A new branch of aging research - telomere science - - confirms health practices as anti-aging modalities. All this is now accessible on Podcast radio interview with A4M president Dr. Ron Klatz.

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How do you define true "health" or "least rate of aging"? Can a person who is not sick be defined as a healthy person?

What if that person has a - - yet undiagnosed - - disease? What if a person has risk factors for a (or several) diseases in his/her blood?

During the Korean war doctors, doing autopsies of young men who had died in battle, found that in excess of 50% already had atherosclerosis. In other studies, doing routine blood analysis, doctors observed that many disease risk factors were present in people who considered themselves healthy. Obviously these people could not be defined as truly healthy!

In people who have diabetes in their family, a constant deterioration of blood sugar balance shows that it isn't either one (diabetic) or the other (non-diabetic), but that diabetes develops from a person being 10%, then 20% - - etc., etc. - - to fully (100%) diabetic.

According to professor Emanuel Cheraskin, Alabama University School of Medicine, health is an equilibrium, a state of homeostasis, achieved by practicing about 50 variables (that can also be grouped together as "health practices') correctly. "Health' (optimum health) is therefore also defined as "optimum immune functions' or "least rate of aging.' Interestingly enough, telomere science confirms professor Cheraskin's definition of health.

Telomeres are elongations (consisting of repeating sub-units) at the end of DNA (chromosomes) in our cells; they are the longest at birth and shorten with every cell division. In humans we have about 54 sub-units, corresponding to a maximum life span of about 110 to 120 years. Measuring telomere length at any point in your life shows how much life span is left. And here comes the icing on the cake: Faulty health practices shorten, and good health practices lengthen telomeres.

Interestingly enough, testing the possibility of pharmaceutical drugs as contributing modalities to health and anti-aging shows an inverse relationship: the more drugs (# of drugs and length of time) you take (instead of improving health practices), the more your health DECREASES.

This, and much more, was discussed on a radio interview I had with the host of "Second Opinion," Dr. Ronald Klatz, MD, DO, president of A4M. The entire interview, plus many other anti-aging expert's views are now accessible in Pod Cast format.

Maybe even more important, the coming A4M (anti-aging medicine) meeting, held in Las Vegas, Dec. 9 -" 11, allows lay-persons to attend the medical congress.

Authors Bio:
Born in Brieg, Germany. US citizen.


West-German Air Force, officer (within NATO). Pilot, platoon leader in the W-German Air Force Academy, liaison officer to other NATO forces during NATO maneuvers.


BS University of Munich, School of Medicine. Physiology, under Nobel Laureate A. Butenandt.


PhD:1970: State University of New York at Stony Brook. Organo-phosphorus chemistry. Emphasis: effects on human physiology (anti-cholinesterase active compounds).


1971: Postdoctoral Research at SUNY. Rate of hydrolysis of organo-phosphorus compounds; similar to rate of hydrolysis difference between RNA and DNA. Also,
1970-71: Assistant professor, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY. Chemistry.


1971-73: Research, Standard Oil Co. of Indiana. Environmental chemistry, effects of pesticides on foods/human metabolism. Sound-stimulated rate of growth of agricultural plants.


1972-74: Roosevelt University, Chicago. Associate professor. Teaching chemistry for pre-meds, and graduate courses in quantum chemistry. Aging Research; longevity studies with cancer-prone animals. Postulated, and presented at medical meetings, the "Combination Theory of Aging." Researched the ground-work for "Multi-factorial approaches" - - (to animal and human longevity, cancer, heart disease, brain functions) - - - with an emphasis on immune- and free radical pathology.
Associated with Prof. Robert Mendelsohn, MD, Illinois Univ. School of Medicine, regarding combined effects of environmental and nutritional factors on overall health (meaning immunity, base metabolism).


1975 and later:
Teaching at El Camino College, Torrance, CA, chemistry for the health sciences, nursing.
1975 - 79: Board Member, Academy of Preventive Medicine, founded by Dr. Richard O'Brennan, MD.


President and founder, International Academy Anti-Aging Medicine. A State of California 50l-C-3 educational non-profit corporation.


Past President (2001) and present board member, National Health Federation; keynote speaker at national meetings.


Senior Science Advisor: Gero-Vita and Journal of Longevity; until 2005.


Publications in scientific journals: Tetrahedron, Tetrahedron Letters, J. of Org. Chemistry, J. Amer. Chem. Soc., others; organo-phosphorus chemistry.


Books: Seven books on health and aging, including "Slowing Down the Aging Process," (1971), "Seven Keys to a Longer Life," (Stein & Day, 1978), and "Tripping the Clock, a practical guide to anti-aging and rejuvenation," (Health Quest, 1983).
Co-author of books for health professionals:
"Tomorrow's Medicine Today."
"Anti-Aging Medical Therapeutics, Vol. I, Editors Drs. R. Klatz and R. Goldman.
Co-author: Anti-Aging Medical Therapeutics, Vol. II, Editors drs. Ronald Klatz and Robert Goldman, Health Quest Publications, 1998.


Car accident, extreme side-impact (2002), caused heart injury, and after all treatment attempts (spanning several years, lost 18 pounds of muscle mass) failed was advised "3 drugs and a pacemaker/defibrillator for the rest of your life." With the help of cardiac experts from all around the world designed own recovery program; 100% recovered; passed aviation medical exams, back to horseback riding, working out in the gym. Recovery protocol is in the process of being published in peer-reviewed medical journal.
"Alternative Therapies in the treatment of cardiac injury" presented at the 17th Congress of the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine, Las Vegas, December 12, 2009.


Director, HK Stem Cell Laboratory at Health Integration Center, Torrance, CA.
Emphasis: Making person-specific stem cells (DNA the same as recipient) via Nuclear Transfer and Parthenogenesis.
View pictures of the Lab at web-site at Free E-Books.


KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
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