Build Health: Your Two Longevity Choices

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Build Health:

Your Two Longevity Choices

 

Copyright 2004 William R. Quesnell

 

 

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Most folks believe health and longevity to either be a crapshoot, or

dictated by their genetics. Not so!

 

My father has excellent genes. He's going on 89. His paternal

grandfather, Wallace, died at 93. Bessie, his mother, was almost 90

when she passed away. My father has already outlived his own father

by five years.

 

Unfortunately, despite his excellent genes, his health is lousy. He

has the wrong kind of longevity.

 

Prostate disease, requiring surgery, hit him well before he retired.

Ten years later he developed prostate cancer that required more

surgery. His post-surgical radiological treatment resulted in poor

bowel function-and a love affair with stool softeners.

 

He's also a victim of osteoporosis and arthritis. Once 5' 10, " he's

now 5' 5. " X-rays indicate his spinal vertebrae have fused in three

separate areas. He also had a stroke that affected movement on his

right side, consigning him to a walker.

 

He now has trouble getting sentences out, and was recently diagnosed

with Parkinsons.

 

Not only that, he has a new pacemaker. The experts told him the

pacemaker would stop him from passing out when he was on the throne

and exerted himself. They were wrong.

 

All these wonderful things happened to him in spite of his excellent

genes and his always eating the " right foods. "

 

He never realized the nutrient density of his " right foods " has been

declining for six decades, and that would wreak havoc with his

metabolic enzyme systems.

 

My father's longevity, featuring a low level of immunity to

degenerative processes, frailty, extreme loss of mobility coupled

with cognitive difficulty, is precisely the kind of longevity you

don't want.

 

You want an altogether different kind of longevity. The longevity you

want allows you to be active and vigorous and live well into your

90's, to stay out of the hospital and hardly ever see a doctor; and

not be plagued by slow, agonizing, system-by-system breakdowns.

 

Well, if genes do not produce the right kind of longevity, what must

you do to achieve it?

 

What to Do?

 

First, you better make sure you have an excellent ability to fully

digest food and absorb its nutrients, different from most of today's

adults who have a diminished ability to digest food and suffer from

the poor nutrient absorption that comes with it.

 

The only way you can do this is by learning to model our healthy

ancestors who had immunity to degenerative processes and did not get

sick and die like we do. What was their advantage?

 

A Natural Advantage

 

Our healthy ancestors consumed water obtained from natural springs

and wells rich in minerals. They did not consume distilled water,

purified water, or water from municipal sources, all low in minerals.

 

They continually consumed natural foods with ample amounts of

synergistic nutrients.

 

Because they consumed whole, natural, unaltered, non-processed food,

our healthy ancestors received optimal amounts of minerals, entire

vitamin complexes as opposed to synthetic isolates of vitamins B, C,

A, and E, together with all the carotenoids and fatty acids.

 

Second, contrast their diets, free of chemicals [drugs] and synthetic

substitutes, with today's diet having 70 to 90 percent of the

minerals refined out of it, but at the same time loaded with

chemicals and synthetics.

 

Our healthy ancestors had little exposure to toxins, from food and

environment, that increase nutritional requirements from the

physiologic stresses they, the toxins, place on the body.

 

You and I have a heavy exposure to a wide range of toxins that

increase our nutritional requirements in order for us to successfully

deal with all these poisons.

 

Clearly, the right kind of longevity maintains a clear mind in a

capable body. If that is for you, start consuming the nutrient-dense

food that made your healthy ancestors strong, and toss out all those

convenience foods and beverages.