…so how do I accomplish this ? Will mega dose of Vitamine C and B12 do it? Or should I go to a starvation diode (some doctor at UCLA found out that mice fed like 50% of their normal food intake live 100% longer. Is there any PROVEN way to extrend your lifespan?
I just read a book by Dr. Atkins-he says all the cardiac experts are wrong-fat doesn’t kill you-it’s your bodie’s reaction to excessive carbohydrates!
Whats a would -be Methusaleh toi do?
Get over it.
It’s too late my budly bud. Your individal genome’s freshness expiration date can be extended to a degree by reasonable diet and exercise but your chances of hitting the 125 mark are about the same as a herd of elephants dressed in johphurs, sunglasses and bush hats coming to have tea with you.
The course of your decline has already begun. The toxins and free radicals are chomping away at your essence as I type this. Tick tock tick tock. Eat a polish sausage with some kraut and a good beer and ponder the fleeting nature of your mayfly like existence relative to the grand scheme of the universe.
As for that starvation diet, iirc it only worked on the mice if the diet was started very early. Although I don’t recall just how early. But I think if you’re an adult it’s probably too late.
Vitamin C and antioxidants haven’t been shown to effectively increase lifespan either. But that doesn’t mean there’s any harm in trying them just in case.
If I were you I’d just work on reducing risk factors for various diseases. That’s a full-time job right there.
Wait a couple decades for working nanomachines to come along, and they will fix you body to allow you to function indefinitely.
This reminds me of the old joke about a guy who goes to see his doctor and asks “What can I do to live longer?”
The doc replies “Don’t drink, don’t smoke and don’t chase women.”
“Will that really make me live longer?”
“Not really, but it will make your life seem longer.”
Seriously, live your life the best you know how, enjoy your vices in moderation, and just try to be as happy as you can with the cards your genes have dealt you.
Eat moderately, enough calories for your level of activities. Excersise regularly, reduce your weight to healthy levels(less stress on the heart) assuming your heavy, not suggesting you are, but mabey a heavier indivudule has a similar goal.(I know I’m not at the healthiest level of weight) Lay off on too much cholesterol, but don’t cut it out completely, Go to the doctor regularly for check ups for cancer… to catch it early.
Oh, and most importantly, wait for medical science to find a way to lengthen the Telomere, giving cells a near immortality**
I figure its 2001, I am 24, moderatly healthy, as long as I stay that way until around 2020 or so, at 45 I can have any organs that failed replaced, get my shots/nanites or whatnot to increase my telomeres, wait for science to figure out a way upload me into a computer and presto, Near immortality. My goal is only 400 years or so, but I wouldn’t mind living several thousand. 
**This might be science fiction, but hell, we can dream right?
a) Wake up each morning with a smile on your face.
b) Don’t die in the mean time.
c) >^,^<
Try not to step in front of any high speed moving objects such as trains, cars, busses, bullets, throwing knives. Avoid any middle aged WHITE males, because we just know that they might be serial killers.
Good luck with your quest… I am going to go have a beer and a smoke, and try to enjoy my much shortened life.
I’ve seen several researchers/doctors make a good case for their particular diet on different documentaries, which they are experimenting on themselves with. Trouble is it’ll take 20-40 years to see if they live past the average age… then whether that had to do with their diet/activities vs genetics… then whether they are the exception to the rule… then another lifetime to see the results of the diet or life plan on a statistically significant portion of the population… does it hold true for all races or where certain foods or lifestyles aren’t available?.. what does the scientific community in general think… and so on. Relying on this technique of “I’ll try my idea and you try yours and we’ll compare notes in 50 years” will take a long time to work out and we’ll all be dead before we know the results. Barring any sudden discoveries, anyone alive today will almost certainly not be within 90 years. Research into increasing life expectancy well beyond what’s considered normal is not in any kind of exponential growth phase - we aren’t making headway very fast. Your best ally in living a long life for now and the foreseable future is to live clean, safe, and to have a good set of genes proping you up.
At the risk of sounding arrogant or condescending, my personal guess is that I have a better chance than any of you of making it to 125 years old.
If I had to guess, I’d give myself maybe 106 total years or so.
Why? Because I knew ALL of my great grandmothers. No, no one in my family was a child bride or a 15 year old mother. It’s only that every one of them was over 100 when they died. There’s no cancer in my family. There’s no heart disease. There’s no Alzheimer’s. There’s no chance I’m going to die in my 80s. Unless I get hit by a bus, of course. As a matter of fact, my GREAT GREAT grandmother (my dad’s great grandma) held me as a baby and then died at 102 years old.
Problems with this that you might not have thought of:
- Your retirement fund takes on a whole new meaning.
- Difficulties regarding living arrangements and care of elderly family members.
My parents live half a mile from my dad’s parents. When my grandparents need something my mom and dad are there to take care of it for them. In the same vein, the responsibility for care of MY parents (and possibly grandparents) will fall on my sister and me. They could need assistance off and on (help during times of illness, rides if they can’t drive, lawn mowing etc.) for upwards of 20 YEARS. And I don’t live anywhere near them and have no desire to live in their area. Even very healthy elderly people need others around in case of accidents and for certain tasks.
-L