Senescence

This is explained by a combination of accumulative damage to biological processes, and gene programming. Much of this has been promoted by pharmaceutical laboratory research, indicating that this is an unavoidable occurrence without medication.

Faulty Research

It’s interesting that there are organisms and animals that have negligible senescence, and do not display symptoms of aging. There are even some that display negative senescence, where mortality falls with age. This is in total disagreement with the Gompertz-Makeham Law that says mortality increases rapidly with age.

Also these senility claims come from research where human brain cells are cultured in glassware in a lab. This is like trying to determine if your toaster works without having it plugged in. These brain cells are disconnected from the body’s life renewing energy.

In fact, Dr. Alexis Carrel won a Nobel Prize for his work in life extension and human cell regeneration. He had this to say during his acceptance speech:

Due to their natural regeneration, the cells of the human body are, in ideal conditions, immortal, and it’s only the fluid in which the cells float that slowly degenerates. But if that water-based fluid is renewed at proper intervals, and these cells are sufficiently supplied with the mental energy that keeps them regenerating, as far as we know, natural cell-renewal can go on forever…”

Different Rates of Aging

There are inherited genetic differences in the rates of aging where a human is considered elderly at 80, and a mouse at 3 years of age. Physiological processes such as free radical production, antioxidant enzyme efficiency, and DNA repair are all affected. Also fish and reptiles age slowly with very long lifespans. Since lifespans vary so greatly within and between species, environmental and genetic factors seem to contribute to aging.

Time For A New Science

Traditional science no longer is able to answer many of these paradoxes and challenges in our world. It is time for a science that no longer ignores the effect of consciousness in all areas of our lives. We have all been programmed by limitations, and what author Richard Hawkins calls memes. A meme is basically a mind virus. It affects our subconscious mind with ideas of limitation, resistance, and restriction.

It’s important that we identify these menes, rid ourselves of them, and replace them with life enhancing ideas and beliefs. This is imperative for life extension. Our minds require mental stimulation to renew themselves on an on-going basis.

When we look at aging and brain-cell death as unavoidable and normal, we send the wrong signals to our cells. As an example, there is a theory called Hayflick’s Limit (cellular biologist Leonard Hayflick, “How and Why We Age”) that states brain tissue lives within a strictly limited period of time. By buying into this, we expect our normal lifespan to be around 80 years.

We must rise above these models of insanity, and observe others that have become adept at natural self renewal. Check out the Gerontology Research Group to see what scientists, physicians, and engineers are doing in life extension research, as well as information on supercentenarians.

Senescence seems to make sense on the surface, since we have been programmed all our lives to believe and buy into it. But closer examination, below the surface, exposes faulty research methods, and the ignoring of much opposing research.

We have so many excuses that put us at odds with life extension and wellness. When we do not recognize and allow our natural well being to dominate our lives, sickness and aging make sense, and develop as a result. We label conditions, and reinforce each other‘s beliefs. It is a vicious circle of insanity. But we do have the innate power to stop this trend, transform our beliefs, and express our true sense of Wellness and Being.

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