This is research we did when I was teaching pre-meds at Roosevelt U in Chicago. Basic background data presented at several A4M meetings, and also in my latest (e-)book. Most recent: A4M Congress, Orlando 2011 (1).
By 1973, many single contributors to anti-aging had been established such as vitamins, antioxidants, special minerals, procaine and nucleic acids. Research had also confirmed that the lack of exercise, weight gain, smoking cigarettes and pollution in food and air accelerated aging and decreased life span.
Therefore, I reasoned that we should put the most promising variables together for a longevity study. If single variables enhance each other, as Professor Cheraskin believed, a combination of variables would make it easier to achieve optimum longevity.
We divided our longevity study into three sub-groups of cancer-prone mice (Swiss Albino, SA).
We nicknamed group one “The average business man.” They were given a junk food diet that was above average in fat with sugar added and no nutritional supplements. The business men mice had no exercise and cigarette smoke was blown through their cages with tap water given as drinking fluid. Standard, somewhat crowded, cages.
Group two: Everything was average; no supplements, tap water, standard cages.
In comparison to the other two, the third group might as well have been vacationing at a Hollywood health retreat. These mice were exercised in a rotating drum three times per week, ate a quality diet containing key antioxidants, minerals, and supplements, drank carbon filtered water and had larger living quarters with hiding places and toys that were rearranged each time we cleaned the cages.
The result of the study showed approximately 100% difference in the average life span between the animals in group 1 and 3, while group two was in-between, leaning towards group one. For each one of the variables we included in our longevity study we calculated the degree of effectiveness. We found that, when using all of the most potent variables at once, the whole was stronger than any of the parts. When the bottom-line results are much more effective than adding the single numbers of each positive variable, this effect is called synergism.
Given this basic information, prof. Cheraskin had predicted, correctly, that we would get approximately 100% average life span increases.
When we repeated the same longevity study, but without exercise in group three, everything seemed to fall apart, and average life span increases were only around 40% or less.
For more anti-aging facts: http://www.antiagingforme.com
Ref.:
(1) The Scientific basis for defining “true life-long health” as a state of homeostasis, with Telomere Research confirming Health Practices as true Anti-Aging Modalities. A4M, Orlando, Fl. Spring 2011.
— Last Edited by Hans J. Kugler, PhD at 2011-11-27 16:37:44 —
