Aging reversal with mindfulness
Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2016 3:28 am
Biologist Aubrey de Grey has called aging a disease. In this video he talks about the problem of aging:
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-CRkqImAUU[/youtube]
Another biologist, Bruce Lipton, has made an even more radical statement: that aging is just a result of a belief. By belief he means the whole neurological conditioning including the deep subconscious mental patterns. And Lipton also said that the collective field of human habit is very strong and prevents our belief about aging from easily be changed.
Biological organisms are what science calls open systems and can heal and overcome deterioration over time (increase of entropy), such as:
"Biological immortality refers to a stable or decreasing rate of mortality from senescence, thus decoupling it from chronological age. Various unicellular and multicellular species, including some vertebrates, achieve this state either throughout their existence or after living long enough." -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_immortality" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
And:
"Normal stem cells and germ cells can also be said to be immortal (when humans refer to the cell line)." -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biologica ... Cell_lines" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
So there is in principle even a biological possibility of reversing aging, such as with asymmetric cell division by which stem cells become "younger":
"... if the parent asymmetrically buds off a daughter only the daughter is reset to the youthful state - the parent isn't restored and will go on to age and die. In a similar manner stem cells and gametes can be regarded as "immortal"." -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biologica ... some_yeast" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
The cause of aging is stress, both physical and psychological. Mindfulness practice can reduce the psychological stress which also improves the physical health of the body, such as increasing telomerase (enzyme for making the telomeres at the end of chromosomes longer) activity:
"In follow up studies by Blackburn a meditation group was seen to have up to a 30% increase in telomerase activity. In another study conducted at UCLA, showed a 43% increase in telomerase activity." -- https://breathe-magazine.com/mindfulness-and-longevity" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
And:
"The MF group improved most, followed by TM, on perceived control and word fluency. After 3 years, survival rate was 100% for TM and 87.5% for MF in contrast to lower rates for other groups." -- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2693686" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
So, then, why haven't any Indian yogis or Buddhist monks already achieved biological immortality of their bodies? At least there are no officially known cases as far as I know. The reason is probably the collective belief system of humanity that Bruce Lipton mentioned, and also I believe a psychological reason which is this: for thousands of years human life has been a struggle and a great burden, so there has probably never been any socially strong enough motivation (on a deep subconscious level) for extending the average human lifespan.
Today however we are on the brink of technological progress accelerating to such degree that human life may already within a few decades become more free, easy, interesting and pleasant. For example we will be able to work for the joy of doing something instead of "having to make a living".
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8F6m59qBbBU[/youtube]
This technological progress will also improve our physical health.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPKHHQFI-WM[/youtube]
The idea of this thread is to examine the possibility of, based on the assumption of an improved society, using mindfulness as a means of not only improving longevity but even to use it for reversing biological aging.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-CRkqImAUU[/youtube]
Another biologist, Bruce Lipton, has made an even more radical statement: that aging is just a result of a belief. By belief he means the whole neurological conditioning including the deep subconscious mental patterns. And Lipton also said that the collective field of human habit is very strong and prevents our belief about aging from easily be changed.
Biological organisms are what science calls open systems and can heal and overcome deterioration over time (increase of entropy), such as:
"Biological immortality refers to a stable or decreasing rate of mortality from senescence, thus decoupling it from chronological age. Various unicellular and multicellular species, including some vertebrates, achieve this state either throughout their existence or after living long enough." -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_immortality" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
And:
"Normal stem cells and germ cells can also be said to be immortal (when humans refer to the cell line)." -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biologica ... Cell_lines" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
So there is in principle even a biological possibility of reversing aging, such as with asymmetric cell division by which stem cells become "younger":
"... if the parent asymmetrically buds off a daughter only the daughter is reset to the youthful state - the parent isn't restored and will go on to age and die. In a similar manner stem cells and gametes can be regarded as "immortal"." -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biologica ... some_yeast" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
The cause of aging is stress, both physical and psychological. Mindfulness practice can reduce the psychological stress which also improves the physical health of the body, such as increasing telomerase (enzyme for making the telomeres at the end of chromosomes longer) activity:
"In follow up studies by Blackburn a meditation group was seen to have up to a 30% increase in telomerase activity. In another study conducted at UCLA, showed a 43% increase in telomerase activity." -- https://breathe-magazine.com/mindfulness-and-longevity" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
And:
"The MF group improved most, followed by TM, on perceived control and word fluency. After 3 years, survival rate was 100% for TM and 87.5% for MF in contrast to lower rates for other groups." -- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2693686" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
So, then, why haven't any Indian yogis or Buddhist monks already achieved biological immortality of their bodies? At least there are no officially known cases as far as I know. The reason is probably the collective belief system of humanity that Bruce Lipton mentioned, and also I believe a psychological reason which is this: for thousands of years human life has been a struggle and a great burden, so there has probably never been any socially strong enough motivation (on a deep subconscious level) for extending the average human lifespan.
Today however we are on the brink of technological progress accelerating to such degree that human life may already within a few decades become more free, easy, interesting and pleasant. For example we will be able to work for the joy of doing something instead of "having to make a living".
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8F6m59qBbBU[/youtube]
This technological progress will also improve our physical health.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPKHHQFI-WM[/youtube]
The idea of this thread is to examine the possibility of, based on the assumption of an improved society, using mindfulness as a means of not only improving longevity but even to use it for reversing biological aging.