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    Aging is Preventable
    Aging is Preventable
    Aging is Preventable
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    Aging is Preventable

    By Walter Parks

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    The Human Genome Project and follow on findings have shown us that the principal causes of aging are hormone decline and telomere erosion.

    A series of tests have proved that we can now prevent aging.

    The cover pictures the hormones and telomeres which are at the heart of aging.

    I wrote this book because my advanced age (78) has subjected me to the horrors of aging. I needed to find a way to slow my aging.

    I actually found not only a way to slow my aging, but had some success in reversing some elements of it. If we slow and reverse aging for just a short time, we can be around when the new technologies now in development become available.

    Many researchers believe we can eliminate aging. Some believe that the first immortals are alive today.

    I wrote this book primarily for the baby boomers and their caregivers.

    I have worked on it for several years and it has taken me an additional 3 years to write. The hardest part of writing it was trying to find an everyday version of the rather technical language involved in the research and in descriptions of our anatomy.

    A series of tests have already proved that we can slow and eventually prevent aging.

    This book describes the aging processes and identifies what you can do to slow and eventually prevent your aging.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWalter Parks
    Release dateNov 13, 2013
    ISBN9781310278006
    Aging is Preventable
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    Walter Parks

    Hi! Thanks so much for your interest in my books!My principal interests are true stories of the unusual or of the previously Unknown or unexplained. I have occasionally also written some fiction.I was born in Memphis Tennessee and grew up in Saltillo Mississippi, a small town near Tupelo Mississippi. High School life was dominated by watching the rise of our local Elvis. I was editor of the High School Paper and had plenty to write about. I guess this was the beginning of my writing career.After graduating from Mississippi State University as an aerospace engineer I moved to Orlando Florida and worked for Lockheed Martin for 24 years. I advanced from an aerospace engineer to a Vice President of the Company and President of the Tactical Weapons Systems Division.Education ActivitiesI continued my education throughout my career with a MBA degree from Rollins College and with Post Graduate Studies in Astrophysics at UCLA; Laser Physics at the University of Michigan; Computer Science at the University of Miami; Gas Dynamics at MMC and Finance and Accounting at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.While at Mississippi State University I was on the President’s Honor List and in the honor societies of Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Gamma Tau and Blue Key.I received a scholarship from Delta Air Lines based on my academics and performance.I was in ROTC and the Arnold Air Society where I participated and toured as a member of the precision Drill Team. I also attended the summer survival training at Hamilton Air Force Base in California.I was selected for Who’s Who among Students in American Universities and Colleges.I was a speaker for several technical organizations including the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.After Retirement from Lockheed Martin Aerospace CompanyAfter retirement from Lockheed I formed Parks-Jaggers Aerospace Company and sold it 4 years later.After selling my aerospace company I formed Quest Studios, Quest Entertainment and Rosebud Entertainment to make films at Universal Studios. I produced 11 films, directed 7 films and wrote 5 film scripts produced at Universal Studios.I won the National Association of Theater Owners Show South Producer of Tomorrow Award.I then formed UnknownTruths Publishing Company to publish true stories of the unusual or of the previously Unknown or unexplained. These include books about past events so unbelievable that most people have relegated them to "myths".I have published 37 books in eBook format, Paperback format and as Audio Books. I have an additional 12 books in development.

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      Aging is Preventable - Walter Parks

      Aging is Preventable

      By Walter Parks

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2014 UnKnownTruths Publishing Company

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. For information please address the Publisher:

      UnKnownTruths Publishing Company

      8815 Conroy Windermere Rd. Ste 190

      Orlando, FL 32835

      info@UnknownTruths.com

      Contents

      Introduction

      Chapter 1 A Bit of History

      Chapter 2 Understanding Our DNA Structure

      Chapter 3 Understanding the Causes of Aging

      Chapter 4 Understanding Hormones

      Chapter 5 Understanding Telomeres and Telomerase

      Chapter 6 Anti-Aging Treatments You Can Do Now

      Chapter 7 Test Results and Measurements

      Epilog: Search for Eternity

      About the Author

      About UnknownTruths Publishing Company

      Introduction

      Over half the baby boomers here in America are going to see their hundredth birthday and beyond in excellent health. We're looking at life spans for the baby boomers and the generation after the baby boomers of 120 to 150 years of age. Dr. Ronald Klatz, American Academy of Anti-Aging

      The overall deterioration of the body that comes with growing old is not inevitable. Dr. Rudman, After His Experiments

      We can slow, cure, or prevent almost all aging effects if we catch the age-causing problem soon enough.

      Aging Is Preventable.

      I had several TIAs (mini-strokes) seventeen years ago and lost my memory. My doctors fixed my problem with stents and drugs. I have my memory back, and today it is perfect.

      I had a heart attack sixteen years ago and another ten years ago. My doctors fixed my problem with stents and drugs. I have had no problems for these last ten years.

      I had prostate cancer and got focused radiation six years ago. I have been completely cured. My PSA tests have been very low for these last six years.

      I had cataracts in both eyes and underwent surgery. I now see perfectly.

      I developed glaucoma, which increases pressure in the eyes and can lead to severe vision problems. I have been taking medicated eye drops for four years, and my eye pressure has returned to normal. I suffer no adverse consequences, except I will have to take the eye drops for the rest of my life.

      I developed diabetes three years ago, but I caught it early enough to prevent its progression. I was able to take medications to control my glucose levels, and I do not have to take insulin.

      I was seventy pounds overweight. My treatments for preventing diabetes and the use of a relatively unrestricted diet allowed me to bring my weight down to near-normal.

      I used to look twenty years older than my actual age, yet I now look twenty years younger than my actual age.

      I am 78 and believe I will live past 100.

      Am I living on borrowed time?

      No. I am taking advantage of new technologies to fix each health problem as it appears, and I am therefore dramatically improving my health and longevity.

      The causes of aging and age-related diseases are finally being understood.

      Dr. Rudman ran a series of tests on aging people and demonstrated that the effects of aging could be slowed and even reversed. He concluded: The overall deterioration of the body that comes with growing old is not inevitable.

      Tens of millions die from age-related conditions each and every year. That is because they think that it is natural to get old and die. They do not know about or do not take advantage of the programs that can already slow the processes and effects of degenerative aging.

      America, and indeed the world, is aging. As the Baby Boomers continue to retire over the next several years they will significantly change society. Their diseases that come with aging will drastically affect the healthcare industry. But each of us can do something about it.

      Aging Is Preventable.

      You need to learn what you can do today to begin to slow your aging and to make sure that you live long enough to take advantage of all the future medical innovations now in the works.

      You have choices of what you can do.

      Understand and put into practice a basic, proven anti-aging program specifically tailored for you. The future of medicine is in personal tailoring.

      Live Healthy - Look Marvelous - Live Longer

      Aging is Preventable

      Chapter 1

      A Bit of History

      Study the past if you would define the future. Confucius

      To live young forever has been man’s quest throughout history. From among the first writings preserved in the clay tablets of Babylon we read of King Gilgamesh who searched for the secret of eternal life.

      The tablets tell us that he found it, but he lost it to the snake and then died.

      Ponce de Leon searched for the fountain of youth, and he never found it.

      My interest in finding a way to slow aging began many years ago. I made a film at Universal Studios about Ponce de Leon’s Spring.

      I describe the making of the film in my forthcoming book: The Spring of Eternity.

      Picture from my Universal Studios Film: The Spring

      Almost all life on earth blossoms with youth until it has reproduced and passed its genes on to the next generation. After that and a brief time to rear our young, Mother Nature has no further use for us, so we age and die.

      But we are now beginning to understand aging. Medical science and the unraveling of the human genome have, and are, providing us with great insights into how our bodies work and how we are susceptible to diseases and the aging process.

      Our new understandings now allow us to significantly increase our healthy longevity. And when we take advantages of these new findings we may live longer and thereby make ourselves available to take advantages of the even newer technologies being developed.

      It is strongly believed by many researchers that our continuing progress will lead to the elimination of the disease of aging.

      Some notable steps towards our understanding of the aging process have been made. Consider the following.

      Discovery of the Double Helix of DNA

      James Watson and Francis Crick discovered the model of DNA's double-helical structure in 1953. The knowledge we gained from understanding this detailed structure was critical to the development of age prevention programs.

      Discovery of the Telomere Death Clock

      Dr. Hayflick discovered our built-in death clock in 1961 when he discovered the telomeres at the ends of the chromosomes.

      He described how they keep the chromosome organized but then erode each time our cells divide to replace old, inoperative cells. He learned that our telomeres have a limited number of times to allow cells to divide and replace themselves.

      Dr. Hayflick determined that telomere erosion over time limits our lifespan to 120 years if disease or accidents do not get us earlier. The erosion occurs when the cells split to reproduce themselves. This limited number of reproductions is termed the Hayflick limit.

      But far worst than limiting our life span, this death clock starts winding us down decades before it finally ends us. Long before the telomeres get too short for reproduction, the cells that they do reproduce with shortened telomeres are frequently weak and susceptible to disease. We begin the aging process.

      I interviewed Dr. Hayflick several years ago to get his insight into this built-in death clock. He was convinced that we would never be able to live past 120 years because of our telomere erosion.

      It should be noted that interestingly enough this 120 years is also the limit of life stated in the Bible: And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. Genesis 6.3

      But as you will see below, this limitation of life can be removed.

      Re-setting the Death Clock

      In 1982 Blackburn and Szostak added to Dr. Hayflick’s findings and presented their findings of how telomeres, the DNA caps on the end of chromosomes, protect our DNA chromosomes when cells divide.

      Then in 1984 Greider and Blackburn identified telomerase, the enzyme that activates and makes telomere DNA.

      Telomerase causes the telomeres to re-grow to replace the telomere length lost in the cell divisions.

      Age prevention programs can now use telomerase to maintain telomere length so that healthy cell division can continue indefinitely.

      Dr. Harley Makes Human Cells Immortal

      Dr. Harley of the Geron Corporation used telomerase to make human cells

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