I never said it was simply a case of free radicals, why do people think I did? I even specified otherwise!
Both vitamins C and E have been found to lengthen telemeres, at low doses. Very large doses could protect them completely.
PMID: 19279081
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BACKGROUND: Telomere length may be a marker of biological aging. Multivitamin supplements represent a major source of micronutrients, which may affect telomere length by modulating oxidative stress and chronic inflammation. OBJECTIVE: The objective was to examine whether multivitamin use is associated with longer telomeres in women. DESIGN: Cross-sectional analysis of data from 586 early participants (age 35-74 y) in the Sister Study. Multivitamin use and nutrient intakes were assessed with a 146-item food-frequency questionnaire, and relative telomere length of leukocyte DNA was measured by quantitative polymerase chain reaction. RESULTS: After age and other potential confounders were adjusted for, multivitamin use was associated with longer telomeres. Compared with nonusers, the relative telomere length of leukocyte DNA was on average 5.1% longer among daily multivitamin users (P for trend = 0.002). In the analysis of micronutrients, higher intakes of vitamins C and E from foods were each associated with longer telomeres, even after adjustment for multivitamin use. Furthermore, intakes of both nutrients were associated with telomere length among women who did not take multivitamins. CONCLUSION: This study provides the first epidemiologic evidence that multivitamin use is associated with longer telomere length among women.
I was taking 9 supplements in combination to fight aging and high doses of 2 of them. The duration of my first attempt to slow aging was 19 years at lower doses, to get an idea of what was going on. I was about 26 at the chronological age of 40. The duration of the attempt to reverse aging at higher doses lasted for 17 years [During that time I did not need to work for 3 periods of time, 11 months, a year and 5 months, and five months] I got about 10 or 11 hours sleep per day during those three periods trying to force more growth harmone. [Even if I stayed awake I would stay there trying to sleep to fulfill the time.] Most growth harmone is produced in sleep.
What I did is an experiment to push the limits of vitamin megadosing and to see what could be accomplished against aging. There are others around the world that are slowing aging with nutrition. I think I went further at it than anyone else.
My method don't show results against aging for almost 3 years and then it is only a little bit. But, as time goes by it accelerates. Cells divide, 2, 4, 8 16 32 -- many more divisions in each succeeding generation so you get rapid acceleration as time goes by.
Now, I was taking an estimate of 9000 plus, tablets or capsules per year, for 17 years.
Consider this: aging is killing you at the rate of maybe 200,000 cells per day [whatever the number is]. 60 years of that and you are crippled and headed for the grave yard. I consider this important enough to justify such a radical experiment that I did.
It looks to me like I have put on more living tissue all over my face, for at least the last year and a half, and I have a face that looks 17 or 18. --Excellant results for a man whose chronological age is 57.
I consider the experiment a success. [Still waiting for the hair to get younger at a later time.] I am now decreasing doses to a level I think would keep me healthy and young.
A lot of research has been done to show that ageing is slowed down by vitamins. I first read of it in science news magazine in the 1970s.
I simply reasoned that if something slows ageing then take more of it and you slow it more. Take more of it and you stop it. Take more of it still and it will go backwards.
The doses recommended by researchers on the internet are lower than what can be tolerated. Legal conscerns such as malpractice law suits tend to make researchers cautious about the doses they recomend.
I took much more than what is recommended in that article and for many years. Like I said, I was doing an experiment to push the limits on megadosing, taking risks.
I have a degree in physics and know the scientific method. I believe I did a genuine experiment and got genuine results.
I don't have a cell phone, scanner or digital camera to send a picture, and pictures can be faked anyway.
I live in New Orleans Louisiana. Get someone on this forum that lives here to send me a message in the personal messages to meet with me at a place in New Orleans and see if I look 17 or 18. I'll do a 100 yard dash fast for him if he likes. [57 year old men can't do that.] I'll show him my driver's licence that says I was born in 1952; I can show him the birth certificate copy. Or get someone on this forum that lives in New Orleans to post in this discussion when and where to meet with him, either his choice or mine. Then he can tell you if this is true or not.
I repeat; I am 57 with an 18 year old body and now I look 16 or 17---my age is still going backwards. I suspect it must stop soon. It cannot go below the end of puberty. I have a young looking face and looked about 15 when I really was 18.