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Title for this episode: Preserve Your Electrons and Live.

Brief recap from last week: The concepts of the duality of matter and light, as particles and waves. And the concept that we humans are ‘beings of light.’ And we touch upon the use of using light energy for health and healing, and the book Into the Light by William Campbell Douglass II, MD.

Electron Loss Results in Damaging Free Radical Formation: Free radicals result from the process of oxidation, loss of electrons. Free radicals are unbalanced atomic or molecular species that wreak havoc on our tissues, particularly our cell membranes. Kevin likens free radicals to tops spinning out of balance. The unpaired electrons of free radicals are highly unstable, highly reactive, and they’re likely to result in unwanted chemical reactions resulting in damage to our cell membranes - key to the mechanism of cell death.

Possible Anti-Aging Interventions: We discuss the antioxidant vitamins and other antioxidant substances, and the important balance and synergy between them all. We also mention interventions like lifestyle approaches. Also: caloric restriction, optimal balance of our hormones, stem cell therapy and chelation therapy to remove pro-oxidant heavy metals (lead, cadmium, arsenic, mercury).

Genes, Antioxidant Enzymes, Telomeres and Stopping the ‘Age Clock’: The genes we inherited from our parents code for the four main antioxidant enzymes in our cells. The proper functioning of these antioxidant enzymes is critical for protecting us from the ravages of oxidation, free radical damage and aging. The four antioxidant enzymes require the minerals selenium, zinc and copper to function properly. The genetics of anti-aging also involves the concept of cellular senescence and the limited ability for our cells to continue to divide, regenerate and replace themselves.  We discuss the programmed shortening of our genes’ telomeres, ‘Hayflick’s clock,’ and how we may someday be able to prevent the shortening of our telomeres for anti-aging purposes.

Why not just live hard, enjoy life and die early, if necessary, for ‘living the good life’? It’s not just about length of life, but quality of life, lived as many years as possible, because quality and length of life are two sides of the same coin and directly proportional to each other.

Oxidative Stress: Mechanism of Cell Death Clarified - Breaking research from Germany. Read the article to learn how oxidation, free radical formation, decreased cellular concentrations of glutathione, and oxidation of the fatty acid arachidonic acid in our cell membranes, are involved in the cellular signaling for apoptosis, programmed cell death. Bottom line with this research: The molecular mechanism of cell death  has been ‘decrypted,’ and oxidative stress is the basis. And critically important to TGM listeners: The cell death could be completely prevented by vitamin E!

Good Medicine Word Of The Week: Oxidative Stress – the underlying process by which we age and die. The antioxidant strategies we’ll continue to discuss on TGM are key to health promotion and ‘anti-aging.’

Next week’s show: Our first installment of Heart of Health - do you have one?

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Title for this episode: Lose Your Electrons and Die. What is aging? And how does the loss of electrons from your electromagnetic body contribute to your ‘bioenergetics’ of aging?

Anti-Aging Medicine is the Empiricism of Today: Contemporary empirically-minded doctors are largely willing to use experience-based evidence as the basis for offering so-called ‘anti-aging’ therapies to their patients. On the opposite extreme, the rationalist, allopathically minded doctors are prone to think and say, “Show me the controlled trials, and give me the FDA’s approval, and then and only then will I recommend the therapy to my patients!” This latter mindset essentially excludes the use of natural, bioenergetic therapeutic approaches and allows for Pharmaceutical-based ‘monopoly medicine’ to predominate - as evidenced by Wyeth Pharmaceutical’s recent attempt to restrict our access to the natural ‘bio-identical’ hormones (as covered on earlier shows).

Best Name for the New Medicine: Anti-Aging Medicine or Integrative Medicine? We think it’s Integrative Medicine – integrating the best evidence-based therapies from all medical disciplines, because that’s what’s probably going to provide us with the strongest ‘anti-aging’ benefits and outcomes.

Aging is the Process By Which We Get Older - And What Process is That? The loss of electrons, ‘oxidation’ and resultant damage from free radicals is fundamental. Add oxidative damage to a weak ‘longevity phenotype‘ and you have the genetic-plus-environmental recipe for early aging and disease. The idea is to take people at any age, in any degree of health, and minimize the oxidative damage going on at the cellular level, so as to promote their health. Better health likely means increased life span, and better quality of life in all realms.

We’re All Electromagnetic Beings Living on and Affected by Electromagnetic Earth. And the future of ‘Anti-Aging’ medicine is bioenergetic medicine, regardless of religion and politics. We know that all matter,  including our bodies, has a wave–particle duality similar to photons of light and light waves of energy. Under the appropriate conditions, electrons and other matter can act with ‘complementarity’ - as either particles or waves - just like light does. This is all part and parcel to the whole area of quantum mechanics, where matter, including your body, is comprised entirely of waves of energy or particles of matter, with both states being ‘merely’ local condensations of the quantum field. Matter is energy; energy is matter, based on the speed of light squared. It’s time to start focusing on, and emphasizing more, the bioenergetic therapies for anti-aging, health and healing.The sooner medicine catches up to the science, the better off we’ll be.

Good Medicine Word of the Week: Oxidation - the loss of electrons from our atoms and molecules.

Next week’s show: We continue to discuss oxidation, and why preventing this loss of electrons – these elementary particles, or waves – and preventing the formation of free radicals as a result, is so important to prevent or slow the ravages of aging. Also how some of the vitamins - and some other natural substances – are really important to quench the ravages of what ages us.

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…The Real History of Medicine

Show Title: History Repeating: Empirically Minded Doctors Increasing Despite Political and Economic Disadvantages

Mainstream Doctors Join Anti-Aging Bandwagon (MSNBC.com): Highlights the “often bitter tension” between conventional medicine (rationalist minded doctors) and the empiricist minded doctors (’anti-aging’ physicians - the largest aggregate of empirically minded contemporary ‘integrative medicine’ doctors today).

Analogy: ‘Anti-aging medicine is to FDA-approval-based medicine now as homeopathy was to allopathic medicine in the 1800s. The same vested interests don’t want to see natural, integrative medicine flourish today.

Prime therapy of concern to modern day drug companies and rationalists : Bio-identical hormones.

Hierarchy of Scientific Study Types from ‘Empiricism to Rationalism’: Case studies, animal experiments, expert opinions, descriptive reports, epidimiology studies, expert concensus, cohort or case-control analyses, non-randomized and randomized controlled trials.

Greatest Obstacle to Mainstreaming Integrative Medicine: Financial Limitations. Big Pharma has more money for: 1) marketing on mainstream media, 2) FDA/AMA/medical board schmoozing, and 3) congressional lobbying. In 2007 the pharmaceutical industry was Washington’s largest lobbying force, according to report by Center for Public Integrity. What was Pharma’s ‘ROI’? They squashed recent Congressional efforts to restrict drug media advertising.

Is ‘Anti-Aging’ Medicine ‘Just About Physicians Trying to Boost Their Income’? That’s what one ‘ivory tower’ doctor said in the MSNBC.com story. Boosting income is part of it, but more important is the steadily growing public demand for therapeutic approaches that promote health.

Are the Rationalist Drug-Oriented Doctors More Mechanically Minded/The Empiricist Integrative Medicine Doctors More Bio-Energetically Minded? One thing the MSNBC story got right was that “most conventional doctors are mechanics. They fix things.” Those are the rationalist physicians of today. Most empirically-minded doctors tend to be healers of the psyche, the nervous system, the endocrine system and the all-important immunological system ( Psychoneuroimmunology, PNI as it’s called). And which therapeutic approaches probably hold greatest promise for the future of our health, healing, prevention and ‘anti-aging’? Bioenergetic approaches.

Good Medicine Word of the Week: Anti-Aging Medicine - the realm of modern-day empiricists. But a better name is Integrative Medicine.

Next Week’s Show: 4th installment of History of Healing – History of Killing. We’ll explore how Big Pharma is in cahoots with the FDA, violating our constitutional rights.

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