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I wanted to pass this info along to those of you who might find it interesting. We all know that the atkins diet is a revloutionary in itself. The art of lowering carb intake and increasing protien/fat intake seems to be quite amazing. However, under the surface of what makes Atkins work is a window to to somethign even more fasinating. The ability to use Atkins as a a method to slow aging. Some of you will be saying right now that I'm nuts. Am I? Consider the following....
First lets dicuss what aging is. When you are young, your body is generating more cells than are dying off inside your body, but as you grow older, more cells begin to die off then are being created. Hence... you have natural aging. It is already a fact that people, years ago, in some parts of the world, lived to be very very old. Now, we of course hear alot about how that the average age of a person before they die is better than it was 50 years ago. Well, sure it is... here. But I'm talking 500 years ago and considering the world as a whole. This lends me to my next prt to consider....
Today's science posses the ability to take a person or animal and test them to see where there body is age wise. Not numerically, but age wise on the cellular level. We have all seen that some people look much younger than others at a given age. One could be 37 and look 50 and the other 37 and look 25. We've all seen it.... ever wonder why? I'll tell you.
There was a test conducted not so long ago and there was even a thing about it on tv. It touched on some of the key points. They took two animals( I forget what the used), but anyway, they fed them both the same kinds of food over a long period of time. the only difference was that one got fed a lot of food and the other fed just enough for it to be healthy and not starve. The one that was fed just enough... well, they they fed him just enough, but kept his body just at that point where his metabolism was slowed. Kinda like the way yours will slow by doing atkins if you dont eat often enough... slowing your weight loss. Well, after some time passed, they retested the cellular age of the animals. Guess what, the one that was eating tons showed a much older age than his actual chronological age reflected. And the one who had eaten less showed little aging at all on a cellular level. Get the idea? Note: both animals were the same chronological age when they started.
So, I realize this wont benefit you while trying to lose weight, but if you stay on Atkins long term, for life. You might consider something which might just add a few years onto your life span.
There is something inherent in humans, in case of starvation, or the bodies perception of it.... which slows our metabolism so that in the case of not enough food, we will live longer so we might insure the continuity and survival of our species.
First lets dicuss what aging is. When you are young, your body is generating more cells than are dying off inside your body, but as you grow older, more cells begin to die off then are being created. Hence... you have natural aging. It is already a fact that people, years ago, in some parts of the world, lived to be very very old. Now, we of course hear alot about how that the average age of a person before they die is better than it was 50 years ago. Well, sure it is... here. But I'm talking 500 years ago and considering the world as a whole. This lends me to my next prt to consider....
Today's science posses the ability to take a person or animal and test them to see where there body is age wise. Not numerically, but age wise on the cellular level. We have all seen that some people look much younger than others at a given age. One could be 37 and look 50 and the other 37 and look 25. We've all seen it.... ever wonder why? I'll tell you.
There was a test conducted not so long ago and there was even a thing about it on tv. It touched on some of the key points. They took two animals( I forget what the used), but anyway, they fed them both the same kinds of food over a long period of time. the only difference was that one got fed a lot of food and the other fed just enough for it to be healthy and not starve. The one that was fed just enough... well, they they fed him just enough, but kept his body just at that point where his metabolism was slowed. Kinda like the way yours will slow by doing atkins if you dont eat often enough... slowing your weight loss. Well, after some time passed, they retested the cellular age of the animals. Guess what, the one that was eating tons showed a much older age than his actual chronological age reflected. And the one who had eaten less showed little aging at all on a cellular level. Get the idea? Note: both animals were the same chronological age when they started.
So, I realize this wont benefit you while trying to lose weight, but if you stay on Atkins long term, for life. You might consider something which might just add a few years onto your life span.
There is something inherent in humans, in case of starvation, or the bodies perception of it.... which slows our metabolism so that in the case of not enough food, we will live longer so we might insure the continuity and survival of our species.
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