How to Reverse Aging Naturally

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010 at 6:35 am

during the early 1990s, i attending a conference on mind/body medicine. Dr. Deepak Chopra gave a keynote address that permanently altered my perception of “aging.” He described an totally unbelievable medical study.

A Harvard University psychologist took a group of men, all nursing home residents between the age of 70 and 80 to a remote New England monastery that was retrofitted to 1959.

Everything there, the television, magazines, newspapers were all circa 1959. The men were asked to act as if it was in fact 1959. They listened to radio programs, viewed TV shows, and discussed the politics and sports events of that time. The men were asked by the researchers to act as if they’d traveled back in time.

The researchers sought to discern if their mental return to 20 years hence would improve their health.

Dr. Ellen Langer, a social psychologist and psychology professor reported the outcomes that were amazing. After 7 days, the men had more joint flexibility, increased movement, and decreased osteoarthritis in their hands. Their levels of intelligence and cognitive function measurably increased, as had their walking, muscle strength and posture.Photographs taken at the end of the study were judged to be younger. In other words, the “aging process” in previously considered irreversible ways had turned around.

Listening to Dr. Chopra describe these findings, in that very moment, dramatically altered the way I thought about “aging.” I was made aware of the role the mind plays. I’d already watched my parents over the years exhibit minimal signs of “aging,” due to their love of live and their daily pursuits that including fulfilling their dreams and loves, while my aunts and uncles, especially their younger siblings appeared to be their elders.

Dr. Langer’s book, Counterclockwise was released in 2009. I wholeheartedly concur with her view that we are all limited by our preconceived notions and stereotypes about aging and health. If we fail to recognize and acknowledge them, these misguided perceptions that our culture provides about disease and “old age,” will influence the way we think about ourselves and behave.

Also, Dr. Langer conducted another study that investigated the role clothing plays in promoting “aging” stereotypes. Most of us usually dress in accordance to what's age appropriate for their particular culture.

She points that we're continuously reminded on a daily basis by signals that aging is an unavoidable and undesirable period of decline. These signals make it difficult to “age” or live gracefully and that pigeonholes us regardless of our age into expected diseases.

The fact that we usually accept diagnosis and prognosis without question, including cancer, heart disease and depression, as our own, that come to define our identity and tremendously diminish our possibility of living a healthier future.

About the 1979 research, Dr. Langer wrote: This study shaped not only my view of aging but also my view of limits in a general way for the next few decades. Over time I've come to believe less and less that biology is destiny. It is not primarily our physical selves that limit us but rather our mindset about our physical limits. Now I accept none of the medical wisdom regarding the course our disease must take as necessarily true.

If a group of elderly adults could produce such dramatic changes in their lives, imagine, what's truly possible for the rest of us.

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