Living To 100+

Want to live longer? How about 120 or more ? A woman in France, Jeanne Calment, reached the age of 122 years in 1997, according to details provided by her retirement home. Now you may not want to go that long but 100 is a piece of cake. Those "blessed" with long lives always make us wonder about their secret.

The human life can be extended with modern technology, good nutrition and exercise. The question is did this woman approach a real biological limit? Is there a maximum human life span beyond which we cannot live no matter how optimal our environment or favorable our genes?

If we get a full understanding of the facts, we can understand how we can extend the human life span to 120 or even, as some scientists speculate, to much greater ages. That's realistic, say many anti-aging researchers. One way we know of is to switch to what longevity researchers call a calorie-restricted diet. Other ways include hGH supplements and of course there is the actual hGH replacement therapy which has been proven to enhance and lengthen life.

It sounds like dieting, but it isn't. Dieting has the short-term goal of losing weight. But caloric restriction represents a lifelong approach to food consumption. It however, doesn't mean starvation.
The real objective is to consume fewer calories without sacrificing nutrition and in fact, eating more in many cases. Through good food choices and supplements, a caloric restricted diet is fortified generously with vitamins, minerals and antioxidants to provide the same nutrients as an unrestricted diet–but with substantially fewer calories.

While calorie restriction is restrictive, scientists say it's more aptly called the anti-aging diet that is high in good nutrients, low in bad. That's why half-starved people in famine areas derive no longevity benefit: their low-calorie intake lacks nutrient density. Caloric restriction isn't a new idea. Cornell University conducted the first experiment in 1935. Since then researchers have collected over 2,000 studies concluding that this type of diet can extend animal lives drastically and delay the onset of age-related illnesses.

The secret involves the following regime.

• Physical activity (about 30 minutes daily), found to be the single greatest protector against death, lowering risk by 37%

• Refraining from smoking, cutting the risk by 35%

• Following a diet high in fruit, vegetables, and fish, and low in red meat and dairy products ("Mediterranean diet"), reducing risk by 23%

• Moderate alcohol consumption (about 4 glasses of wine or equivalent per week), lowering risk of death by 22%.

Older people who engage in a lot of social interactions stay young for their chronological age. Research has shown that people who receive emotional support not only have higher physical performance than their isolated counterparts, but also that they show lower levels of hormones that are associated with stress.

With age, scientists have observed a variety of declining performance in the body's ten leading body systems. These changes, although they may have, until now, been considered "natural," no longer need to be considered inevitable. The following area offers information on hormones and hormone therapy that may be used to expand the number of years that comprise the human life span, while, at the same time, enhance the quality of that human life.

Age-related non-pathological changes in the brain, muscles, joints, immune system, lungs and heart can be minimized. Research shows that exercise can help to maintain physical function late in life and that exercising one's brain can limit the progression of senility. Human growht hormone is a remarkable component of a long and healthy life and supplements that increase your production of hGH are found on this site.