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As we start getting older… I'm 43 now. I've given birth to seven children and have been married for 19 years and as we approach middle age, many of us begin to think seriously about the “horrors of getting older.” We fear losing our hair, especially myself – My last child, she's going to be three real soon. and it's very natural, when a woman gives birth, for her hair to fall out. Well, my hair fell out after I gave birth, Usually it comes back in a year but three years later, I still look like my hair had just fallen out. It’s all in strange lengths and stuff like that because my hormones were messed up. I didn't worry about it too much. I just got so busy with life. Now, I was able to fix it – it’s growing again, thankfully, but this is part of getting older.

Your hormones are changing. You start getting wrinkles. You start getting gray hair. I have a lot of gray hair – you can see a little bit of it right here. We need bifocals and hearing aids and false teeth. For the first time, I recently got one of my teeth pulled out and I'm going to get some kind of a cap or insert or something like that – Don't get root canals. Root canals are not good. They cause chronic health problems, serious health problems – So, I just got it pulled out. It was a dead tooth. I was blocking the pain for a very long time, but when I got hyperthyroidism, which I'll talk about in a different video, it really affected a lot of things in my body and that one tooth was part of it.

Then, let's not forget about the forgetfulness that comes in. Forgetting where we left our car keys or forgetting little things. We notice that we begin to move slower. It might be harder to get out of bed or get out of our chair and even though we'd love to go dancing or go for a long hike or something like that, because of our energy levels as we get older, all we really want to do is sit down and read a book or watch a show or get on our phone or something like that. Days seem to pass faster and that is partly due, I think, because of our energy levels, but also partly because we have more responsibilities as we get older; More children, high responsibility at work, things like that.

There's a lot of things that can be concerning when we get older. When we're young, we look forward to our birthdays but when we get older, I don't even know how old I am. Oftentimes, I'll just ask my husband or I'll count. My birthday is not something I keep close track of as much as I did when I was a child anymore. Many of us are looking for ways to slow down the aging process and there's a lot of hype about how to accomplish that but today I'm going to talk about how to slow down the aging process naturally.

Even the medical profession has gotten involved with this whole anti-aging quest and it's very trendy to talk about anti-aging. There have been millions of dollars spent from both, private as well as government funding to research the phenomenon of aging. As a result of these efforts, as a society, we understand the aging process a lot better than we used to and our current understanding of aging boils down to basically three different theories of why we age. The first one has to do with the Endocrine Theory of Aging. This theory asserts that as we get older, our endocrine system, especially the central control headquarters – the hypothalamus – begins to wear down and this causes our hormone levels to decrease. What that means is that the function of all of our cells and organs begins to degrade. This produces a lot of the many common symptoms of aging. In order to fight this process, according to the people that subscribe to the endocrine theory of aging, we have to replace the lost or diminished hormones. The problem with this endocrine idea is that it ignores a very key question, which is what causes the endocrine system to age. It doesn't address the root cause. They do hormone replacement therapy to combat this endocrine problem but while it can improve how we feel and, sometimes, can even seem to appear that it is truly combating the aging process, what's wrong with it is that it doesn't really deal with what's happening at a cellular level. That's the problem with the Endocrine Theory of Aging.

Now, the second theory of aging is called the Cellular Membrane Theory of Aging. In this theory, the idea is that we age because the membranes of our cells eventually become stiffer and less fluid as we age, which inhibits our cell function and that over time, these cellular changes cause all of our organs and tissues to start failing. There's a lot of evidence to support this theory and it's probably, basically, true but the problem is that it still ignores a very fundamental question: What makes the cell membranes get stiff and lose function over time? According to neurosurgeon, Dr. Russell Blaylock… He's a neurosurgeon but he is, also, a very holistic medical doctor and he had his own nutritional clinic to deal with chronic issues holistically through diet and nutrition. He's one of the few doctors that I trust. He's still around but he's retired and mostly teaches now. He lectures and writes instead of practicing or running the clinic. But according to him – and he's devoted a lot of time studying the brain and other age-related problems and diseases. He has a lot of books on amazon and audible, which you can purchase – he believes that the most logical explanation for aging is the Free Radical Theory of Aging. Free radicals are submicroscopic particles that interact with all the parts of our cells and tissues. We know that they come from many sources including our own cells. Our own cells produce free radicals.

Oxygen is absolutely necessary for humans and other creatures to live but although it is life sustaining for us – it's something that God made us to need – It's also a very powerful agent of death. It can destroy every known bacteria, virus and living organism on earth. This simple element, oxygen, kills living organisms using a process known as oxygenation or oxygen stress. All living things use oxygen to generate energy but cells must, at the same time, also protect themselves from oxygen even as they are using it. That's why cells have to break down nutrients slowly and release just small amounts of energy at a time. But as the cells are dissolving nutrients so that we can use them, free radical particles are created. This is a necessary, unavoidable byproduct.

What are free radicals? Free radicals are chemicals, either atoms or molecules, that are unpaired and unstable. Which means that they're very highly reactive and they go around and basically destroy everything that they touch. You can imagine it being like a ball of fire bouncing around and destroying everything that it touches including the parts of our cell and, in the context of anti-aging, especially the cell membranes. They can destroy enzymes and DNA as well as such things as the cell's Golgi apparatus, which helps us process proteins. It's very important. Proteins are the building block of our bodies and also the Endoplasmic Reticulum and the Mitochondria. One way that these oxygen free radicals damage ourselves is by interacting with the membranes of our cells. The membrane is the skin, the outer layer of the cells, and the membranes are mostly composed of good fats. This is why it's very important to eat good fats like avocado and Omega3 from fish and animal fat and other things like that – They have lied to us when they say that you shouldn't eat fat. It's a corporate lie designed to get us hooked on unhealthy products, really. It's been very detrimental to society's health, but anyways. So membranes are mostly composed of fats but they also contain a number of protein and carbohydrate molecules that float around in the fat – kind of like bouys in the ocean. They float around and these proteins and carbohydrates, generally, transfer information from outside of your cell wall to the inside of your cell wall so that your cells know what to do and when.

When these oxygen free radicals get inside of our cells, they cause a very damaging chain reaction that spreads and changes the cell membrane structure so that it becomes stiff instead of fluid. This process is called Lipid Peroxidation. People with Alzheimer's Disease, for example, show evidence of high levels of lipid peroxidation products. This process of lipid peroxidation, basically, explains the Membrane Theory of Aging.

When we produce energy within ourselves – this is metabolism, about 3% of the energy is released in the form of free radicals. So, creating energy creates free radicals. Some of these free radicals actually help our cell function but the rest is neutralized by special antioxidants. That's why it's healthy to increase your antioxidant level and you always hear, “this is high in antioxidants”. It's because antioxidants neutralize free radicals which are damaging to your cells. The more free radicals that are NOT neutralized, the more damaging these free radicals are to your body. In general, when your metabolism increases, there are also more free radicals produced and what increase free radical production are things like exercise, overactive thyroid inflammation – in terms of fever, infection and other other issues – radiation and also certain chemicals. Of course, exercise is very good for you for many reasons but this is why there's that saying, “Exercise is king, Nutrition is queen.” so you have to make sure that you're also getting proper nutrition. Too much exercise can become problematic if you're not getting the proper nutrition and rest that your body needs to recuperate from the exercise.

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