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3Groundbreaking New Discoveries: 12 Natural Ways to Stimulate Your Cells to Grow Younger

Uniquely Qualified to Keep You Healthier For LifeDr. Al Sears, M.D. currently owns and operates a successul integrative medicine and

anti-aging clinic in Royal Palm Beach, Florida, with over 25,000 patients. His cutting-edge

therapies and reputation or solving some o the most difficult-to-diagnose cases attract

patients rom around the world.

As a graduate o the University o South Florida College o Medicine, Dr. Sears scored

in the 99th percentile on his MCA and graduated with honors in Internal Medicine,Neurology, Psychiatry, and Physical Medicine.

Afer entering private practice, Dr. Sears was one o the first to be board-certified in anti-aging medicine.

As a pioneer in this new field o medicine, he is an avid researcher, published author, and enthusiastic lecturer.

He is the first doctor licensed in the U.S. to administer A-65, the most important breakthrough in anti-aging

medicine today.

Dr. Sears is board-certified as a clinical nutrition specialist and a member o the American College o Sports

Medicine (ACSM), the American College or the Advancement in Medicine (ACAM), the American Medical

Association (AMA), the Southern Medical Association (SMA), the American Academy o Anti-Aging Medicine

(A4M), and the Herb Research Foundation, (HRF). Dr. Sears is also an ACE-certified fitness trainer.

Dr. Sears currently writes and publishes the monthly e-Newsletter, Health Confidential , and daily email

broadcast, Doctor’s House Call , and contributes to a host o other publications in the field. He has appeared on

over 50 national radio programs, ABC News, CNN, and ESPN .

Since 1999, Dr. Sears has published 14 books and over 100 reports on health and wellness with a readership

o millions spread over 163 countries.

In his first book, Te -Factor, King o Hormones, Dr. Sears perected the use o natural and bio-identical

testosterone boosters to help men restore the drive, ambition, muscle strength, vitality and sexual perormance o

their youth.

Dr. Sears ollowed up with 12 Secrets to Virility , a ull-blown strategy or male perormance that includes

his own patient-tested protocols or successully dealing with men’s health concerns like fighting excess estrogen,

protecting the prostate, eliminating at gain and keeping a sharp mind and memory.

In 2004, Dr. Sears was one o the first to fight against the conventional belie that cholesterol causes heart

disease, proving that cholesterol is not the cause, but the part o the body that heart disease acts upon. In Te

Doctor’s Heart Cure, Dr. Sears offers an easy-to-ollow solution that effectively eliminates your risk o heart

disease, high blood pressure and stroke.

In 2006, Dr. Sears shocked the fitness world by revealing the dangers o aerobics, “cardio” and long-distance

running in his book, PACE: Te 12-Minute Revolution. Expanding on the fitness principles in Te Doctor’s

Heart Cure, he developed a ast, simple solution to restore muscle strength, guard against heart attack and burn

excess at. oday, PACE is practiced by thousands o people worldwide.

In 2010, Dr. Sears made history by bringing telomere biology to the general public. As the first U.S. doctor



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licensed to administer a groundbreaking DNA therapy that activates the gene that regulates telomerase, his

breakthrough book Reset Your Biological Clock shows how anyone can preserve the energy o youth by

controlling the length o your telomere, the true marker o aging.

An avid lecturer, Dr. Sears regularly speaks at conerences sponsored by the American Academy o Anti-

Aging Medicine (A4M), the American College or the Advancement o Medicine (ACAM), the Age Management

Medicine Group (AMMG), and the Society or Anti-Aging, Aesthetic and Regenerative Medicine Malaysia

(SAAARMM).

As the ounder and director o Wellness Research Foundation, a non-profit research organization, Dr.

Sears has made it his lie’s work to bring his patients the latest breakthroughs in natural therapies. As part

o his ongoing research, Dr. Sears travels the world in search o herbs, novel cures and traditional remedies.

Meeting with doctors and healers, Dr. Sears has brought back and revitalized much o the traditional knowledge

considered endangered in today’s modern world.

• During an expedition to the Peruvian Andes, Dr. Sears brought back a nutrient-dense oil

made rom the Sacha Inchi nut, containing the highest plant source o heart and brain

boosting omega-3 atty acids.

• In India, Dr. Sears studied at the oldest existing school o Ayurvedic medicine, the ancient

Indian healing tradition, and was tutored by Ayurvedic doctors on the use o potent Indian

herbs used to treat heart disease, cancer and Alzheimer’s disease.

• While trekking through the Amazon rainorest in Brazil, Dr. Sears lived among the native

Ashaninka Indians, incorporating their ancient knowledge o healing herbs into his own

nutritional supplement ormulas.

• In Jamaica, Dr. Sears met with the last living healer rom the ancient and orgotten lineage

known as the Maroons. Coming rom West Arica 500 years ago, their knowledge was on

the brink o extinction until Dr. Sears published a book showcasing their unique herbs and

healing ormulas.

• On the island o Bali, Dr. Sears had a meeting with the most amous o the ancient healers

known as “Balians,” – Ketut Leyir – and also met two o the country’s oremost herbalists.

Dr. Sears is publishing a book showing how to use Balinese herbs and make unique healing

mixtures or the skin and body.

With a lie-long interest in botany, herbology, physiology and anthropology, Dr. Sears has a unique capacity

to investigate the evidence behind the stories and claims o traditional medicine rom native cultures around the

world.

By exposing the flaws o mainstream medicine and pioneering new solutions through innovative approaches

to exercise, nutrition and aging, Dr. Sears continues to empower the lives o his patients and readers through hisbooks, newsletters and regular media appearances.






Groundbreaking New Discoveries:

12 Natural Ways to Stimulate Your Cells to Grow Younger

I remember writing the word “telomere” on a piece o scratch paper. Underneath, I added, “Tis will change

the world as we know it.” Tat was back in 1990, just moments afer I finished reading an article in the journal Nature about a new

technology that promised to turn everything we know about aging and disease on its ear.

oday, I want to show you how the revolution is in ull swing all around me.

I no longer guess at how and why we age. I know EXACLY how the mechanism o aging works… and how

to influence it so that we maintain the power, strength and enthusiasm o youth or longer than anyone imagined

possible.

Finding this “cellular control switch” inside our cells and understanding how I can influence it to extend our

“health span” is the greatest discovery o our time.

I now have a true “age-reversing therapy,” and with it, the ability to slow the loss o our physical and mental

powers. In many cases, I can EXEND the time we have on this earth to eel young and vibrant.

In this special report, I’ll show you what this discovery really means, the story behind the researchers who

won the Nobel Prize or its discovery and how YOU can use a handul o simple nutrients to set this “control

switch” to “perpetual youth.”

I’ll also show you the science behind the magic and why researchers rom the University o Caliornia at San

Francisco to Harvard University all agree that this breakthrough will change lie as we know it… orever .

OUTDATED:Theories on Why We Age:

•

Disposable Soma Theory – We just

temporarily house our Genes.

• Oxidative Stress Theory – Free

radicals cause damage to cells.

• Vital Substance Theory – A vital

substance is limiting.

•

Wear and Tear Theory –Sel explanatory.

• Reproductive Exhaustion

Theory – Afer reproduction we

die rapidly.

• Aging by Design Theory –

Aging is programmed.

• Mitochondrial Dysfunction

Theory – Mitochondria become

altered.

• The Neuroendrocrine Theory –

Changes in hormone regulation.

• The Rate of Living Theory –

Similar to the Vital Substance

Teory.

• Genetic Mutation Theory –

Accumulation o mutations

cause aging.

• The Immune System Theory –

Decreased immune unction.

• The Waste Product

Accumulation Theory –

Sel explanatory

• The Cross-Linking Theory

– Proteins such as collagen

crosslink.

• Errors and Repairs Theory –

Inaccurate repair o damage.

• The Order to Disorder Theory –

Decreased maintenance

o order.

• Telomere Theory of Aging –

elomere length controls aging.



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I Now Understand the True Mechanism of Aging

Over the past century, dozens o ideas, theories and hypotheses have made their way through the halls o

universities and laboratories around the world.

But as captivating as these ideas may have been at the time, I now know that all the actors I used to think o

as “causes” o aging are merely the “consequences” o aging.

Most o the so-called “causes” come rom internal sources. In other words, the hormones, cells and sources

o energy inside our bodies start to decline over time and cause the loss o energy, vitality and immunity we

associate with aging.

Tere’s “menopause” the hormonal changes that usher women into middle age, “adropause” or the loss o

male sex hormones like testosterone in men that cause a loss o sex drive, ambition and muscular physique.

Tere’s “somatopause” the loss o growth hormone that immediately saps your physical perormance and

adds pounds o at around your middle, there’s “thyropause” the loss o thyroid hormones that throw off your

metabolism and energy… and dozens o other “pauses” that rob you o your youth.

Tere were also the ideas that ocused on external causes o aging such as poor diet, stress, lack o exercise

or physical challenges, predation, contamination o our air, water and ood supply, as well as the new modernthreat, the toxic “chemical body burden” that accumulates in your blood rom the time we’re in the womb.

But ALL these influences, whether internal or external all point to one final pathway that determines how

and why you age, and that’s the shortening o the telomere.

o better understand what this means… let’s take a look at what the “telomere,” or your “cellular control

switch” really is.

Your Telomeres Tell Your Cells How Old They Are

Deep within your DNA, located in the nucleus o each cell, are the building blocks or “blueprint” o every cell

in your body.

At the end o each strand o DNA is a little bit o genetic material

called the telomere (tee-lo-mere).

Te telomere is the part o your chromosome that controls

aging. And every time your cells divide, your telomeres get shorter.

And when your telomeres finally run out, cell division stops and lie

comes to an end.

But there’s more to it than that. As you age and your telomeres

get shorter, your body produces cells that are older, weaker, and moredecrepit.

It’s programmed old age… complete with all the telltale

problems that come with it.

In act, the shorter your telomeres, the “older” your body is,

regardless o your actual age. In this way, your telomeres “tell” or

The telomeres are the “protective tips” or

“caps” at the ends of each strand of DNA. As

a whole, your DNA contains the blueprint or

program for EVERY cell in your body.






instruct your cells how to behave based on how old they are.

But when you slow the countdown, you may be able to extend your liespan, and eel younger longer.

In just a moment, I’ll explain more about how we came to that conclusion, and the studies that support it.

First, there’s something even more remarkable about the telomere you need to know.

The Telomere is the “Director” of Your Life Movie

Because telomere biology is an emerging science, there are researchers who suggest the telomere is merely an

“end point” that signals the end o lie when the telomere burns down to the end and cell division stops.

I believe the telomere has a more powerul, more commanding role in how we live day-to-day and year-to-

year.

Playing the role “control switch” in your cells, the telomere serves as the “director” o the unolding drama

we call lie. Tis control switch determines how old your cells act, what they’re capable o, and what their true

potential is at EVERY moment o your lie.

Like a movie director, the telomere tells the cell what to look like, how to move and what to say. It literally

gives your cells a complete set o instructions, like a script or screenplay, based on what act and scene o your

“lie movie” you’re currently acting in.

And those instructions can change quickly i there’s a rapid loss o the telomere.

Here’s what I mean… Let’s imagine there’s a man named om was born into a wealthy New England amily.

Because om had all the privileges o money, he grew up relatively stress-ree, with access to a resh, varied diet

with the right amount o nutrients, antioxidants, plenty o exercise and time outdoors.

Under these conditions, om’s telomeres would disappear at a slower rate than most people. And with longertelomeres, om would be someone who “aged well” and looked younger than his age.

Now let’s imagine that om grew up to become a university proessor with a nice income and lovely home.

But that at some point in his lie, let’s say in his early thirties, om finds out that his cousin Joe living in West

Virginia suddenly dies, leaving a wie and three children without a ather.

So om decides to do the right thing and move to West Virginia to look afer his cousins amily. But when

om arrives, he can’t find a job. Tere are no openings at the college level so om has take a job in the coal mines

As soon as om starts breathing in coal dust, his telomeres start to disappear at a aster rate. Working twelve

hours a day, om has little time or exercise and starts eating ast ood.

With the added stress o taking care o a large amily on a small income, his telomeres start burning down

two to three times as quickly as they did when he was living the American dream back in New England.

Because the telomere is the master “control switch,” the much shorter telomeres demand that om starts

expressing a much “older” version o himsel.

In other words, his short telomeres CREAE cells that are older, weaker and less able to end off the threats

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om, once healthy and robust, goes into a tailspin and starts to look and act more and more like an “old

man.” He develops back pain, he doesn’t have the energy to do anything on his day off, his skin wrinkles, his

eyesight diminishes and he appears colder and more distant to his amily.

At the age o 35, om is now “old.”

On the surace, you might think it was the change o environment that did him in… and that was a

contributing actor, or course.

But the key here is realizing that these stress actors accelerated the loss o his telomeres, which in turn

CREAED an “older” more decrepit version o himsel.

It’s also important to realize that om’s condition can be ully REVERSED i his telomeres were to be

lengthened .

In that case, you would see om transorm into a younger, happier, more energetic version o himsel.

It all depends on where you put that control switch.

When telomeres burn quickly, the control switch moves into an older-acting part o your genome. And when

you keep longer telomeres, the control switch stays in a younger-acting part o your genome.Tis “programmed death” in your cells is part o a larger, ongoing program that started running -- like a

movie -- the day you were conceived.

But today we know we can influence the director o this movie… Here’s how it all started.

Shining the First Ray of Light into the Mystery of Aging

In 1962, Leonard Hayflick, Ph.D. shattered a long-standing myth o the human cell.

Up to that point, scientists believed the human cell would continue dividing i you gave it the right

conditions. Teoretically, they thought that i you cultured human cells in a petri dish they would prolierateorever.

Dr. Hayflick showed that human and animal cells have a limited capacity or replication. In act, he

determined that human and animal cells have a limit, beyond which, cell division stops and lie come to an end.

Now known as “Hayflick’s limit,” the discovery that our cells have a set number o replications triggered the

first realization o aging.

I human cells have a finite number o divisions, there MUS be some mechanism in the cell that keeps

track o each division and determines when the end point is reached.

At the time, Hayflick had no knowledge of the telomere, but he laid the foundation for what was to come. It’salso important to note that Hayflick’s discovery created the distinction between “mortal” and “immortal” cell lines.

In Hayflick’s time, it was already known that germ cell lines, specifically one-celled organisms, could replicate

over and over, and i given the right environment, could live orever. Tese cells were termed, “immortal”

because there was no limit to how many times they could divide.

Hayflick showed that animals and humans were different, and his discovery uncovered the roots o our






human mortality. We are, in a very real sense, programmed to die.

oday, we know that the telomeres o one-celled organisms are “static.” Teir telomeres never shorten.

But as Hayflick discovered, that’s not true or human cells.

Decide for Yourself Which Genes Get“Turned On” and Which Get “Turned Off”

At the moment o conception, lie begins… and as cells start to divide, your telomeres start directing the

show.

Conception is also the point where “immortal” cells become “mortal.” In other words, once you become

human, the hour glass gets turned over and the countdown begins.

You probably remember rom high school biology class how a ertilized egg becomes an embryo. And during

gestation, your cells become more and more specialized as organs and tissues begin to orm.

So how does your tiny, unborn body know how to do all this?

Te length o the telomere tells your cells exactly what to do based on what part o the genome is beingexpressed. Not surprisingly, up to hal o your telomeres are burned off while you’re still in the womb. Tis is

when your cells are dividing rapidly and you’re expressing massive amounts o genetic material in a short space

o time.

But that program doesn’t stop at birth. It carries on as we grow into adults, through old age and right up to

the point o our death.

As your telomeres shorten over time, the proteins inside your DNA shif and change, exposing a new “old,”

or new section o your genome.

As the shortened telomeres show “older” parts o your genome, you create cells that act and look older.

Tink o it as moving your control switch urther into your script or screenplay… and the urther you get, the

closer you are to the end o the story.

Here’s the bottom line: Te page o your lie script you happen to be on determines which part o your

genome is “expressed” or brought into reality. Your telomere or “control switch” lets you know how much

youthul energy you have to work with, and based on that, commands your cells to act accordingly.

Imagine being an actor in a play. In act 1 your character is a teenager. Te stage hands behind the scenes give

you a costume that corresponds to your character’s age. In this case, you might wear a pair o jeans and a t-shirt

and have the energy and perspective o a teenager that gives you room or a spirited, dynamic perormance.

But by act 3, your character is older. Te stage hands take your t-shirt and jeans and give you a button-down

sweater, a at pair o sneakers and a walker. Now your dialogue doesn’t have any o the spunk it used to… and

you’re moving more slowly on stage to accommodate your character’s age.

Are you beginning to see how this works?

Te stage hands behind the scenes are like your body’s control switch. Tey tell you what part o the play

you’re acting out, what to wear, how to behave and what to say.



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Tey direct the show.

Te discovery o the telomere is the most important discovery o your time because or the first time in

human history it gives YOU the opportunity to influence the director o your own lie’s movie.

Now, you can tell the director to stay in the “youthul” section o your lie script simply by moving the

control switch to that section and leaving it there.

Later I’ll show you HOW to move your control switch into a “younger” section o your genome.

First, I want to show you the research behind this discovery and how we arrived at this understanding.

The Discovery that Lead to a Nobel Prize in Medicine

In 1973, the Russian theorist Alexei Olovnikov first recognized that the tips o chromosomes could

not completely replicate themselves afer each cell division. In other words, he noticed that the ends o the

chromosome got shorter with each replication.

aking Hayflick’s observation to the next level, Olovnikov suggested that the end pieces o DNA continued to

shorten until a critical level had been reached, at which point cell division stopped.

While Olovnikov was on the right track, his research apparently stalled

and it wasn’t until Elizabeth Blackburn arrived on the scene that the telomere

really came into ocus.

Starting in 1975, Dr. Blackburn working as a postdoctoral ellow at Yale

University with Joseph Gall, first detailed the unusual nature o telomere

by mapping out their simple repeated DNA sequences at the end o

chromosomes.

Published in 1978, their work launched Dr. Blackburn’s historic career

in telomere biology. Obsessed with her new mission, Dr. Blackburn became

increasingly marginalized rom mainstream science as her research took her

in new, but unpopular directions.

Her next breakthrough came in the mid 1980s during her work with the

tetrahymena, a single-celled organism we know as “pond scum.” Suspecting

there was an enzyme that kept the telomere rom eroding as it does in

humans and animals, she caught her first glimpse o the enzyme she co-

ounded: telomerase.

Simply stated, telomerase is enzyme that rebuilds the telomere.

Tat’s why single-celled organisms are able to live orever. Withtelomerase “turned on,” their telomeres never run down.

In humans and animals, telomerase is turned off. And that’s why humans are mortal beings. Without an

active telomerase enzyme, our telomeres shorten until they run out and lie comes to an end.

At the time o Dr. Blackburn’s discovery, no one knew i humans had telomerase, that discovery came later.

Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn

In 2009, Dr. Blackburn and her

co-founders Carol Greider and

Jack Szostak won the Nobel Prize

in Medicine for discovering the

enzyme that rebuilds the telomere.

Photo: Micheline Pelletier 2007






But o course, once telomerase was discovered, it opened new doors and

posed new questions, namely: I humans have telomerase, and telomerase can

be “turned on,” does that mean humans can extend their liespans and live

without disease?

As Dr. Blackburn’s discovery made its way into peer-reviewed journals, the

attention o the scientific world turned more and more towards the question o

the telomere. And that in turn, inspired a new wave o research.

In Spite of the Telomere’s New CredibilityResearchers Fail to Connect All the Puzzle Pieces

By the mid 1990s, the number o research studies on telomeres and

telomerase exploded. From just a handul in 1995, the number o published

journal articles and studies jumped to over 1,000 by 2005.

But you’re lucky to be reading this, because in spite o the additional

exposure and credibility, scientists and researchers ailed to connect the dots.

Even though we have conclusive proo that the telomere is the definingmechanism o aging, and that rebuilding the telomere changes the way we age,

the scientific community at large never put it all together to draw this conclusion.

o this day, you still find researchers saying they don’t believe the telomere has any implications or avoiding

chronic disease… or improving the quality o our lives… or reversing the degenerative effects o aging.

Sure, science is slow to embrace change. But let’s look at the evidence.

Tere’s more than enough proo to show that the telomere is HE mechanism by which we age, AND gives

us the ability to reverse the signs o aging and restore the power and clarity o youth.

Here’s what I mean:

FACT #1: Younger Cells Have Longer Telomeres…Older Cells Have Shorter Telomeres

Te first major turning point was Dr. Hayflick’s discovery that human cells have a set number o replications

beore division stops and lie comes to an end. Knowing this is true means there MUS be some sort o

mechanism inside the cell that “counts” the number o divisions and keeps track o them.

Without this mechanism, there would be no way or cells to know when time has run out. So the act that

human cell lines have a “built-in mortality” means there’s an internal “authority” that sets the limit on cell

division and shuts down the cell line causing death when the limit is reached.

oday we know that mechanism or “authority” is the telomere.

Once we understood the role o the telomere, the next observation revealed younger cells have longer

telomeres, and older cells have shorter telomeres.

wo studies rom 1990, published in the journal Nature (the same issue I read with such anticipation back in

Tetrahymena: the one-celled

organism Dr. Blackburn was

studying when she co-discov-ered the telomerase enzyme.




those early days) proved this point.

Tese studies showed:

Tere is an age-dependent loss o telomere length, with losses ranging rom between 30 and 150 nucleotide

pairs per replication, depending on cell type.1

Cell division and telomere shortening continues until a critical telomere length is reached, at which point the

cell is orced into a “programmed death” and can no longer replicate.2

Tat tells us that long telomeres are associated with younger cells, and that short telomeres are associated

with older cells.

So at first, we only knew that telomeres shorten with age. We identified an association between short

telomeres and aging and we knew the two happened at the same time.

Te next step was to see what would happen i you took a young cell with long telomeres and artificially

shortened them.

I you could make a cell age aster than normal by shortening its telomeres, that would be the next link in

proving the “age” o the cell is dependent on the length o the telomere.And that’s exactly what happened.

FACT #2: Artificially Shortening the LongTelomeres of Young Cells ACCELERATES Aging

In a groundbreaking study, again published in the journal Nature, researchers discovered that when they

shortened the telomeres o young, health mice, they triggered a host o problems we associated with old age.3

In short, by making their telomeres shorter and thereore “dysunctional,” they were able to artificially create

signs o aging. And they made these changes to mice who were otherwise enjoying the vitality o youth.

It’s as i the researchers put these mice in a time machine and sent them years into the uture. But in reality,

all they did was move the “control switch” inside their cells to

an “older” part o their genome.

So then we knew there was some causal relationship.

Tere’s a cause and effect between short telomeres and

aging that we can prove. In addition, we ound that we can

create the signs o aging simply by shortening the telomere

artificially.

In the study, the researchers discovered that causing thetelomeres o mice to become short and dysunctional trigged

a gene that immediately caused a loss o the cell’s power plants

called mitochondria.

Aside rom a loss o energy and signs o heart disease,

these shortened telomeres also caused problems with blood sugar

and mice’s ability to regulate their metabolism.

The article published in the prestigious journal

Nature revealed the ability to create the signs of

aging by shortening the telomere.








Afer DePinho and his colleagues had taken mice and

made them young again, he said the study produced results

that were the equivalent o finding the amed ountain o

youth.

Te results were so remarkable, the story landed on ABC’s

World News with Diane Sawyer. But or those o us who

had been ollowing the story or decades, the victory was a

watershed event.

On that night, over 40 years o research culminated in the

revelation that when you change your telomeres, you change

the aging process.

Fortunately, there are a ew simple steps you can take that

together promote longer telomeres and can slow the aging

process. You don’t have to make any radical changes, and there are no impossible, insane

workouts or dieting that will deprive you o anything.

It’s important because maintaining and even lengthening your telomeres can help you live healthier andlonger, plus dramatically slash your risk o serious diseases.

And or the first time in human history, we know o specific nutrients that activate telomerase, your “ountain

o youth” gene.

The Birth of the First Commercially Available Telomerase Activator

Back in the early 1990s, an entrepreneur named Michael West heard about the amazing breakthroughs in

telomere biology at an anti-aging conerence. Convinced o its effectiveness and place in history, Michael started

the Geron Corporation with the vision o bringing the first commercially available telomerase activator to thepublic.

Over the last two decades, Geron secured more than 250 patents on their research, including one o the first

nutrients proven to turn on your ountain o youth enzyme, telomerase.

Te first milestone came when Dr. Bill Andrews, who was a Geron employee at the time, discovered

the telomerase gene in humans. Bolstered by this success, Dr. Andrews dedicated his lie to the search or a

telomerase activator that would work in humans.

Dr. Andrews literally scoured the world looking or clues and afer years o painstaking work, ound a solid

lead by turning to raditional Chinese Medicine.

While investigating the ancient Chinese herb astragalus, Dr. Andrews uncovered a unique molecule by

applying a patented extraction process. Te result was the world’s first telomerase activator or humans.

While this activator was owned by a Hong Kong subsidiary o Geron, another entrepreneur Noel Patton,

obtained a license rom Geron to sell it commercially.

Noel Patton’s new company, A Sciences, launched a product using this unique molecule called A-65®.

Diane Sawyer announcing the results of Dr. DePinho’s

study on ABC’s World News .






Afer some initial testing in New York City, I was contacted by Noel Patton and became the first doctor

officially licensed to administer TA-65®.

But beore I tell you about my own experience with A-65®, let me share some o the evidence with you.

“I’m Hooked on This Stuff. I’ll Never Stop Taking It…”—Dr. Bill Andrews on taking TA-65®

A-65® is a single molecule which is extracted rom the ancient Chinese herb astragalus. Tis concentrated

nutrient helps to keep your telomeres rom shortening, and in some cases can lengthen them.

When Geron Corporation discovered a process to extract a very rare molecule ound in tiny amounts in the

Chinese herb astragalus and they named the molecule A-65®. And they were able to prove that A-65® throws

the switch on the gene that makes telomerase.

Te problem is you can’t just take astragalus. You need a highly concentrated orm o A-65® as an extract. It

has to be pure, ree o toxins and only comes rom certain species o the plant.

Trough a unique extraction process, this miraculous anti-aging molecule is isolated in its purest orm, and

tested or heavy metals, pesticides or other toxins, and is then turned into A-65® in very small batches.

A Sciences, which has the license rom Geron Corporation to sell A-65®, spent millions o dollars and

years o research to perect the extraction o the A-65® molecule rom the Chinese astragalus root. It’s an

exclusive and proprietary process that was unique at the time o its discovery.

And it’s sae. A-65® has been used since 2005 and not a single adverse side effect or event has been reported.

Imagine, or a moment, what this means: A-65® gave us the ability to slow the progress o aging, and in

some cases reverse it, with a natural supplement.

Clinical analysis backs this up.

Researchers at A Sciences tested a group o people and measured the number o white blood cells thatlooked old, and the number that looked young. Ten the people started taking A-65®.

Afer three months, they were ound to have a ratio o young-looking cells to old-looking cells that someone

would have i they were 20 years younger.5

A Sciences published another peer-reviewed study in which A-65® therapy reduced the percentage o cells

with short telomeres, when taken as part o a supplement protocol.6

As you might imagine, Dr. Bill Andrews started taking A-65® as soon as it was available.

As I mentioned, Dr. Andrews was the lead researcher responsible or the discovery o the telomerase enzyme

in humans, and spearheaded the search or the astragalus molecule that activates telomerase, allowing the bodyto rebuild the telomere.

Here’s Dr. Andrews in his own words:

“Te most remarkable effect I’ve experienced – and continue to experience – is

physical endurance. I’m an ultra-marathon runner. I do one every month. Tese

races are anywhere between 50 and 100 miles long.




Now keep in mind… I’m 56 years old. Beore I started taking this telomerase

activator, I was lucky just to finish. Now I’m winning events in my age class. It’s

incredible. And when I finish these races, I’m not even atigued. I’m as strong at the

finish line as I was when I started. It eels like I’ve just gone or a stroll in the park.

My vision improved, too. In act, I went to my optometrist and he actually had to

reverse my prescription to make it weaker. I really notice it when I’m shaving in the

morning and I don’t have my glasses on. I can stand straight up. I don’t have to lean

in over the sink so that I can see my ace.

I’m hooked on this stuff. I’ll never stop taking it… I’m araid I’ll lose the

incredible gains I get when I run.”

I take A-65® mysel and I agree with Dr. Andrews. As you’ll see, I’ve experienced some o these effects

mysel and many o my own patients have amazing stories like this one.

Below are some o the reports and testimonials rom people currently taking A-65®:

Stealing Fire from the Gods:

My Professional and Personal Experience with TA-65®As the first physician licensed to administer A-65®, I was privileged to see the results unold right in ront o

my eyes.

In my practice, I’ve treated 53 patients with A-65® or at least a 12-month period. On average, they have:

• Reduced their pulmonary age;

• Decreased their c-reactive protein or CRP levels (a key indicator o inflammation and heart

health); and

•Decreased their neurological age.

Tese three documented changes are very promising.

“Reduced pulmonary age” means my patients’ lungs have a new, younger biological age. And that’s good

news. Your lungs are your number-one indicator o all-cause mortality. Te more lung power you have, the

“My pulmonary age went from 52 to 39…”

“In only 3 months my cardio age went rom 64 to 52. My pulmonary age went rom 52 to 39. My eye doctor

says he’s never seen the accommodation reserve increase in someone my age, it always goes down with time.

He wanted to change the prescription or my contact lenses but I told him to wait because it’s only going to get

better.”

-- Bill Turon, age 64

“My Skin Is More Supple…”

“I was already a competitive athlete when I began [A-65]. My regular 30-mile bike ride with a 4,000 oot

climb, took me 2 hours and 20 minutes. Afer 3 months on A-65 it went down to 2 hours. And, by the way, my

skin is more supple. My skin elasticity was measured by a Cutometer, and showed improvement.”

-- Shelby Blackburn, age 45; Redwood City, CA








“aking A-65® I lost 20 pounds, increased my muscle mass and flexibility,

eliminated joint pain I’ve had or years and miraculously made the inside o my

body younger.”

While Michael’s story sounds dramatic, it’s not uncommon or people taking A-65® to undergo a similar

transormation.

I should know. I’m one o them.

Afer using A-65® or several years, I can tell you there’s nothing else like it. I can document rom my own

blood tests that I have the pulmonary age o a 25-year-old.

I was born in 1956, but my cardiovascular age is only 35. More importantly, the telomere length o my

-lymphocytes (white blood cells) correlates to that o a 35-year-old.

What hit me first was an overwhelming sense o optimism. As soon as I started taking A-65®, I elt like a kid

who just started summer vacation. I elt like someone who had their whole lie ahead o them.

It’s no exaggeration to say that you can roll back your aging clock to eel the kind o strength, optimism and

exuberance you get rom a MUCH younger body.

Tat means your cells, and thereore your body, get older without showing all the typical signs o aging. It

gives you the energy, drive and power o movement younger people take or granted.

Restore the Powers of Youth YouThought Were Gone Forever

When A-65®first hit the market it was too expensive or most people afford. At $25,000 or the initial

treatment protocol, plus weeks o blood tests and in-office exams it was only or the wealthy.

oday, the price has come down but you can still expect to pay several thousand dollars a month to keep the

therapy going.But I do have good news.

Tere are newly discovered telomerase activators you can take RIGH NOW that don’t cost more than a ew

hundred dollars a month… and that’s i you take the best 9 or 10 that we know o.

What’s more, you can get started without going through a lot o blood work or physical exams.

Below is a list o the best nutrients that are clinically proven to activate telomerase, your “ountain o youth”

enzyme.

Use These Newly Discovered Telomerase ActivatorsTo Activate Your “Fountain of Youth” Enzyme

We’ve covered a lot o material so ar, and there are a lot o new terms that may take some getting used to…

but here’s a quick recap o what you need to know:

Telomere: Tese are the “caps” at the end o each chromosome. Your chromosomes are the blueprints o lie

and are packed together in the nucleus, or center, o every one o your cells.








•Mulberries

• Eucalyptus rees

• Japanese knot wood

Te problem lies in getting sufficient amounts o resveratrol. You’d need to drink 1,000 to 3,000 glasses o

wine to experience the lie extending benefits o resveratrol.

Resveratrol supplements are a better option. Tey’re inexpensive and completely sae. You can take it any

time o day, with or without ood.You can find them in health ood stores or online. I recommend taking around

10 mg to 20 mg per day or telomerase activation.

Green Tea (EGCG):

Te extract o green tea, EGCG, has a powerul protective effect on telomeres. In a study published in the

British Journal o Nutrition, the telomeres o green tea drinkers were about 0.46 kilobases longer. Tis average

difference in the telomere length corresponds to, “approximately a difference o five years o lie.” 8

Te active ingredient in green tea is EGCG, which can prevent and repair cell damage. As a scavenger o ree

radicals, EGCG combats the effects o pollution, sunlight and smoking, which keep skin rom wrinkling and

aging.

Te best way to receive the benefits abundant in green tea – including the EGCG – is to start with whole tea

leaves (sold in specialty tea stores) or with a tea bag.

Most o the bottled green tea drinks contain additives like aspartame that counteract brewed green tea’s

healing properties. I suggest you make your own to maximize the powerul, antioxidant-fighting benefits. You

can also find ECGC supplements at your local health ood store. I suggest taking 50 mg o ECGC daily.

N-Acetyl-Cysteine (NAC):

Tis potent amino acid is a building block o your body’s primary antioxidant called glutathione (GSH) andhas the ability to prevent the death o cells by activating the human telomerase gene, your “ountain o youth

gene.”

Just one o the many examples o how NAC protects your cells rom early death is in your inner ear. Our

military now treats soldiers with NAC during training to protect them rom blast noise rom gunfire and

explosions.9

In act, one study looked at military officers afer shooting practice. Te guns are incredibly loud. A roaring

jet engine rom a plane taking off a ew eet above your head would be about 120 decibels. Tese officers were

hearing gunfire that was up to 160 decibels.

Afer the noise exposure, one group took NAC and one got no treatment. Te NAC group had much betterhearing. Not only that, but the unprotected group had damage to the inner ear structure that’s responsible or

turning sound into nerve impulses so your brain can make sense o it. But the NAC group stayed completely

normal and totally protected.10

o stimulate the activation o telomerase, I recommend a dose o 1,800 mg to 2,400 mg a day. NAC is

available at your local nutrition and/or health ood stores.






Alpha Tocopherol:

Te most well-known orm o vitamin E, alpha tocopherol protects against telomere shortening by

activating and restoring telomerase.11

Tat may explain why vitamin E can help prevent heart disease and even cancer. Research rom Finland gave

us the first massive study proving that vitamin E prevents prostate cancer.

Researchers monitored over 29,000 men or up to 8 years. Tey took either vitamin E or a placebo daily. Te

men taking the vitamin E had a 32% lower rate o prostate cancer. Also, these men had 41% ewer deaths rom

prostate cancer than those men not taking vitamin E.

Te researchers believed that vitamin E prevented cancer in a several ways. By:

•Neutralizing ree radicals in your body

• Protecting your cells rom oxidation

•Aiding in cell membrane stability

• Stopping damaged cells rom multiplying

oday we know vitamin E’s primary protective mechanism comes rom preventing the telomere rom beingshortened, and by activating the enzyme that rebuilds your telomere, telomerase.

Te very best orms o vitamin E come straight rom mother nature. You can find vitamin E in a wide variety

o oods. Te best o these includes:

•Nuts • Nut oils

• Seeds • Apples

• Bee • Seaood

•Avocados • Spinach

Sadly, the vast majority o Americans don’t consume nearly enough vitamin E. And, it would be very difficultto eat enough to get the amounts o vitamin E used in the studies. o get these amounts you’ll need to take

vitamin E in supplement orm.

Fill your diet with oods rich in vitamin E. But in addition, I also recommend 400 IU o vitamin E daily.

Gamma Tocotrienol:

One o the our lesser-known orms o vitamin E, gamma tocotrienol can, “modulate the length o the

telomere possibly via telomerase.” During one study, telomere lengths were 16% longer than controls when

exposed to gamma tocotrienol.12

Most people don’t know this, but there are eight orms o vitamin E: our tocopherols and our tocotrienols.

While they’re all antioxidants, there are big differences.

ocotrienols help:

• Reduce cholesterol oxidation






by getting more blood and oxygen to their muscles.

Sometimes reerred to as the “miracle molecule,” NO is a gas produced by a single layer o cells that line your

blood vessels. When NO is released, it causes your blood vessels to relax and expand, sending a rush o oxygen

through your body.

Tis expansion o your blood vessels, and the increased flow o blood and oxygen that ollows, is essential or

lie. You couldn’t live without it.

And with new research showing NO increases telomerase activity, l-arginine is even more important.

Fortunately, l-arginine is inexpensive and easy to find at just about any vitamin shop or health ood store. I

recommend 500 mg to 1,000 mg a day.

Vitamin C:

We knew vitamin C prevented the loss o your telomeres, but we now have evidence that it increases

telomerase activity in specific stem cells.15

Your telomeres are very sensitive to oxidation. And as you know by now, the shorter your telomeres, the

older your cells act and the more susceptible they are to becoming cancerous.

Te new, exciting discovery about vitamin C is that it’s very effective at slowing down this aging process.

A Japanese study tested vitamin C’s effect on telomeres. It was ound that raising the level o vitamin C in the

cells could slow down the shortening o telomeres up to 62%.

Another study ound that skin cells treated with vitamin C kept their young firm shape because it slowed

shortening o the cell DNA’s telomeres. Te telomeres also suffered less damage in the presence o vitamin C.16

Vitamin C isn’t just “good or you.” It protects your DNA. And according to this new research, you should

take at least 540 mg per day.

Vitamin D3:

Famous or it’s ability to increase immune unction and prevent cancer, vitamin D also activates telomerase.

One very recent study showed vitamin D increased telomerase activity by 19.2%. 17

Vitamin D may be the single most important nutrient in your body.

Vitamin D helps:

• Boost your mood and mental perormance

• Prevent prostate, breast, ovarian, and many other cancers

• Reduce your risk o skin cancer • Prevent and treat bone diseases

• Prevent diabetes

Vitamin D is used by every cell and keeps them healthy and unctioning at their best, and it’s critical or your

immune system. I you don’t have enough, some cells may end up damaged and diseased. o prevent cancer,

your levels o vitamin D must be much higher than the 400 IU our government recommends. Based on this new




data, I recommend taking at least 2,000 IU per day.

You can also get vitamin D rom Nature. Te best sources include:

•Cod Liver Oil

•Herring

•Catfish

•

Salmon, cooked •Mackerel, cooked

• Sardines, canned in oil, drained

• una, canned in oil

Milk Thistle (Silymarin extract):

Tis ancient, well-known herb is popular or detoxification but was recently discovered to activate

telomerase. Researchers concluded, “silymarin increased telomerase activity 3-old.” 18

Milk thistle, also known as the plant Silybum marianum, is one o the best or clearing toxins rom your

blood and GI tract and helps restore liver unction. Many ailments are related to toxin build-up. Tese toxins

amass over time. Tis urther intereres with the unction o your liver.

I have been able to document its capacity to heal damaged livers by measuring serum liver enzymes. I

recommend 200 mg in capsule orm twice a day. Tere are no regular ood sources or this herb. Look or

dried extract with a minimum o 80% silymarin, the active ingredient or liver cleansing, and as we now know,

telomerase activation.

Ginko Biloba:

Originally known as a brain booster because it helps open up blood vessels to enhance circulation and

oxygen delivery, there’s evidence that, “ginkgo biloba extract significantly increased telomerase activity,” andhelps prevent the loss o the telomere in sensitive cells that line your blood vessels. 19

While the research is unclear regarding how much ginko biloba effectively activates telomerase, I recommend

keeping your daily dose between 40 mg and 80 mg and cycling every 4 to 6 weeks.

In other words, do not take ginko continuously or the rest o your lie. It will lose its effectiveness. ake it or

4 to 6 weeks, then stop. Wait or 4 to 6 weeks, then start the cycle again.

Folic Acid:

Tis humble B vitamin is important or making the DNA ound in your telomeres. A number o studiessuggest olic acid stimulates the activation o telomerase.20

Folic acid is one o the B vitamins I prescribe to help stop the loss o your telomeres. And it’s one o five

nutrients used to get rid o excess homocysteine that builds up in your blood stream when you’re antioxidant

levels start to drop.

Homocysteine is a damaging amino acid that triples the amount o telomere length lost during cell division.






Fortunately, there are supplements you can take to lower your homocysteine in a very short time. Tis is the

ormula I recommend to my patients:

•Vitamin B12 – 500 mcg

• Folic Acid – 800 mcg

•Vitamin B6 – 25 mg

• Riboflavin (B2) – 25 mg

• MG (trimethylglycine) – 500 mg

But I want you to keep something in mind. Te new research showing olic acid activates telomerase used a

dose o 2 mg to 5 mg daily.

Acetyl L-Carnitine:

Tis simple amino acid boosts your brain’s level o Nerve Growth Factor by up to 100 times, which explains

why this is a avorite brain booster.

But studies suggest that acetyl l-carnitine activates the human telomerase gene through a chain reaction that

starts with the increase o Nerve Growth Factor.21

L-carnitine is the utility system or your vital organs. Your heart uses it in bulk to keep blood pumping. Your

brain burns through it at lightning speed. Your liver and kidneys require it to work properly. Your sex organs

thrive on it or optimum unction.

Plus, 95 percent o all cells in your body rely on l-carnitine to melt at away. Tat’s because l-carnitine shuttles

at into your cells where it’s used or energy, instead o being stored as at.

Te problem is your body can’t make enough on its own. When scientists looked at levels o this vital

nutrient in muscle tissue across a range o age groups, they ound a “drastic reduction,” in older olks. 22

Why? Because these days, you can’t get enough o it rom Nature’s richest source: red meat. (Te word“carnitine” comes rom “carnus,” the Latin word or meat.)

Here are good sources o l-carnitine based on a single 3.5 oz serving:

• Bee Steak, 95 mg

•Ground Bee, 94 mg

• Pork, 27.7 mg

• Bacon, 23.3 mg

You can also supplement your diet with l-carnitine. While the research on how much you need to activate

telomerase is still being determined, I recommend a daily amount o 1000 mg.

I give my patients the liquid orm o l-carnitine. It’s the most absorbable. Te powders tend to clump and the

capsules may contain unwanted fillers and binders that may inhibit its absorption.

Also, many l-carnitine capsules use the synthetic “D orm” o l-carnitine, which intereres with the natural

action o l-carnitine. Make sure you choose a supplement that uses naturally occurring l-carnitine.



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