Ice Cream and Longevity: Exploring the Surprising Benefits of High-Fat Diets with the Frequency Research Foundation

In the quest for longevity, the Frequency Research Foundation uncovers an unconventional yet intriguing dietary strategy. Imagine the joy of savoring high-fat ice cream, now linked with the science-backed benefits of certain supplements and medications known for promoting health and extending life.

The Science Behind Ice Cream and Longevity

Recent discussions led by the renowned scientist David Sinclair shed light on the complex relationship between dietary fats and the longevity-enhancing effects of specific supplements. Sinclair emphasizes that resveratrol, a compound celebrated for its anti-aging properties, achieves its full potential when consumed alongside dietary fats. This insight pairs well with the benefits of metformin, a diabetes medication noted for its positive influence on longevity.

Harnessing the Power of Resveratrol and Metformin

The Frequency Research Foundation introduces a delightful and practical application of these findings. By combining Tillemook chocolate ice cream (a tested and effective choice) with resveratrol supplements, we’ve devised a palatable method to enhance the compound’s absorption and efficacy. The procedure is simple: sprinkle two capsules of resveratrol powder over your ice cream and enjoy it with metformin. This not only makes supplement intake more pleasurable but also leverages the fat in ice cream to boost resveratrol’s benefits.

Monitoring with Glucose Watches

Despite the appeal, the thought of regularly indulging in ice cream might raise concerns about blood sugar and overall health. This is where modern health monitoring technology, such as glucose watches, comes into play. These wearable devices provide real-time blood sugar level monitoring, enabling individuals to enjoy their ice cream in moderation while maintaining health benefits.

A Balanced Approach to Diet and Longevity

This novel approach marries indulgence with health, challenging traditional dietary restrictions associated with longevity. It underscores the possibility of enjoying life’s pleasures without compromising on health goals, provided we’re equipped with the right knowledge and tools.

Consultation Is Key

Before embarking on any significant dietary or medication changes, especially those involving prescription drugs like metformin, consulting healthcare professionals is crucial. Tailoring these strategies to individual health profiles ensures safety and effectiveness.

Conclusion: A Scoop Closer to Longevity

The Frequency Research Foundation’s innovative findings invite us to reconsider the role of dietary pleasures in a strategic approach to longevity. By blending delicious treats with scientifically supported supplements and closely monitoring the body’s response, we edge closer to unlocking the secrets of aging. Perhaps, with each scoop of ice cream, we’re not just indulging in a moment of joy but also taking a step toward a longer, healthier life.

References

David Merritt Johns (2023). “Nutrition Science’s Most Preposterous Results. Scientists Don’t Want to Talk About It.” The Atlantic. May 2023.

The TEHS Framework: Doubling Your Energy and Halving Your Stress to Achieve Longevity

Stress is a fact of life that can impact our health and well-being in profound ways. Prolonged stress can lead to various physical and mental health issues, including cardiovascular disease, anxiety, depression, and reduced life expectancy. In contrast, reducing stress and increasing energy levels can promote longevity and a higher quality of life. In this blog post, we will discuss the TEHS framework, which aims to double your energy and halve your stress, as well a new paper’s findings on how reducing stress can improve longevity.

The TEHS Framework: Doubling Your Energy and Halving Your Stress

TEHS uses the Garmin Watch Body Battery data developed by FirstBeat.com to enhance the performance of Olympic athletes. We measure energy levels vs stress levels throughout the day. This gives us biofeedback we can use to increase energy and lower stress to increase health and wellness and improve longevity.

The TEHS framework is designed to help individuals increase their energy levels and reduce their stress to improve their overall well-being. The framework focuses on seven key areas:

Photoanalysis Remote Rife Clinic Frequencies: to clear allergens, toxins and pathogens while increasing minerals and vitamins and balancing hormones is a critical component for lowering stress.
Nutrition: Eating a balanced, nutrient-dense diet that supports the body’s functions and promotes overall health.
Exercise: Developing a personalized exercise routine that focuses on improving cardiovascular fitness, strength, flexibility, and balance.
Sleep: Emphasizing the importance of quality sleep for physical recovery and mental clarity.
Stress management: Teaching stress management techniques, such as mindfulness, meditation, or deep-breathing exercises, which can help people become more aware of their stressors and learn how to cope with them effectively.
Mental health: Encouraging individuals to seek professional help if needed and maintain a strong support system to ensure mental well-being.
Time management and work-life balance: Assisting individuals in setting realistic goals, prioritizing tasks, and developing a healthy work-life balance to minimize burnout and increase overall satisfaction and energy levels.

By incorporating these aspects into the TEHS framework, individuals can increase their energy levels, reduce their stress, improve their overall well-being, and extend their healthspan.

Reduced Stress Improves Longevity: Insights from Cell Metabolism

A recent study published in the journal Cell Metabolism found that reducing stress can improve longevity. The study, which used a mouse model, showed that mice with reduced levels of the stress hormone cortisol lived longer than those with higher levels of cortisol. Additionally, the study found that the mice with reduced cortisol levels had fewer age-related diseases and a better quality of life.

These findings suggest that reducing stress levels can have a significant impact on our health and longevity. While the study was conducted on mice, its implications for human health are significant.

Reducing stress can help individuals reduce the risk of various chronic diseases, including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and cancer. Stress can also impact our mental health, leading to anxiety, depression, and other mental health issues.

Conclusion

The TEHS framework provides a comprehensive approach to improving energy levels and reducing stress. By focusing on nutrition, exercise, sleep, stress management, mental health, and work-life balance, individuals can improve their overall well-being and quality of life. Additionally, the paper’s findings highlight the importance of reducing stress levels for promoting longevity and a better quality of life. By incorporating the TEHS framework into our daily lives, we can take control of our health and achieve a long and fulfilling life.

References

Gladyshev, V. N., & Gorbunova, V. (2020). Stress and aging: a new paradigm. Cell, 181(2), 283-298.
Ferrucci, L., Fabbri, L., & Ventura, M. (2020). Stress and aging: from molecular mechanisms to clinical implications. Nature Medicine, 26(11), 1637-1648.
McEwen, B. S. (2020). The neuroepigenetics of stress and aging. Nature Neuroscience, 23(1), 11-19.
Lupien, S. J., McEwen, B. S., Gunnar, M. R., & Heim, C. (2009). Effects of stress on brain structure and function. Annual Review of Neuroscience, 32, 71-95.
Sapolsky, R. M. (2004). Why zebras don’t get ulcers: a guide to stress, stress-related diseases, and coping. New York: W. H. Freeman.

Lengthen Your Telomeres – The Biggest Antiaging Breakthrough in the Last Decade

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009 was awarded jointly to Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak “for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase”.

In October 2016 I visited Dr. Grossman’s lab to get telomere lengths tested. A telomerase program I developed was running for several weeks prior to the visit. More later when I get lab tests back.

In 2016, Dr. Grossman recommends a new supplement TeloSC from MaxLife Solution as the best and least expensive option that provides stem cell support as well as telomere enhancement.

When I visited Dr. Grossman’s medical clinic in 2012 extensive testing determined that my biological age was 27 years younger than my calendar age. I asked Dr. Grossman what the biggest breakthrough was in antiaging since my previous visit 6 years earlier. He said TA65, a supplement that costs $500 a bottle.Dr. Al Sears put me on to TA65 years earlier and he has been working on a supplement that costs less than half as much that works a lot better. Lengthening your telomeres could improve your health and performance and give you another 20 years on your life which is long enough to capture the next wave of longevity technology. See Kurzweil and Grossman’s book, Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever. But first, let’s look at the Genetic Learning Center at the University of Utah and learn a little bit about why telomeres are so important.

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Fluorescence-stained chromosomes (red) on a microscope slide.
Telomeres (yellow) sit at the ends of each chromosome.
Photo courtesy of Dr. Robert Moyzis, UC Irvine, US Human Genome Program

Inside the nucleus of a cell, our genes are arranged along twisted, double-stranded molecules of DNA called chromosomes. At the ends of the chromosomes are stretches of DNA called telomeres, which protect our genetic data, make it possible for cells to divide, and hold some secrets to how we age and get cancer.

Telomeres have been compared with the plastic tips on shoelaces, because they keep chromosome ends from fraying and sticking to each other, which would destroy or scramble an organism’s genetic information.

Yet, each time a cell divides, the telomeres get shorter. When they get too short, the cell can no longer divide; it becomes inactive or “senescent” or it dies. This shortening process is associated with aging, cancer, and a higher risk of death. So telomeres also have been compared with a bomb fuse. For more see Learn Genetics …

I’ve been working with Dr. Al Sears new supplement Telo-Essence II for the past couple of months. He claims it is 100 times better than the TA65 which I have been taking for several years. What I can report is that it has a significantly bigger impact on energy level and physical performance.

For me, the number one antiaging strategy today, based on Nobel Prize level research is lengthening your telomeres and Dr. Sears has got this figured out. You can get Telo-Essence II here. You will need to scroll down when you reach the link. I continue to use this in conjunction with TeloSC.

Pseudoscience: Rampant in Modern Medicine

Much of today’s medical information is distorted by business interests. With billions of dollars at stake, anything can be distorted and information is often suppressed about cheap, effective solutions, in favor of expensive medications with marginal benefit. Resveratrol issues are only the tip of a very large iceberg.

How Modern Medicine Obfuscates Resveratrol Science

Bill Sardi, 20 September 2013, Resveratrol News

Marketing a resveratrol-based dietary supplement has given me a front-row seat to view how modern medicine obfuscates science and throws in other roadblocks to indefinitely delay public acceptance of a truly miraculous natural molecule.

Examination of events and published studies involving the red wine molecule resveratrol (rez-vair-a-trol) over the past decade reveals nine ways modern medicine has attempted to muddy the science and delay public adoption of this natural molecule as an affordable dietary supplement.

This investigation reveals that researchers (a) intentionally employ overdoses of resveratrol in laboratory studies to produce negative or null results; (b) absurdly claim resveratrol is not biologically available when systemic results have been widely reported in animals and humans; (c) rigidly assert a single-gene target (Sirtuin1) is responsible for most of the health benefits produced by resveratrol when aging and chronic disease involves many genes; (d) doggedly pursue development of synthetic resveratrol-like molecules (analogs) in a futile attempt to produce a blockbuster drug; (e) ignore evidence that resveratrol works better at lower doses (hormesis); (f) continue to ignore an available resveratrol dietary supplement that has been demonstrated to produce health benefits in the animal lab and humans greater than a resveratrol-based drug that sold to a major drug company for $720 million; (g) launch false allegations against resveratrol researchers who conduct studies involving branded resveratrol dietary supplements; (h) produce faulty science with flawed conclusions; and finally (i) simply fail to prescribe or recommend resveratrol to needy patients.

Some of the efforts to obfuscate the science surrounding resveratrol are almost laughable as one study found efforts to alter its molecular structure in order to produce a patentable blockbuster resveratrol-like drug were futile. After molecular side chains are added to resveratrol they are efficiency removed during liver metabolization and return to native resveratrol.

Another absurdity is the false assertion resveratrol is not biologically available due to its attachment to detoxification molecules as it passes through the human liver while animal and human studies document profound systemic health benefits.

Hyperlinking permits presentation of published reports and events that can be checked by readers themselves.

Resveratrol: Life extension effects

When an item makes the New York Times, it becomes part of the historical record. In biological sciences, the journal Nature serves a similar purpose. The definitive article on resveratrol’s life extending effects appeared in Nature this month.

Resveratrol improves health and survival of mice on a high-calorie diet
Nature 444, 337-342 (16 November 2006) doi:10.1038/nature05354; Received 10 August 2006; Accepted 19 October 2006; Published online 1 November 2006
Joseph A. Baur, Kevin J. Pearson, Nathan L. Price, Hamish A. Jamieson, Carles Lerin, Avash Kalra, Vinayakumar V. Prabhu, Joanne S. Allard, Guillermo Lopez-Lluch, Kaitlyn Lewis, Paul J. Pistell, Suresh Poosala, Kevin G. Becker, Olivier Boss, Dana Gwinn, Mingyi Wang, Sharan Ramaswamy, Kenneth W. Fishbein, Richard G. Spencer, Edward G. Lakatta, David Le Couteur, Reuben J. Shaw, Placido Navas, Pere Puigserver, Donald K. Ingram, Rafael de Cabo and David A. Sinclair

Abstract

Resveratrol (3,5,4′-trihydroxystilbene) extends the lifespan of diverse species including Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Caenorhabditis elegans and Drosophila melanogaster. In these organisms, lifespan extension is dependent on Sir2, a conserved deacetylase proposed to underlie the beneficial effects of caloric restriction. Here we show that resveratrol shifts the physiology of middle-aged mice on a high-calorie diet towards that of mice on a standard diet and significantly increases their survival. Resveratrol produces changes associated with longer lifespan, including increased insulin sensitivity, reduced insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-I) levels, increased AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) and peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor- gamma coactivator 1 alpha (PGC-1 alpha ) activity, increased mitochondrial number, and improved motor function. Parametric analysis of gene set enrichment revealed that resveratrol opposed the effects of the high-calorie diet in 144 out of 153 significantly altered pathways. These data show that improving general health in mammals using small molecules is an attainable goal, and point to new approaches for treating obesity-related disorders and diseases of ageing.