For years, the search for an anti-aging elixir focused on an ingredient found in red wine, resveratrol. But as studies have cast doubt on its ability to extend lifespans, evidence has mounted that an antibiotic produced by bacteria in soil on Easter Island has profound effects on longevity.
Boston-area researchers are working to untangle how that drug, called rapamycin, works and determine whether it could be harnessed to improve health.
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Researchers interested in longevity would be wise to take a look into a new twist on an old adage, "Mercury takes a lichen to fungi." It turns out mercury amalgam dental fillings do off-gas small amounts of toxic mercury vapor when dentists put it in, drill it out, and in the presence of heat, abrasion, and mixed metals in the same or abutting teeth. Mercury is especially toxic to the roughly 25 percent of the population with the ApoE4 gene, who do not clear heavy metals well, and is associated with higher rates of Alzheimers, Autism, movement disorders and more. Mercury is such a great antiseptic that it leads to systemic overgrowth of yeast, at the same time it is suppressing the immune system, destroying central and peripheral nerves, causing allergies and autoimmunity reactions and inflammation, doing a number on digestive, endocrine, and pancreatic systems, and generally messing up just about every biochemical and electrochemical process in the body, which presents as "premature aging." I went from prematurely aging - by 20-30 years clinically - to postmaturely young, by 20-30 years clinically in the opposition direction. It was not a miracle. It was not random. It was not chance. It was taking the toxins out, and following a gradual, gentle detox protocol. Here is an Rx for healthy longevity: 1) Make a heavy metals and toxics screen part of periodic physicals for everyone. 2) Require dental plans work to promote oral health instead of stealth disease: require them to be 'cost neutral' so they do not only pay for the cost of putting more amalgam back in the back of our mouths because its not in our 'smile area.' 3) Make the FDA follow the recommendations of its own scientific advisory panels to restrict use of amalgam, or better, follow in the footsteps of Scandinavian countries to ban its use, as a growing number of countries are considering. End the fiction that it is a "prosthetic device" and "generally recognized as safe" based on 160 years of use, the same was true for lead and many other toxins. 4) Widen our eyes beyond the germ theory of disease and look at the interaction of nature, nurture and toxins in health, disease and recovery - because that's the kind of world we created, live, thrive, decline, and die in, too often prematurely, and at great cost, with needless suffering heartache.