Is there a war on aging?

What is it good for?

Has there been a war on aging called? In our modern society it seems we have a war on everything. In order for a government to fund scientific research to universities and Non-governmental organizations(NGO’s) to receive billions and billions of dollars to put into the coffers of private research firms, if there is a war of sorts declared then money can also be moved through the defense budget. And we all know that the defense budget is the only line item on the books of the United States economy that is never questioned. Just paid. Roads, bridges, education, infrastructure? All of these are questioned, line itemed, discussed in detail down to the penny.

So, is there a war declared on aging? Follow the research which follows the money. Elon Musk’s Space X firm recently launched human muscle cells into space on his Falcon 9 rocket to become part of an experiment conducted on the International Space Station(ISS) that could help people defy aging. The study began at the Houston Space Center Lab where human muscle cells, the size of a grain of rice, were grown and placed in 3D printed holders. Once these cells reach space some will be given electronic stimulation designed to mimic “exercise”, while others will be exposed to high amounts of protective heat shock proteins, which are proven to protect against age related muscle deterioration. The study is being called MicroAge. The study is designed to be used to improve our understanding of the way muscles fail to respond to exercise in older people, as well as, in astronauts in space.

Now, since Musk is currently in the process of readying people to go to Mars learning this information could become vital to the bodies of those future Martian terraformers.

Some say that the body replaces itself at the cellular level every seven years. Some say 10 years. Now, it is true that individual cells have a finite life span. It is also true that when they die off they are replaced with new cells. According to the Science Desk Reference at the New York Public Library, “There are between 50 and 75 trillion cells in the body. Each type of cell has its own life span, and when a human dies it may take hours or days before all of the cells in the body die” This rather morbid fact is taken into consideration by forensic investigators and coroners when they are tasked to determine the cause and time of death for homocide victims.

There is a drastic difference between the lifespan of a red or a white blood cell. And an even more drastic difference between Colon cells, skin cells or sperm cells. There is about a four month life cycle with red blood cells. White blood cells tend to live on average of over a year. The Colon cell is much more fragile with a life span of about four days, to the skin cell’s cycle of about two to three weeks. It is the sperm cell which lives only about three days. Perhaps swimming may not be as such good for the health as we thought…However, brain cells typically last an entire lifetime and the neurons that are in the cerebral cortex are not replaced when they die.

So, I guess that, organically, based on these cellular representations that everything dies. Although, there seems to be a lot of study's going on throughout the world, and in space, trying to defy that fact.

Brain cells don’t die. Perhaps this is why Elon Musk is looking to tap into those cells with his Neuralink program, and having artificial intelligence software attached to the human brain. He says that he is going to be linking people up as early as 2022. It seems to be working well with monkeys, so… According to Neuralink, the chimp…I mean, chip contains micron-scale threads that are stitched to the areas of the brain which control movement. These threads send different signals to those parts of the brain and direct them for specific actions. The company says that this type of brain interface can help people with neurological injury or disease. Perhaps soon we might find the human species hooked up to “the Matrix” like NEO was while floating in his pod.

                         A rendering of a senescent cell releasing substances that prompt signs of aging in other,

                         healthy cells. Photograph: 7activestudio/Getty Images/iStockphoto

Some other areas of study that has been receiving large amounts of funding has been the study of Senescent cells. As time passes, the number of damaged, ‘senescent’ cells in our bodies increases. These in turn are responsible for many effects of aging. Now, it seems that, scientists are working to eliminate them. They are known to accumulate with age. It seems that the immune system becomes no longer able to clear them, and as a result of exposure to cell-damaging agents such as radiation and chemotherapy, they have been identified as a cause of aging in mice, at least partially responsible for most age-related diseases.

So, does this mean that time is real and not a construct? If time is real then age is real? If time is real and aging is real the only way we can eliminate death and defy aging is to create something that does not decompose. However, isn’t this a given. This what is known as entropy. Entropy is a scientific concept, as well as a measurable physical property, that is most commonly associated with a state of disorder, randomness, or uncertainty. Perhaps we could correlate it to aging. The term and the concept are used in diverse fields, from classical thermodynamics, where it was first recognized, to the microscopic description of nature in statistical physics, and to the principles of information theory. However, theoretically entropy exists in a closed system. Is the human body a closed system?

Let’s talk for a moment about what the human body consists of. There are four essential ingredients that are part of the human body’s protein, carbohydrate and fat architecture. We are made of 65% oxygen which is critical to the conversion of food into energy. Carbon makes up 18.5% of our makeup and considered the so called backbone of the building blocks of the body and a key part of the other important compounds, such as, testosterone and estrogen. Consisting of 9.5% of hydrogen which helps transport nutrients, remove wastes, and regulate body temperature, and also plays an important role in energy production. Nitrogen levels of 3.3% are found in amino acids, the building blocks of proteins, which are an essential part of the nucleic acids that constitute DNA. There are other key elements, such as, 1.5% calcium which lends rigidity and strength to bones and teeth and is also important for the functioning of nerves and muscles, and blood clotting. In addition to 1% of Phosphorus, .4% Potassium, .3% Sulfur, .2% Chlorine, .2% Sodium, .1% Magnesium, trance amounts of iodine, iron and zinc. In other words, we are stardust.

I mean, even the universe expands and contracts at some point. We know this. If we were to measure the age of our universe it is understood to be approximately 13.8 billion years old. For the better part of the human perception, this is infinite. Perhaps then age is a construct, just as time is in that we define ourselves as finite based on our egoic nature of existence. Our bodies end. Despite the money Elon Musk is putting in to find a way to circumvent this issue. However, in the laws of thermodynamics energy cannot be created or destroyed.

“Energy is not lost or destroyed, it is merely transferred from one party to the next.” Sir Isaac Newton

But, if infinite exists then finite does not.

I am a student of the arts of Remote Viewing and Energetic Healing. I have been successful with these practices in some energy healing and Reiki work that I have performed in the past. I have worked with and been trained by energy healers, Shamans, reiki masters and spiritual leaders over the past forty years and am well aware that there is much of what we don’t know or understand in this world through science. Some people call it paranormal. I call it normal, but simply misunderstood.

The human eye can only see at no more than 60fps and is incapable of naturally seeing any of the infrared spectrum. We can only truly see wavelengths within 380 - 700 nanometers. The human ear has a capacity to detect sound between 20 - 20k hertz. Below 20hz we refer to sound waves as infrasounds, and above 20k hertz we refer to wavelengths as ultrasounds. Those sound waves are undetectable to us as a species. Dogs hear much more than we do. Cats see much better than we do. Whales and dolphin speech patterns reside mostly outside of the human range of perception. So there is much to the physical universe that is well beyond our perception and therefore generally lies beyond our perceivable comprehension. Usually. That is until we find or develop a way of measuring that which we cannot see, hear, touch or feel. For some reason we need proof.

Although, remote viewing is considered by most as pseudoscience the CIA and Department of Defense have been using viewers for decades. Police departments across the country have used remote viewers to find lost bodies and other evidentiary materials necessary to help solve crimes for generations. There has been much proof that this pseudoscience works, which is why the practice is still used throughout the world to this day. This practice is not new to the human experience.

One thing that that practice has taught me to be successful at its practice is to understand that we reside in a holographic universe. So, to simplify this I would say that “Energy is everything and everything is energy”. Once you truly break things down to this level time and space are irrelative.

Let’s get back to aging, or rather anti-aging. Jeff Bezoz of Amazon, and Peter Thiel of PayPal, have spent hundreds of millions of dollars to help with the research of ridding our systems of senescent cells, or rather nicknamed “zombie cells”. Senescent cells were first described in the late 1950s. However, as recent as 2008, Judith Campisi, a researcher from the Buck Institute for Research on Aging revealed much more detail of the cell’s dark nature. Her studies found that these cells secrete a cocktail of foul factors, which subsequently then poison the surrounding tissues. Think of it as a bad strawberry in the punnet rotting everything around it. Among the excretions are substances that produce inflammation. Over “time”, if sustained is one of the major drivers of practically every important age related disease. The effect explains the seeming paradox that even the diseased organs of very old people don’t contain high absolute numbers of senescent cells: it doesn’t take many.

This reminds me of the “White Walkers”, or “Others”, from the movie series “Winter is Coming” and the George R.R. Martin book, “Game of Thrones”. It doesn’t take many to eliminate the human race. They destroy living tissue and take over. And this is much likened to the laws of thermodynamics and entropy. Liquid changes to vapor when heated. A battery turns chemical energy into electrical energy. The world turns and energy becomes less organized. It's harder than you'd think to find a system that doesn't let energy out or in — our universe is as good an example of one as we have — but entropy describes how disorder happens in a system as large as the universe or as small as a thermos full of coffee. Drink it or over “time” the coffee gets cold.

Murphy's Law states, “Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.”

There is an annoying tendency that life itself will cause trouble and make things difficult. Problems seem to arise naturally on their own, while solutions always require our attention, energy, and effort. Life ebbs and flows and never seems to simply work itself out for us. There are only moments of smooth sailing and then random amounts of chaos before there is smooth sailing again. Even if rather brief. If anything, our lives become more complicated and gradually decline into disorder rather than remaining simple and structured. If life was ever simple and structured. Knowing you never truly have control is freeing. Life is chaos and beauty all at the same time.

Is there a war on aging? What is it good for?

You will lose everything. Everyone does at some point. Your money, power, fame, success, perhaps even your memory will go. Loved ones die. Your body will eventually break down. It happens to everybody. Period.

Everything that seems permanent is only that way due to the ego’s desire for it to be so. Everything is absolutely impermanent and will eventually dissolve into nothingness, including one’s own historical significance. Experience and memories will gradually, or perhaps not so gradually, fall away.

To wake up means facing this reality with open eyes and no longer turning away from our inherent truth. For that which will be lost has not yet been lost, and realizing this is the key to undeniable peace.

Who or what is in your life right now has not yet been taken from you. This may seem obvious, but to really comprehend this is paramount. This is the why, how and wheretofore of your existence.

Impermanence is real. Due to this it has made everyone and everything around you significant and unique. It has made everyone and everything worthy of gratitude.

Live with gratitude.

We learn this over “time”. Or shall I say we learn this. Since there is no such thing as time. How did I get here? Why did I get on this elongated tangent? Oh, yes, I wanted to wish my mother a happy birthday. As of today, she has participated in going around our sun 85 times.

I am very grateful for her.

NOTE: I appreciate your reading and attention. I welcome you to become a part of this growing community. I welcome you to participate and comment. I look forward to seeing you around this forum again.

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https://www.livescience.com/33179-does-human-body-replace-cells-seven-years.html

https://www.republicworld.com/india-news/general-news/elon-musk-says-neuralink-will-start-implanting-chips-in-the-human-brain-by-2022.html

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/oct/06/race-to-kill-killer-zombie-cells-senescent-damaged-ageing-eliminate-research-mice-aubrey-de-grey

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy