Nefario's Regimen
~Introduction~
Greetings~!
I have decided to use this forum to post my regimen as it is currently today. My objectives with this topic are to keep an organised record of my regimen over a long period of time and to learn from other users in this topic and across the forums how to better my regimen. I am not favorable to blood-work for several reasons and thus periodic, detailed results cannot be given to aid in my account. I will however, report on the general details of my health. I am also happy to supply pictures.
~Physical Details~
Height - 6'0
Weight - 155lbs
White Male
27 years of Age
~Background~
i never ate particularly well growing up. i drank a lot of pop, i ate a lot of McDonalds, and chef boyardee.
Plenty of Kraft Dinner as well. So really, until i was about 23, or about in 2008
my diet was heavy on salt, sugar, carbs, and the stuff they stick in the cows ass before slaughtering it.
That's when i started to turn things around.
i did so slowly on a month to month basis. The first change i worked on was giving up meat.
i replaced it with various vegetarian products, keeping what i liked and discarding the rest. Mt general diet is still a work in progress but consists today largely of Tomato sauce pasta, an assortment of vegetarian substitute hot dogs, burgers, lunch meats, etc, Lentils, beans, peppers, soups, some dairy, some rice.
After some great effort, my sodium is under 80% daily average and my sugar is under 100 grams.
Fat content is also generally low as there is little of it in anything i eat currently.
My future goals are to take the breads and dairy out of my diet as well,
ultimately ending up with only fresh produce and perhaps some veggie dogs etc.
My regimen is based around a total lack of excersise. I keep active enough to avoid atrophy, but believe firmly that doing anything above and beyond normal routine to stay physically fit will only speed up the ageing process. I relate this to a brand new car. If you polish it and keep it protected in your garage and never drive it, it will look brand new in 50 years, but it will also have a dead battery. If you drive the **** out of it, it will wear down. So best just to take it easy, take care of it, and enjoy the ride.
~Running Hypothesis~
Indefinite Life Extension can be achieved by correctly pursuing and implementing three areas of maintenance.
#1) Restoration of Telomere base pairs much meet or exceed the average annual loss of base pairs. It is suggested that a healthy 20 year old has 8,000 base pairs available. He/She will then lose about 50-100 base pairs per year, however the margin of error in testing is +/- 500 base pairs. This suggests that someone who has periodically tested themselves since even as early as 2002, will still fall within the range of error. There is also limited supply of said test results to provide any serious conclusions thus far, nor should there be in such a new area of study that requires decades to provide legitimate human results. There is hope that certain new products could replenish base pairs very quickly, providing statistically significant results in only a few years. While this would be a tremendous discovery, i feel it is irrational to attempt turning back the clock 50 years in 5.
At an average loss of 80 base pairs per year, a person will lose just ONE base pair every fourth day. Research continues to shed light on various items in our diet which are Telomerase activators or inhibitors. Given the proposed average of 50-100 lost base pairs per year, could this simply be an average of the developed worlds diet? Prior to the 20th century, the vast majority of the population died long before they would reach an age of relative frailty we see in today's elders. They also did not have the resources that are available to us today. Those in developing countries still face death from a vast array of alternate sources. The 'known elderly population' such as those found in retirement homes is a very new concept. This portion of the population did not even exist in significant numbers until the last 50 years. Even those who have reached that age in the last 20 years, during which time such significant progress has been made in life extension, would not have had the education or resources to practice it at earlier more crucial times. Perhaps some have, but not in great enough number to be studied with significance yet today.
For one such as myself who is still in their twenties, or for one in their thirties or forties, it should simply be enough to break the zero barrier on telomere length. That is not to strive for 1,000 additional pairs per year, but to simply sustain a replacement quota for those base pairs lost to a proposed maximum of 50 - 100 base pairs per year. This small increase could still maintain indefinite life expectancy in particular regard to protecting genes.
I propose this can be done with proper diet modifications and supplementation based on proper education. On this it is very important that i learn as thoroughly as i can moving forward, what are activators and what are inhibitors of Telemorase.
#2) Sustaining crucial substances in the body which are limited resources. There is an extensive list of resources in the body which are needed on a daily basis, but are of a limited resource. In some obvious cases this can be Vitamin C. It is needed in regular quantity or a person will die, regardless of Telomere length. In other more long term applications, this can be DHEA. The body naturally makes it, and the population at large does not think to themselves each day, 'did i get enough DHEA today'? However, over the course of a lifetime, if this resource is not managed, and perhaps supplemented properly, a person will eventually die, even with sufficient Telomere length.
Thus i also propose to learn what these limited resources are and properly manage the maintenance of adequate levels of all critical substances in the long term.
#3) Avoid decapitation. Some environmental forces are simply too powerful to survive. An atomic bomb for instance, or a beheading. One must protect their body from these things as best as they can.
~Regimen March 2012~
Lecithin - 10 grams a day
Red Reishi - 500mg 5:1 ratio
Glutathione - 50mg
Ginseng - 1 gram 10:1 ratio
Astragalus Root - 3 Grams standardised 0.5%
Gotu Kola - 2 grams
Fo-Ti - 1 Gram
Calcium - 2-4 grams
Vitamin D - 3000 iu
Vitamin K = 300mcg
Standard MultiVitamin
There is no particular time in the day when these are taken. They are simply spaced out generally throughout the day. I do not believe 150 capsules of different things is remotely necessary for success. While i will for certain modify this as i continue to learn, i do not intend to be a pill popping fiend and thus by a general rule ... whatever i take must fit easily into a day without becoming a chore.
I'll leave it there for now. I'm happy to discuss and learn from any of you. Beyond that i will update from time to time. Thanks for reading.
Edited by NefarioCall, 18 March 2012 - 09:36 PM.
