Longevity: The Untold Story
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Introduction
How should one live to reach 150 years...............................1
Chapter 1
Why We Grow Old.................................................................. 5
Why Animals Live Seven Times Their Growth-Period......6
How can these dangerous germs get into the body?..........7
Human Life and Longevity.....................................................7
We Are Killed by Bacteria.....................................................10
Chapter 2
The Prolongation of Youth....................................................11
The Monuments of Egypt and What They Teach Us About Health...........................................................................................14
How to Live Forever..............................................................21
Chapter 3
The Role that the Human Microbiome Plays in the Longevity of the Body.................................................................22
Regulation of life span by the gut microbiota in the short-lived African Turquoise killifish...............................................22
Microbial Genetic Composition Tunes Host Longevity......................................................................................23
Chapter 4
Thy Youth Is renewed............................................................24
Function of Life.......................................................................25
The Chemical Basis................................................................26
Good Lungs.............................................................................28
The Body Regenerates Every Seven Years..........................29
Chapter 5
Body Regeneration.................................................................30
Life Expectancy.......................................................................30
Resurrection Naturally...........................................................30
Cell Regeneration...................................................................31
Scientists Discover Addition of New Brain Cells in Highest Brain Area......................................................................32
Brain Regeneration.................................................................32
Organ Repair and Regeneration...........................................34
How does the Body Rejuvenate...........................................34
Regeneration and Longevity.................................................37
Chapter 6
Discoveries..............................................................................39
William Harvey Discovery....................................................39
Telomere Effect: Living Younger, Healthier and Longer...........................................................................................40
Autophagy: Its role in the Maintenance, Rejuvenation and Repair Mechanism of the Body.................................................42
Chapter 7
Extension of Life-Span...........................................................44
Death is not a universal accompaniment of life.................45
The Immortal Cells.................................................................45
Biological Immortality............................................................46
The Immortal Cells of Henrietta Lacks...............................46
The Body Tissues are Immortal............................................47
Alexis Carrel & Cell Immortality..........................................47
Hayflick’s Limit Theory.........................................................49
The Immortality of Turritopsis Nutricula...........................52
Immortal Stem Cells...............................................................53
Pluripotent Stem Cells ..........................................................53
Chapter 8
Observations on Longevity...................................................54
Remarks on the Examples of Longevity..............................62
Chapter 9
Diet and Longevity.................................................................65
How to Avoid Growing Old.................................................66
The Physical Culture Creed..................................................69
Chapter 10
Long and Healthy Life...........................................................70
Chapter 11
Outwitting Old Age The Louis Cornaro Story...................73
We can Live so as to Outwit Old Age..................................73
Remarkable Cases of Rejuvenation......................................77
An Epitome of the System of Luigi Cornaro......................81
Chapter 12
Longevity in Antiquity...........................................................89
Millennia..................................................................................89
What is the oldest age that is now attained?......................90
Longevity in the Ancient World...........................................91
Longevity in Italy....................................................................92
Moderate sized and well Proportioned...............................95
The Library of Health 1840...................................................96
The Fountain of Youth...........................................................97
The Census of 1851.................................................................99
The Desire of Longevity.......................................................101
Chapter 13
Yorkshire Longevity.............................................................103
100 Year Old's........................................................................103
101 Year Old's........................................................................111
102 Year Old's........................................................................113
103 Year Old's........................................................................115
104 Year Old's........................................................................121
105 Year Old's........................................................................123
106 Year Old's........................................................................126
107 Year Old's........................................................................127
108 Year Old's........................................................................129
109 Year Old's........................................................................130
110 Year Old's........................................................................131
111 Year Old's........................................................................132
112 Year Old's........................................................................132
113 Year Old's........................................................................134
114 Year Old's........................................................................134
115 Year Old's........................................................................136
116 Year Old's........................................................................136
117 Year Old's........................................................................137
118 Year Old's........................................................................137
120 Year Old's........................................................................138
123 Year Old's........................................................................138
125 Year Old's........................................................................138
127 Year Old's........................................................................139
130's Year Old's.....................................................................139
Chapter 14
The Oldest Yorkshireman....................................................142
Henry Jenkins........................................................................142
Wharfedale Centenarian.....................................................152
Auto-Intoxications and Processes of Ageing....................155
Ageing Effect of Overfeeding.............................................156
Harmful Effects of High-Protein Diets..............................156
Toxic Effects of Various Metabolites..................................157
Toxic Products of Gastro-Intestinal Putrefaction.............157
Poisonous Substances Produced by Putrefaction in the Intestines.....................................................................................158
Effects of "Blood-Washing" by Isotonic or Slightly Hypertonic Solutions................................................................159
The Ageing Process Delayed & Reversed.........................160
Last Words.............................................................................160
Index 162
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