when I started rehabbing-- fogged out of my mind as I was--
I tried over a hundred substances, looking for a magic bullet.

Something I was taking would fuel two hour workouts that took
endurance beyond anything I'd ever been able to do before.

Was it resveratrol. who knows? but since I've been out of it,
i don't have super-human endurance now.

Julie has ordered another bottle. I'll report my results.

Barbara Walters presented cutting edge research on a TV
special on ABC called "Live to be 150. Can You Do It?"

Several new technologies are getting people closer to the
quest to live longer and healthier lives.

Dr. David Sinclair, a founder of Sirtris Pharmaceuticals
and a professor at Harvard Medical School, talked about a
specific gene that is activated by resveratrol that slows
the aging process.

Resveratrol is an antioxidant found in several fruits.

Dr. Sinclair says, "Resveratrol works on a gene called SERT1,
and this is the gene that controls the aging process."

With the gene activated by a high dose of resveratrol, the
mice ran twice as far as the untreated mice.

Sinclair notes, "They didn't get heart disease, cancer,
even osteoporosis and they lived thirty percent longer."

Sirtris Pharmaceuticals is in Phase I clinical trials with
a synthetic form of resveratrol.

However, a resveratrol supplement with a high level of
resveratrol is available today. SupplementSpot, LLC; a
nutraceutical company based in Magnolia, Texas, produces
Resvert.

I don't know that I trust them any more than drug companies,
but I guess things will eventually shake down to where we can
do more than make educated guesses.

If you use it, let me know your results. Tom


Ellis:{Hello Tom... I like to make life SIMPLE... The problem
in this world where everybody is trying to SELL YOU SOMETHING
is to decide "Who Shall I Believe?" Men have been searching
for the Fountain of Youth for centuries, and they have never
found it. But they keep on SELLING you products that they
claim will REVERSE THE AGING PROCESS...

Well... Who better than The Dangerous Dirty Old Man WHO DOES
NOT GROW OLDER to tell you what you can believe and what you
cannot believe? To put it to you point blank: THERE IS NO
FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH. But there are A LOT of products that are
GOOD FOR YOUR HEALTH, starting with CHICKEN AND EGGS AND
FISH and VEGETABLES.

In other words, everything comes down to GOOD NUTRITION.

We have to get those nutrients into our body, whether they
come from cheap sources or expensive sources, I don't care
if you got vitamin C from oranges or if you got vitamin C
from your effervescent tablets that cost 100 times as much
as vitamin C from oranges... the point is: you have to get
your vitamin C... and A, B, C, D, E, and F too, if it
exists and you need it... and you have to get the enzymes
and fiber and minerals that your body needs.

So if I give it a fancy name and sell it to you for 100 times
what it costs in natural form, or if you get it from munching
grape seeds or wherever it comes from, get what your body
needs into your body.

The problem is: Who Should I Believe? Is the magic bullet
Vitamin C, as Linus Pauling said? Or is it Gingseng, or
Noni Juice, or DHEA, or is it a small dose of aspirin, or
resveratrol, or WHAT?

I dunno. But I know what works. And that is good nutrition,
keep your blood glucose levels controlled, do some exercise,
and take your daily or weekly or monthly dose of hormones and
other nutrients when you should, as you should, in the dose
that you should.

But since nobody has the time or the inclination to watch
exactly what they eat, and to eat correctly all the time,
(except Dr. Bernstein... and he is a very sick old man...
I wish he was well, but he is sick...) or to take a long list
of hormones and supplements and vitamins, all we can do is to
try to GO IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION most of the time... Do what
you can that you think is GOOD for your body and LEARN what
is BAD for your body, and then DO WHAT IS GOOD FOR YOUR BODY
AND DON'T DO WHAT IS BAD FOR YOUR BODY... most of the time.

It costs a lot of money to do all this, but it is less
expensive than GROWING OLD. I think I am spending about
$10,000 per year on growth hormone, EPO, insulin, and
testosterone...

I spend about $1000 per year, maybe more, just on glucose
blood tests... I am a great customer for syringes... but it
is all part of my business... I have to be healthy in order to
convince people that I can help them to stay healthy...So it
is less expensive to spend the $1000 per month than not to
spend it.

That is a lot of money, but it is like paying for a secretary
whose job it is to keep me healthy. So... I don't have the
secretary, but I pay her salary when I buy growth hormone and
glucose meter test strips and other hormones, etc.

But look what I get in exchange: I am super-healthy, at age 63
(I will be 63 in August). In April I went sailing and snorkelling
for two weeks, in the jungles of Yucatan, and I climbed a very
large pyramid very fast, in the middle of the jungle... and I
am still young and productive, and thinking and writing and
creating...

Some of my school mates are already 6 feet under the ground, and
I am still well and dancing and enjoying life and I am alive.

So... try Resveratrol... try Gingseng... try Noni Juice...
try vitamins and minerals...

But I have been trying everything to stay well and healthy and
young, since I first read "Eat Right to Keep Fit" and I will
tell you that that sums it up very well: eat right to keep fit.

That's the best advice anybody can give you, and if there is
not a magic bullet, that is at least 80% of it...

But 80% is not enough... You will grow older eventually even if
you EAT CORRECTLY, and DO EXERCISE, and TAKE VITAMINS... You will
"grow old gracefully" but who wants to "grow old gracefully"?

Not me. I will "grow old... eventually..."

But you will grow old gracefully, anyways, if that is all you do...

THE ONLY WAY NOT TO GROW OLD QUICKLY is to do EVERYTHING above,
AND ALSO take your hormones. That will give you perhaps 15% of
the missing 20%...

http://www.rajeun.net/big5.html

So... Thanks for sending us this about Resveratrol... I don't
take it myself because I don't know where to buy it in Mexico,
but I'm doing pretty well without it... exactly what the good
doctor Sinclair says about his products "They didn't get heart
disease, cancer, even osteoporosis and they lived thirty percent
longer."

I don't expect to have heart disease soon... and I will catch a
cold before I get cancer, and I haven't had a bad cold in 10
years so I won't worry about cancer right now... and osteoporosis
is out of the question because I have taken growth hormone every
day for nearly 10 years (10 years in JUNE!!!)...

And I will be very disappointed if I only live "thirty percent
longer" than average... That would be only to about age 95... I
fully expect that if I continue to age as slowly in the next 10
years as I have in the past 10 years (I have not AGED at all...
a few more grey hairs, but I am basically THE SAME... I look the
same or better, and I have the same or more energy as I did
at age 52...) that I should be able to get to AVERAGE AGE 73 in
a very young and healthy body...

I have already lived nearly 63 years in a very healthy body, and
for that I am already very thankful.

Amen.

- Ellis}