This is an alert I issued several years ago but it’s as relevant today—perhaps more so—than when first written.
It’s crazy to die at average age today. We know SO MUCH about the factors that postpone aging. All you have to do it get smart and LEARN these factors.
This is me, at 80, feeling 45 and lovin’ it!
So many people now enjoy what’s called the “Third Age”, meaning the whole new life after retirement, that Mankind is clearly evolving and morphing.
You want to be part of this amazing renewal process. Get healthy and be ready for your next 100 years!
Who knows what’s just around the corner? There have been so many new discoveries. Wouldn’t it be sad to die just before a big breakthrough that could fix all your ailments and give you an extra 20, 30, 50 years of great living?
Want an example of a medical breakthrough that enabled millions to live decades longer? Antisepsis in surgery. Want another? Hundreds of millions died of chills, fevers and pneumonia etc. Then along came penicillin and gave probably BILLIONS of people many more years.
Thing is, we just don’t know what’s out there in the future.
But what I do know is you need to face up to successful aging. Statistics say that if you’re 60 years old already, you have about a 50/50 chance of making it to 100 years (ref: American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine).
You’d be NUTS to not take care of yourself and end up with 30 – 40 years of misery and ill health!
It’s all so avoidable. There is no excuse for the diseases of aging and no excuse for dying early: none!
Fill your gas tank with powerful healing knowledge that I will share with you in my latest book “Aging Without Growing Old“. It’s been universally acclaimed as my best book to date. It is packed with the information you about health and successful aging.
Aging Stops… Eventually
Science is moving so fast, in the next decade or two we might see aging done with altogether. Gone!
Yes, there is MORE good news…
When I first wrote this, I was reading a very telling article in New Scientist by top aging scientist Michael R. Rose, professor of evolutionary biology at the University of California, Irvine. His title was also “The End Of Aging: Why Life Begins at 90”.¹
It’s interesting to note that prof. Rose is saying exactly what I have said in all my writings for the last 50 years: that eating the hunter-gatherer style dramatically slows down aging. Modern foods, and what I have called “farmer foods” (like dairy and grains), are literally killing us.
Putting people on exclusion diets and finding their toxic (allergy) foods, I had thousands of happy patients walking into my clinic, saying “I feel ten/fifteen years younger!” They looked great; glowing with health; and apparently friends and family were all asking, “What are you on?” Really, it was what they were OFF! (toxic foods, or what I call BANDIT FOODS).
But prof. Rose went further and introduced the work of British statisticians Major Greenwood and J. O. Irwin, who published a little-noticed article in the journal Human Biology. Not only was 1939 a bad year for making scientific history, their article contained some fearsome mathematics, guaranteed to scare away most biologists and doctors.
But apparently Greenwood and Irwin had come up with the fact that after the age of 90, aging slows down dramatically and eventually stops.
A person aged 99 is no more likely to die than someone aged 93! In fact, if you look at these graphs, a person aged 102 years is far less likely to die than a 93 year old!
Look at these two images: the first shows that aging slowdown for flies in the lab; the second shows it for humans, based on 1939 data. They are both quite startling.
Note that the lines do not represent deaths. They show the PROBABILITY of dying
The researchers of the day had no real explanation for what they observed and this little-known work was largely forgotten. Until now.
Modern researchers have looked into it, not with human research (takes too long), but hundreds of generations of flies. They found the same thing: after a certain point, the aging process stops, or even goes into reverse. Once death rates leveled off, there were months of stable or even declining death rates. It looked as if a relatively brief period of ageing was followed by a long plateau when ageing stopped.
And then, just for good measure, in recent years all that I wrote about above has been re-discovered!
In this study, Italian researchers estimated hazard rates from data on all inhabitants of Italy aged 105 and older between 2009 and 2015 (born 1896-1910), a total of 3836 documented cases. They observed what are called hazard level curves, which were essentially constant beyond age 105.²
Why Is Nobody Circulating This Important Knowledge?
The idea that aging eventually ceases doesn’t seem to make sense, naturally. Since time immemorial, we have always thought of the body as running down and growing “old”. Aristotle wrote a good book on the topic more than 2300 years ago. Like pretty much every biologist since then, he thought of ageing as a remorseless process of falling apart, until death finally puts us out of our misery.
Present theories of ageing still assume that ageing is a physiological process involving some type of cumulative decay, damage, disrepair or disharmony. The theories differ only over which specific kind of cumulative breakdown happens: for example telomeres, antioxidant damage, mitochondrial aging, cortisol and so forth.
Now, it seems that most and maybe all of these models are flawed or even downright WRONG! So Rose was looking for an explanation and came up with a genetic one.
It goes back to a guy called William Hamilton. You’ve probably heard some version of his reasoning, which is that if a gene tends to kill early, it will die out, because it selectively removes people from the reproductive pool. But genes that kill after the reproductive period will persist.
By this reasoning, the later-life genes would supposedly surface and lead to decay. They could be the real cause of aging. But eventually, that gene-selection based process would bottom out and aging cease. The theory fits the facts.
To test it out, Rose had a colleague run some computer models and, surprisingly, every single run showed that aging would stop! It looked like Hamilton’s conclusion that evolutionary theory required continuous aging was wrong. Quite the opposite, in fact!³
Rose and colleague pushed the model further and found they could predict the time at which aging would slow or stop, by referring to when the reproductive cycle ceased.
The results were striking. Exactly as the models predicted, populations with an earlier last age of reproduction stopped aging earlier and lived longer, and vice versa (Evolution, vol 56, p 1982).
Not so good for humans, because we go on reproducing for a relatively long time.
But then the final conclusion from this man’s reasoning is that we are better adapted (more helpful genes), to our ancestral environment. In other words: to improve the course of our aging, and to stop it earlier, we need to pay close attention to our evolutionary history. That means we should go back to being hunter-gatherers and get out of what I call the “chemical blizzard”. Farmer foods definitely violated Nature’s nice sweet plan for us. And the storm of xenobiotic (alien) chemicals and electromagnetic fields to which we are being subjected are NOT natural!
Well, that brings us round in a circle because I know for a fact that following the “Stone Age Diet” helps people look and feel much young and that’s not some geeky “biohacker” trick. It’s my clinical experience over some 45 years. It’s the NUMBER ONE ANTI-AGING HACK I give in my book “Aging Without Growing Old” (suddenly that title doesn’t sound too ambitious, does it?)
Of course, it’s not just about survival. It’s about wellness too. We can talk about “healthspan” as well as lifespan.
If you want to learn how to draw out your healthy vibrant years, waiting till we get or science sorted out, you could be rewarded by never growing old. You would CHOOSE when you went for the exit door; not being killed off by some unpleasant and debilitating disease process.
It can be done. We are on the brink of a MASSIVE extension of lifespan. I’m calling it the Third Age. For some people it can and will be longer than their life up till retirement.
Don’t get left out in the cold in this amazing health revolution.
You me and an army of others, we’re Boomers and we can change the world!
Just keep dancing until your very last day… Promise? Just watch this couple GO!
AND PLEASE… Invite me to your 120th birthday party: I’ll be ready and still dancing.
To your good health,
Prof. Keith Scott-Mumby
The Official Alternative Doctor
References:
- https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21128241-900-the-end-of-ageing-why-life-begins-at-90/
- Science. 2018 Jun 29;360(6396):1459-1461. doi: 10.1126/science.aat3119
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol 93, p 15294
