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| Year | Male | Female |
| 1900 | 48.2 | 51.1 |
| 1940 | 60.8 | 65.2 |
| 1950 | 65.6 | 71.1 |
| 1960 | 66.6 | 73.3 |
| 1970 | 67.1 | 74.7 |
| 1980 | 70.0 | 77.4 |
| 1990 | 71.8 | 78.8 |
| 1996 | 73.0 | 79.0 |
| Source: Dept of Health and Human Services | ||
Maximum human life span seems to be another matter. There is no evidence that it has changed for thousands of years despite fabled fountains of youth and biblical tales of long-lived patriarchs. However, very recently, the dream of extending life span has shifted from legend to laboratory. As gerontologists explore the genes, cells, and organs involved in aging, they are uncovering more and more of the secrets of longevity. As a result, life extension may now be more than the stuff of myth and the retardation of disease and disability, realistic goals.
Hormones
In 1989, at Veterans Administration hospitals in Milwaukee and Chicago, a small group of men aged 60 and over began receiving injections three times a week that dramatically reversed some signs of aging. The injections increased their lean body (and presumably muscle) mass, reduced excess fat and thickened skin. When the injections stopped, the men's new strength ebbed and signs of aging returned.
What the men were taking was recombinant human growth hormone (GH), a synthetic version of the hormone that is produced in the pituitary gland and plays a critical part in normal childhood growth and development. Now the researchers are learning that GH, or the declind of GH, seems also to play a role in the aging process in at least some individuals.
The idea that hormones are linked to aging is not new. We have long known that some hormones decline with age. Human growth hormone levels decrease in about half of all adults with the passage of time. Production of the sex hormones estrogen and testosterone tends to fall off. Hormones with less familiar names, like melatonin and thymosin, are also not as abundant in older as in younger adults.
Frontiers
New territory, unexplored or only sketchily mapped, lies ahead. As gerontologists isolate and characterize more and more longevity - and aging-related genes in laboratory animals, insights into genes and gene products important in human aging will emerge. Comparable human genes will be identified and mapped to chromosomes.
This information will be useful in designing both genetic and non-genetic interventions to slow or even reverse some aging-related changes. Already, for example, a study by Helen Blau of Stanford University has shown that muscle cells can be geretically modified and injected into muscle where they will produce and secrete human growth hormone. Non-genetic strategies will include the development of interventions to reduce damage to cellular components, such as proteins, nucleic acids, and lipids.
Normal aging will be more closely defined. For instance, at NIA's Gerontology Research Center, the behavior of the cells that line blood vessels during aging is now providing clues to the stiffening of blood vessels that occurs with age as well as insights into vascular disease. As key biomarkers of aging are identified, researchers will be able to use them to test interventions to slow aging. Studies will begin to delve more deeply into differences in aging between the sexes and among ethnic groups.
In short, gerontologists will be charting the paths ans intersections of genetic, biochemical, and physiologic aging. What they find will reveal some of the secrets of aging. It may lead to extended life spans. It will very certainly contribute to better health, less disability, and more independence in the second fifty years of life.
How Can You Get HGH?
Until recently, the only way to supplement HGH was through daily injections. The reason for this is that HGH is a specialized protein structure. It can not be taken by mouth because our digestive enzymes will destroy it. Therefore, the only solution is to get it directly into the blood using injections. While being effective, this method is quite costly (about $12,000.00 per year), not to mention painful.
But thanks to the recent advances in the homeopathic field, it is now possible to use a specially prepared oral spray to achieve the results that rival those of the injections in a way that is a lot more convenient and costs only a fraction of the injectable HGH.
Homeopathy is the healing method that has been practiced by physicians around the world for over 200 years. Even the Food and Drug Administration recognizes homeopathy as a legitimate medical practice and homeopathic preparations are listed in the United States Pharmacopea along with the more "traditional" medications.
TheSuper HGH homeopathic oral spray is a scientific formula designed to help increase the natural levels of the youth-promoting substances in your own body.
The message from the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine is "Growing older is inevitable, but aging is not!" You can live to be 100 and stay as healthy and vigorous as you are now. Or, if you are already suffering from the effects of aging, you could turn back the clock by as much as 10-20 years!
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*These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.
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