How and Why Do We Age?

We have Ponce De Leon to thank for the name and focus of this blog and web site.

For centuries, ever since the legendary Ponce went searching for the elusive Fountain of Youth, people have been looking for ways to slow down the aging process. Medical science has made great strides in keeping people alive longer by preventing and curing disease, and helping people to live healthier lives. Average life expectancy keeps increasing, and most of us can look forward to the chance to live much longer lives than our ancestors.

Many researchers think that the key to our own personal Fountains of Youth resides in our hormones and endocrine system. These are the various organs and glands that make hormones in our bodies.

Yet we are all aging constantly. The unpleasant fact is that every single one of us begins aging the moment we are out of the womb. (At least it beats the alternative.) If you’re living, you’re aging; you can’t avoid it. But there are a number of things that you can do to keep yourself healthy and active, and to eliminate or at least slow down many of the factors that contribute to aging.

The good news is that - Yes, it is possible to turn back the clock. Your body was actually designed with the inbuilt ability to fix itself, as long as you take care of it properly. Your body is made up of something like 100 trillion (100,000,000,000,000) living cells, which keep themselves strong and healthy with the proper food.

Each and every one of those trillions of cells dies off and is replaced with a new cell at regular intervals. Your entire body is literally completely replaced every few years – you really aren’t the same person you used to be!

What happens with your cells is the key to anti-aging. When a cell dies, one of three possible things must happen:

If the cell has not been receiving proper nutrition, its replacement will be a weaker version of the cell. In this scenario, your body is degenerating.

The replacement cell may have the same strength as its predecessor. In this case, your body essentially remains in the same place.

The third possibility is that the new cell is stronger than the previous one. Now you’re actually regenerating the body, and reversing the aging process. This can only happen if you give your cells plenty of the right kind of food energy to work with.