Immunity and cancer

Here is the video (related to my previous post) that was recorded at SENS3. To view it properly just enlarge the video at the bottom right. It is very interesting!

Zheng Cui
http://richardjschueler.com/wp-gallery2.php?g2_itemId=56888

There are also a few other videos there from SENS 3 conference.

Cancer cure 'may be available in two years'

Thats the headline from the telegraph
The results were actually quite amazing, and it looks promising. There were some important things in there that I think are relevant to our quest for longevity and good health. The resistance to cancer was heavily influenced by a) stress levels b) season. So it might be wise to practice yoga or stress relieving activities. The good news is that once the stress is gone, the neutrophil's become better at killing cancer cells. The other thing that should be quite clear now is that we need to keep our vitamin D levels up, by taking a supplement preferably if you want to stay looking young too :) And possibly getting enough daylight hours, so getting up when the sun rises and going to sleep when the sun goes down :)

Anyway, here is a cool little video (it's sped up) with a neutrophil chasing after bacterium. CooL eh!?



Here is another video with those granulocytes killing cervical cancer cells (video posted by new scientist 3 days ago

Responsible supplementation by MR

I thought I'd direct you to an excellent post on supplementation by Michael, which can be found at the CRS lists. Here is a direct link to that post.
Responsible supplementation

I've only been taking 1/3 of the full dose of Essential mix for a while now, this was not long after some of his earlier posts on the issue... While I've taking some taking more targeted supplements like zinc, magnesium, vitamin D3, and Calcium especially. It seems for myself my Magnesium need is quite high, I don't know if this was to do with the amount of stress I had earlier this year or what. But I know it prevents quite a few symptoms I was having... One of them being benign heart palpitations (had all sorts of tests done - check earlier posts) from excess adrenaline, and also little annoying muscle twitches. When one is low on magnesium you do produce more adrenaline so it has an effect on the muscles, including the heart... These symptoms 98% cured by extra Mg, even though I was already getting around 500mg or so from my diet! Unfortunately as Michael says there are few reliable tests for mineral deficiencies, magnesium is one of them as it is mostly intracellular.

Take a read of that post anyway, it's a sensible view on supplementing.

New video

A new video just got posted over at the CRS, so thought I'd put a link up here:


CR VIDEO

You've gotta check out this video, especially around half way when the comparison of the two monkeys come up. This one is different that what you may have seen before. Even though we have seen previous examples, I was amazed by this.

It really does look like CR with a very high probability will at least keep us looking far younger than our ages as we continue to do calorie restriction.

Face Book Calorie Restriction Group

You must have all heard about face book recently? It's very popular now and many use it to keep in contact with friends. I have found it amazing so far as I've now discovered that other people from my old high school have also got face book profiles.

Anyway, here is the link to the Calorie Restriction Face Book Group

I've put my profile settings so anyone can view it, others have chosen for theirs to be private. You can view their profiles by just adding them as friends.

Now go join!

September the sick?

...If you feel under the weather today you're in good company, because September 6th has been identified as the day Britons are most likely to fall ill...

Heres the article

So make sure you all sip your green teas, eat your garlic and wash your hands frequently. No picking your nose or putting your hands in your eyes either as these are other ways you are get infected.

Just the other day I was watching some Discovery science and a program came on about colds, and how easily it is transmitted. It did show that you have to wash your hands with soapy water for at least 20-25 seconds under a running tap to be effective. The more time the better, but don't get too obsessive ;p

I'm hoping this will be a good year for me, and for all you CRONies out there too. so far so good. Although I can't say the same for a few of my relatives and friends who have today come down with colds over the last couple days.

CBS Calorie Restriction Video (Paul and Meredith)

CR CBS VIDEO

The women from the ADA needs to do her home work, clearly.

Enjoy

Heres the article too

Memories...

Before I get started on this post, I have to say that Face book is one of the greatest sites since google! -- I can't believe just how many of my old school mates and friends from long ago are on there! It's an awesome networking site!

Running out of things to blog about -- which is a good thing because things are going well now, except that I will not be attending the conference this year in Cambridge. Still, I'm certainly going to the next one with much time to prepare and save.

My CR practice has been going good, no struggles, weight stable at around 110 lbs with no fluctuations. I've been looking at what other foods I can eat as my diet has pretty much stayed the same in the last 2 years 7 months I've been on CR. I'm going to arrange a full panel of blood tests shortly though, as I think its about time now... Everyone on CR who maintains a BMI below 18 should at least get 1 round of tests a year for safety and just for the fact it keeps you motivated to maintain that cholesterol level, or glucose level.

My legs feel a little weak right now though because I've been working on my legs by doing some squats with 30kg bar. Kind of too much for my little legs I think as I now have some tightness and cramp / weak / heavy feeling in my legs. Which usually happens when I push it too much. However my arms are startin to look a little better now that I started the weights. Still like skinny, but better muscle definition.

Just a little while back I was talking to some one about my weight and he mentioned that I lost weight in 2003 when he seen me at a funeral we went to. This was about the time that I started reading articles by Ray Kurzweil, other science stuff and nutrition etc... It was the time that I started making subtle changes to my diet, not restricting on purpose, but replacing refined cereals with whole grain cereal, putting fruit like strawberries and banana on it. Drinking orange juice rather than fizzy drinks... all the little things one does to improve their diet. These things can lead to weight loss.

My mother also said to me after I came home from college in summer 2003 that I looked skinny, and not having a typical male physique, being more like a skinny girl! lol. Shortly after that I actually went to the doctors because my family made me worry about my weight. The doctor measured my height and weight and the BMI was 18.5. She said "it's nothing to worry about, you're normal a weight... some people are just skinnier than others". So that was that. Except my brother, mother and her friend (who is very obese) made me really nervous prior to seeing the doctor, making me feel phyiscally sick and weak with anxiety as it seemed they were suggesting I had some terminal illness or something. Of course that wasn't the case, i'm still here.

My cousin who I hadn't seen since 2002 also said to me in 2003 "matt you lost a lot of weight haven't you?". So it wouldn't actually suprise me that I might have actually already been through TWO STAGES of CR weight loss. One was unintentional, and the latter in march 2005 was intentional CRON. My weight prior to 2003 wouldn't have been that High because I know for a fact I've never gone above BMI of 20. Now memories are coming back to me when I weighed myself in the gym, I was actually close to 125 lbs at one time (I have it written down here somewhere because I was starting some weight lifting and measuring progress), and when I intentionally started CR I was 118 lbs. If this is correct, then my real plain old CR date would have been when I was only around 18 years old (and I'm 23 on October the 21st 2007).

Also I like it when this happens. Two days ago I woke up a little late, some plumber guy was sorting out something in the house, after he finished he asked me to sign the paper and said "you off to school now, you're in your last year?" (that would mean he thought I was 15-16 years old), I chuckled and said no I left high school over 6 years ago! -- he said "sorry". I said no, thats good, thanks, I'm trying to live forever!... and he laughed :)

See thats the thing, before I started CR I was actually gutted that I looked so young for my age, now its really good. It's amazing that If you look around on the net you find people just like the old me moaning about looking younger than my age.

This summer has helped me though, the dark circles that was quite apparent around my eyes has gone now... that was all the crappy stress I've had over the year. Finally things are better! whoooO!

Anyway, here is todays dinner... minus the tuna that I threw on the top. I don't really go for presentation, as long as its nice :)