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"This is significant today—even more than historically—because vitamin D and a healthy diet represent a real fountain of youth. The most prevalent health problems of old age are arthritis, osteoporosis, heart disease, cancer, and dementia, and all of these respond favorably to normalization of vitamin D levels and diet. The Vitamin D Cure goes beyond the mythical fountain of youth for seniors because it's a Fountain for Youth, too. Adequate vitamin D and an acid-base-balanced diet in the developing fetus and in growing children will: 184 ?ensure healthy brain development; ?" - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.) "As it turns out, he did discover the fountain of youth in the form of Florida. Florida is the Sunshine State and the southernmost point in the continental United States—and a destination for more retirees than any other state. Furthermore, it's also a major source of fresh produce from farming and seafood. UVB light is available in Florida essentially year round for the production of vitamin D. This is significant today—even more than historically—because vitamin D and a healthy diet represent a real fountain of youth." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.) "Your Most Important Health Move Ever L egend has it that Juan Ponce de Leon left Puerto Rico and other Caribbean islands in search of the fountain of youth. As it turns out, he did discover the fountain of youth in the form of Florida. Florida is the Sunshine State and the southernmost point in the continental United States—and a destination for more retirees than any other state. Furthermore, it's also a major source of fresh produce from farming and seafood. UVB light is available in Florida essentially year round for the production of vitamin D." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"Ponce de Leon's legendary search for the fountain of youth is one of the many tales that illustrate the desire to overcome aging. Steven Austad: The question is—and here's where I think the best health practices are really important—if you live to be 100 years old, what sort of 100-year-old are you going to be? Are you going to be bedridden and unable to take care of yourself? Or are you going to be reasonably independent and alert? To me, that's what the best health practices can really have an impact on. IS THERE A PILL THAT CAN EXTEND LIFE?" - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

"A healthy sexuality is potentially the best anti-stress medicine we have and when we embrace its full power and potentiality for healing we discover one of the greatest gifts God has given to us, an eternal fountain of youth and passion giver. With it we can bring a new life to earth and with it we can ever bring new life and love to our soul. Sex can be both the fountain of youth and the fountain in which we replenish our love over and over again to the great joy of our beings." - Mark Sircus, Transdermal Magnesium Therapy (Get the book.)

"The Vitamin D Cure goes beyond the mythical fountain of youth for seniors because it's a Fountain for Youth, too. Adequate vitamin D and an acid-base-balanced diet in the developing fetus and in growing children will: 184 ?ensure healthy brain development; ?reduce risk of infection; ?improve response to vaccines; ?build stronger bones and teeth; ?reduce the risk of arthritis, scoliosis, high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease, and autoimmune diseases in later life; and ?reduce the risk of breast cancer, prostate cancer, and other malignancies in later life." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"However, like the myth of the fountain of youth, which captivated past civilizations, the promise of a panacea for one of our most dreaded "diseases" is a powerful cultural myth, and one purveyed by powerful pharmaceutical companies, advocacy organizations, and private researchers with much profit to gain. It is a myth we have been seduced by, and the combination of hype and fear it inspires has distorted our expectations and understandings about our aging brains." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"Chapter Nine: Products Targeting Youth Seekers The quest to regain one's lost youth is an ancient human obsession, most famously embodied in the sixteenth century Spanish adventurers who searched the Americas for a rumored fountain of youth. But perhaps no period in history even remotely compares to the last fifty years in terms of the preoccupation. Anti-aging products are currently the fastest growing sector of the cosmetics industry. Products and advice claiming to retard or reverse age began to appear in the late eighteenth century." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"Mediterranean diet, or green vegetables, or less meat, or more carbohydrate, or less saturated fats, or whatever promises the fountain of youth ?easily gain credibility. To test the inference with a randomized controlled trial seeking differential effects on clinically important outcomes in a well population is prohibitive. It's daunting to test a pharmaceutical where you can administer pills that contain either the active agents or a placebo. Can you imagine controlling the diets of half the sample for decades, waiting to see how many die? Even modern epidemiology has no such hubris." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"I suppose you could say that our quest was for a true fountain of youth, though this fountain does not spring from the ground but comes to us through centuries of trial and error. For us, it all began on a small island off the coast of Italy. The Sardinian Blue Zone Where Women Are Strong, Family Comes First, and Health Springs from the Rugged Hills N OCTOBER 1999, A SLIGHT, BESPECTACLED Italian doctor and medical statistician named Gianni Pes stepped to the podium at an international longevity conference in Montpellier, France, and presented an astonishing paper." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.) "When Gianni matter-of-factly mentioned that Nicoya's water was special, it immediately conjured up notions of Juan Ponce de Leon and his legendary 16th-century search for a fountain of youth. Indeed, though Ponce de Leon's quest began in what is today Florida, the rumors originated with the Arawak Indians, who inhabited islands off Costa Rica's Caribbean coast. But how was Nicoya's water special? "What the atlas showed, specifically, was the mineral content of the water," he replied. " - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

"Four hundred years earlier the more literal-minded Juan Ponce de Leon discovered Florida in a search for the land of "Bimini," where he had expected to find the fountain of youth. While centuries before and far away, the Chinese philosopher Ko Hung spent the latter years of a long lifetime preparing pills of immortality. "Take three pounds of genuine cinnabar," Ko Hung wrote, "and one pound of white honey. Mix them. Dry the mixture in the sun. Then roast it over a fire until it can be shaped into pills. Take ten pills the size of a hemp seed every morning." - Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell (Get the book.)

"Why some people like Michelle seem to have sipped from the fountain of youth even as they near the century mark, while most of us are wrinkled, arthritic, overweight, and plagued with complaints by the time we're eligible for AARP membership, has long been a mystery. Is it luck? Good genes? Over the last five years I have unraveled much of that mystery. Yes, our genes play a major role, but not in the way we have been led to believe. Michelle did not inherit "good genes." Quite the opposite: since her life-changing encounter 75 years ago, she has been instructing her genes to "be good"!" - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.)

"This particular telling of the story begins in the early 1960s, when the medical profession hailed estrogens as the fountain of youth and beauty, and as the elixir of femininity and sexuality. Prominent gynecologists "discovered" that menopause was a deficiency disease, just like diabetes. And just like diabetes, it had a cure. A bold promise was made that so-called estrogen replacement therapy (ERT) would let women avoid menopause entirely and keep them "feminine forever," the title of a popular and widely quoted book by gynecologist Robert Wilson." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"Rats that chow down on blueberries in the Joseph lab act like they've found the Rat fountain of youth. Blueberries actually help neurons in the brain communicate with one another more effectively. "Old neurons are kind of like old married couples," Joseph says. "They don't talk to each other so much anymore." Memory goes down and the "processing" necessary for coordination and balance tends to decline. The technical term for this communication is signaling, and special compounds in blueberries called polyphenols actually "turn on" the signals. " - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"This is what life-extension groups call the fountain of youth. The levels of HGH naturally secreted into the bloodstream decrease over your life span, so that by middle age they dwindle to a tenth of what they were during childhood, for both women and men. And a sedentary lifestyle exacerbates this decline: high levels of Cortisol, insulin resistance, and excess fatty acids in the bloodstream all clamp down further on the hormone's release. HGH is the body's master craftsman, burning belly fat, layering on muscle fiber, and pumping up brain volume." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"Useful Books Richard Ash, DHEA: Unlocking the Secrets to the fountain of youth (contributor), Detroit Lakes: BL Publications, 1997. Sidney M. Baker, The Circadian Prescription (with Karen Baar), New York: Penguin Putnam, 2000. -Detoxification and Healing: The Key to Optimal Health, New Canaan: Keats, 1997. -Child Behavior: The Classic Childcare Manual from the Gesell Institute of Human Development (contributor), New York: Harper Perennial, 1992. Syd Baumel, Natural Antidepressants, Los Angeles: Keats Publishing, 1998." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"I have seen people who are in their 50s who started this diet in their 20s, so I know this fountain of youth secret is for real. Moreover, there are higher levels of health to be attained, as mentioned in Chapter 1. It is truly an adventure to see how much you can improve your health. Your vision can improve, you can lessen your need for sleep, and you can heighten your senses. Your athletic abilities can be further enhanced. Perhaps best of all, you can experience a deeper spiritual awakening. It is exciting to be on the cutting edge of health!" - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.) "You have discovered the exhilaration formula, the fountain of youth. Well, such a formula does exist. Only it is not a pill, potion, drug or lotion. It is simply a return to mankind's original diet: raw, natural, basic food ?the lost art of noncooking, just eating food in its natural state. Many who have tried the raw food diet feel such a mental, physical, emotional and spiritual shift, indeed, such a radical transformation, that they find it easy to believe that the "fall from grace" referred to in the mythology of numerous cultures arose from the cooking of food." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.) "Addiction can be blinding to even the most sincere seekers of health and the fountain of youth. Most people will scoff at the idea of the raw diet's role in healing, even relegate it to quackery rather than give up their potatoes, hamburgers, steaks, pasta, convenience foods, popcorn and the rest. Finally, the idea that one can heal oneself with natural food sounds rather simplistic. Most people think life is cruel. We are meant to suffer and fall ill." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.) "The uncooked fruit and vegetable diet, pure water, sleep and rest, sunshine, strong relationships, exercise, fresh air, fasting if necessary and abstinence from drugs, vaccines, serums and other toxins are the prime requirements in your attempt to preserve your youth, health and beauty as long as you can" (The fountain of youth). The face becomes more beautiful with a raw diet. "Skin loses its slackness and puffiness and clings to the bones better," write Susannah and Leslie Kenton (Raw Energy, p. 90). " - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"The Clarins sales staff would no doubt blanch at that statement, as most of the counter personnel I spoke to treated this product as if it were the fountain of youth, yet they clearly must be enttanced by their company's assertions, because nothing in this product can firm, lift, restore, or tone the skin. This product contains mostly water, slip agents, thickeners, emollient, silicone, film-forming agent, water-binding agent, fragrance (lots of fragrance), several plant extracts (all presenr in minute amounts), caffeine, preservatives, and coloring agents." - Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron, Don't Go to the Cosmetics Counter Without Me, 7th Edition (Get the book.)

"Such observations may have even fueled interest in the folklore of a fountain of youth. Tales of a mystical island containing such a fountain had been popular for centuries in Europe and led explorers, such as Juan Ponce DeLeon to search in vain for the mythical waters. While a fountain whose waters brought eternal youth was not to be found, the Islanders did have a fountain of youth of sorts. That fountain was in the fruit of the coconut tree, the Tree of Life, as they call it." - Bruce Fife and Jon J. Kabara, The Healing Miracle of Coconut Oil (Get the book.)

"Man has searched for a fountain of youth for thousands of years. Although there is no "cure" for aging, my clinical experience has shown that natural hormones, when used appropriately, can slow down many of the signs of aging including deteriorating mental function, loss of muscle tone, and wrinkled skin. Hormone production peaks when we are young, usually in the age range from 20 to 30. In older people, supplementation with natural, bioidentical hormones can reverse many of the signs of aging. Synthetic hormones do not provide the same anti-aging benefits as natural, bioidentical hormones." - David Brownstein M.D., Drugs That Don't Work and Natural Therapies That Do (Get the book.)

"Am J Psychiatry 2002 Jul;159(7):1237-9) According to the book DHEA - Unlocking the Secrets to the fountain of youth, written by Beth M. Ley (1996): "DHEA regulates diabetes, obesity, carcinogenesis, tumor growth, virus and bacterial infection, stress, pregnancy, hypertension, collagen and skin integrity, fatigue, depression, memory and immune responses" (p. 32). Beth goes on to point out that: Stressful events depress DHEA production. The Cortisol/DHEA ratio in individuals with panic disorder is depressed by about 50 percent." - Dr David W Tanton, Ph.D., Antidepressants, Antipsychotics, And Stimulants - Dangerous Drugs on Trial (Get the book.)

"Although Rudman himself would try to contain these claims by noting the complexities of the aging process and declaring that the hormone was "not a fountain of youth" (Angier, 1990), these belated cautions went largely unheeded. Similarly, warnings about the risks of using hGH, listed in an editorial published along with the research article (Vance, 1990), did not make mainstream news. Several institutions emerged to treat aging with hGH, as well as with other medications." - Peter Conrad, The Medicalization of Society: On the Transformation of Human Conditions into Treatable Disorders (Get the book.)

"In March of 2003, the FDA approved a lower dose of Prempro, the most popular hormone fountain of youth' for menopausal women, now seems to increase the risk of breast cancer even when taken for only oneyear." [Jerusalem Post June 25, 2003; J Am Med Assoc 289: 3243-53, 3254-63, 2003] Due to the negative scientific studies, the use of estrogen therapy in Canada dropped an astonishing 32% from 2001 to 2002. [J Am Med Assoc 289: 3241-42, 2003] In the United States, hormone replacement therapy declined by about 30%." - Bill Sardi, You Don't Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore (Get the book.)

"Anyone who knows how to interpret an ingredient list would likely find these "pay no attention to the man behind the curtain" claims far-fetched, but there is no question that consumers are raken in by this, as are Chanel salespeople, who speak of this product so highly you would swear it was a packaged fountain of youth (Ponce de Leon should be pulling up to a counter any minute). This is not a bad product, and it will soften, smooth, and hydrate the skin. But anything beyond that is not within the realm of possibility, despite claims to the contrary." - Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron, Don't Go to the Cosmetics Counter Without Me, 7th Edition (Get the book.) "As is, you're left to believe that Babor's deep-sea exploration has unearthed the fountain of youth, though even the statistics they use to tout this aren't that impressive. © $$$ Sea Creation Eye Cream ($175 for 0.5 ounce) is very similar to the considerably less expensive (bur srill overpriced) HSR Lifting Eye Cream above and the same basic comments apply." - Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron, Don't Go to the Cosmetics Counter Without Me, 7th Edition (Get the book.)

"Trying to stay sugarfree and steering clear of processed carbohydrates brings you closer to the fountain of youth. YD U R STDRIES: FRDM SUGAR IGNDRANCE TD SUGAR EDUCATION Frdm Enticement td Entrapment: Here's the Shocking Sugar News!" - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.)

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