Surprising longevity advice from a doctor who just died at 105
Surprising longevity advice from a doctor who just died at 105
I’m pretty sure I know what it takes to tip the scales in favor of a long, healthy life. The basics are usually eat right, exercise often, get enough sleep, and drink all the coffee you can, right?
Not so, according to Dr. Shigeaki Hinohara, a longevity expert, physician, and chairman emeritus at St. Luke’s University, who passed away recently at the age of 105. Open Culture posted his 10 tips for longevity, and along with the standard (exercise daily) and the eclectic (a very long ode to poet Robert Browning) were some truly ground-breaking ideas.
We all remember how as children, when we were having fun, we often forgot to eat or sleep. I believe that we can keep that attitude as adults, too. It’s best not to tire the body with too many rules such as lunchtime and bedtime.
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Metformin of course is not a new drug. It was approved in England in 1957 and made available to type II diabetics around the world shortly thereafter. It took the FDA a staggering 37 years to approve it in the United States.
Here are some accurate quotes from worldwide news sources:
“Although it might seem like science fiction, researchers have already proven that the diabetes drug metformin extends the life of animals, and the Food and Drug Administration in the US has now given the go-ahead for a trial to see if the same effects can be replicated in humans.”
“I have been doing research into aging for 25 years and the idea that we would be talking about a clinical trial in humans for an anti-aging drug would have been thought inconceivable…20 years ago aging was a biological mystery. Now we are starting to understand what is going on.”
“Scientists think the best candidate for an anti-aging drug is metformin, the world’s most widely used diabetes drug, which costs just 10p [15 cents] a day. Metformin increases the number of oxygen molecules released into a cell, which appears to boost robustness and longevity.”
“If we can slow aging in humans, even by just a little bit, it would be monumental. People could be older, and feel young.”
“This would be the most important medical intervention in the modern era, an ability to slow aging.”
Even the venerable Dr. Robert Temple, deputy director at the FDA, chimed in by stating:
“Their hope is that a wide variety of age-related problems, loss of muscle tone, dizziness, falls, dementia, loss of eyesight, all of those things [sic]. That would be something never done before. If you really are doing something to alter aging, the population of interest is everybody. It surely would be revolutionary if they can bring it off.”
Dr. Simon Melov of the Buck Institute for Research on Aging added:
“You’re talking about developing a therapy for a biological phenomenon which is universal and gives rise to all of these diseases. And if you’ve got a therapy for this thing, these diseases just go away.”
Life Extension® Has Championed Metformin for 20 Years
Life Extension® magazine listed metformin as one of many important offshore medications back in 1995. And now, 20 years later, even the FDA concurs that metformin has potential to delay the onset of degenerative diseases.
But contrary to news headlines, metformin will not enable humans to live to 120 years of age all by itself. What it may do is allow humans to age better today—thereby staving off degenerative diseases long enough for age-reversal breakthroughs to become clinically available.
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Sorry Brocky I hadn't, I do get emails from a health guru who in the USA who is dead against the use of Metaformin because of the side effects,