Age Hackers

23/08/2024

Do you worship the eating of meat?

It is tough to get away from. Western society has been programming us for this worship for almost 200 years.

Listen to a doctor spell out the history of how we were programmed to believe the necessity of “animal protein” and why that gets us in trouble with all kinds of diseases and then the parade of drugs to fix the symptoms.

He also gives a balanced explanation of the rare exceptions (genetic, etc.) to the multitude of science supporting plant based diet. He is also asked to comment on other health factors.

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05/07/2024

Rest in peace good doctor. Thanks for your story of how you recovered from your stroke, and your tireless showing me how to use those techniques to recover and improve my health after my strokes. Thank you for your legacy of the huge library of science based health information you have left for the world to improve their health.

07/06/2024

Morning Smoothie

To avoid popcorn buds, small flimsy airy lightweight cannabis flowers that grow in the shade of the plant, I need to pick off the small under branches. Fresh cannabis as opposed to smoked cannabis is extremely rich in anti-inflammatories.

Ground up with my cannabis I will have mango, ginger, oranges, curcumin, acetal l-cysteine, blue green algae, turkey tail extract, red Reshi mushroom extract, turmeric powder and a little olive oil.

Since this is also my (first) breakfast, I added two pasture eggs . For fluid, I added sour cherry juice.

I'm editing this now after drinking most of it. Clear head and energized, I feel great.

Cannabis has no psychoactive effects [and many times the antiinflammatory effect] when fresh.

20/01/2024

DHA plus Exercise
work wonders to heal a bruised brain

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Dietary omega-3 fatty acid (i.e. docosohexaenoic acid (DHA)) and exercise are gaining recognition for supporting brain function under normal and chall…

02/09/2022

"Until her recent retirement at the age of 100, Betty Reid Soskin was the oldest living park ranger in the US National Park Service. She gave bi-weekly lectures at the Rosie the Riveter National Historic Park in Richmond, California, telling the story of the Bay Area’s pioneering role in desegregation. After one of her lectures, Betty agreed to be photographed. At first, she wanted to keep her trademark sunglasses on, then she relented and proceeded to look straight into the lens for the entire shoot. Afterwards, I watched her climb a flight of stairs faster than I could, which really gave me pause" // Photo by Frederic Aranda for the September 2022 issue of National Geographic Traveller

06/08/2022

How to prepare for coming times #2

In Chinese medicine, there is a concept of Jing energy which is related to endurance. We in the West are deficient in Jing energy.

Jing is developed by adapting to extreme situations. Working in the hot sun, taking cold showers, plunges, ice baths, going without food, and exercising at or near maximum levels of exertion = all these things build Jing energy.

In another area, when we get sick, we take medicines. We don't allow our bodies to go through the process of defeating illness. As a result, our immune systems lack exercise and have become puny.

With houses, indoor work, air conditioning, and eating food all the time, our bodies have become babied and weak. Our levels of Jing energy are depleted. We are soft and weak.

To build Jing energy, practice high-intensity interval training HIIT. To do this, warm up well and then run as fast as you can for 30 seconds. Then walk for about 90 seconds - until your heart rate slows again. Then repeat this 4-6 times. Including the time warming up, this workout takes less than 20 minutes.

At the start, don't push too hard. Maximal exertion is something we are not accustomed to. When you run as fast as you can, something primal kicks in. Historically, the only time we run as fast as possible is in life-or-death situations of escape from danger.

Doing HIIT 1-2 times a week will, over 3-6 months' time, increases your natural production of human growth hormone by 500%! This sets up all sorts of biological adaptation mechanisms that make us lean and far more capable of survival.

02/08/2022

How to prepare for times coming #1

Get used to and comfortable with going without food.

This eating all the time is killing us. Feast alternated with fast throughout most all of human history. Without periodic abstinence from eating, your body doesn't go into self-cleaning mode and instead stores up its waste... and that's not good.

Train your body to shift into keytone production when carbs are not available. It takes time to get used to buring fats for fuel instead of carbs.

When you don't eat and have used up your muscle and liver glycogen stores, your body transforms your stored fats into keytones.

And when you don't eat, your body will self-feed on worn out, malfunctioning, damaged, diseased, and pre-cancerous cells for fuel... if you will only stop eating a while (fasting really kicks in after 2 days - faster if you exercise hard and use up your glycogen.

Get the feel of keytone fuel in your brain with bullet-proof coffee - adding good butter and MCT (high coconut) oil blended in with some cream is best. I add Lion's Mane, Cordyceps et al.

If carbs are the gasolene of the body, keytones are high-octane gas. Brains work better on keytones.

After 2 days without food, your vision and hunting ability improves. Lean, mean, hunting machine. If your ancestors had not had this trait, you would not be here. You have it. Learn about it. Practice going without (do drink lots of water!) food and get to like it. That ability will serve you well. When times become dire and food is not there, this may well help you get through it with less suffering.

Many of those already adelpated by dementia speak clearly again minutes after imbibing MCT oil. It's worth a try. Even if you're not that far gone, you may like it. It kind of gives you the high and performance-enhancement that fasting generates. Thus its relevance to this story.

I like to give easy substitutes that may not resolve the problem but reduce the damage and suffering. If you like the MCT high, you may be motivated enough to try fasting and get it naturally.

Asking someone to give up ci******es is too big a chunk. Get them to eat an extra 25mg of vitamin C per cigarette to replace about as much as they are losing. It gives them something to do that improves their lot even though they are still doing things that are bad for them.

Do make plans, gather needed supplies, have all you need ready to move fast, and be ready to either bunker down or evacuate.

If you never need it, then we got off scot-free. Interruptions in food delivery can lead to desperate times. Our very lives could depend upon the self-, group-, and community efforts we may still have time to make.

11/04/2022

Pain may be a Plaintive Cry for Loving Attention via Touch

So many health issues may be cleared through the healing power of touch.

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17/03/2022

Alzheimer's and Dementia - The proven factors that do cause Alzheimer's disease and what you can do to prevent it.

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It can help you and your loved ones not become demented with age. Although it will slow the progress of dementia that has already been diagnosed, It will help you the most if you make the dietary and lifestyle changes before dementia starts.

This knowledge is the result of decades of quality research.

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My commentary: If dementia has already begun and you notice that your memory is going, eat Lion's mane mushroom. I use 1/2 tsp of a 50x concentrate in my morning hot drink. It is proven to regenerate nerves. This will greatly improve your mental functioning and also reduce or even eliminate neuropathy.

Instead of only taking blood pressure and diabetes medicines as recommended here, reduce your blood pressure and eliminate your (type 2) diabetes by natural means. This is very possible.

Nattokinase or olive leaf extract are natural remedies that do lower blood pressure. Using 100mg of nattokinase twice a day was adequate to reduce my mother's high blood pressure and get her off her blood pressure medicines.

To get rid of type 2 diabetes, get your body to use ketones instead of carbs for energy. This requires some fasting. I recommend intermittent fasting plus a 4 day fast every month or two.

To experience the ketone effect without fasting, try eating coconut oil or better - the high fraction of coconut oil: MCT oil. Many sufferers of dementia experience a great increase in mental functioning within minutes of consuming MCT oil.

The berries shown to have the most positive effect are blueberries and strawberries. Blueberries have been shown to reverse senility in mammals.

The B vitamins that are most needed are B6 and B12. Neither B vitamins nor Omega 3 fatty acids alone will reduce homocysteine. They must both be present to have this desired effect.

04/03/2022

Counteracting Alzheimer's and Dementia in General:

BDNF - brain-derived neurotrophic factor improves learning and memory retention. It is a kind of "aftercare" for older brains. It helps neurons heal and form new connections.

When BDNF levels get low, which usually happens with age, the grey matter in our brains shrinks and we have fewer neural connections. This makes it harder to form and retain memories.

Low levels of BDNF are associated with anxiety. Binge drinkers have low BDNF levels. BDNF levels are extremely low in Alzheimer's and dementia patients.

About 30% of people of European descent have a mutation known as rs6265 or the Val66Met polymorphism which results in lower BDNF levels. If you inherit this from both your parents, your likelihood of having dementia as you age increases about 12-fold.

What decreases our levels of BDNF? Eating processed foods and sugars, stress, lack of adequate sleep, inflammation, obesity, insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, social isolation, loneliness, depression, substance abuse, breathing polluted air, and lack of sunlight on your skin.

So how do we increase our levels of BDNF?

Yoga, meditation, and other stress-reducing activities.

Intense aerobic exercise, resistance training (weight lifting), body-building anaerobic exercise. Exercise raises BDNF fast, but the greatest effect comes after some weeks of regular exercise.

Solid social connections with family and friends.

Breathing fresh air and getting sunlight on as much of your skin as possible.

Polyphenols and antioxidants. Dark chocolate is rich in polyphenols. The more bitter olive oils are rich in polyphenols. Olive leaf extract is sky-high in polyphenols. Coffee is rich in polyphenols. Best of all is an extract of fresh coffee berries.

Butyrate, a short-chain fatty acid found in butter also appears to raise BDNF

Omega 3 fatty acids from eating oily fish increase BDNF - and are associated with reduced depression.

A high protein diet, especially when combined with exercise.

A low-carb diet. When you are on a low-carb diet, your liver produces a ketone called Beta-hydroxybutyrate which increases BDNF levels. The combination of fewer than 50 grams of carbs per day plus high-intensity interval training (HIIT) is very effective.

If you don't want to go on a keto diet, temporary carb restriction can be very effective. Intermittent fasting has little effect on BDNF levels. But after 48 hours of fasting, BDNF levels can increase by nearly 4x!

MCT oil contains Beta-hydroxybutyrate. Eating it will give you a similar effect as carb restriction.

Epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG), a polyphenol in green tea, is an effective antioxidant and possesses neuroprotective effects. It increases levels of BDNF. Green tea also contains l-theanine which greatly reduces anxiety and the jitters that caffeine can produce.

Attend to the lifestyle changes listed above before adding nutrients that boost BDNF.

My morning drink for increasing BDNF levels:
Coffee with some butter, MCT oil, coconut oil, cream, organic cocoa powder, vanilla extract.
I often also take a capsule of green tea extract. It is extremely bitter so I don't mix it into my coffee drink.

28/02/2022

Vitamin D - Not Just a Vitamin!

Vitamin D is actually a natural steroid hormone. The best source is sunlight exposure. When in the sunlight, you sweat your natural oils out onto the surface of your skin. When they are exposed to UV light from the sun, some of these are transformed into vitamin D.

The skin-produced vitamin D must be reabsorbed. For this reason, avoid taking a shower for at least 20 minutes after sunlight exposure.

Dermatologists warn against sunlight exposure due to the skin damage and skin cancer it can produce. As a result of following this advice, most Americans have an extreme deficiency of vitamin D.

Yes, it is important not to get a sunburn, but sufficient sun exposure is vital to our health and to our resistance to diseases such as COVID.

The highest amounts of nutritional vitamin D include fatty fish, liver, and egg yolks. Orange juice has some too. In winter when the sun is lower in the sky, spend longer in the sun and eat vitamin D-rich foods.

Most cancers occur in people with vitamin D levels below 40ng/ml. The best protection against cancer is a level of at least 60ng/ml. Less than 10% of Americans have this level! Once you reach a minimum serum vitamin D level of 40 ng/mL, your risk for cancer diminishes by 67%, compared to having a level of 20 ng/mL or less.

Women with vitamin D levels above 60 ng/ml have an 83% lower risk of breast cancer than those below 20 ng/mL as much as 80% of all breast cancer incidence could be prevented simply by optimizing vitamin D and nothing else.

Vitamin D deficiency causes a defect in putting calcium into the collagen matrix into your skeleton. As a result, you have throbbing, aching bone pain.

For best absorption and utilization of calcium, vitamin F and magnesium are also needed. Without adequate vitamin F, calcium gets deposited on the walls of your arteries (plaque) instead of in your bones... not a good idea!

Vitamin D deficiency is associated with poor mental function, depression, fatigue, confusion, forgetfulness, and difficulty concentrating. Headaches and migraines are also associated with low vitamin D.

Vitamin D regulates the expression of genes that influence your immune system to attack and destroy bacteria and viruses, so frequent illness and infections of all kinds, including colds and flu, is a tipoff that your immune function is subpar, which likely means you're low on vitamin D.

Head sweating is a sign of vitamin D deficiency. This is often seen in new mothers and babies - and is an important indicator of vitamin D deficiency.

Those over 50 and/or overweight require more vitamin D.

Those suffering from Lupis typically have extremely low levels of vitamin D. High doses of vitamin D can reduce the frequency of epileptic seizures. Sleep apnea sufferers typically have extremely low levels of vitamin D.

Vitamin D is very important for reducing hypertension, atherosclerotic heart disease, heart attack, and stroke.

High levels of vitamin D are associated with a greatly reduced risk of mortality from all causes!

The best test for your vitamin D level is the serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D test. Your doctor can provide this test. There are also home tests available.

Optimizing your vitamin D level is likely the most important single factor for improving your health and increasing your longevity.