Resveratrol
Jan. 10th, 2008 05:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
progStarting today, I am eating resveratrol supplements with my breakfast.
I feel good about this. After following anti-aging developments for years, and flirting with some ideas like calorie restriction, this is the first time I have applied a promising technology to myself. I do not mind saying that I went ahead and made a little ceremony of my first dose, eating the pills with cold water while standing under a hot shower. From tomorrow on, they'll just go down with my morning coffee.
Effects so far: some of my burps taste funny. Stay tuned for updates.
My plan, henceforth, is to continue following the news about anti-aging treatments and applying the single sanest-sounding one to myself, letting it complement a lifestyle of varied diet, frequent exercise, low stress, high friendship, and all that good stuff. I suspect, though, that there'll only be so many more candidates before one treatment really blows the lid off.
Still, I can't help but feel a little self-conscious about this. Many of my friends are apathetic about, or even resistant to, the idea of clinical anti-aging therapy. I can understand where they come from, because it's based on countless generations of the shared human condition, and that's awfully strong stuff. It doesn't help that decades of advertising have confused the definition of "anti-aging" with the promises of beauty creams or plastic surgery. This can make the desire to truly eliminate aging seem like a shallow pursuit, when really it's no shallower than wishing to eliminate any other debilitating, degenerative disease.
The meme that aging is treatable started working its way into the mainstream just as I was turning 30. I don't believe in fate, but I do believe in auspiciously timed opportunity.
Here's to the future, eh?
Edit: I'm shutting off anonymous comments on this entry because it's getting a lot of anon-spam.
I feel good about this. After following anti-aging developments for years, and flirting with some ideas like calorie restriction, this is the first time I have applied a promising technology to myself. I do not mind saying that I went ahead and made a little ceremony of my first dose, eating the pills with cold water while standing under a hot shower. From tomorrow on, they'll just go down with my morning coffee.
Effects so far: some of my burps taste funny. Stay tuned for updates.
My plan, henceforth, is to continue following the news about anti-aging treatments and applying the single sanest-sounding one to myself, letting it complement a lifestyle of varied diet, frequent exercise, low stress, high friendship, and all that good stuff. I suspect, though, that there'll only be so many more candidates before one treatment really blows the lid off.
Still, I can't help but feel a little self-conscious about this. Many of my friends are apathetic about, or even resistant to, the idea of clinical anti-aging therapy. I can understand where they come from, because it's based on countless generations of the shared human condition, and that's awfully strong stuff. It doesn't help that decades of advertising have confused the definition of "anti-aging" with the promises of beauty creams or plastic surgery. This can make the desire to truly eliminate aging seem like a shallow pursuit, when really it's no shallower than wishing to eliminate any other debilitating, degenerative disease.
The meme that aging is treatable started working its way into the mainstream just as I was turning 30. I don't believe in fate, but I do believe in auspiciously timed opportunity.
Here's to the future, eh?
Edit: I'm shutting off anonymous comments on this entry because it's getting a lot of anon-spam.
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Date: 2008-01-11 04:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-11 04:42 pm (UTC)I openly admit that this new part of my health regimen is partially faith-based. But I want to get personally involved, and my personal research indicates this as a good starting point, even if it does involve passing money to a company happily selling hopeful suggestions by the bottle. I've bought stupider things.
I would argue that it's not exactly Dr. Uranium's Patent Restorative, either; it's real stuff, that has a known biological effect on animals of encouraging the production of the SIRT1 enzyme. It's what _that_ ultimately does in humans which has yet to advance beyond "promising", but it continues to march in that direction.
I will keep reading the news.