Category: Health

Some Tasty Life Extension Recipes I have developed these recipes over many decades as vehicles for longevity ingredients. Super-Mushroomy Eggs The longevity case: Medicinal mushrooms are among the most extensively studied longevity compounds in the literature. Lion’s mane stimulates Nerve Growth Factor, promoting neurite outgrowth and BDNF production. Maitake activates beta-glucan immune pathways and has…

Chapter 1 of How To Live Forever In 1827, the Imperial Chinese government sent official congratulations to one Li Ching-Yuen on his 150th birthday. Fifty years later, in 1877, they sent him congratulations on his 200th birthday. He died on May 6, 1933. You can do the arithmetic. Whether Li Ching-Yuen genuinely lived 256 years…

How to Immediately Feel Better The establishment calls it “Hormone Replacement”, but the word “replacement” contains a concession. It implies that something has been lost permanently and must be substituted from outside. Testosterone replacement therapy. Thyroid replacement. Hormone replacement therapy. The language of replacement accepts decline as a fait accompli and offers a pharmaceutical prosthetic.…

Chapter 8 of How to Live Forever The fear is not death. Everyone dies and most people have made some peace with that. The fear is arriving at the end with the lights already off. The body could still be running while the brain is already gone. A decade of accumulated confusions, lost threads, names…

The First Step of My Quest In 1996, Larry Clark published the results of a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial in the Journal of the American Medical Association. He had enrolled 1,312 patients and given half of them 200 micrograms of selenium per day. The trial was stopped before its scheduled completion. The reason a trial…