had an abscess under his chin. He was so old and stiff, I didn't want to risk killing him with even a whisper of anesthesia. So I lanced the abscess without any anesthesia and treated him wide awake. He only flinched a little at the lancing, but he did not act to be in much pain. The 29 year old cat was at Wilshire Animal Hospital in California while I was a prevet student working there and we ended up having to put him to sleep. Why do some cats live so long and yet most die at around age fifteen? The answer is cats mostly die of kidney failure and cancer. Cats are a desert animal and so they concentrate their urine and stress their kidneys their whole lives. If their kidneys are stronger, then cancer is the next major disease that takes them. Cats get lymphoma and lymphosarcoma the most. Apparantly their lymphatic system is prone to developing tumors. It is the white blood cells, lymphocytes, that aggregate to form tumors. I have always thought it to be strange that white blood cells would ball up together to form a self-destructive tumor, but that is one of the mysteries of physiology. If kidneys and cancer don't kill a cat, then it can live past twenty and maybe even past thirty. Lifespan potential is an interesting question for all species. The human lifespan potential is extrapolated to be 150 to 180 years. In time, gene therapies may be able to extend our lives over two hundred years. You are still going to have to take care of yourself though, so don't plan on smoking, drinking, and overeating at party level, or you are not going to make it long. In my book, I show how we can slow our metabolism and live dramatically longer. I also tell of the effective techniques for stopping smoking, ending drinking, and eating the right amount of food each day. It's actually a lot easier than you think. I love life and being alive is all you really have during your time here on earth. So I say let's eat right and live productive lives that contribute great things to society, so that we can leave a legacy that will inspire generations to come.
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Dr. Doug Ikeler

Hearing Aid Humor

2008-09-04T11:48:00.000-07:00

Dad was so proud last week. He got a new hearing aid. We had been telling him he needed one for years. We got tired of repeating everything and hearing the television blaring even from outside the house.
He went to his Doctor and told him he needed the best hearing aid they had. He was assured this hearing aid was the top of the line, as it cost four thousand dollars. I asked him, What kind
is it?"
He said, "Twelve Thirty".

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Fasting Is A Cure For Cancer

2008-09-04T09:00:00.001-07:00

The art of fasting is almost unknown in our modern society. It use to be common among the ancients for cleansing, spirituality, and health. Now, no one even skips a meal or eats less. There is a unique function in fasting though, it kills cancer. When you eat less, as I describe in my book, your macrophages and other immune cells stop filling up on serum globular fat and they go looking for bacteria and senescent and irregular cells to feed on. Cancer cells stand out as irregular and they are no match for our giant macrophages, which literally means "Big Eater". Each of us generates a few cancer cells each year. The outcome of those cells in your body depends on your general health. If your immune system is healthy, you cure yourself of cancer. If you are unhealthy, your cancer cures you, of life. When I was a young man, I learned from the first veterinarian I worked for that about ten percent of all cancers "spontaneously remit", that means they cure themselves. What then is the mechanism of this cure? It's your immune system! Quack cures for cancer surround the phenomenon of spontaneous remission. Somebody eats ground up peach pits and gets over their cancer and they think the peach pits cured them. It was actually their immune system. Eating fat makes you fat and it also interferes with healthy immune function. I recommend an ultralow fat diet of less than ten percent of calories in your diet coming from fat. Fantastic cures and health already wait within us. Buy my book and learn of the amazing capacity of your body and it's potential to keep you here for one hundred and fifty years!
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Dr. Doug Ikeler

Emptiness and Hunger

2008-09-03T08:36:00.000-07:00

Ours is a culture of emptiness. We want More, or the Next thing, or to be There, to be happy. Add up the capital letters, and you have the acronym MNT, or Empty for short. How did we become so empty? Free market societies want you to buy more. Buy it, buy it, buy it. Shop 'til you drop. Who ever came up with these directives? As I say in my book, if you don't have a plan for your life, someone else does. And it is the merchandising markets that have your life planned out for you. Who do you think came up with "Super Size Me"? You got it. Marketing executives. Why? Because they want you to eat more and more McDonald's food so they will be happy. They get happy while you get fat. Are fat people happier? I have not seen this to be the case. So more of something doesn't make you happy.
Next is Next. The merchandisers want you to buy the Next great thing, or eat the next brownie, or get the next bigger super double big tub of popcorn. Next taunts you into thinking you are only one step away from happiness, but you have to get the next thing to eat to get there. Next is just part of the grand delusion. Happiness is found right here, right now. You are already happy, you just don't realise it. The next thing or mouthful of food isn't going to make you any happier.
There is where they tell you you will be happy. Like at Disneyland or Disney world. Or McDonald's. Why do you think they are called Happy Meals at McDonald's? Comfort food conditioning at an early age. That way, when you grow up, you automatically know you need to get there to McDonald's to be happy. There is never a happiness destination. Happiness again is here and now. The Cosmic joke is that something outside yourself is going to make you happy. In reality, you already are happy and just need to feel it. Isn't that amazing?
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Dr. Doug Ikeler

Getting Rid Of Gray Hair: Slow Your Metabolism

2008-09-02T11:52:00.000-07:00

One of the fastest ways to look older is to grow out a full head of gray hair. No one does this by conscious choice, but they do it by unconscious choice daily. Rapid metabolism speeds up your cellular clock cycles and run out the melanogentic timers in each of your hair follicles. People who are obese go gray faster. It appears after the age of thirty, sometimes sooner, but how fast you are running metabolically determines how fast you reach the graying point. Your rate of graying increases but ten to fifteen percent per decade after the age of thirty. You can slow this rate to five percent or less if you apply the methods in my book. My book on life extension is about how to slow your metabolism to extend your life dramatically. We are made of one hunded trillion cells and we need to think in terms of those cells and their lives if we want them to keep us alive longer.
An overweight person has a resting metabolism that runs twice as fast as an ideal weight person. Fat People think they have a slow metabolsim. In reality, they have a fast metabolism. They use twice as many calories to perform the same task too, like walking a mile. I have compared many people the same age as me and I have seen that by fifty, most are completely gray. I have very little gray hair and plan on keeping it that way. Also, gray is a color, grey is a last name. Skin goes white for the same reason hair goes gray. Old people have run out their melanocytes and they no longer produce pigment for the skin cells. Barack Obama noticed he is going gray rapidly from the stresses of the campaign trail. I'm sure it has speeded up his metabolism. Buy my book, apply the easy techniques within it, and you won't go gray. At least not for a long, long, time. Happy Trails!
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Dr. Doug Ikeler

Intelligence and Extelligence

2008-09-01T11:48:00.000-07:00

From my decades of work with animals, I agree they are intelligent. Their intelligence though, is quite different from ours. Cats and Dogs solve problems, but only in the context that serves their needs. They don't solve problems in theoretical physics, because those issues never come up in a pet's life. In our SETI searches, what we are looking for is currently other radio astronomers. For all of deep space search, we are only looking for one thing, signals in the bands of electromagnetic waves. Light, in visible, radio, and ultraviolet and higher forms is all we are going after to discover other intelligences. What are the odds then of finding extraterrestrial intelligent life? The answer to that question is zero. What we are looking for is creatures that posess both intelligence and extelligence. We are looking for the external transmission of their communications and ideas. Much the same as we transmit our thoughts, ideas, and culture out into space via radio and television electromagnetic waves.
Why hasn't some at least tiny detection of extraterrestrials been made yet? The answer is difficult, but you have to look at the odds. There may be approximately one trillion planets or moons capable of supporting some form of life in our galaxy. Out of those, how many have optimal conditions for large multicellular life to evolve? Probably few. My estimate is one in a billion. That takes us down to one thousand earth-like planets that has water, sun, and an agreeable climate for life to evolve in. Remember too, that even on a perfect planet for life, like earth, life only evolved as far as Algea after four billion years of uninhibited evolution. Four billion years to generate Algea? Not very thrilling results, if you ask me. The Drake Equation, from Frank Drake at Cornell, further asks what are the odds of intelligence evolving on a life filled planet. On the earth, only one species in a billion, us, has evolved a technical civilization that transmits extelligent signals. One in a billion! Again, not much help from the other billion minus one species on our planet. I read a story that Carl Sagan once got a four day Very Large Array time slot to listen for aliens in the Andromeda Galaxy. He figured if you could take in all the signals from an entire galaxy of half a trillion stars, your odds of picking up extraterrestrials should be good. The results of his experiment were that he detected nothing. Not a hint. Not a whisper of some other life form using radio or television to transmit it's intelligent signals. I heard he was depressed for weeks after as this experiment shattered his beliefs about life being fairly common throughout the universe.
My experience is that even human intelligence is very rare. Only one in a hundred people on earth even goes to college. Two thirds of humanity lives on less than two dollars a day. It's not a lack of information either. Knowledge is out there for anyone for the price of a modest book. It is a lack of intelligence, that ony a few people have, that limits how much mankind can accomplish.
My book has appeal for about one in ten thousand people. One in a hundred will buy it after they hear about it. Only one in a hundred of the purchasers of my book will actually apply the techniques to their lives and achieve real life extension. One in ten thousand, pretty grim results, but that is the fact and I can't change it. One hundred people in a million will be helped by my technologies. I look at the bright side though and see the tremendous rewards those one hundred people will get as they learn my skills and become Life Extensionists! And as far as intelligent and extelligent civilizations go, I think we are about it for now. The other limiting factor is not only the vastness of space, but the vastness of time. Even if extelligent civilizations evolve and last for millions of years, they are gone in a flicker of time that spans billions of years in our universe. It is estimated mankind will endure for approximately seven million years, very much like other long lived species, but seven million years is a blink of light in the universe's fifteen billion years of existence. I wish I had better news for you on this subject, but keep in mind, a lot of great living is here for us now, so make everyday a masterpiece and squeeze out all the living you can in the one hundred and fifty year lifespan potential you have been given! Live the Dream!
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Dr. Doug Ikeler

Tests Of Aging

2008-08-31T10:49:00.000-07:00

There are tests of aging you can do at home to see where you are in relative terms on the aging scale. The first is subjective. How old do you look? People guess me at around thirty five. I get compliments almost daily that I don't even look old enough to be a Doctor. That's a nice compliment , considering I am fifty. Being slim and trim makes a difference too. Obesity comes with age, if you let it, obesity is not inevitable, quite the contrary, you can maintan ideal weight for more than a century. It's your choice! Second, is a balance test. Stand on the foot opposite to your handedness. If you are right handed stand on your left foot. Now time how long you can balance like that on one foot With Your Eyes Closed! Old people fall over in a few seconds, young people can balance like this for thirty seconds or longer. I can go thirty seconds to a minute easily. If you topple in ten seconds, you're getting old. The Third Test is skin elasticity. Pinch the skin on the back of your hand, with your other hand, for ten seconds, let the skin go and see how long it takes for the pinched skin to go completely flat. More than one second and you are getting old. Youthful skin bounces back in half a second. A fourth test of aging is how much gray hair you have. If you have a full head of gray hair, you are getting old. I have surprisingly little gray hair and I compare my brother and my cousin to me as they are both within a year of my age and they are both completely gray now. I have even met people younger than me who have more gray hair than I do. The Fifth test is the ruler drop test. Take a ruler and have someone hold it above your thumb and index finger and see how many inches it takes for you to catch it. Reaction times slow with age, so compare your results with some young peoples. If you are catching it past the twelve inch mark, you are getting old. The thesis of my book is we have tremendous control over our rate of aging and the deleterious effects it brings. We can slow our rate of aging dramatically and avoid the losses aging can bring. Start today and live a lot longer and healthier! You'll love every minute of it!
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Dr. Doug Ikeler

Stop Aging

2008-08-31T10:23:00.000-07:00

You may ask the question, at some point in your life, "How do I stop aging?" Then again, you may not and you might be content to age as fast as you are today and never think another thought about it. Most people never learn that you can actually control your rate of aging. Here's how: By knowing the correct amount of calories to eat each day, you can slow your rate of aging by ten, twenty, forty, or even sixty percent! Isn't that amazing! These effects were first quantified by Dr. Clive McCay of Cornell University, who was quite controversial in his approach and unabashed in his promotion of his theories. He new it worked. He had the data. He did the animal studies. He thought the world would drop to it's knees and hail him as a god for bringing this technology to society. Clive overlooked one thing though: Most people can't even put down a brownie, let alone count and control the number of calories they eat each day. A few of us can though, and I have discovered it is really just a skill, and like all skills, anyone can learn to do it. For me this is the advantage. Clive didn't know about change technologies. He just thought if he told people loud enough and long enough to eat right, they would finally get it. They don't.
Within a change has to be the knowledge of how to achieve that change and that is what my book is all about. Buy it today and get started. Wouldn't you like to slow your rate of aging by fifty or sixty percent? If not, ask yourself why not? Maybe something else is bothering you. I cover that in my book too. If you read and apply the technologies I describe in my book, you can't go wrong. I guarantee it!
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Dr. Doug Ikeler

Cat Stories and Blind Cannibals

2008-08-30T08:50:00.000-07:00

My favorite animal is cats. During my twenty two years of veterinary practice, so far, I have spent sixteen of those years just seeing cats. Sounds wonderful, doesn't it? It is. Except maybe for someone who doesn't like cats. If you don't like cats, then you don't know them very well or there is something terribly wrong with you. I have seen the biggest of toughest men turn into marshmellows when they are with their kitty. I have seen the deepest of sobs when a feline friend is lost too. We love our cats. They become the best of friends and the most loyal companions in our lives. It's the unconditional love we get from them that is so wonderful too. I have never had a cat criticize me about anything. My clothes, my hair that day, nothing is ever wrong with you for your kitty. Happiness can be learned from a cat too. My cat Bunny sits on the furniture the same way a person does, on his back, with his legs pointing forward. He is such a character and full of happiness. He lounges around looking as happy as happy can be. No cares, no worries, just living in the moment and loving life. We could all learn a great deal about happiness from our animals. I have had the priviledge of seeing animals from a unique vantage point. As a veterinarian and physician, I studied both animals and people at the medical level. Guess what? They are exactly the same! Animals are our distant cousins and we are closely related. Knowing this upsets me though because I see the harm and abuse we pour on animals everyday. Clients often asked me if declawing a cat was cruel. I answered yes and added that most everything we do to animals is cruel. Spaying and neutering is cruel too. How would you like your reproductive organs removed? Or how would you like to be eaten for lunch? This is what we do to animals everyday, and on a scale that makes the holocaust of World War Two seem to be happening every few minutes for them. I read the book The Naked Ape when I was in high school. It gave a fascinating perspective on us as relatives to the apes. We are their relatives and now I think we should see ourselves in another description. I would call us Blind Cannibals. We eat our relatives and we don't even see that this is wrong. A few do and they are called vegetarians. The new breed of veterinarians are vegetarian veterinarians. When I entered the veterinary industry some thirty years ago the issue was wether or not veterinarians should hunt. Time moves us forward in our comcerns. At least the vegetarian veterinarians are leading the forefront in this new paradigm in thinking.
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Dr. Doug Ikeler

9 Lives

2008-08-30T08:26:00.000-07:00

Do cats really have nine lives? Well no, they only have one. The nine lives idea is an old wives tale that relates to the hardiness of the feline species. Cats are tough. In veterinary college, the axiom for a cat's bones healing was that if you could get the two ends of the broken bone into the same room, the bone would heal. That's amazing healing! It was true too. The bone repairs I did on cats all worked out well. Dogs were a different story. They could suffer from a non-union, which is a real problem when trying to fix a fracture. If the two ends of a broken bone won't heal together, you have a useless limb on your hands. More complex procedures then come into play, like compression bone plating. This procedure puts a metal plate along side the bone that crosses the fracture and literally compresses the bone together so the two ends will heal. It was fascinating to watch the speed of recovery from this type of surgery. I remember a golden retriever that we fixed a broken tibia on who walked out of the hospital two days later on that broken leg. I was impressed. Cats get fractures of all types. I saw jaw fractures, mostly of the mandibular symphysis, leg fractures, pelvic fractures, and fractures of any bone they had. Most were repairable. Some were not. A particular cat had a fracture of it's pelvis and was abandoned at our Cat Hospital by the owner because they didn't want to pay the cost of the repairs. One of our technicians, Hope Reilly, adopted this cat and named him Lucky. It was Hope's husband, Mike Reilly, who named him Lucky because he was "Lucky To Be Alive". My years of feline specialty practice was exceptionally rewarding and even though cats don't have nine lives, they sure make the most of the one they do have.
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Dr. Doug Ikeler

Free Advertising On The Internet

2008-08-30T07:48:00.000-07:00

Internet Marketing Success comes from the use of Key Word Links and Unique Content on your Web Site. My favorite approach too is the Free Viral Marketing Plan. Use this web link to get free network marketing and unlimited free advertising: www.freeviral.com/?r=225806 I have seen an explosion in new traffic to my web site from this link. The best advertising is free advertising, as I have said before, and I know everyone likes getting things for free! Who wouldn't? Adwords get expensive, and traditional forms of advertising are very expensive. That's why I got a web site on the internet. For free universal avertising and exposure all from internet searches that link key words to my web site. It is truly amazing. Free Advertising on the Internet is what it's all about and it can help you reach millions. This is my goal and mission, to reach and help millions of people live longer healthier lives, and see how to enjoy their lives more and contribute great things to society. What could be better?
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Dr. Doug Ikeler

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2008-08-30T07:19:00.000-07:00

I post these meta tags to drive more people to my blog site and in turn my web site. I freely admit it is unabashed self promotion! Vice, centre, kiva, softener, how to tie a tie, dairy, evden, dimond, instantloansnofaxing, rivalry, mailboxes, nieuw, official, data, caverat, chains, zeal.com, dominican, monta, mortician, satan, lucifer, juan, Up! eikel, reviews, regresso, Tau-tau, card, hedges, metallica, youths, KISS, bondage, Beatles, the WHO, impotency, fimbriata, ernie, bird, statistik, voetbalvronwen, away, teens, Gods, GOD, CPP, toyo, Japan, Gold, Lyrik, Lasik, CARS, dogs, puppy, hands-free, jessie, Indirimleri, me..., howto, navy, army, air force, NASA, Apollo, Galleon, free porn, manco, diode, filters, does, Beverly, Canada, Maple, nudes, dudes, SAMSUNG, Corp., JIM, IBM, hiatal, Georges, ihopeyoulikedit, abuse, emu, Mike, shortage, Kicks, Paris, pluginhybrids, daiki, corason, Aniston, condominium, vacuum, ?????, funai, fungus, amoeba, germ, microbe, lifeonmars, alien, ET, bus, Brad Pitt, Affelay, customized, Sydney, 74, 69, 76, 1776, 007, unitlink, 2, dealing, tales, nose, mnemonics, tires, adana, transmitter, transmision, engine, hybrid electric, math, I?, zeny, Zelly, Zelunopia, Xylophone, lonely, mil, LSD, themeaningoflife, Gattuso, USO, Jennifer Lopez, Jessica Simpson, tobo, tuba, sexy, bell, D&G, R&D, Kaarten, Manila, hermione, Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling, Billions and Billions, Bill Gates, chart, sockets, medication, pills, drugs, life extension, BOTS, web spiders, secrets, CIA, haier, isolation, Angelina Jolie, divorce, run, jump, Van Halen, Jupiter, Moon, free sex, helicopter, airplane, FBI, Police, Rock and Roll, Boeing, MicroSoft, Washington, motorcycle, dictionary, encyclopedia, maps, mapquest, living large, Obama, Clinton, Boston, rabbits, kittens, New York Times Best Sellers List, and last but not least, Kittens. They are always so adorable.
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Education Reform

2008-08-30T06:21:00.000-07:00

Sarah Palin is truly the best choice John McCain could have made for a presidential running mate. The thing I like best about her is that for once, she is something other than another lying lawyer, who carries on lawyer politics in washington as usual. Sarah Palin is a journalist and has a television on air background that makes her comfortable in the media. She fights for justice in the right way, which is by exposing corruption and illegal acts, something the lying lawyers usually cover up, and she makes the law what it should be, the guidelines for good behavior in our society. I admit that I too had never heard of Sarah Palin before, after all, Alaska is a little remote from the rest of our country, but everything I learn about her makes me like her more.
With Barack Obama too, he has very little experience in leadership, and if he is going to do so much good in washington, why hasn't he done all that good already? He is already in Washington, as a senator, just like Hillary Clinton. What have these two lying layers been doing for the past years? Not much, is the answer. My personal opionion is that lawyers are the scum of the earth. They have this reputation for good reason. They earned it! So I applaude John McCains choice for Vice President, and I'm thrilled to have Sarah Palin on the ticket! The education reform they will bring to Washington is that right means right and not some new lie like Bill Clinton dished out at every turn, justifying his lies by asking, "What is your definition of is?", nice Lie Bill, but that's right, you're a lawyer. The real education reform I am looking for is the day the public learns of my life extension technologies. That we can live for 150 years and that the diseases of our day are just diseases of lifestyle, which are easily changed. This would be true education reform. My goal is for everyone to have a copy of my book in their hands, so they have the knowledge to live a long, healthy, and prosperous life. My best wishes go out to you.
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Dr. Doug Ikeler

Super Models Make Good Role Models

2008-08-28T22:18:00.000-07:00

If there is a living example of the benefits of the CRON diet, it is the super models. From Brooke shields to Kathy Ireland, these are people who chose to live a calorie restricted lifestyle and reap the benefits. What amazes me is how they look exactly the same after twenty to thirty years, when other people turn grey, get fat, and look like different people after the same time passes. I have had the same experience with my contemporaries. I have friends who where born in the same year as me, 1958, that look like my grand parents, with full heads of grey hair, big bellies, and obvious signs of disease. If they had chosen a different path, the path of calorie correct eating, they would look like they did when they where in their twenties. High school reunions are the ultimate arena for seeing the rates of aging. At the twentieth and thirtieth reunions, you could tell who was aging rapidly and who was holding on to their youth. Some friends I didn't even recognize until they started talking to me. Others, looked untouched by time, though they were very few to be found. So I guess that's why they call models "Models", because they model the behaviors the rest of us should be following. If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes these past thirty years, I never would have believed it! Buy my book and get started! You too can be Super and be the example of healthiness for everyone around you!
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Dr. Doug Ikeler

Useful Tags for Internet Indexing

2008-08-28T13:55:00.000-07:00

Use these tags on your web site to draw more indexing spiders to your work: JIM, amplifiers, transferuri, negers, blinds, necht, bass, fenel, Oring, beer, bolts, worker, hair, athena, Nike, risk, yemen, indian, paul, remy, roger, paydayloansnodebitcard, freemoney, grants, conan, bird, lakas, plant, lasik, tests, beam, manga, telefonu, oceanchampions, carmen, corps, masalab, curly, senin, bordura, chapman, rivarola, work, bpo, bloppers, bloopers, nervie, weer, Hottest, cats, dolphins, cherrytomatoes, guild, matusiak, beweging, monetize, samedaypaydayloans, banquet, flooding, moderation, beam, duitsland, tests, refrigerator, satisfied, hair, phulbari, innovative, avcilar, profession, applied, noise, these, carin, libido, eq2, re-engineering, service, sharp, automovel, bundesliga, lagging, load, kyut, courtyard, rocka, bushcraft, trenton, kurs, kiss, cultivo, K, photoblog, lin, agrochemicals, global warming, 8, mp5, 7, smazz, 1, asimov, home, based, lego, tang, slab, rest,and digital. These keywords keep the traffic coming! It's amazing how it works!
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People who could benefit from Life Extension

2008-08-28T13:03:00.000-07:00

People who could benefit from Life Extension technologies and some that could have benefitted more, if only they had known, include: Albert Einstein, Neils Bohr, Issac newton, Tucker Burr, Linus Pauling, Jackie Gleason, Lucille Ball, Jack Benny, Merv Griffin, Dean Martin, George Washington, Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, Marilyn Monroe, Art Carney, Gerald Ford, Thales, Pythagoras, Plato, Aristotle, Michael Faraday, Max Plank, Theodore Kalusa, Oskar Kline, Abdus Salam, Democritus, Robert Boyle, John Dalton, Edward Frankland, Ian Coster, Frank Lavac, Marie Curie, Ernest Rutherford, Dorothy Crowfoot, Richard Feynman, Charles Lyell, Alfred Wegener, James Lovelock, Edwin Hubble, George Gamow, Fred Hoyle, Ilya Prigogine, George Boole, David Hilbert, Norbert Weiner, Alan Turing, Claude Shannon, Rene Thom, Benoit Mandelbrot, John Nash, Leonardo da Vinci, James Watt, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Ted Nelson, Nicola Fairhead, Qween Elizabeth, Al Gore, Tipper Gore, Jerry Koerber, Stan Stotz, Rebecca Anderson, Shawna Middaugh, Alfred Ikeler, Richard Thoresen, Tom Klinger, Ferdinand Marcos, Imelda Marcos, John The Baptist, Pope Paul, Paul MacCartney, Ringo Starr, George Harrison, John Lennon, Mildred Ikeler, Tommy Lee, Pamela Anderson, Brittney Spears, Paula Abdul, Simon Cowell, Randy Jackson, Ryan Starr, Emily Dickenson, Douglas Campbell, Carol Campbell, Nicholas Coster, Peggy Ann Garner, Elizabeth Taylor, Hulk Hogan, Ozzy Ozbourne, Peter Frampton, Michele Phillips, Janis Joplin, Jimmy Hendrix, Dick Clark, Bea Arthur, Paul Fixx, Barbara Eden, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, David Cassidy, Danny Bonaduce, Lydia Prono, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Maria Shriver, Pat Boone, Debby Boone, Deborah Gibson, Ann Landers, Amelia Earhart, Howard Hughes, Holly Hughes, Alan Ladd, and Walt Disney, Neil Armstrong, Alan Sheppard, John Glenn, Molly Shannon, Dana Carvey, John Belushi, Gilda Radner, Jane Curtin, Monty Hall, Durk Pearson, Sandy Shaw, Janet Shapan, Bill Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Chelsea Clinton, Ronald McDonald, Phyllis Diller, Red Skelton, Pat Coster, Barbara Hold, Kelly Burch, Thea Ikeler, Beniah Burch, Moon Zappa, China Phillips, Al Warner, Bjorn Borg, John McEnroe, Babe Ruth, and to keep the spiders coming to this site for full indexing, George Bush. If others should be added, leave their names in the commets section. Thank You.
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Dr. Doug Ikeler

Free Viral Marketing

2008-08-28T12:22:00.000-07:00

My Thanks go out to the people who have contributed to my Free Viral Marketing and have promoted my book tremendously. The question arises about how to market a new book. The best advertising is free advertising, as it brings the greatest return on investment. For those of you who have businesses, and use a web site for it, and want increased traffic to it, you should sign up for my traffic generating link maker at www.freeviral.com/?r=225806 Tell your friends too, as you never know who might benefit from the referral, and it truly is free. Thank you all again and share your life extension successes with me.
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The New Centenarians

2008-08-25T11:33:00.000-07:00

The new centenarians are a body of people who already expect to live beyond the century mark. This group is no different from the rest of us except that they know the human lifespan potential. They also know you have complete control over how long you live. Repeated data show we are built to last 150 to possibly even 180 years. The limiting belief is that somehow eating right is impossible. As I show in my book, it is actually very easy! Knowledge is power. For those in the know, great possibilities await. For those who don't yet know, they need to learn that the speed of learning is the only real competitive advantage in this information age.
Retained youth, slim and trim bodies, and a disease free lifestyle awaits those who are ready for the taking. My mission is to spread this knowledge to everyone. I was lucky in that I learned of this technology when I was a college student at Cornell. Not everyone gets to go to Cornell, so I guess I was priviledged in that respect. It is amazing that a little knowhow can make a difference between living half a life or a rich long full life. I guess it's the same with wealth. The rich simply know how to make more money than do the working poor. Take the opportunity now to grab the gold ring. Reach out, expand your possibilities, and live to your full human lifespan potential!
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Dr. Doug Ikeler

Sexy Six Pack Abs

2008-08-22T17:43:00.000-07:00

A sexy six pack is in the abdominal muscles of all of us. If you can't see it, it's because there is a layer of fat covering up those muscles. When you eat a calorie correct diet, excess fat leaves your body for good and your natural physique shines through. We are built strong. Even our regular daily activities keep us toned and fit. Walking, lifting, bending, and any moving around uses muscle strength. You don't have to overdo it either. I found that just working at my daily job as a veterinarian for twenty two years kept me fit. I did eat right during those years too. Diet is the most powerful tool for our health. If you only eat right, that is quality foods at a calorie correct dose every day, then you will stay free from disease and illness for a century or longer. It sounds too good to be true, but it is. The problem is, we have so few examples of healthy living people, that they usually stand out as oddities. Our "standards" of health actually run in the diseased zones of overweight and obesity. Morbid Obesity is becoming more common and it is recognized as a state of disease. The truth is, all stages of overweight and obesity are states of disease. The medical standards have simply been relaxed. Just like the size of airplane seats which have been widened recently to accomodate generally fatter passengers. Think of the fuel savings for aircraft if everyone weighed forty pounds less! That would save eight thousand pounds on every average flight of two hundred passengers in a plane. That is how much the jet fuel weighs for an average flight!
We need to rise up to meet new standards of healthiness in America. Those standards use to be there. The have disappeared in the face of super sized meals and greater tolerance of obesity.
I look forward to the days when this all changes.
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Dr. Doug Ikeler

Save A Life

2008-08-22T17:18:00.000-07:00

Save a life. It could be your own! So many people die so young these days. The problem is our level of expectation is too low. We think a person dying at fifty eight or sixty five is within the realm of normal. In fact, that's less than half a life! A story was on the news tonight about one of their producers dying at age 53. Leroy Sievers had colon cancer and went fast because of it. There was no mention of his obesity though and no one spoke of how he could have prevented this cancer by eating right and staying at or below his ideal weight. Colon cancer is common in obese people and it occurs frequently with a high fat diet. There was no mention of that fact on the news.
Unfortunately, we live in a misinformation age. What we know is probably something between wrong and inadequate. Common sense is just the tidal flow of misinformation. I did once hear Andy Rooney of 60 Minutes say that a famous newsman died because he smoked, and it was stupid to smoke and his life was lost needlessly. He was talking about Harry Reasoner. Peter Jennings also died of cancer from smoking and he went fast. He resumed smoking after the 9/11 incident as his stress levels increased. He should have just dealt with the stress and kept his health. Reading my book will help you save a life. Maybe you can pass on it's wisdom to save other lives too. If you practice the methods in my book, you will be virtually cancer proof your whole life. What a wonderful place to be.
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Dr. Doug Ikeler

Unique Content

2008-08-20T13:25:00.000-07:00

Unique content is what separates my thesis on life extension from everybody elses. My book is about slowing your basal metabolic rate. This is what gives a body long life. Animal studies on everything from mice and rats to cats and monkeys have proven this scientifically. Certain things slow your metabolism. One is reducing your caloric intake. The other is sleep. The things that increase your metabolic rate include exercise, fever, growth hormone, and testosterone. Our basal metabolic rate slows with advancing age too. By 80 years old, it doesn't slow down much more. This is why people get fatter as they get older. They keep eating the same amount that they ate in their twenties and they use less and less of those calories and store more and more of them. The end product of all metabolism is released heat. If your metabolism runs slow, you feel colder as your body temperature will be slightly lower than normal. This is what you want. A slow metabolism will make you live longer. Name a single athlete who has lived ultra long?
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The Gold Medal Life

2008-08-18T11:02:00.000-07:00

Watching the Olympics, and seeing Michael Phelps win eight gold medals, makes me think of the people working on the Life Extension movement today. What I teach in my book, is a skill. Have you ever wondered how people achieve such extraordinary results in various areas of their lives? You're right, they studied it and worked at it. The lifestyle of americans today is a design of default. It is where we happened to end up as the product of our free market society. B.F. Skinner thought our lives should be socially engineered for us, as people do not make the optimal choices themselves and choose unconsciously what has been conditioned into their behavioral patterns by the environment and the people around them. How many children do you see protesting at McDonald's that the food is too fatty and it is initiating the ground bed for arteriosclerosis to appear in their veins later in their lives? I personally have never seen one.
So with a little knowledge, skill, and ability, you can live decades longer than you ever before imagined. Jeanne Calment made it to 122. One hundred and fifty years old is like running the four minute mile. Once it has been achieved, it will be a realistic goal to shoot for. The four minute mile was considered physically impossible for a human being, until Roger Bannister ran it in less than four minutes and shattered that limiting belief. Now all competitive runners finish the mile race in less than four minutes, and the fastest yet, is a 3:43 mile. Fully seventeen seconds faster than Roger's record. He would probably not even qualify for today's Olympic mile race. So we have changed the paradigm. We have eliminated the limiting beliefs. We are ready to move forward with Real Life Extension. Laboratory animal studies and extrapolations show we can live for one hundred fifty to possibly one hundred eighty years. The champions of ultra long life are alive and well today, and are polishing their skills to break new records!
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The Secret on Recommended Daily Allowances

2008-08-17T07:19:00.000-07:00

Most of the anti-aging products today are based on vitamins and supplements. Guess what? They don't work. Your body carefully extracts the vitamins and minerals it needs from the food you eat and then it discharges the rest in your urine and stool. The Europeans laugh at us and say the Americans have the most expensive urine in the world. They are probably right, and here's why: The Recommended Daily Allowances for all vitamins and minerals and protein, fat, and carbohydrates, are based on a 45 day deficiency effect. This means you have to be eating a certain amount of Vitamin C, for example, each day to be able to go 45 days without any at all to avoid coming up with scurvy. If you are getting a little Vitamin C here and there, but not the full RDA everyday, then you still don't get scurvy. The British Navy figured this out centuries ago and they brought lime juice on board the ships to prevent the sailors from getting scurvy. As a result, they go the name "Limeys". The British called their longtime enemies, the French, "Froggies", because they like to eat frogs legs. I guess most mockery back then was based on diet.
Vitamins and supplements have nothing to do with anti-aging. If you take more vitamins, all you do is increase your bodies secretion rate of those vitamins. In my book, I show how even on a very low calorie diet, I get all the vitamins and minerals I need with some even being in excess.
Real anti-aging comes from slowing your metabolic rate. The clock cycles in our cells are regulated by our basal metabolism. This rate of metabolism can be speeded up or slowed down dramtically. I will show you how to slow your metabolism and live to our genetic lifespan potential of one hundred and fifty years. It really is possible.
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WOW!

2008-08-16T10:35:00.000-07:00

WOW! has been the predominant accolade from the people who have seen and read my book. Even my publisher said it is one of the top five most powerful books he has ever held in his hands. Other compliments include that I look the same as I did twenty years ago, which is consistent with many of my clients asking me why I don't age, or am I even old enough yet to be a good doctor. At age fifty, I am rewarded by these compliments every day.
This is a WOW! technology though, and everyone should have it. Great people like Tim Russert and my mother would be with us today if they had practiced my techniques. This is a knowledge applicable to all people. We are currently averaging only half a life. Seventy five years may be better than it was a hndred years ago, but we can now look to one hundred years and beyond as the expectation level for our lifetimes. Think of the possibilities. I know a man who still works full-time as a chemist and he is one hundred and five years old. I know other men in their nineties that are as fit and active as any sixty year old. I have a hard time believing I am fifty now because every time I look in the mirror, I see a young man. I'm glad I made the choice to practice the life extension lifestyle I learned of when I was twenty. It has paid off!
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A Compelling Future

2008-08-14T15:26:00.000-07:00

Do you think you live by design or default? I ask people this question often to see where they are in terms of reality. Most people answer this question by saying they live by design. Then I ask if being forty pounds overweight and working as a housekeeper was the vision they had for their lives as a child when they reached the age of fifty. I more often don't want to hurt people's feelings, so I usually just take their answer that they are living by design and leave it at that. A few people realize though that they are living more by default and that the dreams of their lives have not yet materialized. This is a better palce to be than saying your life is by design when truly it isn't.
When I was a boy, in the sixties, the future was compelling and we couldn't get enough of it. We put a man on the moon and everything was possible. That is still true today, but our culture doesn't hold the same spirit of optimism that it had back then. I want to share with you that the future is bright and that their is no better time to be alive than now. The champions of truth and the holders of great vision are still here and you can join with them to make for all of us a compelling future.
That future includes very long lives. We can easily make a hundred the average lifespan, and with a little more effort, make one hundred and fifty years a real possibility for some. It's time to live in this new paradigm of thinking. The old solutions have become the new problems. A rich source of abundant nutritious food was the problem in the first part of the nineteen hundreds. They didn't have enough food back then. The problem in this new century is our rich source of abundant food. We have too much of it now. The side effects of obesity cause our three top killers. Heart disease, cancer, and stroke. Diabetes and arthritis are also caused by being overweight. We can change all this in an instant if we choose to. My technologies are easy to master and the brightest and most compelling future can be here right now for those who choose to be part of it.
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Dr. Doug Ikeler

You Need This Book

2008-08-14T09:05:00.000-07:00

You need this book for the same reason Everyone needs this book! To live Dramatically Longer!
We all need a guide book for life. We all need a manual for our health. This is The Bible for Living! What is so fascinating in this book, is that you can actually control how long you want to live! The effects are "quantifyable", which means the greater the effort, the greater the effect!
All we really have in life is this one body and our one mind. If there is a life beyond this one, then that will be wonderful, but I prefer to make this life as long as it can be. Being healthy and looking great along the way is what it's all about too. It's easy to do and practicing these methods and seeing the results keeps me excited and optimistic for the future we have before us. Start Today!
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Dr. Doug Ikeler

Calories and Cancer

2008-08-13T13:41:00.001-07:00

Each of us is a phenotype. This means you are a product of your genes and your environment. The genes do not stand alone to define who you are. If you had gown up in a different country, with a different diet and culture, you would look and act differently than the person you are today. Thus, our genes do not define us. In animal studies, even the mice that had the genes for mammary cancer, did not get mammary cancer when they were on a calorie correct diet. The expression of those genes was suppressed. Excessive calories is the cause of most cancers today. The calories increase hormones such as insulin-like growth hormone and tell your cells to grow. This is not a good thing if you are already an adult. Over growth of cells is cancer.
Fat is also a co-carcinogen. It is not a carcinogen in itself, but it links with many elements that are. Long lived friends of mine in my home town in New Hampshire tell me cancer has been on the rise for as far back as they can remember, so has obesity. The two are integrally related. Fat is an endocrine mass, which means it sends out hormones into your body that give chemical messages to your cells. That message is grow and use more energy. This is where cancer and a faster metabolism occur. My methodologies slow your metabolism and make you nearly cancer proof. Again, the mice who had the genes for cancer went ninety five percent free of cancer while they were on the diet. If they went off of it, they got cancer. What is particularly helpful in my book is the techniques of following a calorie correct diet. This makes it easy for you to do. This is a skill, and as I have mentioned in my writings, if a model can do it, you can too. You will look and feel your best too!
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Dr. Doug Ikeler

Readiness To Change Scale

2008-08-12T03:51:00.000-07:00

One interesting question I learned to ask patients before starting any treatment plan was, "Where do you feel you are on a Readiness To Change Scale that goes from one to ten?" If a person is not ready to change, they are not going to. My fellow physicians got very frustrated by this fact. Patient compliance to treatment plans runs around fifty percent. That means half the people a Doctor sees do not follow his advice and take their medications as directed. Pretty grim results, right? I found though, by asking first, I got a far higher rate of compliance. You can't force issues with people, so it is better to wait until they decide they are ready to go with you. This is especially true with dieting and weight loss. Most people fail on diets, because they are not fully ready to make that change. It "feels" different to be thin. You also get treated differently because you are no longer in the overweight crowd. Most people are not ready for these subconscious changes, and are not even aware that they have to make them.
It is only because of our limiting beliefs that we do not make the best choices for our lives. Research goes on that could dramatically improve our lives, but the thoughts of our culture prevent us from implementing these new ideas. Things can often drift to go worse too. Childhood obesity is now being considered more often as a surgical problem. I personally think no child should never have their stomach surgically altered to manage their weight. If they have a weight problem, they and their families need psychological help and counselling to create a new lifestyle of eating that prevents them from being overweight. It is not the surgery that cures obesity. It is the fact that people throw up easily after the gastric bypass surgery that makes them eat a lot less and control their intake. The same results can be achieved by learning how to eat right, which few people know how to do.
So ask yourself where are you on the readiness to change scale? I know many people are pondering buying my book, but somehow they are afraid it might change them. Well, it will, but only for the better. I would say buy the book and read it. Then see how you feel afterwards. You may discover you are more ready to be healthy and long lived than you ever realized before!
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Dr. Doug Ikeler

Can You Really Live To 150 Years Old?

2008-08-12T03:23:00.000-07:00

The question is, Can You Really Live To 150 Years Old? The honest, scientific, and encouraging answer is YES! Jeanne Calment of France made it to 122 and she wasn't even really trying. She did do certain things right though. She was not obese and ate the way the French people eat, which is very modestly. France is the only country I have visited that eats right. Their portions are small. You don't feel full after you eat out at a French Restaurant. In fact, I felt a little ripped off because you pay a high price in the restaurants for not a whole lot of food, but that's the American mindset. Our dinners here come on large oval platters. In France, they come on little plates that look like they don't have much on them. Before I knew of Jeanne Calment, if you had asked me to guess the country of the longest living person, I would have guessed France. To me it is obvious why.
So to make it to 150, you just have to do twenty percent better then Jeanne Calment did. Their is a large body of researchers and interested citizens who are working on beating Jeanne Calment's record. You will see that record broken in this century, and it is thought that the first person to live longer than 150 is alive and well today. So did Jeanne Calment have any other secrets? She did also live a stress free life. Her husband was wealthy, so she did not have to worry about money or working for a living. She also kept active and liked tennis and swimming for sports. She also had a fondness for chocolates and red wine, and it is reported that she smoked cigarettes until she was 117. It's different in France though. A fondness for chocolates means she enjoyed them modestly. In America, a fondness for chocolates means you eat the whole box in one sitting. When I was a boy, and a girl got a box of chocolates for Valentine's day, it meant she might have one of them a week as a special rememberence of the love of the one who gave them to her. Nowadays, a box of chocolates represents a high calorie one or two day binge fest on stuffing down chocolates. Times have changed.
Animal studies confirm and support the extrapolations of our 150 year lifespan potential. After a person reaches that age, the world will believe it's possible. Until then, those of us who already believe it are actively working on getting there every day.
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Dr. Doug Ikeler

Weight Loss Success and The Bimodal Mind

2008-08-11T07:32:00.000-07:00

Weight loss success is apparently very elusive. The dieting industry touts a 97 percent failure rate and yet somehow their business is booming! No other business could ever fail this big and keep bringing in customers. I am going to share with you the secret to weight loss success. It requires an understanding of our bimodal mind. Our cerebral cortex is divided into two large halves. The interhemispheric fissure is the space between them and they are only connected by a thin band of nerve fibers called the corpus callosum. The two sides of our brain do communicate, but only somewhat and sometimes, and they don't even speak the same language.
So it is your left cerebral cortex that wants you to lose weight, because logically then, you will look your best and be your healthiest. It's so simple! To the left brain that is. To your right brain, which is the center of all your emotions and no verbal language skills, the idea of dieting looks terrifying. Your right brain thinks you will starve, or get some kind of deficiency disease, or you will feel the pain of hunger every day. Your "unconscious" right brain says no to dieting.
So how do we overcome this challenge of the battle within? It takes a specific form of self-talk that you can train yourself to do. First understand that the right brain does not comprehend negatives. It functions only on positive intent and only understands positive words coming in from the left brain. So if you say to yourself, "I don't want to be a Fat Pig!", your right brain just received the message, "I _want to be a Fat Pig!" It doesn't understand the word don't. See the difficulties this can bring? When ever you speak to yourself then, only use positive words and instructions. Good Examples are "This salad tastes great" "I feel wonderful eating right" "My body feels perfect being so slim" It takes some practice, but you can do it. In my book I describe how the entire success of our diets depends on our emotions. Once you learn the techniques, you will become a master of fitness!
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Dr. Doug Ikeler