tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30233585461316176232024-02-20T23:31:34.064-08:00120 AND BEYONDOptimal living for 120 years and beyond is now within reach. While the exact number of years may be uncertain, the outcome is clear, more than ever we can position ourselves for getting the most out of a longer life. Follow this blog to see how it can be done! This is not so much about longevity, it's about a longer HEALTHSPAN: healthy, meaningful, vigorous living!Toby Manzanareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12367776255770694264noreply@blogger.comBlogger38125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023358546131617623.post-53916692410233815782024-01-22T12:26:00.000-08:002024-01-22T12:26:32.020-08:00Slowing the Aging Process<p> <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2024/01/mitochondria-cells-aging-communication-worms/677203/">Mitochondrial clues to slow aging.</a></p><p>Nominated for discussion at an upcoming Tai Chi Salon.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Toby Manzanareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12367776255770694264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023358546131617623.post-86503992400459686802023-01-30T10:06:00.015-08:002023-01-30T16:41:27.868-08:00HOW TO AGE WELL STARTING IN YOUR 20'S<div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> INDEPENDENT LIVING</span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br />Most teenagers aspire to be on their own, to live a completely independent life. </span></div><div> </div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><em style="caret-color: rgb(59, 59, 59); color: #3b3b3b;"><span style="font-family: Bad Script; font-size: large;">"The essence of Independent living is the freedom to make decisions about your own life and to participate fully in your community.” -- John Evans</span></em></div></blockquote><p> </p><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Most teenagers aspire to be on their own, to live a completely independent life. And we want to have that freedom throughout our lifetime. As adults we loathe the thought of ever going back to having someone else make decisions for us.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">So here is a great way to hold on to the freedom of making your own decisions to 120&Beyond. Imagine your 120th birthday party skiing on the slopes of Mammoth Mountain or Park City.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/29/well/bone-health-hip-fractures-osteoporosis.html?action=click&pgtype=Article&state=default&module=styln-aging-guide&variant=show&region=BELOW_MAIN_CONTENT&block=storyline_flex_guide_recirc" style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="font-size: large;">Click HERE for: IT'S NEVER TO EARLY </span>(or too late)<span style="font-size: large;"> TO THINK ABOUT BONE HEALTH</span></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkCRPgYp8o9S7fF6gojPERm9agYR33C1buCc3jDNsD57Iue2PMXlkI4OjxeYMssZsusHEinUyMgBqgvnLwnyJjJTWIzqdLhb1_JwEJLrF_-0nAgbpXCGres464IJmHfg8Ag8cA0TfiZikT8r6MYWn5re1QzzpDvEt0nehee4dPxbDAxCoLMWIRpddW/s980/BONE1.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="572" data-original-width="980" height="187" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkCRPgYp8o9S7fF6gojPERm9agYR33C1buCc3jDNsD57Iue2PMXlkI4OjxeYMssZsusHEinUyMgBqgvnLwnyJjJTWIzqdLhb1_JwEJLrF_-0nAgbpXCGres464IJmHfg8Ag8cA0TfiZikT8r6MYWn5re1QzzpDvEt0nehee4dPxbDAxCoLMWIRpddW/s320/BONE1.png" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Photo Credit: NY Times</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">CREATE A PERSONAL WORK OUT PLAN </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">FOR EACH STAGE OF LIFE.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmzcN9DMMbk0ahDQVR9SLtqmtwzLvwggj2qMI-dY--cGF5_AzQo2UwngRCw52eibBJCpbVkHVFkz2YgQm4ny3op1kcRcNupaJOlyVgrVXc7QfO1A68l4rm8l_H9wa2-88LSR1rWIFsmGZgCThuUr52D6poU3p_KYWVwoCIXZ8pvW5AoBKVkOt51TSq/s734/WORKOUTplan.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="336" data-original-width="734" height="146" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmzcN9DMMbk0ahDQVR9SLtqmtwzLvwggj2qMI-dY--cGF5_AzQo2UwngRCw52eibBJCpbVkHVFkz2YgQm4ny3op1kcRcNupaJOlyVgrVXc7QfO1A68l4rm8l_H9wa2-88LSR1rWIFsmGZgCThuUr52D6poU3p_KYWVwoCIXZ8pvW5AoBKVkOt51TSq/s320/WORKOUTplan.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/guides/well/how-to-age-well?action=click&pgtype=Article&state=default&module=styln-aging-guide&variant=show&region=BELOW_MAIN_CONTENT&block=storyline_flex_guide_recirc">Click HERE for: HOW TO AGE WELL: STARTING IN YOUR 20'S</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">Includes:</span></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times;">"</span><span face=""Franklin Bold", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; letter-spacing: 0.2px;">Exercise for Younger Skin.</span></span><span face=""Imperial Regular", Arial, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-size: x-large; letter-spacing: 0.10000000149011612px;">Exercise not only helps keep the inside of your body healthy, it also appears to slow and even</span><span face=""Imperial Regular", Arial, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-size: x-large; letter-spacing: 0.10000000149011612px;"> </span><a href="https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/16/younger-skin-through-exercise/" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #056ca2; font-family: "Imperial Regular", Arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.10000000149011612px; outline: none; text-decoration: none;"><ins style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;">reverse </ins></a><span face=""Imperial Regular", Arial, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-size: x-large; letter-spacing: 0.10000000149011612px;">the effects of aging on your most visible organ — the skin. </span><span face=""Imperial Regular", Arial, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; letter-spacing: 0.10000000149011612px;">--Tara Parker-Pope</span></div></blockquote><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="https://archive.nytimes.com/well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/16/younger-skin-through-exercise/" style="font-family: times;">Click HERE for: YOUNGER SKIN THROUGH EXERCISE</a></span></p><p><br /></p><p><em style="caret-color: rgb(59, 59, 59); color: #3b3b3b;"><span style="font-family: Bad Script; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/06/well/mind/memory-loss-prevention.html?action=click&pgtype=Article&state=default&module=styln-aging-guide&variant=show&region=BELOW_MAIN_CONTENT&block=storyline_flex_guide_recirc">Click HERE for: A NEUROLOGIST'S TIPS TO PROTECT YOUR MEMORY</a></span></em></p><p><em style="caret-color: rgb(59, 59, 59); color: #3b3b3b;"><br /></em></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><em style="caret-color: rgb(59, 59, 59); color: #3b3b3b;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/02/15/well/eat/food-nutrition-aging.html?action=click&pgtype=Article&state=default&module=styln-aging-guide&variant=show&region=BELOW_MAIN_CONTENT&block=storyline_flex_guide_recirc">Click HERE for: SMALL CHANGES IN EATING HABITS CAN LOWER YOUR RISKS FOR MANY DISEASES</a></em></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #3b3b3b;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(59, 59, 59);"><i><br /></i></span></span><br /></span></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">On my reading list:</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/19/well/live/aging-tips-margareta-magnusson.html?campaign_id=190&emc=edit_ufn_20230129&instance_id=83985&nl=from-the-times&regi_id=191364986&segment_id=123856&te=1&user_id=a082f5af925d314b19f3050a085b4535">Click HERE for: HREE STEPS TO AGE EXUBERANTLY</a><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><p> </p><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Toby Manzanareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12367776255770694264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023358546131617623.post-53742464582074789802022-10-29T13:49:00.010-07:002022-10-29T14:56:19.993-07:00NATURE BASED GUIDED IMAGERY<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Nature Based Guided Imagery reduces anxiety, increases positive
pshchological health and wellbeing, enhances vitality,
happiness, positive mood and self esteem. See the two research studies
cited below. </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span> </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>This is the first of a collection of Relaxation experiences. Come back
often.</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span> </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><b>PROCEDURE:</b> Find a comfortable quiet place (in or out of doors).
Listening with headphones is recommended but not required. </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span> </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>A. Sit in a comfortable position with your back straight and your head
at the "balancing point" requiring the least amount of muscle power.
Start the video: allow your eyes to close (or watch the video and allow
your eyes to close at your discretion).
Follow the relaxation breathing activity.
Follow the muscle relaxation activiey. </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span> </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>B. As an alternative: listen to the sound track lying flat in a comfortable place. </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: courier;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='547' height='454' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzldmoBVBYo9qjRY8pNBpPDRKGgJ2RXMEh2k43p4YcV8brHbWl6zhPFb6wayShpgl6g-MfSAD3udWJznFswWw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: courier;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><b>HISTORY:</b> Just prior to a science test I would be asked by my students to "walk"
them through a 5 minute guided imagery and relaxation exercise so their
test performance would increase. I'd previously given them the data from
peer reviewed research like this one: </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span> </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>1. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10778243/
Today there is a greater need for anxiety and stress reduction thrdough
Nature Based Guided Imagery. This peer reviewed study provides the data
that illuminates the benefits of this activity. </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span> </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6176042/
Here is a quote Jessica Nguyen and Eric Brymer's research in the
National Institutes of Health Library of Medicine: </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span> </span></span></span></div><div style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Nature and Anxiety
Research indicates that nature can facilitate various positive
psychological health and wellbeing outcomes (Wheeler et al., 2012;
Carrus et al., 2017; Fabjanski and Brymer, 2017; Lawton et al., 2017;
Panno et al., 2017; Yeh et al., 2017; Schweitzer et al., 2018). For
example, experiences in nature have been shown to enhance vitality (Ryan
et al., 2010), happiness (Capaldi et al., 2014), mood and self-esteem
(Barton et al., 2011), and reduce stress (Kaplan, 1995).</span></span></span></div>Toby Manzanareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12367776255770694264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023358546131617623.post-50682989676463746222022-09-28T09:21:00.020-07:002022-09-28T12:43:48.794-07:00# 3: IS AN EARLY DINNER BETTER FOR A LONGER HEALTHSPAN?<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/newsroom/news-releases/research-story-tip-eating-a-late-meal-may-be-harmful-to-your-metabolic-health-particularly-for-early-birds">Click HERE for the ANSWER FROM JOHNS HOPKINS</a>**</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: large;">I’ll be 75 in a few days. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: large;">But today, I’m planning my 100th birthday party. You are all invited to join us for a week of skiing. As for the years inbetween, as my basketball Coach Bogdanoff would say: </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: large;">“Position is everything.”</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-large;">Doing the math gives me 25 years to plan the festivities. (Scroll down for the details.)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-large;">In the meantime, I’m following a few simple “best practices” to position myself for a </span><b style="font-family: courier;">longer health span</b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-large;"> to make that dream come true.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-large;">Using my own science based metric, “each day your dinner is taken early (4-6pm) adds an extra day to your health span.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-large;">Which brings us back to the latest research at Johns Hopkins....</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: large;">The Executive Summary:</span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div id="news-intro" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: large;">“Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers studied 20 healthy volunteers by giving them a m</span><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-large;">eal at a traditional hour (6 p.m.) or a meal at a later time of the day (10 p.m.). They found that when people ate later, they had higher spikes in blood sugar, slower fat breakdown and even increases in the stress hormone cortisol, believed to be a factor in promoting weight gain. When they looked more closely at different responses to the late meal, they found that people who normally went to bed early — so-called "early birds" — experienced an even bigger impact from eating late.”</span></div></div></blockquote><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>**Footnote: All the resources used in my blogs are highly vetted to bring to readers the most reliable information.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Toby Manzanareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12367776255770694264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023358546131617623.post-89731017230899102062022-09-23T07:12:00.018-07:002022-09-23T14:52:22.677-07:00THREE QUESTIONS: WHAT MEN LIVE BY AND OTHER PARABLES Contributed by Virginia <p style="text-align: left;"></p><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;">OUR COMMUNITY</span></b></div><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: x-large;"><div style="text-align: center;">Salon Discussion #1 Contributed by Virginia</div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: large;">The first discussion question we will discuss last: Why did Virginia bring to us this parable? <a href="https://chronospheric.blogspot.com">I bet the answer can be found by clicking HERE</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: x-large; font-weight: 700;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: x-large; font-weight: 700;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: x-large; font-weight: 700;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: x-large; font-weight: 700;">THE THREE QUESTIONS</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: x-large; font-weight: 700;">What Men Live by and other parables.</span></div><p></p><div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="font-size: large;">by Leo Tolstoy</span></span></p><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: x-large;">It once occurred to a certain king, that if he always knew the right time to begin everything; if he knew who were the right people to listen to, and whom to avoid, and, above all, if he always knew what was the most important thing to do, he would never fail in anything he might undertake.</span></div><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">And this thought having occurred to him, he had it proclaimed throughout his kingdom that he would give a great reward to any one who would teach him what wa</span><span style="font-size: large;">s <span style="background-color: #fcff01;">the right time for every action, and who were the most necessary people, and how he might know what was the most important thing to do.</span></span></div></span><p></p><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: x-large;">And learned men came to the King, but they all answered his questions differently.</span></div><span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: x-large;">In reply to the first question, some said that to know the right time for every action, one must draw up in advance, a table of days, months and years, and must live strictly according to it. Only thus, said they, could everything be done at its proper time. Others declared that it was impossible to decide beforehand the right time for every action; but that, not letting oneself be absorbed in idle pastimes, one should always attend to all that was going on, and then do what was most needful. Others, again, said that however attentive the King might be to what was going on, it was impossible for one man to decide correctly the right time for every action, but that he should have a Council of Wise Men, who would help him to fix the proper time for everything.</span></div><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: justify;">But then again others said there were some things which could not wait to be laid before a Council, but about which one had at once to decide whether to undertake them or not. But in order to decide that, one must know beforehand what was going to happen. It is only magicians who know that; and, therefore, in order to know the right time for every action, one must consult magicians.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Equally various were the answers to the <span style="background-color: #fcff01;">second question.</span> Some said, the people the King most needed were his councilors; others, the priests; others, the doctors; while some said the warriors were the most necessary.</div><span style="background-color: #fcff01;"><div style="text-align: justify;">To the third question, as to what was the most important occupation: some replied that the most important thing in the world was science. Others said it was skill in warfare; and others, again, that it was religious worship. All the answers being different, the King agreed with none of them, and gave the reward to none. </div></span></span></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: large;">But still wishing to find the right answers to his questions, <span style="background-color: #fcff01;">he decided to consult a hermit, widely renowned for his wisdom.</span></span></span></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAhlLSRcr50KUOkdkBd8uwLmdR_H6aIz3pYlDiRoC28KpnckibDxqeL1-79iSi60nSYJpEiCZSHM6Etm8OJJfMD878I8JfMmGwfQCJTLHpdXcXetARJBqNloGeHQuXFmUiAeda4tpXqICXYcbmR3-ihNVMzpKjJieSRk6ARzTxt329VfE4SLyhs5WP/s624/TOLSTOY1.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; font-family: -webkit-standard; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="624" data-original-width="412" height="670" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAhlLSRcr50KUOkdkBd8uwLmdR_H6aIz3pYlDiRoC28KpnckibDxqeL1-79iSi60nSYJpEiCZSHM6Etm8OJJfMD878I8JfMmGwfQCJTLHpdXcXetARJBqNloGeHQuXFmUiAeda4tpXqICXYcbmR3-ihNVMzpKjJieSRk6ARzTxt329VfE4SLyhs5WP/w442-h670/TOLSTOY1.png" width="442" /></a><span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: large;"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The hermit lived in a wood which he never quitted, and he received none but common folk. So the King put on simple clothes, and before reaching the hermit's cell dismounted from his horse, and, leaving his bodyguard behind, went on alone. When the King approached, the hermit was digging the ground in front of his hut. Seeing the King, he greeted him and went on digging. The hermit was frail and weak, and each time he stuck his spade into the ground and turned a little earth, he breathed heavily.</span></span></p><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: x-large;">The King went up to him and said: "I have come to you, wise hermit, to ask you to answer three questions: How can I learn to do the right thing at the right time? Who are the people I most need, and to whom should I, therefore, pay more attention than to the rest? And, what affairs are the most important and need my first attention?"</span></div><span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: x-large;">The hermit listened to the King, but answered nothing. He just spat on his hand and recommenced digging.</span></div><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: justify;">"You are tired," said the King, "let me take the spade and work awhile for you."</div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Thanks!" said the hermit, and, giving the spade to the King, he sat down on the ground.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">When he had dug two beds, the King stopped and repeated his questions. The hermit again gave no answer, but rose, stretched out his hand for the spade, and said, "Now rest awhile--and let me work a bit." But the King did not give him the spade, and continued to dig. One hour passed, and another. The sun began to sink behind the trees, and the King at last stuck the spade into the ground, and said, "I came to you, wise man, for an answer to my questions. If you can give me none, tell me so, and I will return home."</div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Here comes some one running," said the hermit, "let us see who it is."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-size: large;">The King turned round, and saw a bearded man come running out of the wood. The man held his hands pressed against his stomach, and blood was flowing from under them. When he reached the King, he fell fainting on the ground moaning feebly. The King and the hermit unfastened the man's clothing. There was a large wound in his stomach. The King washed it as best he could, and bandaged it with his handkerchief and with a towel the hermit had. Again and again the King washed and rebandaged the wound. At last the man revived and asked for something</span><span> </span></span>to drink. The King brought fresh water and gave it to him. Meanwhile the sun had set, and it had become cool. So the King, with the hermit's help, carried the wounded man into the hut and laid him on the bed. Lying on the bed the man closed his eyes and was quiet; but the King was so tired with his walk and with the work he had done, that he crouched down on the threshold, and also fell asleep--so soundly that he slept all through the short summer night. When he awoke in the morning, it was long before he could remember where he was, or who was the strange bearded man lying on the bed and gazing intently at him with shining eyes.</div></span></span><p></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 2"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: x-large;">"Forgive me!" said the bearded man in a weak voice, when he saw that the King was awake and was looking at him. "I do not know you, and have nothing to forgive you for," said the King.</span></div><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">"You do not know me, but I know you. I am that enemy of yours who swore to revenge himself on you, because you executed his brother and seized his property. I knew you had gone alone to see the hermit, and I resolved to kill you on your way back. But the day passed and you did not return. So I came out from my ambush to find you, and I came upon your bodyguard, and they recognized me, and wounded me. I escaped from them, but should have bled to death had you not dressed my wound. I wished to kill you, and you have saved my life. Now, if I live, and if you wish it, I will serve you as your most faithful slave, and will bid my sons do the same. Forgive me!"</span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: justify;">The King was very glad to have made peace with his enemy so easily, and to have gained him for a friend, and he not only forgave him, but said he would send his servants and his own physician to attend him, and promised to restore his property.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Having taken leave of the wounded man, the King went out into the porch and looked around for the hermit. Before going away he wished once more to beg an answer to the questions he had put. The hermit was outside, on his knees, sowing seeds in the beds that had been dug the day before. The King approached him, and said, <span style="background-color: #01ffff;">"For the last time, I pray you to answer my questions, wise man."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"You have already been answered!" said the hermit still crouching on his thin legs, and looking up at the King, who stood before him.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">"How answered? What do you mean?" asked the King.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fcff01;">"Do you not see," replied the hermit. "If you had not pitied my weakness yesterday, and had not dug these beds for me, but had gone your way, that man would have attacked you, and you would have repented of not having stayed with me. So the most important time was when you were digging the beds; and I was the most important man; and to do me good was your most important business. Afterwards, when that man ran to us, the most important time was when you were attending to him, for if you had not bound up his wounds he would have died without having made peace with you. So he was the most important man, and what you did for him was your most important business. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fcff01;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fcff01;">Remember then: there is only one time that is important -- and that is now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fcff01;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fcff01;">The most necessary man is he with whom you are, for no man knows whether he will ever have dealings with any one else.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fcff01;">And the most important thing to do is, to do good, because for that purpose alone was man sent into this life!"</span></div></span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #01ffff;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p><b style="font-family: georgia; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">HOW THIS PARABLE CONNECTS TO WHO WE ARE</span></b></p><p><b style="font-family: georgia; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Your thoughts here....</span></b></p><p><b style="font-family: georgia; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></p><p><b style="font-family: georgia; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></p><p><b style="font-family: georgia; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></p><p><b style="font-family: georgia; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></p><p><b style="font-family: georgia; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></p><p><b style="font-family: georgia; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></p><p><br /></p><p><b style="font-family: georgia; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Recommendations from our Community</span></b></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>1. How Do You Live </b>by Genzaburō Yoshino.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://japanblogbytoby.blogspot.com/2022/03/how-do-you-live.html" style="font-family: georgia; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Click HERE for a short description.</span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> It is such an important book Hayao Miyazaki, Japan's greatest director, came out of retirement to make this animated film for his grandson, as his way of saying:</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122;"> "Grandpa is moving onto the next world soon but he is leaving behind this film"</span><span style="text-align: center;">.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Coming soon, but on </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Polychronos time (non linear).</span><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: center;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: center;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: georgia; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">What film will you leave behind?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Do_You_Live%3F_(film)">Click HERE for a short description of the upcoming film.</a><br /></span></span></p></div></div></div>Toby Manzanareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12367776255770694264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023358546131617623.post-76434166985623290082022-09-10T12:05:00.010-07:002022-09-10T12:41:00.439-07:00SIX DIMENSIONS OF WELLNESS MODEL by Dr. Bill Hettler<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Contributed by Ron Cohan</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghjltP9gK4soJaBDLUfJ-Xu9CnmkyDPI-1pICFqhsjqGhWdI_Rtcz3bxe6gClQFMWe4z0q-1NO1ZoCMKOP71wr-8znvdtINOaOi7VJqg_SEclTRTB_EAHgDM6L6w-mXKPT8f8IJ283IHaCX4Bij5SRC9HqgsKAJAGNHj0XfHLk6YjGvDQ_QIzkjmfm/s3842/w1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3842" data-original-width="2865" height="796" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghjltP9gK4soJaBDLUfJ-Xu9CnmkyDPI-1pICFqhsjqGhWdI_Rtcz3bxe6gClQFMWe4z0q-1NO1ZoCMKOP71wr-8znvdtINOaOi7VJqg_SEclTRTB_EAHgDM6L6w-mXKPT8f8IJ283IHaCX4Bij5SRC9HqgsKAJAGNHj0XfHLk6YjGvDQ_QIzkjmfm/w594-h796/w1.jpg" width="594" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtTOLaPKSqHEI9nZRNTSvoIqrfuaIto30iXylCFLRa4wnJumW8jPeftUaAB80ysHV3Seq-vQbbXyuLASbkQU_MVlWzgqlwU_IwEXguEuazxGQHImXLeEfuYiBgp5-w_-7wPASSvlCJBQzg_ttrDXbz2vntk7DHS7yoO8ZmqnzPtFmTka6KYpmwfMBu/s3067/w2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3067" data-original-width="2689" height="677" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtTOLaPKSqHEI9nZRNTSvoIqrfuaIto30iXylCFLRa4wnJumW8jPeftUaAB80ysHV3Seq-vQbbXyuLASbkQU_MVlWzgqlwU_IwEXguEuazxGQHImXLeEfuYiBgp5-w_-7wPASSvlCJBQzg_ttrDXbz2vntk7DHS7yoO8ZmqnzPtFmTka6KYpmwfMBu/w593-h677/w2.jpg" width="593" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Thank you Ron Cohan.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTXjDrHjmFNxvXL65_tIvqz7I__7IFpvEQxLgqSUckAELQgE9eoF5Kn2iZQyJFRdVTujEG6jVJEfx26J7Wpbnvjdmj527iZfoZnVsYSVX9j8X7vkRwLN687uTF8xJnNS-wX5RSHrFAR1xHCXMGtKE5AFtsUFH6oKTRXXxLx3k_LcaUeIXzN1Cv83rR/s3842/w1.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a></div></div><br /><p><br /></p>Toby Manzanareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12367776255770694264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023358546131617623.post-31051211775809438482022-09-03T12:12:00.019-07:002022-09-11T13:05:11.127-07:00BRAIN/MUSCLE "CROSS TALK" for A LONGER HEALTHSPAN<p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><div style="font-family: courier;">HOW TO INCREASE THE HEALTH</div></span></div><span style="font-family: courier;"><div style="font-size: xx-large; text-align: center;">OF YOUR BRAIN</div></span><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">"There's a robust molecular language being spoken between your muscles and your brain. Exercise helps keep us fluent in that language, even into old age." --Bonnie Tsui</span></p></span></blockquote></blockquote><span style="font-family: courier;"><div style="font-size: xx-large; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><u>Old age is a slippery slope</u></i> because the definition of "old age" has shifted and will continue to slide as evidenced by memes like "50 is the new 30."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div></span><p></p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;">Much of what we're learning comes from accelerating advances in brain science. Let's give everyone a chance to read the following MIT Technology Review article, then we'll talk about it in a week or so. Take notes, bring them to our next meeting. --tnm</span><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpqShQ7_Ep7lrljxIN9T7MRrZWMD2VTZ-xPYnIeOKi5sOEZoIrjAZLs8iqmi36-UW6TtVJM-H88sX3pM3xmWot4AnDGGK90Ii7vNrknzfeA6rA-QqW6vIj6GYgipOR7l1uLY4BRc2TxZ0YUDaEgzCajfQMCyHaatajhbe47Zbrdh_SFd6y1CV_mWEa/s3742/brainMuscle.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3742" data-original-width="2964" height="752" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpqShQ7_Ep7lrljxIN9T7MRrZWMD2VTZ-xPYnIeOKi5sOEZoIrjAZLs8iqmi36-UW6TtVJM-H88sX3pM3xmWot4AnDGGK90Ii7vNrknzfeA6rA-QqW6vIj6GYgipOR7l1uLY4BRc2TxZ0YUDaEgzCajfQMCyHaatajhbe47Zbrdh_SFd6y1CV_mWEa/w595-h752/brainMuscle.jpg" width="595" /></a></span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><span><div style="font-size: xx-large; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: xx-large; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: xx-large; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: xx-large; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: xx-large; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: xx-large; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: xx-large; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: xx-large; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: xx-large; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: xx-large; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: xx-large; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: xx-large; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: xx-large; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: xx-large; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: xx-large; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: xx-large; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: xx-large; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: xx-large; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Source: MIT <span>Technology Review Vol.125 Number 5 Sep/Oct 2022</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://tobysbrainblog2.blogspot.com">Click HERE for how an MIT research scientist has discovered a new approach for treating Alzheimer's</a></span></div><div style="font-size: xx-large; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: xx-large; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: xx-large; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: xx-large; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: xx-large; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: xx-large; text-align: center;"><br /></div></span></span></div><p></p><p></p>Toby Manzanareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12367776255770694264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023358546131617623.post-34756528803258389002022-06-18T12:12:00.001-07:002022-06-18T12:12:21.468-07:00FOUR STYLES OF TAI CHI<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/fc3w827kwyA" width="320" youtube-src-id="fc3w827kwyA"></iframe></div><br /> <p></p>Toby Manzanareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12367776255770694264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023358546131617623.post-55318606424056657832022-03-29T13:49:00.017-07:002022-03-31T09:24:33.458-07:00DISCOVERY OF THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Cormorant Garamond; font-size: medium;">There are two million people over the age of 90 living in Japan, an uplifting 2% of the population. Maybe they’ve discovered the Fountain of Youth. I wonder if it has anything to do with the experiences I’ve had in Japan that lead me to place it, head and shoulders, above other countries I have visited in the category of <b>Kindness.</b></span></div><p style="text-align: justify;">If pressed to share one thing to do to live a longer health span, I’d say: “Spend more time in Japan.”</p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Cormorant Garamond";">Painting by Cranach 1546</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXTFkOjxVICqKq3cp-FZMOFGpDLTUU-KWPHHsR8DjTp5jxfHjOI8h2N6SwRQNkmVsxG4cCIndWrzdLSu56D8ob_-1Vd5gmNoYaSdajWD6nKj6NwPxD1TzkxOm79-bEfmcl8r9wVHQUEPMq6o2SC9ZBtab_g_pDmDiOrjZZTiY75ourdS2IIFntrthg/s1695/Cranach%201546.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1096" data-original-width="1695" height="386" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXTFkOjxVICqKq3cp-FZMOFGpDLTUU-KWPHHsR8DjTp5jxfHjOI8h2N6SwRQNkmVsxG4cCIndWrzdLSu56D8ob_-1Vd5gmNoYaSdajWD6nKj6NwPxD1TzkxOm79-bEfmcl8r9wVHQUEPMq6o2SC9ZBtab_g_pDmDiOrjZZTiY75ourdS2IIFntrthg/w599-h386/Cranach%201546.png" width="599" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Cormorant Garamond;"><br /></span><p></p><div><span style="font-family: Cormorant Garamond;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Cormorant Garamond"; font-size: large;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fountain_of_Youth_(Cranach)" style="font-family: "Cormorant Garamond";">Click HERE for details</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: "Cormorant Garamond"; font-size: large; text-align: justify;">THE METAPHOR: Nine journeys I’ve had to Japan. Looking back, I feel like those depicted on the left side of the painting: stressed and weary. And like those wading across the pool of the fountain of youth, by the time I leave Japan, I feel rejuvenated and that the world is the way it ought to be.</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: "Cormorant Garamond"; font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Cormorant Garamond; font-size: medium;"><b>I hope you’re a little skeptical. So I’ve engineered a 10 day experiment: Patricia and I are planning a 10 day Autumn Changing of the Seasons trip to Japan November 2023. Spend 10 days in Japan as part of this experiment to see for yourself why the Japanese live a longer, happier health span.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>Toby Manzanareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12367776255770694264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023358546131617623.post-58116327213738268842022-02-24T15:06:00.026-08:002022-02-25T07:41:43.454-08:00120 and BEYOND INAUGURAL INTERVIEW WITH JOE RUPP<p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Okinawa is one of the <a href="https://buildyourownbluezone.blogspot.com/2019/02/7-elements-in-creating-your-own-blue.html">Blue Zones</a> where it’s common for people to live actively beyond 100. To understand how they do it, a few interviews would shed light on this growing phenomenon.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjaYeNJSPlC1yug4lw5xzR8qie3qTfglaz4fIT9UfRV2Cdi8McXtRre49kv8r3UoqWmYEGWBb17mYCXxZ9SyaSH_TwFoYHuWSSkU4KPckyoSNGDXos4cGAhqmi8hyFo-RiWjfLfXnM4X__7gRA5BFj5xCdDiByM7ciBec9dotH2XyBNMUaCfsoMP0uu=s835" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="419" data-original-width="835" height="295" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjaYeNJSPlC1yug4lw5xzR8qie3qTfglaz4fIT9UfRV2Cdi8McXtRre49kv8r3UoqWmYEGWBb17mYCXxZ9SyaSH_TwFoYHuWSSkU4KPckyoSNGDXos4cGAhqmi8hyFo-RiWjfLfXnM4X__7gRA5BFj5xCdDiByM7ciBec9dotH2XyBNMUaCfsoMP0uu=w585-h295" width="585" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">While waiting for Okinawa to reopen for visitors from the U.S., there are others nearby we can tap. Joe Rupp for example. Click on the video below to listen to his plan for an active HEALTHSPAN Beyond 100.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="414" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Bx-0wP7qSoc" width="498" youtube-src-id="Bx-0wP7qSoc"></iframe></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Along the way to 120 and Beyond it’s important to<span style="color: #2b00fe;"> <a href="http://120andbeyond.blogspot.com/2020/11/taking-care-of-your-brain-by-counting.html">take care of your brain</a></span><span style="color: #ff00fe;">.</span> When you visit a Blue Zone you’ll notice people walking much more than what is common in the United States. So STRATEGY #1 is a way to increase the number of steps you take each day. I challenged my family to track their steps with me. I volunteered to enter the data on a spread sheet that talleys our steps by the day, month and year. It also will do a lifetime total going forward. </span><a href="http://120andbeyond.blogspot.com/2020/11/taking-care-of-your-brain-by-counting.html" style="font-family: georgia;">Click HERE for STRATEGY #1</a><span style="font-family: georgia;">. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">THE RESEARCH</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>Blue Zone characteristics for a longer health-span.</span>A TED Talk by Amy Tomczyk. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CpCZ0DBbCOE" width="507" youtube-src-id="CpCZ0DBbCOE"></iframe></div><br /><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">How to Live to be 100+. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Dan Buettner:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">the author of the best selling book <i>Blue Zones</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="417" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ff40YiMmVkU" width="502" youtube-src-id="ff40YiMmVkU"></iframe></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Toby Manzanareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12367776255770694264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023358546131617623.post-4037735557192026912021-11-16T19:51:00.008-08:002021-12-06T12:36:02.402-08:00Practice Tai Chi at Home<p style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Tai Chi teaches Mindfulness, and a not-so-obvious effortless effort ... <br /></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">not visible when you just watch Tai Chi. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">This is an excellent video for first timers to practice Tai Chi. Bring this up on your flat screen and follow along. </span></p><p style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">#1 Simplified 24 Tai Chi Routine.<br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/IEJLM29ITMw" width="320" youtube-src-id="IEJLM29ITMw"></iframe></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">#2 Narrated Tai Chi Routine coming soon.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Each position has a name that will help you learn the routine.</span></div></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">My next goal, Chen Style 73 Competition double jump</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VUMfXBw-WW0" width="320" youtube-src-id="VUMfXBw-WW0"></iframe></div><div><br /></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;">Double Jump isolation</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/lyxMGlXOu_E" width="320" youtube-src-id="lyxMGlXOu_E"></iframe></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>Toby Manzanareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12367776255770694264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023358546131617623.post-89746374858508578652021-11-01T20:42:00.062-07:002021-11-12T10:24:44.866-08:00The Importance of the Lymphatic System for Longevity and a Longer Health Span: <p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Monday, November 1, 2021</b></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Following Tai Chi exercise on the beach this morning our group gathered for coffee and conversation. When you examine <a href="https://120andbeyond.blogspot.com/2019/02/what-do-blue-zones-have-in-common-first.html">Blue Zones</a> around the world, places where it’s common for people to live actively beyond 100, a common characteristic they share is an unusually high level of community interaction. So our Tai Chi coffee and conversation group is building our very own personal <a href="https://120andbeyond.blogspot.com/2019/02/what-do-blue-zones-have-in-common-first.html">Blue Zone (click HERE for more)</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Our Tai Chi chat jumped across an encyclopedia of topics from the evolution of kanji and learning new languages to a podcast by Dr. Lemole and Dr. Oz. I took a special interest in this podcast about the lymphatic system because it informs our effort to increase <b>health-span</b>.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></span></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div style="text-align: left;">Our lymphatic system removes impurities and waste products from the fluids that surround our cells, protecting us from toxins and maintaining our immune system other anatomical systems at their best. I just learned that when the lymphatic system is blocked from doing its job, maladies like alzheimer’s have nothing to hold them back.</div></span></div></blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>November 3,</b> just finished the informative podcast which is so interesting, we can add it to our “book club” list of topics. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Take notes, and we’ll gather back together for a discussion of<br /><div><span style="text-align: center;">THE HEALTH-SPAN ENCYCLOPAEDIA. </span></div></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222; font-family: Times; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222; font-family: Times; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">1. B</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">ecause the podcast overflows with too many anatomy and physiology terms, </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">it will help to first watch this <u>introductory</u> video from the </span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>National Institute of Neruological Disorders and Stroke.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222; font-family: Times; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222; font-family: Times; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Dr. Daniel Reich from NINDS discusses how our brains may drain waste through lymphatic vessels, the body’s under studied clean up system.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Times;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="326" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/T9y_5vzJZtk" width="392" youtube-src-id="T9y_5vzJZtk"></iframe></div></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/why-our-neglected-lymph-system-is-a-key-to-optimal/id1382804627?i=1000539788039"><span>2. Now click HERE for the Podcast: The Key to Optimal Health</span></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">By: <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/why-our-neglected-lymph-system-is-a-key-to-optimal/id1382804627?i=1000539788039"><span>Dr. Oz and Dr. Lemole</span></a><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: 400; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> The first segment (4 minutes) is largely advertising. As time is precious you can “fast forward” using the time bar at the bottom of the podcast by moving the scrubber to 4:00. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: 400; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia;">This podcast comes </span><u style="color: black; font-family: georgia;">recommended</u><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia;"> by: _____ ______ <span>(waiting for permission).</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><br /></p><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">This is an introduction to the importance of the lymphatic system. We will dive deeper into this ocean of lymph to learn how it will contribute to our <b>healthspan,</b> what I used to call longevity.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div style="color: black; font-family: Times;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The brain depends on the lymphatic system to remove toxins, and other molecules that contribute, for example, to Alzheimer amyloid plaques.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; font-family: Times; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2kIgnezWKWOvTqXCz8e1BMY0gZzbS31YeNfnMzgBSReiboy2BP3bUN_oMaSW2pf1wOlPERyHiKxwedALhyphenhyphenplpJx7dC3kcAlRptYM419ZXliA11mRCAl71jhGsa9izvgSok5sKKbgn7l4/s1582/lymph1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="707" data-original-width="1582" height="143" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2kIgnezWKWOvTqXCz8e1BMY0gZzbS31YeNfnMzgBSReiboy2BP3bUN_oMaSW2pf1wOlPERyHiKxwedALhyphenhyphenplpJx7dC3kcAlRptYM419ZXliA11mRCAl71jhGsa9izvgSok5sKKbgn7l4/s320/lymph1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; font-family: Times; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; font-family: Times; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.uc.edu/content/dam/uc/ce/docs/OLLI/Page%20Content/OLLI%20iNTRODUCTION%20TO%20THE%20BODY.pdf">Click HERE: Human Organ Systems (pages 30-46)</a></div></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div></div>Toby Manzanareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12367776255770694264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023358546131617623.post-23008914077051682072021-11-01T20:27:00.051-07:002021-11-11T10:01:46.391-08:00CRISPER AND HEALTHSPAN <div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">“If you could only read one book this year, </span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;">this should be the one.” -tnm</div></span></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">If you haven’t already read the early signs, the newest chapter on Human Evolution is being written and it all starts with a lesson learned from bacteria. You see, </span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">bacteria </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">“learned” how to block viral attacks and have been fending off viruses (known as phages or bacteriophages) for about three billion years. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">So bacteria, it turns out “remember” viral attacks by snipping a segment of phage DNA which gives these bacteria an acquired immunity against that specific virus. It’s a bacterial way of taking a “DNA mug shot” of an attacking virus for future use for 3 billion years!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">It took a very long time for humans to notice but it was Francisco Mojica (the University of Alicante, Spain) who discovered the first clue about how this was done. Mojica spotted 14 identical DNA sequence <b>c</b>lusters <b>r</b>epeated at <b>r</b>egular<b> i</b>ntervals in a single celled species he was studying. He wanted to know more about this organism (without a nucleus) that enables it to survive in water 12 times saltier than the ocean. Its DNA sequences were <b>p</b>alindromic, they read both ways like the words madam, kayak, rotor, civic and radar. Here’s the bottom line, Mojica discovered in it’s DNA... <b>C</b>lustered <b>R</b>egularly <b>I</b>nterspaced <b>S</b>hort <b>P</b>alendromic <b>R</b>epeats ... In 2001 he coined the term: <b>CRISPR.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQsxs6VwBXjZHyDDaFkjmdGIKWZmIfnP9aT0-ygJKxtR32uYMFMgP3YOR1_jN4ubm2WqEeu1k6eRF2OZ5EZzqcFA3mUjd_dZg8rMzKEyIS5VFqjDJFA-5Scw_yyaZM1JFD7GKDupbGAWc/s825/DOUDNA.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="825" data-original-width="550" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQsxs6VwBXjZHyDDaFkjmdGIKWZmIfnP9aT0-ygJKxtR32uYMFMgP3YOR1_jN4ubm2WqEeu1k6eRF2OZ5EZzqcFA3mUjd_dZg8rMzKEyIS5VFqjDJFA-5Scw_yyaZM1JFD7GKDupbGAWc/w213-h320/DOUDNA.png" width="213" /></a><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;">But what’s this have to do with the future of human evolution? This is where Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier step into the story along with the ghost of Rosalind Franklin.</span><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">This is one of those uncommon books that is on my <u>Must Read List of Recommendations. </u></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">It introduces CRISPER as the newest tool in our collection: HEALTH-SPAN ENCYCLOPAEDIA. I’m reading the last chapters now and can’t wait to share with you the interesting and species changing events that are beginning to unfold as I pen these words. CRISPER is a relatively easy to use tool that can be used to edit DNA.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">C cytosine, U uracil, G guanine, A adenine (found in RNA)<br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">C cytosine, U uracil, G guanine, A adenine, and T thymine (found in DNA)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">A snippet of corona virus RNA </span></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div><p style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">CCUCGGCGGGCA</span></b><span style="font-family: georgia;">CGUAGUGUAGCUAGUCAAUCCAUCAUUGCCUACACUAUGUCACUUGGUGCAGAAAAUUC. </span></p></div></blockquote></blockquote><div><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">This is part of a string that codes for making the protein spikes that inspires the name corona virus.<span style="color: #01ffff;"> </span><a href="https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/tutorials/NHANES-CMS/Determine/ApproximateAnalyticSample/frame2_medicaid.htm"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Click HERE for an image.</span></a> The first 12 base letters (in bold) is the part of the viral RNA sequence that binds this virus to human cells. These 12 letters spell our current pandemic. Were there to be a typographic error in this sequence, there would be no COVID-19.</span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Steve Wozniak and his Homebrew Computer Club hacker friends in the early days before personal computers triggered an unparalleled technological revolution, that pales by comparison to what’s coming next, The Biological Revolution. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Internet startups sang the praises of their mantra: “Move fast and break things.” Which has heaped a raft of unintended consequences and vexing problems, a toxic wasteland, that could have been avoided had many of the early tech industry leaders followed a more mindful philosophy. But too many IT CEO’s were seduced by unimaginable profits, often at the expense of the human race. Ethical considerations were trumped by profit taking on a grand scale.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">The good news is that the new biological revolution is being guided by a different mantra, this time there is full attention given to ethical questions which illuminates the discussion. The leaders of this new revolution come with a moral compass like Jennifer Doudna, and Emmanuelle Charpentier who are guiding the way forward. I’m thankful we’re in good hands.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Read:</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: georgia; font-size: 28px;">The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: georgia;"> </span><a class="a-link-normal contributorNameID" data-asin="B000APFLB8" href="https://www.amazon.com/Walter-Isaacson/e/B000APFLB8/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #007185; font-family: georgia; text-decoration-line: none;">By Walter Isaacson</a></p><div class="celwidget" data-cel-widget="titleblock_feature_div" data-csa-c-id="g6h6b5-moz8nw-2queh0-iukcso" data-feature-name="titleblock" id="titleblock_feature_div" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px;"><div class="a-section a-spacing-none" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;"><div><span class="author notFaded" data-width="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="author notFaded" data-width="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Isaacson’s everyday readable rendering of extremely technical science is an enormous accomplishment. Complex science made completely understandable! </span></span></div><div><span class="author notFaded" data-width="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="author notFaded" data-width="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Let’s put Code Breaker on our HEALTH-SPAN BOOK CLUB READING LIST. Become part of the CRISPER Human Genome dialog.</span></span></div><div><span class="author notFaded" data-width="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px;"><div class="celwidget" data-cel-widget="titleblock_feature_div" data-csa-c-id="g6h6b5-moz8nw-2queh0-iukcso" data-feature-name="titleblock" id="titleblock_feature_div" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="a-section a-spacing-none" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;"><h1 class="a-spacing-none a-text-normal" id="title" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 28px; line-height: 36px; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><br /></h1></div></div></span></div><div><span class="author notFaded" data-width="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">HERE’S THE BOOK BLURB</span></span></div></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="celwidget" data-cel-widget="titleblock_feature_div" data-csa-c-id="g6h6b5-moz8nw-2queh0-iukcso" data-feature-name="titleblock" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px;"><div class="a-section a-spacing-none" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;"><div><span class="author notFaded" data-width="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px;"><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The bestselling author of <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Leonardo da Vinci</i> and <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Steve Jobs</i> returns with a “compelling” (<i style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Washington Post</i>) account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and have healthier babies.</span></span></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="celwidget" data-cel-widget="titleblock_feature_div" data-csa-c-id="g6h6b5-moz8nw-2queh0-iukcso" data-feature-name="titleblock" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><div class="a-section a-spacing-none" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;"><div><span class="author notFaded" data-width="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;" /></span></div></div></div><div class="celwidget" data-cel-widget="titleblock_feature_div" data-csa-c-id="g6h6b5-moz8nw-2queh0-iukcso" data-feature-name="titleblock" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><div class="a-section a-spacing-none" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;"><div><span class="author notFaded" data-width="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px;"><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif">When Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade, she came home one day to find that her dad had left a paperback titled </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;">The Double Helix</i><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif"> on her bed. She put it aside, thinking it was one of those detective tales she loved. When she read it on a rainy Saturday, she discovered she was right, in a way. As she sped through the pages, she became enthralled by the intense drama behind the competition to discover the code of life. Even though her high school counselor told her girls didn’t become scientists, she decided she would.</span></span></div></div></div></blockquote><div class="celwidget" data-cel-widget="titleblock_feature_div" data-csa-c-id="g6h6b5-moz8nw-2queh0-iukcso" data-feature-name="titleblock" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><div class="a-section a-spacing-none" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;"><div><span class="author notFaded" data-width="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;" /></span></div></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="celwidget" data-cel-widget="titleblock_feature_div" data-csa-c-id="g6h6b5-moz8nw-2queh0-iukcso" data-feature-name="titleblock" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><div class="a-section a-spacing-none" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="author notFaded" data-width="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px;"><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif">Driven by a passion to understand how nature works and to turn discoveries into inventions, she would help to make what the book’s author, James Watson, told her was the most important biological advance since his codiscovery of the structure of DNA. She and her collaborators turned a curiosity of nature into an invention that will transform the human race: an easy-to-use tool that can edit DNA. Known as CRISPR, it opened a brave new world of medical miracles and moral questions.</span></span></div></div></div></blockquote><div class="celwidget" data-cel-widget="titleblock_feature_div" data-csa-c-id="g6h6b5-moz8nw-2queh0-iukcso" data-feature-name="titleblock" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><div class="a-section a-spacing-none" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;"><div><span class="author notFaded" data-width="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;" /></span></div></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="celwidget" data-cel-widget="titleblock_feature_div" data-csa-c-id="g6h6b5-moz8nw-2queh0-iukcso" data-feature-name="titleblock" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><div class="a-section a-spacing-none" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="author notFaded" data-width="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px;"><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif">The development of CRISPR and the race to create vaccines for coronavirus will hasten our transition to the next great innovation revolution. The past half-century has been a digital age, based on the microchip, computer, and internet. Now we are entering a life-science revolution. Children who study digital coding will be joined by those who study genetic code.</span></span></div></div></div></blockquote><div class="celwidget" data-cel-widget="titleblock_feature_div" data-csa-c-id="g6h6b5-moz8nw-2queh0-iukcso" data-feature-name="titleblock" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><div class="a-section a-spacing-none" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;"><div><span class="author notFaded" data-width="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;" /></span></div></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="celwidget" data-cel-widget="titleblock_feature_div" data-csa-c-id="g6h6b5-moz8nw-2queh0-iukcso" data-feature-name="titleblock" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><div class="a-section a-spacing-none" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="author notFaded" data-width="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px;"><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif">Should we use our new evolution-hacking powers to make us less susceptible to viruses? What a wonderful boon that would be! And what about preventing depression? Hmmm…Should we allow parents, if they can afford it, to enhance the height or muscles or IQ of their kids?</span></span></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="celwidget" data-cel-widget="titleblock_feature_div" data-csa-c-id="g6h6b5-moz8nw-2queh0-iukcso" data-feature-name="titleblock" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><div class="a-section a-spacing-none" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;"><div><span class="author notFaded" data-width="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;" /></span></div></div></div><div class="celwidget" data-cel-widget="titleblock_feature_div" data-csa-c-id="g6h6b5-moz8nw-2queh0-iukcso" data-feature-name="titleblock" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><div class="a-section a-spacing-none" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;"><div><span class="author notFaded" data-width="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px;"><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif">After helping to discover CRISPR, Doudna became a leader in wrestling with these moral issues and, with her collaborator Emmanuelle Charpentier, won the Nobel Prize in 2020. Her story is an “enthralling detective story” (</span><i style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;">Oprah Daily</i><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif">) that involves the most profound wonders of nature, from the origins of life to the future of our species.</span></span></div></div></div></blockquote><p> </p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://science.thewire.in/the-sciences/how-a-battleground-between-bacteria-and-viruses-is-being-used-for-human-health/"><span style="font-size: medium;">Click HERE for another excellent explanation by Ananya Sen</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">a kind of bacterial/viral version of Capture The Flag.</div><p><br /></p><h1 class="a-spacing-none a-text-normal" id="title" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 28px; line-height: 36px; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">DISCUSSION COMING SOON.</span></h1></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7z5rIWRJlbk3MkqKd4k2zF6xMteRVJklmAdbQDP0u2uAz3eeH5hZt52i_BFEqaaA5MGUPzZ4__6OAM2_uz2g6PRQMfPs2AsiBYHyjU96Pa3kIGonc7crREMJ7eRhEDXOFYKrNn1dRQjQ/s563/Covid19.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="318" data-original-width="563" height="181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7z5rIWRJlbk3MkqKd4k2zF6xMteRVJklmAdbQDP0u2uAz3eeH5hZt52i_BFEqaaA5MGUPzZ4__6OAM2_uz2g6PRQMfPs2AsiBYHyjU96Pa3kIGonc7crREMJ7eRhEDXOFYKrNn1dRQjQ/s320/Covid19.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div>Toby Manzanareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12367776255770694264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023358546131617623.post-83609704714931183742021-08-04T11:35:00.037-07:002021-11-09T11:25:37.328-08:00Can neurons be stimulated to regrow?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">A SHARPER MIND: TAI CHI CAN IMPROVE COGNITIVE FUNCTION</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Harvard Health Publishing article forwarded by Bill Steel</span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Research now shows that the brain has the ability to grow new cells, and make new connections throughout your entire healthspan. Various forms of exercise including Tai Chi can help improve executive function.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ1jLBP58Ow8vF1MDdxfs_k-v9jJIWrLMilPFvp5SXCf_9qCJRXnJ7Uv4833usIfVUHRjxyxz57DsLrNubEUxwAfPWHg3VmzjYJ7yYN94WmE-DveXu0_VP9rmEhuYZ_1UKahuXGF93hUk/s2363/TaiChi2.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="591" data-original-width="2363" height="148" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ1jLBP58Ow8vF1MDdxfs_k-v9jJIWrLMilPFvp5SXCf_9qCJRXnJ7Uv4833usIfVUHRjxyxz57DsLrNubEUxwAfPWHg3VmzjYJ7yYN94WmE-DveXu0_VP9rmEhuYZ_1UKahuXGF93hUk/w590-h148/TaiChi2.png" width="590" /></a></div><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;" trbidi="on"><br /></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: justify;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: georgia; text-align: left;">“</span><span style="color: #1e1e1e; font-family: "Roboto Slab", "Times New Roman", Times, serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 20px; text-align: left;">In one study, researchers had nearly 400 Chinese men and women with some cognitive impairment perform either tai chi or a stretching and toning program three times a week. After a year, the tai chi group showed greater improvements, and only 2% of that group progressed to dementia, while 11% from the traditional exercise group did.”</span></div></div></blockquote></blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> <u style="font-family: georgia; text-align: center;">1. <a href="https://www.health.harvard.edu/mind-and-mood/a-sharper-mind-tai-chi-can-improve-cognitive-function"><span style="font-size: medium;">Click HERE for Tai Chi & Cognition </span></a></u></div><div style="text-align: center;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.health.harvard.edu/mind-and-mood/a-sharper-mind-tai-chi-can-improve-cognitive-function"><span style="font-size: medium;">from Harvard Health Publishing</span></a><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: georgia;">This article is an analysis of 20 studies of Tai Chi and cognition.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;" trbidi="on"><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;" trbidi="on">Vince teaching Tai Chi on his 88th birthday.</div></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDYVClQjbhA6Nxs5kOHicsFpVSa6z1y-7mAugIpaxDVMn8PL39fWbkilQ0Nz8bZOjrZb69LJv4XNNkNkfyTiysp8GFyEHkh19OuFTgLWz0n2zaPtGMQahYkZ8nyMF9nGHb4mGlqmmfoGU/s1600/IMG_1124.jpg" style="font-family: Times; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="365" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDYVClQjbhA6Nxs5kOHicsFpVSa6z1y-7mAugIpaxDVMn8PL39fWbkilQ0Nz8bZOjrZb69LJv4XNNkNkfyTiysp8GFyEHkh19OuFTgLWz0n2zaPtGMQahYkZ8nyMF9nGHb4mGlqmmfoGU/s400/IMG_1124.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Vince teaches Tai Chi on the beach.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kSwfkV3ucQc" width="320" youtube-src-id="kSwfkV3ucQc"></iframe></div></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/3023358546131617623/6637703415230248757"><span style="font-size: medium;">Click HERE for two more Tai Chi lessons</span></a><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: georgia;">2. On another line of research, there is a long history of using mushrooms as medicine in Japan, Korea, and China to enhance and protect innate defense mechanisms of the human body which are not found in western medicine. For example: </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: georgia;">A globular, cascading icicle-forming mushroom when cooked tastes like lobster or shrimp. Lion’s mane mushroom researcher Kara-Jiishi discovered in 1993 in Japan that this mushroom stimulates nerves to regrow.</span></div></blockquote></blockquote><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: georgia;">More coming soon. Stay tuned.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: georgia;">See also Dr. Juan R. Sanchez-Ramos. Department of Neurology, University of South Florida... Neurogenesis, the regrowing of neurons when treated with psilocybin.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://120andbeyond.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-size: large;">Click HERE to go the most recent articles.</span></a><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div>
Toby Manzanareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12367776255770694264noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023358546131617623.post-81241063501250305592020-11-17T12:25:00.018-08:002021-11-01T22:03:53.432-07:00Taking Care of Your Brain While Increasing Your HealthSpan by Counting Your Steps ... for Linda and Roy<p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Health span. Increasing the span of healthy/active living.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Step #1</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">An excellent way to keep your brain healthy for 120 And Beyond is daily exercise and the Mind Diet as described <a href="https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-healthy-eating/in-depth/improve-brain-health-with-the-mind-diet/art-20454746">HERE by the Mayo Clinic</a>. The human brain makes up 2% of body's weight but consumes 20% of the body's oxygen supply. Our brains high oxygen demand is so important that it employs drastic measures like <a href="https://www.webmd.com/brain/understanding-fainting-basics#1" target="_blank">fainting</a> to restore circulation and proper oxygen delivery to the brain.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">My cardiologist has ordered me to 5-6 days of cardio per week [includes walking]. Cardio vascular activity, like walking or cycling stimulates the heart to increase blood flow and 20% of that increased oxygen supply is gobbled up by your brain! I'm up to about 5 days of cardio per week.</span></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghyphenhyphen17OsQbkB6_mR7a9otyx7IOXjz88LpnIMNW1lFVfsgl4f3ES9xOzCPnCE9-D-uTJIqoCe-BSwaQD02C4inp3xoxbra3jU__8vIvI7hqd7nQgMnPUKJy2iMPofBcWKnGvx4lhKFxFPoE/" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="386" data-original-width="246" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghyphenhyphen17OsQbkB6_mR7a9otyx7IOXjz88LpnIMNW1lFVfsgl4f3ES9xOzCPnCE9-D-uTJIqoCe-BSwaQD02C4inp3xoxbra3jU__8vIvI7hqd7nQgMnPUKJy2iMPofBcWKnGvx4lhKFxFPoE/" width="153" /></a></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">My wearable device tracks my daily steps then sends them to the Activity App on my phone. This works for androids too. From there, I enter the daily total on the custom spreadsheet below. This spreadsheet tallies my steps by the week month and year. I've been tracking my steps since September 17, 2015.</span></p><p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Why bother? Beginning in 2015 my step count averaged between 103,000 to 124,000 steps per month. Along the way I noticed a tendency to want to increase my monthly step count and I'm betting that will extend my health span further into the future. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">In June of 2021, I challenged my family to track steps with me by posting our steps onto a spreadsheet. That month my total was 224,056 steps. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">June: 224,056</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">July: 308,973 </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">August: 351,486 </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">September: 334,383</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Once other family members were part of the process, my numbers jumped an additional 100,000 steps per month. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">It takes three months to change a new behavior into a habit. I’m testing this hypothesis. I wonder if these new numbers are sustainable. If so I expect an accompanying increase in health span.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYq0l7j_fscE4vjgqchBe4ItYm3M4349D3KzZw9nP1vea9Gp3iO__JrCLZ-8wcA0MDydfTyLLvnFzXrJ9_P85cE_5y9R2fYDgffN5OdlkUKQGUMCqI1hOv4g55BrP1PSCPx9o47R5hKQU/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="844" data-original-width="1065" height="447" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYq0l7j_fscE4vjgqchBe4ItYm3M4349D3KzZw9nP1vea9Gp3iO__JrCLZ-8wcA0MDydfTyLLvnFzXrJ9_P85cE_5y9R2fYDgffN5OdlkUKQGUMCqI1hOv4g55BrP1PSCPx9o47R5hKQU/w565-h447/steps.png" width="565" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Now I have more of an incentive to go out and walk or spin ... even when I'm feeling a little lazy. I frame it this way: each day I exercise for an hour adds an additional healthy and active day onto my health span lifespan. I've been called an optimist but hey... that's not a bad way to conduct business.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I've created a Steps Counter Spreadsheet Template for public use...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I'll post the link here. Stay tuned.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></div><br /><p></p>Toby Manzanareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12367776255770694264noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023358546131617623.post-81927316028347168462020-10-24T10:24:00.018-07:002021-11-22T14:20:18.702-08:00Health Span Research<p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">HealthSpan: 120 and Beyond</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">a life well lived, a life worth living.</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jan/11/-sp-live-forever-extend-life-calico-google-longevity" target="_blank">Science will be able to extend life beyond 120</a></div></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jan/11/-sp-live-forever-extend-life-calico-google-longevity" target="_blank">Click HERE for the Guardian Article </a></div></span></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Extending health span is the journey, negligible senescence and <a href="https://breathtakinglifelist.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">enjoying life along the way is the quest. So make a list of all the things you want to do. Click HERE.</a> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Enjoyable living beyond 120 is afloat on a rising tide of research bent on repairing the damage that builds up in our bodies during our life time. This enjoyable journey is made possible by pharmacological longevity research, by examining the roots of aging in our DNA, by reducing frailty and disability, by minimizing age-related disease risks and by combining this building body of knowledge with the proactive practice of taking care of what we have along the way.</span></p><p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #121212; font-size: 21.25px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;">In September 2013 Google announced the creation of </span><a class="u-underline" data-link-name="in body link" href="http://www.calicolabs.com/" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); color: #ab0613; cursor: pointer; font-size: 21.25px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out 0s;">Calico</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #121212; font-size: 21.25px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;">, short for the California Life Company. Its mission is to reverse engineer the biology that controls lifespan and “devise interventions that enable people to lead longer and healthier lives”.</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #121212; font-family: "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 21.25px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #121212; font-family: "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 21.25px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;">Here are links to 5 research institutes paving the way.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #121212; font-family: "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 21.25px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;">1. Google </span><a class="u-underline" data-link-name="in body link" href="http://www.calicolabs.com/" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); color: #ab0613; cursor: pointer; font-family: "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 21.25px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out 0s;">Calico</a></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #121212; font-family: "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 21.25px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;">2 The </span><a class="u-underline" data-link-name="in body link" href="http://www.ellisonfoundation.org/" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); color: #ab0613; cursor: pointer; font-family: "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 21.25px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out 0s;">Ellison Medical Foundation</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #121212; font-family: "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 21.25px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;">,</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #121212; font-family: "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 21.25px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;">3. The </span><a class="u-underline" data-link-name="in body link" href="http://glennfoundation.org/" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); color: #ab0613; cursor: pointer; font-family: "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 21.25px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out 0s;">Paul F Glenn Foundation</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #121212; font-family: "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 21.25px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;"> for Medical Research</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #121212; font-family: "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 21.25px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;">4. The </span><a class="u-underline" data-link-name="in body link" href="http://www.buckinstitute.org/" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); color: #ab0613; cursor: pointer; font-family: "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 21.25px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out 0s;">Buck Institute for Research on Ageing</a></p><p>5. <a class="u-underline" data-link-name="in body link" href="http://www.sens.org/" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(199, 0, 0); border-left-color: rgb(110, 153, 179); border-right-color: rgb(110, 153, 179); border-top-color: rgb(110, 153, 179); color: #ab0613; cursor: pointer; font-family: "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 21.25px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; outline: 0px; touch-action: manipulation; transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out 0s;">Negligible Senescence</a></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #403c3c; font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">At the cellular level, the molecular phenotypes of aging are being characterized.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #403c3c; font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">What if neuro precursor cells could be injected directly into the human brain? Would these cells now do what they did in our earliest embryonic development? Would they migrate to their proper place in the brain? Would these new cells effectively replace older, less efficient brain cells that contribute to neurodegeneration? Could this be the breakthrough enabling people to continue to get smarter as we get older?</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #403c3c; font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #403c3c; font-size: 18px;">Have a relative who has lived beyond 90 or 100? How inheritable is longevity? Calico researcher Graham Ruby answers this question. 7% <a href="https://www.calicolabs.com/story/a-study-in-human-genetics-demonstrates-limited-influence-on-longevity" target="_blank">Click HERE for details.</a> He </span><span style="color: #403c3c; font-size: 18px;">concluded that heritability of lifespan appears to be much lower than previously reported -- as low as seven percent.</span></span></p><p><br /></p>Toby Manzanareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12367776255770694264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023358546131617623.post-66639771639794036882019-08-20T11:18:00.000-07:002019-08-20T11:29:26.115-07:00Burnt Food and Cancer, a survey of the research.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".sfuidisplay"; font-size: 23pt;">While human studies are inconclusive, animal studies show acrylamide exposure linked to several types of cancer. Toby’s recommendation: </span><span class="s4" style="font-family: ".sfuidisplay-bold"; font-size: 23pt; font-weight: bold;">reduce acrylamide exposure until ongoing research studies are completed. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>See A and B below. </span><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".sfuidisplay"; font-size: 23pt;">For more follow links 1 and 2.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".sfuidisplay"; font-size: 23pt;">B. The major food sources of acrylamide are French fries and potato chips; crackers, bread, and cookies; breakfast cereals; canned black olives; prune juice; and coffee.</span></div>
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Toby Manzanareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12367776255770694264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023358546131617623.post-53375939125213613342019-07-19T13:01:00.001-07:002021-11-12T08:35:16.669-08:00Adding to our 120andBeyond community...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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My Tai Chi friend Bill has asked about my spin classes (which I do to sustain cardio fitness). Cardio exercise pumps blood and oxygen to the muscles and the rest of the body, but did you know that the brain consumes 20% of circulating oxygen?</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Here’s an invitation my trainer Mary and I made to let Bill know... we’re waiting for him to join in... The more cardio, the <b>more oxygen goes to the brain</b> which we want to sustain for all of our remaining days. As importantly, having Bill as an exercise partner will help. There are times when I feel like skipping a spin class, but if I’m meeting to Spin with Bill, I’m more likely get to class.</div>
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After class, a group gathers for coffee and conversation, where performing arts, philosophy, and wildly diverse topics are discussed and good books are recommended. Together with the movement of Tai Chi, I have an epiphany: an Ikigai <a href="https://www.nationalgeographic.com/books/article/5-blue-zones-where-the-worlds-healthiest-people-live">Blue Zone </a> community is emerging. <a href="https://savvytokyo.com/ikigai-japanese-concept-finding-purpose-life/">Ikigai</a> is the Japanese concept of having purpose in life.</span></p><p style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Meet my newest happy-long-life coach: Marc Evangelista</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Mark is the latest addition to 120 And Beyond. He has ramped up the fun in the body-and-mind fitness pillar of living a longer and happier life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">"Only staying active will make you want to live 100 years."</span><br />
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"Only staying active will make you want to live 120 Years and Beyond."<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Patricia and I just returned from our Kimono Wedding in the country listed as #1 for the longest living physically active people in the world. We will tell you what we found in the posts to come. In the meantime, the book below dives into the secret to a Long and Active Happy Life. Get it now, we'll read it together. Let's start a 120 and Beyond Book Club!</span><br />
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How to build your own 120 and Beyond Active Community.<br />
Tip # 1 Find a Tai Chi Group or start your own. Get your group together and Tai Chi along with our Master Vince (see video link below).<br /><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">While certain factors shorten telomere length like chronic stress and how it is percieved, you will learn from </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">this Ted Talk by Molecular Biologist Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn, how to protect your telomeres and </span><b style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">increase your Health Span</b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">. </span></div>
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Toby Manzanareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12367776255770694264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023358546131617623.post-30263837353517052302019-02-12T18:47:00.000-08:002019-02-14T13:09:05.634-08:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">How experiences create new Neural Pathways...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Click <a href="https://developingchild.harvard.edu/reward-motivation-brain/" target="_blank">HERE </a>for the interactive version.</span><br />
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