“This Will Change the World as We Know It”

This had such an impact on me, I still remember it: I was sitting at my desk almost 20 years ago. I like to stay abreast of non-medical scientific literature. So I picked up my issue of Scientific American and something jumped off the page at me.

Elizabeth Blackburn had made a truly revolutionary discovery. I’ll never forget it.

When I read that she’d found a solution to aging already in our genes, I took out a piece of paper and wrote down something that I still have today. It says, “This will change the world as we know it.”

Now, finally, it seems other people think so, too. Elizabeth Blackburn won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Why all the fuss? Let me explain why this discovery is so powerful…

If You Could Live Longer…

What does “anti-aging” mean to you? You probably think of rubbing lotion on your face, eating blueberries and doing crossword puzzles to keep your mind agile … swimming, biking and walking to stay physically fit …

Let me propose a new definition for anti-aging: Literally staying young.

A recent scientific advance allows us to, for the first time, influence the genetic clock. The very mechanism by which we age has now been exposed, and we’ve taken the first step toward altering it.

It’s the most significant breakthrough in the history of anti-aging medicine…

Your Built-In Way to Fight Back

Your body is constantly being attacked by bacteria and other viruses.

But, you have a built-in way to fight back – your T cells.

T cells are a form of white blood cells that fight off infection and disease.

T cells do their best to destroy sickness, disease, and other invaders your body doesn’t recognize. And if they need help, they copy themselves for more fighting power…

Telomere Studies

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Dr. Bill is Aging in Reverse

Getting older is inevitable. But you can do something about the way you age. And some people just seem to defy age.

Like my friend and colleague, Dr. Bill. He’s in his mid 50s but has the life and enthusiasm of a 20-something kid. He looks half his age, too.

Check out what he said:

Your “Countdown Clock” is Ticking

Your “countdown clock” is ticking…

When it ticks down to zero, your life comes to an end.

The good news is that it’s possible to add more time to your countdown clock and extend your life by years or even decades.

These “clocks” are strands of genetic material that sit on the end of each chromosome. Called telomeres, these strands get shorter as you age.

Here’s what you need to know:

If You Just Do This One Thing…

If you want to stay as youthful as possible for as long as possible, here’s the first thing I’d tell you:

Do everything you can to protect the tips of your chromosomes called “telomeres.”

It may be the most important thing you do.

Here’s why:

Telomeres are the “time keepers” attached to every strand of your DNA. Each time your cells divide, your telomeres get shorter. When your telomeres run down, cell division stops, and your life ends…

Put THAT in Your Pipe and Smoke It!

I still see doctors writing and saying there is no evidence that vitamins really do anything for anyone.

Oh, really? What about this?

The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada just published the results of a new study of a cocktail of vitamins, minerals, and herbs. They showed that they could delay major aspects of aging. And, it extended lifespan by 10 percent!

Did You See This in TIME?

Did you see the recent cover of TIME magazine?

In a special issue on aging, TIME featured the Nobel Prize winning breakthrough on telomere research.

In the article, Scientists Get Closer to Understanding Why We Age, they confirmed that telomeres “are the closest we may come to identifying a biological clock – and our best bet for learning how to stop or turn back that clock.”1

If you’re a regular reader, you’ll know telomeres are the part of your chromosome that gets smaller as you age. When the telomere runs out, cell division stops, and life comes to an end.

Miracle Fatty Acid Adds Years to Your Life

Omega-3s may determine how long you’ll live – and it’s not just because they’re good for your heart.

Omega-3s may now have a profound effect on anti-aging by slowing down the shortening of telomeres.

What are telomeres? They’re protective tips that cap the ends of your DNA. Each time your cells divide, your telomeres get shorter. When your telomeres run down, cell division stops, and your life ends.

While this may sound like a clip from a science fiction movie, it’s real. And it’s about to change the world of medicine. Everything you’ve been told about aging is about to be transformed by this new science.

You may not have heard about this new breakthrough yet. That doesn’t surprise me.

Get Physical and Grow Younger

In just minutes a day, you can program your genes to stay younger longer.

There’s new evidence that PACE-style movement slows down your aging clock, lengthening your life and making you more resistant to disease.

The professor that led the study said, “The act of exercising may actually protect the body against the aging process… and people may actually look and feel younger.”1

Research now shows that exercise has the power to turn back time. Exercise affects your telomeres, making them longer and stronger. The telomere is your biological clock. It determines how long you live. And how well you live…

This Switch Controls How Long You Live

There’s a hidden switch in every cell of your body. It controls how long you live… and when you die.

It has the power to extend life – maybe indefinitely.

Most doctors have never heard of it.

A group of scientists stumbled upon it just 10 years ago. They watched in awe as generation after generation of cells multiplied… without aging.

As one top researcher put it in a Harvard report, “With this switch turned on, these cells become ‘immortalized.’”1

Until very recently, we didn’t know how to activate it. Today we do…

Get Younger Skin and Erase Wrinkles with Breakthrough Technology

The telomere is the most important discovery in human history. We now understand the mechanism of aging and how to influence it. Life on this planet will never be the same.

In fact, the discovery of telomeres just won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Medicine.

I’ve been researching the power of telomeres for years now. I’m the first physician ever licensed to administer TA-65 – the only commercially available treatment that lengthens human telomeres. TA-65 is the most dramatic advance in the world of life extension.

Dr. Sears Predicts Nobel Prize Winner… One Year Before it Happened

I’m no clairvoyant, but this is one time I predicted something and actually got it right. And I have it recorded.

During my telomere conference I said Elizabeth Blackburn should win a Nobel Prize for her discovery of the telomere, the “caps” at the end of chromosomes. That was October of last year…

Look What’s Brewing in Your DNA

By lengthening your telomeres, you can extend your life. And that means for the first time, you can actually stop – even reverse – the aging process in your body.

Here’s the thing: Your telomeres are extremely vulnerable to oxidative stress…and that’s exactly what antioxidants protect you against. This helps keep your telomeres long. And that, in turn, will help you live a longer and healthier life.

Space-Age Discovery Adds 10 Years to Your Life

You know stress hurts. You worry, you feel anxious… you lose sleep. That’s old news. But now, through the discovery of telomeres, we can actually measure the effects of stress. And the wear and tear is more distressing than we even imagined.

Researchers at the University of California discovered that stress speeds up aging.1 This makes your cells die before their time – and produces all the terrible effects we think of as aging.