There is much excitement building in the field of human life extension. The medical sciences continue to research and develop new means to keep us healthy thus increasing our life spans. The current life expectancy for a male is seventy eight years of age and women can expect to live 82.7 years. However, there is a huge gap within these figures and the ability to live eternally. The thing is longevity research specialists understand when they are on to something good.
As far as our aging society is concerned, We are being targeted with health and nutritional products, books about diet, exercise, and emotional well being as we age and even research of the brain and its innate abilities all are numerous. The discoveries that are being made bring hope and support. Understanding more about our brains ability to adapt and how it can be reprogrammed is more common today than it was in the past. People suffering from severe illnesses are recovering today more often than they have previously and brain injuries and stroke are no longer looked upon as permanent disabilities.
An ability to make music is something researchers are suggesting as a technique to extend life. Psychologically good for you and spiritually healing, music has been identified as a means of increasing personal well being. Singing or just listening to music can be helpful and musical therapy is something rehabilitation centers are beginning to endorse. Brain research recognizes the link between the brain and music and has been discussed at length in books like – This Is Your Brain On Music, By Daniel Levitin, and also Musicophilia: Tales of Music And The Brain – discuss this new association.
At the University of Prince Edward Island, a study is beginning to be conducted on the effect of singing and how it can improve one’s personal well being and health. Memory impaired individuals with dementia and stroke victims are helped by breathing exercises and singing is a way to promote this training. Dementia patients have formed singing clubs, choirs etc., in order to exploit this potentially beneficial theory.
Experts have always suspected that having a strong sense of purpose has an effect on life extension. Experts at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago discovered that elderly people with a purpose to their lives. have objectives and a life that means something decrease their chances of dying sooner. By volunteering their time and talents or acting as an aide for other seniors or their own loved ones has displayed a correlation of life extension with these seniors. Doing something meaningful with your life as you reach your elder years will prove itself to be good for your health and well being.
Ray Kurzweil, a scientist from the United States and life extension expert, recently made a surprising assertion that human immortality could be achieved in roughly twenty years. He bases his theory on nanotechnology and the human body. Research is already being conducted, and with amazing results, on techniques to replace human body parts that fail or become worn out. Need a new liver? We will grow one for you in a couple months…
Kurzweil believes, along with numerous other scientists that in twenty years or so we will be able to reprogram our body’s original prehistoric software allowing us to stop and eventually reverse the aging process and then nanotechnology will assist us in living perpetually.
Nanotechnology is the investigation into quite tiny, artificially manufactured bits. These materials are created by positioning metals with other specific substances and elements at the atom level uniquely, likely in spheres or rods. They are used to supplement substances and will increase that materials strength, conductivity or endurance of that material matter. This nanomatter has dimensions that range between one to one hundred nanometers. One nanometer is equivalent to a billionth of a meter and one would require roughly one hundred thousand bits the size of a nanometer to reach the same diameter as a normal human hair.
This nanomatter is already being utilized in manufacturing of our products. Right now, some cosmetic goods and personal care products and cleaning solvents use nanomaterials in them. Right now, over five hundred products used by consumers are utilizing nanomatter. There are forecasts, which claim that within five years there will be in the neighborhood of a trillion dollars worth of items for consumers on the store shelves that contain nanomatter. There are even plans to add this material to our food stocks.
Environmentally conscious authorities firmly believe that any product that has nanomatter as a component needs to be clearly marked with that fact and also be required to register the product at a centralized registry. They also discourage adding the substance to food and are calling for the practice to be stopped permanently.
Experts are worried that this matter might become free when the products with them begin to break down. They may have an effect such as carcinogens found in asbestos or airborne particles. Some fear even worse.
The thought of living forever or even just living to biblical type ages has fascinated people for millennia and philosophers have speculated through the centuries about immortal life. Living longer is going to be a reality. Just how long we live could depend on what transpires with those tiny nanoparticles!
Tue, Dec 15, 2009
Anti Aging, Lifestyle, Longevity