Not so long ago, I went to visit a friend who introduced me to the AgeLoc Technology. That is the skin care and pharmaceutical products that are produced by the approach of finding solutions by targeting ‘the source of aging’, which are the youth cell clusters in our body that affect our aging process.
It turns out that the cellular ‘power plants’ called Mitochondria fuel our cells with energy. As we age the number and the effectiveness of Mitochondria declines and our gene expression loses its youthfulness and we begin to look and feel older. This is what I learned from a demonstration of the Nu Skin products at my friend’s house.
Being a research oriented person, I immediately launched into an investigation through the Internet and through asking enormous amounts of questions from those friends who know about these things, like doctors and such.
It did not take me any time at all to find books about it. The one above the rest was easy to spot as it is a New Your Times Best Seller called The Aging Myth; unlocking the mysteries of looking and feeling young by Joseph Chang PH.D.
Dr Chang is the Chief Scientific Officer at Nu Skin and has an experience, spanning decades in research and development of medicines for many illnesses. According to him, at some point he lost the interest to cure deceases and instead started concentrating in finding ways to keep people healthy without ever having to fall ill in the first place. His aim is to give humanity a possibility of a long and healthy lifespan that allows for a meaningful life until we die healthy. It would also save enormous amounts of money in healthcare costs worldwide.
I was extremely impressed by his and his company’s approach. It makes sense to prevent and care instead of trying to fix something that is broken. In my mind this approach is analogical to the positive psychology movement that also believes in maintaining the human mentality at high rather than trying to fix the low. It is a well researched phenomenon that a sum of the effort of a group is more than its parts and anti-aging industry has certainly come a long way with its most advanced methods that benefit humanity in finding solutions to keep us healthy and happy longer.
Dr Chang’s quest is to change the aging paradigm from being our destiny to being a choice of a lifestyle that nurtures and maintains the human body healthy by preventing and supplementing rather than curing and fixing.
I must say that I took the book to bed and started reading and never stopped. I was very intrigued and inspired. I actually immediately afterwards bought several of them to loan and send to friends and relatives to spread the good news.
It is a phenomenal feeling when one finds something that ‘clicks’ so well within that it prompts to immediate action.
In my case it is into active aging action as I feel the need to try and see if I can beat my great grandmother’s 105 years of active and healthy living. The book really made me remember her story. The introduction to my great-grandmother's story is now on the second page of this blog for everyone to see. It is my challenge and my inspiration.
I recommend Joseph Chang’s book to you as a great inspiration. It is a book with great science behind it but so easily read that it allows you to contemplate on what you should do to take up a challenge of active and graceful aging.
I will start the story of my great-grandmother Iida and keep adding to the challenge as I go on in my own quest for growing older, younger and healthier.
Useful references:
BARTLETT, M. R. 2010. Nutritional and Genetic Strategies for Longevity. Anti-Aging Medical News, Winter.
CHANG, J. 2011. The Aging Myth; Unlocking the Mysteries of Looking and Feeling Young, Aylesbury Publishing.
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