Frank Georgalis – Writer

Diet and Science: will help you live 600 years

But Do you want to live that long?

Now                               Long time ago

No matter how old you are, life is still sweet

On one side of the pediment of Parthenon the Three Fates of man are engraved in marble, standing in the garden o Hesperides or better known as the Garden of Eden. One of the fates is Clotho who spins the thread of life the second is Lachesis who measures it and the third one is Atropos who cuts it when death arrives. It is Atropos  which means (uninfluenced) by Gods or .humans. These  Fates according to the Greek Mythology were born the moment Eve ate the fruit of the forbidden tree and all three became a part of life  with Atropos becoming the representative of death. She was not influenced by any outside interference. The fact is when Zeus became angry with Goddess Athena for providing the fire to Prometheus .for a second time, he ordered Atropos to cut her thread of life but Atropos refused because death had not been born yet, because there was no reason for anyone to die. There was no sickness. Zeus ordered the creation of another woman, prettier than Athena and named her Pandora (Gift) who carried the vase filled with all the gifts the gods had inserted in the vase. Zeus had given her the vase and warned her not to open the vase before she let him know and this could only happen after her marriage. It was open as we know it “Pandora’s Box. All the disease flew out and the only thing that stayed at the edge of the Box, was hope. I believe that the reason Zeus gave Pandora the box filled with sickness, was for Athena to become sick for Atropos to cut Athena’s thread of life.

Our hope and pray for us humans is to convince Atropos to delay the cutting of the thread. This is not a lesson on Greek Mythology, but I believe, studying the Greek Mythology, I realized that all modern religions are based on the Greek Mythology and knowing some of the Greek mythology will  strengthen your belief in the higher power, which, in our culture is God. I also believe that before any event that takes place is the pre-event   studying the pre-event of death we will be able to delay, modify or change  even stop the event. Looking to delay the event of death. We are looking for a long life span better known as longevity.

Think about it first

Theoretically speaking with the new discovery you will never old

Today longevity may be considered as the life span goes beyond  the ninety year mark.  It is a well known fact that there are people who have reached the age of 100 and beyond. Many doctors, chemists, scientists and many money changers who made themselves known to the public that they belong to the elite group of individuals who have devoted themselves to find the truth about longevity, and are working hard at it Some of them are good smart and accurate,

One of the people who belong to the class of the hard working on the subject longevity is Thomas Perls, director of the New England-Centenarian-Study and associates examined the genes of 1055 people over the age of 100 they found 150  single-nucleotide-polymorphism (SNPs) that were linked to longevity. These genetic markers, brought the scientists to believe and could predict whether a random genome belonged to a centenarian with 77% accuracy. We are now one step closer to understanding which genes code for long life and leveraging these findings to provide longevity for everyone. Research about longevity is still in its early stages and for now most of the responsibility for living a long life is still on you eating properly and excising regularly as you see and hear the doctor’s orders. Eventually, however, we’ll find ways to extend life no matter how you live or what genes you were born with. Along with regenerative medicines aimed at repairing or replacing body parts injured in accidents, longevity research is helping us move towards the possibility of effective immortality.

To me it sounds that Atropos the fate that cuts the thread of life will be idling. She is not even going to relax, because up till now we believe that we were born to die. The only living species that never dies is the jelly fish, by which serious minded scientist are very much concern because it can turn into a problem of some day the JELLY FISH can take over the world.  Let be known that the place of origin of the jelly fish is the Caribbean Sea and it is now found in every ocean and sea.

Going back to the subject of longevity, the above information is true and correct and is accepted by science. There are many opportunists out there who are trying to make a dollar by fooling the people. They are in the business of fooling the public, which is the oldest profession in the world. Tom Carvel the ice cream and frozen yogurt man made millions by advertizing on radio and TV that in Caspian Mountains many lived over 100 by eating a lot of Yogurt.  Some weeks ago I was reading an article, written by one of those individuals who is in the business of fooling the public and has a PhD, which he is using it as a passport to fame. And maybe fortune too. I don’t mind people writing what pleases them. Some having a computer and having nothing to do they sit there and let their fingers do the thinking, put things down which make no sense. I am not annoyed by their writings but I get offended and feel that they are insulting my intelligence, when they publish it and they expect me to read it and to believe it. The PhD’s article was saying he had five secrets for us to know and practice on them and we would be joining the short ranks of centenarians. One is to laugh your problems off your mind, drink eight glasses of water a day: if we feel stressed out go into our living room stretch on a couch take ten deep breaths: meditate for one hour and the other is don’t use the elevator, walk up the stairs, then you’ll be a centenarian , my son. The worse part of the scenario is that over 4,000n people sent in a comment on the article and 80% of them said they had learned something from the article. Are they playing with a full deck?

I should not try to be funny because growing old is very sad business and wanting to grow older is really pathetic. Becoming interested in the subject of longevity, I conducted some personal research. I heard about the “Blue Zones” of the world where many people normally live past 100. Suddenly something came into my head: to change hats and act and think like a good New York City homicide detective. Here I was, I had a bunch of cases on my desk of people living past 100.I thought and thought, like a good detective should, looking for a connection between those cases to find what all these crimes had in common. Bam! It came to me. Geography and ethnicity is something that all these cases have in common. I found out by researching that the New England centenarians live in a very narrow strip, in terms of geography and ethnicity and are bunched up like bananas, to me that meant longevity runs in the family and some ethnic groups are clannish, that covered the question of geography. Shortly after my research, I read that several centenarians were found in the Greek Island Ikaria and several wrote and gave credit for the longevity to some weeds, 151 kinds of weeds, to be exact, that needless to say threw me off my track. Being perplexed with what I had thought and some the writings about the blessed weeds, speaking the Greek language fluently, I called the island and managed to speak to three or four of the centenarians. Please understand, I am not the one who made the connection between longevity and genetics, but I am the one who made the research to write the article without using words that smell like they came from a pharmacy spelling out the ingredients of preparation H  just to tell you that they are smart. Science is working hard to find the cause of death and scientist are using techniques to find the genetics which will reveal more about the road to longevity. The longevity research is helping us to get closer to the possibility of effective immortality. Now hear this, the babies of today with centenarian genes may live over 200 years or even 1000. Stick around to see how much worse things will be when we reach that point of longevity. If by any chance you find out that you are blessed centenarian genes, remember the Achilles’ heel. Death came to him from a small part of his body where nobody knew that was his only mortal spot.

Studying longevity which is very a vast and complicated subject, I learned to believe that Atropos, whose job is to cur the string of life, has a harder time to cut the string than the other two fates to keep us alive, because the first two fates have nature on their side. This is hard to believe , but I have written three more articles : The secret of living longer, are posted on this web site. The articles are explaining some of nature’s favors and recommendations for us to stay here on earth. Nature is providing us with the healing process but death is counting on the deterioration process. Once science with the help of nature conquers or slow down the deterioration process, Atropos does not have a prayer. To simplify matters, the moral of this article is to let the reader know that science has accepted that the deterioration of cells runs quicker in some families lines than in others.

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No matter how old you are, you can still be beautiful.