The Vegan Lifestyle

Most of us have taken it for granted the benefits of comical skits to vanish stress away. We don’t participate in it because people may think of us as simpletons.

During my high school days, we had school programs wherein we presented comical skits to enliven the studentry. We enjoyed laughing till our stomachs aches and our lungs gasping for air. Only now did I know that laughter is the best medicines for almost all diseases. It stimulates the thymus gland to produce the NK cells or natural killer cells that kill cancer cells in our body. It vanishes the stress away; it improves blood circulation, and strengthens the immune system.

We always have parties, programs and other activities in schools, offices, and in the communities throughout the year. In these activities, we often present comical skits and other funny games to entertain the crowds, especially the kids. Doodlebops Costumes, wigs, masks, and other accessories make the skit funnier and more entertaining. The brighter the colors of costumes and wigs, the better and more lively the presentation. Masks of famous cartoon personalities and entities make the skit more realistic too. Kids enjoy them very much.

Try donning the doodlebops costumes sometimes. More people do it during the parties and holiday seasons. It makes the occasions lively and brings more merriments to your audience. You can also wear the mask and wig of your favorite singer, and sing out loud the song you like most, and be the entertainer of the hour.

There are many ways to entertain the crowd and bring them more happiness. And one of these is through comical skits to vanish stress away. It boosts your immune system, and is very beneficial for your health.

We should buy organic foods and be healthy. Eating organic foods is the best way to excellent health. They are the safest and the best foods on Earth!

What are organic foods?

Organic foods are foods from crops which are not contaminated with herbicides, insecticides, and other toxic chemicals which are inserted in most genetically modified crops. These crops from which organic foods come from are grown in clean unpolluted areas without the use of synthetic fertilizers, hormones or bacteria for growth.

The rise of dreadful incurable diseases such as prion protein disease necessitates that we carefully select the food that we eat.  More than 75 percent of the foods sold in supermarkets and groceries are processed foods that are laden with toxic chemicals which are very dangerous to our health.

Most fruits and vegetables are grown using fertilizers made from toxic substances. They are also sprayed with insecticides against infestation, and formalin for preservation. Likewise crops such as rice, corn, wheat, potatoes and many more are sprayed with these toxic chemicals or have these chemicals inserted in their seeds through genetic modification to increase their yields. Even apples, grapes, and oranges are no longer safe.

These genetically modified foods commonly known as GMO  stimulate the cells to abnormally mutate towards carcinogenesis. Its consumption causes various types of cancer, prion protein diseases, and many more. The best thing that we can do, if we want to avoid all these diseases, is to go organic shopping and buy organic foods for our daily consumption. It will save us a lot of money from hospital bills, doctor’s fees, and medicines.

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We must buy organic foods and be healthy. They are grown using organic fertilizers, and are safe from toxic chemicals and free from genetic modification. Organic foods are not only clean and safe for consumption, but nutritious too.

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Wear eyeglasses and avoid headaches. Your headaches could be possibly caused by eye strain.

There are many factors that cause headaches, but most of the time it is the tired eyes that cause it. The glares from the sun, TV screens, and computer monitors strain the eyes so much that they eventually impair our eyesight. When our visual acuity deteriorates, our eyes strain to focus on objects, and this causes headaches.

I’ve experienced this problem many times. When I was studying in college, my eyesight deteriorated because of so much reading, and it caused so much headaches and dizziness like that of a vertigo that I would like to vomit. I consulted an optometrist, and she prescribed reading glasses to correct the problem.

Wearing eyeglasses can relieve headaches. It may not readily restore your vision, but it helps and prevents gradual eyesight deterioration if used correctly. There are other solutions such as eye massage and eye exercise, but the effects are slow, and you need to do it correctly. Otherwise, you’ll do more harm to your eyes than good.

Though most eyeglasses are expensive, you can still buy very affordable high quality and stylish eyeglasses from some optical stores or clinics. It’s the frames that make it expensive depending on quality and brand. But if you want it just for reading, you can choose the reading glasses which are cheaper compared to double-vision ones.

Let us wear eyeglasses and avoid headaches. It’s worth the comfort of the day. We can’t work with impaired and blurred vision, much more with headaches and dizziness.

The wickedness around us are becoming rampant. Ruthless killings are being perpetrated everyday all around the world, and most people are so insouciant and calloused to even lift their voice in complaint.

I am glad to have a part in the spreading of the good news that God loves us so much. Some people around the world may not be able to read this, but at least some will know that there is a better way of life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

I started promoting the benefits of good health through vegetarian diet, healthy lifestyle, and alternative medicine in order to minimize and ease the sufferings of millions of people around the world who are afflicted with diseases and helplessly bedridden in homes and hospitals. I want to bring hope to the people by letting them know that there is an inexpensive cure for all their seemingly incurable maladies that is readily available from herbs and other medicinal plants that grow in their backyards, gardens, and surroundings.

I feel sad whenever I see farmers selling their root crops, fruits, nuts, and vegetables to buy white bread from bakeries. What an ignorant and foolish exchange! Had they known that white breads are loaded with toxic substances, they would not have sold their goods to buy them. Root crops, fruits, and vegetables have phytonutrients that not only nourish our body but protect us from most diseases including cancers, whereas processed foods have synthetic chemicals that are carcinogenic and detrimental to our health.

Sometimes we are dogmatic about our belief and we stick to it no matter what. We refuse to change our lifestyle for good because that is what we have been used to. We blindly follow what has been handed down to us by our parents, and we believed that they were right regardless of proofs to the contrary. We can condone ourselves for not being able to get out from the rut which our parents have been trudging for years, but we cannot forgive ourselves for being totally ignorant of the deception and wickedness that is being played upon us by secret societies that want to control our lives and the lives of other people around the world.

Have you ever known that the New World Order has a hidden agenda to decimate the population of the world from 6 billions to 1 billion? You might not believe it, but they have been doing this for many years now without being suspected. How are they doing it? Through world wars, civil wars, religions, diseases, medicines, vaccines, genetically modified crops, processed foods, mind control, and man-made calamities.

We may realize that food chains are poisoning us with processed foods, and pharmaceutical companies are making us sick with their medicines and antibiotics, and finally change our diet to fruits, nuts and vegetables, and start patronizing herbs and other alternative medicines, but these do not completely solve the problem. There are real sinister plots that are being hatched up by secret societies that make all our endeavors for the preservation of our lives useless.

We are under the control of an elite few who want to rule the world. They are maniacally bent on starving the world to death by controlling the prices and supply of commodities, and the current global economic crises are their devious manipulations to bring the world to its knees. The dreadful diseases such as HIV, AIDS, SARS, ebola, swine flu, cancers, mad cow disease and other prion diseases are their evil creations to reduce the population of the world. The 911 incident was their work of deception and terror in the pretext to declare war for more carnage and genocide.

Probably you have read about HAARP being suspected of having created artificially the big calamities that happened lately such as the tsunamis in Indonesia, the earthquakes in Haiti and China, and the volcanic eruption in Iceland. Besides the above calamities, this covert government project can also alter the climate of the world at will to create adverse weather conditions such as tornado, typhoon, cyclone, flashflooding, and drought in any parts of the globe. It can be used to beam out electromagnetic waves to control our minds, and to zap us out if we are unruly and belligerent.

Have you ever wondered why FEMA produced half a million coffins made of steel, concrete and plastics? What are they for? Are they preparing for a biological warfare to decimate the population? Why is the swine flu vaccination mandatory to all? And what are these secret 133 underground cities in America for? Will they be used to shelter the  high-ranking government officials and the elite in the society from the radiation of a nuclear fallout or to protect them from the ramifications of a very toxic biological virus more potent than anthrax whose symptoms are more dangerous than those of the Gulf War Syndrome which most soldiers got during the Iraq war?

We see how futile our work of promoting good health to everyone. We may change to a vegetarian diet, and start to patronize alternative medicine, but surely we’ll still become sick from invisible electromagnetic waves that are being bombarded upon us everyday. It is not only the low frequency waves from HAARP that is used in mind control and the toxic chemicals from Chemtrails that are sprayed in the atmosphere that make us sick, but our mobile phones, TVs, microwave ovens, computers, and other electronic devices at home too.

And Big Pharma is ever ready with toxic medicines and antibiotics that are loaded with more cultured diseases. How so naive of us all to be so unsuspecting of the harmful effects of most conventional medicines and antibiotics that we now accept the wrong belief that our body is prone to diseases, and we rationalize that it is normal for us to be sick and be hospitalized. No one ever noticed that the antibiotics only stopped the symptoms temporarily, and in a few days, the disease comes back in another form more dangerous than the first.

Only God can protect us from these diabolical schemes of the devil. We are exposed to harmful radiations similar to those emitted by x-rays and microwave ovens through our daily use of cellphones, TVs, and other electronic gadgets at home.  We are not only insidiously endangered by these radiations, but we are also being tracked and monitored through these gadgets, and we completely lose our privacy. Plasma TVs have hidden micro cameras and microphones installed inside them to watch all our movements and to listen to all our private conversations at home. Be careful: Big Brother is watching you!

And laptops and computers have these capabilities too. We have literally nowhere to hide. Outside our home, we are clearly visible to spy satellite cameras that can zoom in and read even the small prints on the pages of newspapers, and GPS can precisely pinpoint our location anywhere in the globe through our RFIDs, credit cards and other magnetic cards that are embedded with chips.

Every which way, we are inescapably vulnerable to this wickedness around us. The food chains where we and our kids loved to dine are serving processed foods loaded with MSG, aspartame, trans fats, preservatives, enhancers, and other toxic additives that hasten us to the grave. And we do not get cured completely when hospitalized, but relapsed to another more debilitating disease after few days due to the cultured diseases encapsulated in antibiotics, and become more sick due to the toxic chemicals found in conventional medicines created by pharmaceutical companies for profit.

Cooking our food at home is not a guarantee that it is safe either. Most of us buy our food from groceries where more than 75% of the items being sold are processed foods with ingredients made from genetically modified crops. And the big problem is that there is no way of knowing whether the food we buy has GMO in it because all products are not labeled yet for this toxic and carcinogenic substance.

The wickedness around us is so great beyond opposition. There are people hired by these secret societies that are lurking around to silence those who oppose their agenda. They bribe those in position and power, and those who cannot be bought are either poisoned or assassinated. Our only safe recourse is to pray to God to protect us from all these evil schemes.

We should take good care of our health. If we want to live our lives happily, we must take good care of our health.

When we speak of health, most of us understand it to be a physical health. And rightly so, because all other aspects of health such as mental, social and spiritual are all dependent upon physical health. It is therefore important that we take good care of our physical health to live our lives to the full.

Our physical body needs good nutrition to be healthy. A well balanced diet is essential for the efficient functioning of our body. A diet consisting of food rich in carbohydrates, proteins, vitamins and minerals is needed for the body to function properly.

To be able to get all these three basic nutrients, we need to eat fruits, grains nuts and vegetables. These are rich and safe sources of these nutrients. They supply our body with all the nutrients for excellent health. This is the original diet God has given us to be in perfect health.

Complex carbohydrates from root crops or tubers are better than the refined flour from white bread. They provide our body a steady supply of energy, and fibers to help flush out waste and other toxic substances from the body.

Proteins make us grow. They are the building blocks for body repair. Good sources of proteins are flesh meats, but can also be found in fruits, grains, nuts and vegetables. Proteins from flesh meats are heavy proteins that are hard to digest, whereas plant-based proteins are light and are easily digested.

Consumption of flesh meats is no longer safe nowadays. Most flesh meats from dead animals are carriers of various pathogens of contagious diseases that are not killed by the heat during cooking. Most of these flesh meats come from animals raised from feeds loaded with additives and injected with growth hormones that are toxic to the body. Genetically modified growth hormones are the precursors of various types of cancers and other diseases.

To maintain good health, we need vitamins and minerals too. These are the nutrients that make our skin, eyes, hair and nails glow. They are naturally found in most fruits, grains, nuts and vegetables. These phytonutrients are not only rich sources of vitamins and minerals, but they also have powerful antioxidants and immune boosting properties that effectively ward off all diseases. In fact most of these phytonutrients have healing powers that can cure most diseases including cancers.

We should take good care of our health. Let us not dump the carcasses of animals into our stomachs — they putrefy in our body and make our blood highly acidic, and they cause all diseases including tumors and cancers, and the dreaded incurable prion protein diseases.

We should take good care of our health. Let us eat fruits, grains, nuts and vegetables. This is the original diet God has given us to be in optimum health. It would be for our good if we obey what God said. He is so omniscient and so wise to be mistaken.

We should take good care of our health for the glory of God. We are not our own. We are bought with a price: the precious holy blood of the King of kings and Lord of lords, the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior. We are the temple of God, and the Holy Spirit dwells in us. Whosoever destroy the temple, the same God will destroy.

There are many reasons why we should avoid GMO. Many studies showed that it is toxic, carcinogenic and fatal. It is very dangerous to health and must be avoided and discarded for good.

What is GMO?

GMO stands for Genetically Modified Organism. It is an organism in which its genetic material or DNA has been altered through genetic engineering techniques generally known as recombitant DNA technology. Genetic modification is done by inserting trans-genes from humans, animals, or bacteria into target species or host such as plants and other animals.

There are 3 methods used in recombitant DNA technology: the plasmid method, the vector method, and the biolistic method. Plasmid method was used in the creation of the first recombitant bacteria in 1973, the existing bacterium E. coli expressing a Salmonella gene. Biolistic method uses a gene gun to insert DNA genes to plant or animals. This is the method used when adding pesticide resistance to plants. This is the most controversial method because it is used in making genetically modified crops for food.

GMO can cause many serious health problems to humans. The following are the health risks of genetically modified crops:

• GM food supplement is fatal
• GM crops cause allergies, and other ailments
• The pollen-sterilizing barnes in GM crops can cause kidney damage
• Disease-resistant GM crops can promote human viruses and other diseases
• High lysine in GM corn contains more toxins and can retard growth, and cooking it creates more disease-promoting toxins
• Trans-genes can be transferred to human gut bacteria, and turn it into living gut pesticide factory
• Herbicide-tolerant GM crops have more herbicide residues and can produce herbicides in the intestine to act as endocrine disruptors
• Disease-resistant GM crops develop new plant viruses, and bring more health risks to humans
• Milk from rBGH (recombitant bovine growth hormone) can increase the risk of cancer and other diseases, and increases the rate of twin births
• GM food can create antibiotic-resistant diseases
• A promoter can be transferred into the human DNA and accidentally switch on harmful genes that may produce toxins, allergens and carcinogens, and create genetic instability and mutations
• Genetic modification activates mobile DNA called transposons which can create cell mutations
• GM proteins can be misfolded and may result to prion protein disease
• Pregnant women eating GM food can endanger her offspring

GMO is toxic and dangerous to animals too. Tests done on animals fed with GM food confirmed the fact that GM food are indeed toxic, carcinogenic, and fatal. The following are some of the many documented health risks on cattle, fowls, rats and mice that were fed with GMO:

• Rats fed with GM potatoes and tomatoes developed bleeding stomachs and died
• Rats fed with Bt (bacillus thuringiensis) corn and Bt potatoes had intestinal damages and multiple health problems
• Cows fed with Bt corn died mysteriously
• Sheeps died after grazing in Bt cotton fields
• Rabbits fed with Roundup Ready soy had altered cell metabolism
• Chickens fed with Liberty Link corn died
• Mice fed with Roundup Ready soy had pancreas problems, liver cell problems, and changes in testicular cells
• Cows and pigs fed with GM corn became sterile

The many health risks enumerated above are more than enough reasons to convince us that GMOs are indeed very dangerous to our health. We must avoid it if we want to be healthy and fit.

There is a relationship between obesity and heart attack. Obese people have greater tendencies to develop cardiomyopathy that leads to heart attack.

Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is the most common of all cardiomyopathies. It is a condition wherein the heart muscular walls of the left or both ventricles become enlarged, weakened and floppy which impairs the systolic pump function of the heart.

In hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, the heart is unable to efficiently deliver blood to other parts of the body due to the shrinking of the size of its pumping chambers caused by the thickening and stiffening of the walls of the myocardium or heart muscle. Whereas, in restrictive cardiomyopathy, the heart cannot properly expand and is greatly hindered to fill with blood between heartbeats because of rigid and less elastic heart muscles.

The causes of cardiomyopathy are idiopathic or unknown, but there are various contributing factors that lead to cardiomyopathy. Some of these are:

• long-term high blood pressure
• excessive use of alcohol for many years
• nutritional deficiencies of essential vitamins and minerals
• use of cocaine and other antidepressant medications
• viral infection
• metabolic disorders such as diabetes or thyroid disease
• iron buildup in the heart
• pregnancy, and others.

Most of these factors are preventable. The phytonutrients from fruits, grains, nuts and vegetables can effectively prevent nutritional deficiencies. Natural Herbalife vitamin and mineral supplements supply the body with essential nutrients for optimum health. Vitamins and minerals are important in the maintenance of ideal body weight to prevent obesity.

Obesity can be measured through BMI or Body Mass Index. It is a measure of body fat in terms of body weight and height. It is calculated by dividing the weight in kilograms by the height in meters squared: (kg/m²). A person with a BMI lesser than 18.5 is considered underweight, 18.5 to 24.9 is normal weight, 25 to 29.9 is overweight, and 30 or greater is obese.

A BMI of less than 21 has the greatest protection against coronary heart disease and mortality. A BMI greater than 23 but lesser than 25 in women increases the risk of fatal coronary heart disease by 50%, and a BMI greater than 25 but lesser than 29 in men by 72%.

According to some studies, dilated cardiomyopathy is the most common cause of sudden death in severely obese people. Obesity is a high risk factor for heart disease. Obese people are more prone to hypertension that may cause heart attack.

It is therefore very important that we loss excessive fats in our body and maintain an ideal weight to remain healthy all the time. Herbalife Weight Control Programs are good for people who want to be slim and fit. They have Formula of Protein Powder, Nutritional Drink, and Multivitamin Complex to prevent nutritional deficiencies that may cause heart attacks in obese people.

Flesh meat eating is dangerous to health. It brings a host of diseases that have been the cause of death of so many people.

Flesh meats of infected animals are carriers of diseases. Tuberculosis, pneumonia, flu, tumors, cancer, and other diseases are transmitted to humans through flesh meat eating. Flesh meat eating increases the incidence of catching diseases tenfold.

One type of disease that is transmitted to humans through flesh meat eating is the dreadful prion protein disease. It is incurable and takes its victim’s life within months.

Prion protein disease in animals is caused by feeds that are contaminated with dead animals. Feeds that are given to cattle and fowls are mixed with powdered carcasses of sheep, deer, dogs, cows, and other animals. This is the cause of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) or mad cow disease that started the transmission of prion diseases to humans, cattle, fowls and other animals.

This prion disease has been transmitted to humans through consumption of beef from cows infected with BSE. This prion disease in man is called Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD). Besides BSE and CJD, there are many more prion diseases that have already been identified such as fatal familial insomnia (FFI), Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker Syndrome (GSS), kuru,  chronic wasting disease (CWD), scrapie,  variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD), and Alpers’ Syndrome in infants.

Even eating flesh meats from healthy animals are no longer safe. Besides the feeds  mixed with carcasses of animals, fowls are injected with chemicals to increase their weights, and cows are injected with recombitant bovine growth hormone (rBGH) to increase milk production.

Recombitant bovine growth hormone is the synthetic form of bovine growth hormone or somatotropin that is normally produced in the pituitary glands of cattle. It is produced in laboratories through recombitant DNA technology commonly known as genetic engineering or genetic modification used to produce Genetically Modified Organism (GMO).

This genetically modified bovine growth hormone is injected to cows to prevent the death of mammary cells in order to continuously produce milk. But cows injected with this synthetic growth hormone develop mastitis, and the bacteria that are resistant to the antibiotics used to treat this painful udder infection are carried to humans through beef, milk and other dairy product consumption.

It was also found that milk from cows treated with recombitant bovine growth hormone have high levels of insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1), a hormone considered to be a high risk factor for breast, colon, lung, prostate, and other cancers. IGF-1 also increases fraternal twin births.

Flesh meat eating is dangerous to health. Flesh meat contains a stress hormone called 17-hydroxycorticosteroid that blocks neurotransmitters to the brain. A carcinogenic substance called methylcholantrene is also produced when the fat in meat is superheated during cooking or broiling. Benzopyrene is produced during broiling of meat, and this causes stomach tumors and leukemia.

Flesh meat eating is dangerous to health. Besides the mad cow disease and other incurable prion diseases, the GMO recombitant bovine growth hormone, the IGF-1 that causes lot of cancers, and other toxic and carcinogenic substances in flesh meats, it also contains preservatives, feed additives and other toxic chemicals that are detrimental to our health.

There are 3 basic essential nutrients for a healthy body. These are carbohydrates, proteins, vitamins and minerals. All of these are important for good health. A deficiency of these may result to health problems.

Carbohydrates provide energy to keep us going. Proteins build the body and make us grow. Vitamins and minerals maintain the body and make us glow in good health.

To be healthy, we should eat a balanced diet of carbohydrates, proteins, vitamins and minerals. Most of these nutrients can be found in fruits, grains, nuts, and vegetables.

But in our modern world, most of these nutrients are no longer safe for consumption because of chemical pollution from industrial plants. Most of the foods we buy in supermarkets nowadays are processed with chemicals that poison our body and genetically modified which render them carcinogenic and dangerous to health.

A safe recourse is to plant our own organic fruits and vegetables. We can also buy Herbalife products that are natural and safe in case we cannot buy in the market or plant our own organic vegetables.

Carbohydrates are divided into simple and complex. Simple carbohydrates are molecules of sugars, while complex carbohydrates are chains of bonded molecules of sugar. Complex carbohydrates are commonly known as starch, and they provide the body a steady supply of energy. Good sources of complex carbohydrates are root crops or tubers such as sweet potato, cassava, yams and others. It is also found in beans, lentils, brown rice,  corn, buckwheat, wholegrain cereals, oatmeals, and many more.

Proteins are important in building the structural components  of the body. It is used to build muscles and organs, to create hormones, to synthesize neurotransmitters for a healthy nervous system, and to strengthen the immune system. They are made up of basic building blocks called amino acids.

There are 20 amino acids, and 11 of these are “non-essential, that is, there’s no need to get these amino acids from our diet because our body can produce them from chemicals that are already present in our body. Some of the non-essential amino acids, such as arginine, cysteine, glycine, and tyrosine are called “conditionally essential” because some people, due to genetic defects, cannot produce these in their body but have to get these from their diet. The 9 essential amino acids are not produce by the body. We take it from the food  we eat.

Good sources of protein are meats, eggs, and dairy products. But due to the exposure of cattle and fowls to various toxic chemicals such as growth hormones, feed additives, and the many preservatives, flavorings, enhancers, and colors in most processed meats, animal protein is no longer safe. Animal flesh meats are carriers of infectious diseases that are easily transmitted to humans. Also animal proteins are heavy proteins that are hard to digest.

Plant-based proteins are light, and are easily digested by the body. They do not ferment easily to cause acidic system that is common in most flesh meats. Good sources of plant proteins are legumes, nut, seeds, grains, cereals, seaweeds, and other green leafy vegetables.

To be in optimum health, we need vitamins and minerals too. Vitamins are organic substances that come from plants and animals, whereas minerals are inorganic elements that come from the earth, soil, and water that are absorbed by plants. Most vitamins and minerals are found in plants such as fruits, grains, nuts, and vegetable. Busy people who have no time to cook can also take Herbalife vitamin and mineral supplements to stay in the best of health.

Has man finally found the secret of immortality?

There is a recent discovery about the lengthening of telomeres through the use of a substance from a plant. Scientists all over the world are excited, and their hopes of unlocking the mystery of immortality are very high.

This phytochemical, known as astragaloside IV,  is an extract from a Chinese herb called astralagus. Another company calls it TA-65 or Telomerase Activator 65. Theses extracts activate the telomerase in the body. It was proven in some experiments that these extracts can reverse the reduction of the length of telomeres during cell division. Scientists believe that this substance can extend the length of telomeres.

Telomeres are the end caps of chromosomes in DNA helix strands that prevent the chromosomes from fusing or joining together that may result to chromosomal abnormalities. It also prevents the cell from replicating continuously that may lead to carcinogenesis.

Telomeres are non-coding DNA that are normally composed of 8000 bases of DNA sequence repeats TTAGGG during birth.  This number is reduced to 3000 bases at age 35 and becomes 1500 bases at age 65 and above. From age 35 up to 65, the length of telomeres are reduced at a rate of 50 bases per year.

The length of telomere is gradually shortened every time  the cell divides. When the Hayflick limit of about 60 to 80 cell divisions is reached, the telomere unfolds from its closed structure, and the cell detects this uncapping as DNA damage which signals it to enters cellular senescence, growth arrest or apoptosis. This gradual reduction of the length of telomeres is the natural biological process we call aging.

The length of telomeres are extended by telomerase, a reverse transcriptase enzyme known as TERT or Telomerase Reverse Transcriptase. This enzyme is a ribonucleoprotein complex composed of protein component and RNA primer sequence. It is this template RNA known as TERC or Telomerase RNA Component in telomerase that contains the DNA sequence repeats TTAGGG. Telomerase extends the length of telomeres by adding these TTAGGG to the 3′ end strand of the telomere regions. This action ‘immortalized’ the cells to preserve youthfulness.

But unfortunately, telomerase extension of telomeres is switched off in humans. This may be due to various detrimental factors that have greatly degraded the quality of life through the years. Not only is it switched off, but it sometimes causes the abnormal mutations of cells that lead to the start of cancer or carcinogenesis.

The effective destruction of this abnormal telomerase activity during cell mutation can be a solution to the total eradication of all forms of cancer. Scientists are focusing their studies on how to totally eradicate all forms of cancer and to completely stop the process of aging through telomerase.

Let us hope that TA-65 or astragaloside IV will indeed effectively activate the telomerase to lengthen the telomeres without creating any abnormality in the cells or in the body as a whole. It is precarious, and the boundary between immortality and carcinogenesis is dangerously thin to be tampered with.

Has man finally found the secret of immortality? The answer is still a resounding No! Telomerase may be able to extend man’s life to 100, 500 or even 1,000 years, but he is still eventually bound to die. Man was created perfect, but he was not created immortal. Even angels are not immortal. There is only one that is immortal, and that is God.