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| Kurzweil & Grossman Longevity Products Website |
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| posted on Saturday, May 12, 2007 |
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EDITOR'S COMMENT:
Most of you are familiar with Ray Kurzweil and his ideas concerning aging, anti-aging, immortality, the increasingly rapid pace of technological advancement and, of course, The Singularity.
Most of you also know Kurzweil is a world class inventor, has a fantastic website <http://www.kurzweilai.net/>, is the author of several books, and is a regular on the all-things-futuristic lecture circuit.
In addition to all this, Kurzweil has now joined forces with Terry Grossman, M.D., to offer a series of optimum health products. Because of Kurzweil's reputation, I ordered a few of his products today and wanted to be sure all of you knew about them, too.
--- David Sunfellow
P.S. For the latest news on aging and anti-aging research, NHNE now has a web page dedicated to this important topic.
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KURZWEIL & GROSSMAN OPTIMUM HEALTH WEBSITE
By Ray Kurzweil and Terry Grossman, M.D.
http://www.rayandterry.com/
The leading causes of death -- heart disease, cancer, stroke, respiratory disease, kidney disease, liver disease, and diabetes -- do not appear out of the blue. They are the end result of processes that are decades in the making. To help you understand how longstanding imbalances in the metabolic processes underlying life functions can lead to disease, we have developed Ray & Terry's Longevity Program, which is described in our book, "Fantastic Voyage, Live Long Enough to Live Forever".
The advice Ray Kurzweil and Terry Grossman, M.D. offer on how to keep your body optimally healthy -- from what to put into it (“Food and Water,” chapter 4) to how to fine-tune it (“Stress and Balance,” chapter 22) -- will enable you to determine your own specific health status and teach you how to take effective corrective action when necessary. The rewards are considerable:
- Significant gains in how you feel, including the alleviation of various discomforts, improved gastrointestinal functioning, reversal of fatigue, improvements in sleep, enhanced mood, and attaining your optimal weight
- A greatly improved sense of well-being and increased levels of energy
- The comfort of knowing that you're on a path toward long-term health while significantly reducing the risk of chronic diseases such as heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes, and cancer
Conventional medical care is geared toward dealing with long-term degenerative processes only after they erupt into advanced clinical disease, but by this time it is often too late. It's like approaching a cliff but walking backward. You need to recognize that you're getting closer to the edge and stop. Once you fall off, it’s difficult to do anything about it. This is what Ray & Terry’s Longevity Program is all about: to provide the knowledge and the specific steps to take, sooner rather than later, to extend your life, your vitality, and your well-being.
Reprogramming Your Biochemistry
A common attitude is that taking substances other than food, such as supplements should be a last resort, something one takes only to address overt problems. Ray Kurzweil and Terry Grossman, M.D strongly believe that this is a bad strategy, particularly as one approaches middle age and beyond. Their philosophy is to embrace the unique opportunity we have at this time and place to expand our longevity and human potential. Ray & Terry advocate being active in reprogramming your biochemistry to achieve optimal health.
New research has demonstrated that much of the population is born with genetic defects that can only be corrected by taking significant doses of the appropriate supplements. As one example, people with elevated homocysteine levels have a dramatically increased risk of cardiovascular disease and Alzheimer's. Such individuals need substantially more vitamin B6, vitamin B12, and folic acid to lower homocysteine and reduce these risks. Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) amounts won't do the trick.
Many people have asked us how they can assemble the various supplements needed to follow our approach. In response to these requests, we have designed and made available several supplement combinations to make it easy to implement our basic program. Taking just three supplements: Ray & Terry’s Total Care Daily Formula (2 to 6 tablets per day depending on age), Ray & Terry’s Mega EPA / DHA capsules (2 softgels per day), and Ray & Terry's ALA/ALC/Carnosine/Grape Seed Extract (2 capsules per day) can provide you with a strong foundation for health and longevity.
Taking Total Care in conjunction with Mega EPA/DHA helps ensure that your body has adequate supplies of virtually all the essential vitamins, minerals and fatty acids needed for optimal health and anti aging. The powerful antioxidants coenzyme Q 10, grape seed extract and alpha lipoic acid are also included to keep free radical damage in check.
ALA/ALC/Carnosine/GSE is specifically designed to provide antioxidant and antiaging protection in just two capsules a day and can play a valuable role in anyone’s antiaging supplement regimen. Significant dosages of the powerful antioxidants alpha lipoic acid and grape seed extract are combined with acetyl-l-carnitine (a potent energy source and fat burner) to produce a commanding formulation. The cross-link breaker carnosine fights age-related crosslinking of proteins, which are related to a wide range of problems from age spots to cataracts to Alzheimer’s.
Our Ray & Terry’s Supreme Chocolate Meal Replacement Shake Mix™ enables you to significantly reduce your calories without deprivation. In addition to being low in calories, Ray & Terry’s Supreme Chocolate™ is very low in carbohydrates and contain no sugar. This delicious meal replacement beverage allows you to combine powerful health-promoting supplements with good taste and enjoyment. Not just “fortified” with nutritional supplements, Ray and Terry’s Supreme Chocolate Meal Replacement Shake Mix™ is made from all health promoting ingredients.
We also offer supplement products designed to target specific issues. For instance, Ray & Terry's Total Eye Care is a powerful formula to protect and nourish your eyes. It is designed to be an optimal nutritional supplement to support and preserve healthy eye function.
Ray & Terry's Cholesterol Therapy provides a comprehensive set of nutrients to support healthy LDL and HDL cholesterol levels.
Ray & Terry's Immune Formula is a superior combination of antioxidants, vitamins, minerals and herbs designed to provide the ultimate support to the immune system. It contains Graviola, Red Raspberry, Pomegranate, Pink Bark, Grape Seed, and Essiac Tea Complex.
Please see our Wellness Products for additional supplement combinations. A number of new products are currently in development and will be available shortly.
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BOOK REVIEW:
FANTASTIC VOYAGE, LIVE LONG ENOUGH TO LIVE FOREVER
By Ray Kurzweil & Terry Grossman
A GREAT BOOK WITH IMPORTANT INFORMATION
Dr. Jonathan Dolhenty
October 24, 2004
Here is a book I can wholeheartedly recommend to everyone without any hesitation. For those who are interested in attaining and maintaining good health in all its aspects, I would even go so far as to say this book is essential reading and a necessary resource to keep close at hand. If you even entertain the possibility of living forever, then this book is a must for you. The authors are, without a doubt, knowledgeable about the topics of which they write and provide literally hundreds of facts, proposals, insights, suggestions, and recommendations regarding everything from developments in medical nanotechnology and biotechnology to disease prevention, nutrition, food preparation, living a healthful lifestyle, and, in fact, more information than you will assimilate during a first reading.
The authors are well-known within their fields of expertise. Ray Kurzweil, a recipient of the National Medal of Technology and an inductee into the Inventors Hall of Fame, is one of the world's leading inventors, thinkers, and futurists and the author of three previous books on technology. Terry Grossman M.D., the founder and medical director of the Frontier Medical Institute in Denver, Colorado, a leading longevity clinic, is certified in anti-aging medicine and lectures internationally on matters related to longevity and anti-aging strategies. These two experts, one in technology and one in medical science, have joined together to write about how you can "live long enough to live forever."
While I endorse and highly recommend "Fantastic Voyage," the subtitle of the book presents a problem for me. The very idea of "living forever" is a proposition with which I am not entirely comfortable. I am philosophically oriented both by training and by disposition and I have to wrestle with this question: "Is living forever a suitable and desirable goal for any human being?" I believe this is fundamentally an ethical question and at this moment I cannot answer it, at least for myself, because I haven't had time to consider it in depth and in all its possible ramifications. To be frank, I haven't really given any thought to it until reading this book. So now, thanks to the authors, I'll have to explore this problem. But I think it's an important issue to raise and debate, particularly considering that, while we may be able to prolong life indefinitely in a physical sense, there are psychological, sociological, and political factors which must also be considered.
Once we put this matter aside for further thought and discussion, the authors do indeed take us on a fantastic voyage into the world of cutting-edge technology, a place where modern biology, information science, and what is called "nanotechnology" intersect and impact each other. Their discussion of "nanobots" is especially interesting. These are robots, the size of blood cells, built from molecules placed in our bodies and bloodstream to enhance every aspect of our lives. Nanobots, suggest the authors, will even be used for surgery. For example, teams "of millions of nanobots will be able to restructure bones and muscles, destroy unwanted growths such as tumors on a cell-by-cell basis, and clear arteries while restructuring them out of healthy tissue." This especially caught my attention, as one who suffered a heart attack a couple of years ago and had to undergo an emergency angioplasty. If a nanobot could continually keep my arteries clear, I'd be more than happy to let it do so!
But correcting a medical problem after the damage has been done is not the major thrust of this book. I would guess that more than ninety-five percent of "Fantastic Voyage" is devoted to preventing disease, promoting good health, and dealing with the aging process. (I should warn the reader that there is some discussion of chemistry involved here, but I found that one can skip through the various chemical formulas discussed and not miss anything vital to understanding the point being made.) In line with the major thrusts of the book, the authors present "Three Bridges" which are "emerging transformations in technology that will usher in powerful new tools to expand your health and human powers."
The First Bridge is "Ray & Terry's Longevity Program" which includes "present-day therapies and guidance that will enable you to remain healthy long enough to take full advantage of the construction of the Second Bridge." The reader will learn about carbohydrates and the glycemic load, the importance of fat and protein, why the modern diet is out of balance, how to eat nutritionally, why sugar is the "white Satan," the real cause of heart disease and how to prevent it, and much, much more. The Second Bridge is the "Biotechnology Revolution" where "we learn the genetic and protein codes of our biology" and "the means of turning off disease and aging while we turn on our full human potential." The reader will learn about gene expression, somatic gene therapy, recombinant technology, therapeutic cloning, and how human aging can be reversed. The Third Bridge is the "Nanotechnology-Artificial Intelligence Revolution" which will "enable us to rebuild our bodies and brains at the molecular level." The reader will learn about programmable blood, nanopower, nanosurgery, "intelligent" cells, and a lot more.
I could go on and on; I've only scratched the surface of the information provided in this interesting and valuable book. Kurzweil and Grossman are to be commended for making this important information available to the public, written in an easy and understandable style, with recommendations that the reader can implement immediately. At the end of the book they provide a page of resources and contact information and the standard index to topics. More importantly, however, they provide over sixty pages of notes, references, and citations so the reader can consult the primary sources for more detail. I wish more authors would do that.
This is a serious book to be read once and then consulted continuously for its suggestions and recommendations. But, now, the real question: Do I really want to live forever? Well, let me think about that for a few years!
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NHNE Ray Kurzweil Resource Page
NHNE On Aging & Anti-Aging
What To Do Until A Cure For Aging Is Found
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