Are you aging faster than you’d like? Would you like to slow down, halt, or even reverse the aging process?
Most of us want to live a long, long time; we just want to stay young and healthy in the process.

Much of the efforts to attain longevity have centered on extreme measures such as starving yourself, freezing your body, storing your DNA, or hibernating much of your life away. I’d love to live to 120 in good health, but I’m not willing to make those years miserable.

So what’s the best course of action? Do we have to wait until some pharmaceutical comes up with a longevity pill, or invest in freezing our brains, or just hope we don’t die before we grow old?

Good news: I believe science will provide some bona fide longevity breakthroughs in our lifetime–and the betting is that these breakthroughs will involve the immune system.

So far, every disease that kills people has been found to have a direct link with the immune system. Heart attacks are caused by white blood cells making plaques in our arteries rupture; cancer only kills people if it can evade our immune system; microscopic examination of the brain of Alzheimer’s patients shows the immune system actively involved in gobbling up neurons; arthritis is caused by the immune system directly attacking our joints.

Our immune system plays the central role in every single fatal disease. If we can take control of our immune system, we can avoid these diseases, and die at a very old age after a lifetime of great health.

If you think of your immune system as an army with billions upon billions of soldiers – each soldier (white blood cell) is armed with WMD – weapons of mass destruction.  These ‘soldiers’ have powerful weapons to be able to enable them to kill invaders that threaten our survival.  The problem is that when our immune system uses these weapons indiscriminately, the result is collateral damage that harms our bodies.  To prevent this damage we need to learn how to control our immune system – creating a truce for lasting peace.

Controlling our immune system doesn’t involve freezing or starving.  The key to having a calm immune system that isn’t attacking us is to create a calm and peaceful environment both inside and around our bodies that allows our immune system to let down its defenses.

Answer the following questions:
Did you grow up with a pet?
Were you born in the spring?
Did you floss your teeth today?
Did you make somebody laugh today?
Have you had a massage in the past month?
Do you often sing, hum, or tap your foot?
Do you love to go dancing?
Do you have at least one loving relationship?
Have you broken a sweat exercising in the past 24 hours?
Did you weigh between 7 and 10 pounds at birth?
Do you have older siblings?
Are your hips bigger than your belly?
Have you made love in the past week?
Do you eat more than 3 times a day?
Do you take a vitamin?
Did you sleep well last night?

If you answered “yes” to all of these questions, you’re well on your way to having a healthy immune system.

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