40As a kid I thought of a ‘doctor’ as a person duly given the right, upon proper schooling and education, to maintain peoples’ health, and to offset and cure disease, and generally speaking, to try to keep people living longer and healthier, but not just 'alive' and living in a deteriorated state, but rather, if possible, living with a robust state of existence.

---I would say, if I could get a person to look robust and feel robust and look younger and have less chance of getting disease [disease: those conditions, many of which are often improperly called ‘disease’ but which often result from an improper lifestyle]...well then, if I could get them to do certain lifestyle related things, untold millions of people would be living better qualities of life and living much longer.

htu“Well, doctor [this hardly applies to all doctors, just the 'narrow-minded' ones]...well doctor, I know you’re the 'head' of so and so 'major hospital complex'...'chief doctor' to the 'head honcho' of the Planet Earth....so why does your body look so discheveled and deteriorated at your age?
-----"I mean, after all, you are a doctor...and as such you're supposed to have learned about the human body, and about how to keep it healthy and intact. So why have you ignored all this other information, much of which has been around for centuries? And you don’t even realize that you too...you, the doctor, who should know better...that you too--and merely by virtue of your deteriorated or what you would call 'aged' appearance--that you too, ironically, are in actuality suffering from that horrible, and often debilitating condition...otherwise known as ‘lifestyle disease’?

---"Your body looks totally decrepid, as if it's falling apart...Oh, I see...you say that that's because you're 'older,' and there's not much you can really do about that, about being 'older,' but when you were younger, you say you looked good? Okay, I get it...so that makes it okay. Since everybody else appears to deteriorate with age and because you believe it to be inevitable...then it's okay to deteriorate.

---"So I say to you, 'Hogwash!...There is everything you can do about it. Problem is, you accept your deteriorated state blindly." Perhaps you never made the effort to really educate yourself about your own body. You treated others, and forgot about yourself. Aha...but had you learned to treat yourself also, then you'd have been better able to have been and continue to be treating others!...

---"...that makes sense, doesn't it?

--- "Ah, but then again, I shouldn't be casting aspersions. After all, years ago, before I made my total body transformation, I was totally overweight and discheveled also. But then again, the difference between me and you...I've been studying this lifestyle thing pratically all my life. And why?...because it hadn't taken long, once I had become a medical doctor, to know of its importance for both me and my family, and my patients.
-----"And I guess for me, in my life, I hadn't yet learned enough to be able to have been able to follow through, and to have practiced what I preached. I remember, I tried in my thirties to make change. I tried jogging and that sort of thing like everybody else. But I didn't know enough. So it didn't really work. No matter how much I jogged, I never really made the kind of headway I'd wanted to make...
-----...Fact is, I hadn't yet discovered how to change the 'mind'...because it is the 'mind' that controls 'everything.'

---"I hadn't yet known that before you can change the body physically, you have to first begin by learning how to first change your 'mind.'

---"Somehow, though, you managed to think of 'everything else' in this world. 'Everything else' was more important: business, having a good time, traveling, cars, boats, who knows what! But you never really put value on...or really appreciated...or really prepared yourself for losing the most important thing you could possess...'You.' And in so doing, you neglected and shortchanged both you and your family...and your patients!

---"I realize that 'you'...that the welfare of yourself might not be what is most important to you, that unselfishly it might actually be your family, and others. But without 'you' to do the loving of your family, and others...well, you finish the rest of that thought.

--"You knew you'd get old one day, didn't you, but you put it on the back burner, toward the back of your mind. You figured, "...it's inevitable, so why bother?" So why not have a 'good time'...in the meantime. And now that it's here, now that you're older and falling apart...you resign yourself to its inevitability and act as if you act as if you don't care. But, fact is, you don't like it one bit!

---"Perhaps that's because you think there's nothing much you can do about it, so you throw in the towel and figure, '...it's over, it's a done deal!'

---"And even if there is somebody else who is managing somehow to remain younger, longer...well, you still figure, 'I can't do that. It's probably just a matter of having been born with good genes. Nothing more. And nothing that I could ever have any control over.'

---"Right, like me...born with 'good' genes tha gve me congenital heart disease, and I almost died from it! Right...keep believing your self-deceptive thinking, that it's beyond your control, and that the inevitability of your rapid deterioration lies solely in your genes.

---"If anything, your genes are geared toward your living longer. And it's you 'lifestyle,' primarily, that will be making your life shorter!

-----Oh, the futility of it all. The naievity of such narrow-minded and self-destructive thinking!

---"Point is, you're actually lazy. You want a 'quick fix.' You, the doctor, who should know better, and most everybody else. You want magic. You want something easy. Something as to which you don't have to do much work to get results. And then of course you say, 'There's no time. I'm too busy.'
-----...Too busy to stay alive!

---...Yes. You're like everyone else. You just don't know it.

---"...So with regard to such things as I speak, perhaps there are others also who don't really believe that making an effort would work for them. But what if you did believe that it would work, and that you could do something about many of the apparent age related deteriorations of the body. Perhaps then you'd make the effort to do the work because you'd know, beforehand, it would work.
---...Oh, I see...so you want guarantees too.

---You don't make this easy for me, let me tell you.

---Well, there aren't any guarantees...sorry...that's just the way it works. But then again, 'nothing' in this world is 'guaranteed.' There are no 'sure things.' Just promises. Sometimes fake promises. And deceptions. But, I'll tell you the truth. Of what I speak, doing it completely, is something which even I cannot do, although doing it in part does work in correspondence to how much of it you do do...or learn and know to do.

---Actually, I'd lay odds that if you were 'guaranteed' to look and feel years younger than you do, in all likelihood, you'd spend all kinds of money, and make all kinds of efforts to do so. After all, your body is falling apart with age, and deteriorating. And without that, without your body, what else would be left for you?

---What is it worth...to have youth?

---How much will you pay to be five years younger than you are...or how about 10...or 15 years? After all, it must be worth something monetarily? Everything else does!

---I remember when I first heard about this 125 year old French lady who had died. It was the first time I had ever heard about her. I said to myself, "I think I would have liked to know about her when she was 120...or even a 115...or 110." You see, I study these people. I revere them.
---...And I learn from them.

---But, I guess it wasn't worthwhile for the media to report it to any considerable degree when she was younger. I guess that was their level of mentality or insight...or lack of it.

---But if that 125 year old lady had been 50 years younger, let's say 75 years of age, and had she had billions of dollars at the time...she might readily have been front page news, or close to it. You see, we report that sort of news every day!

---Millionaires...billionairies...I wonder what they would pay? And who would they pay? Who could they find?...especially when, ultimately, their anwer lies within their own mind...not in their bank account!

---"Going back to such a time as when you did have 'youth'...I see...you took it for granted, and you didn't really prepare your body for getting older. Although, perhaps you did prepare your bank account...but what good was that? A big bank account is not going to give you back your body...and hardly anything even resembling youth. Perhaps cosmetic surgery, that would befit you, to further deny truth, and in so doing further separate you from that youth!

---"Oh how foolishly you continue to fool yourself, and then, when somebody like me comes along--doctor, trainer, scientist...jack of all biological-cosmological-psychological-physiological sciences!...when a doctor like myself comes along with a web site such as this: 'Who is this guy, Dr Alterwein?...He does look pretty young, I guess, from his photos..." [...in person, I might say..."awesome," and I might add..."and proud of it, not of how I look, but of how I look indicating what it is that I have discovered which can help you!"]

---""But you persevere in your disbelief. After all, you're not about to mismantle a lifetime of 'not believing.' That could dismantle your ego! 'I don't necessarily believe this stuff,' you say, '...and if he's on the level, he's probably the only one who could do it anyway.' Well, there you go again, another cop out! You keep giving up before you begin to even get started, and the longer you wait, the more and more your body deteriorates...until it is gone...and you are no more. Wonderful. Wonderful thought process...of futility and hopelessness. Those feelings alone are enough to get you sick and deteriorate...and they probably do too!

---"What good are all those physical possessions you've managed to accumulate? You enjoyed them, true. But more importantly, you enjoyed loving the people you love, and still do. Ah, but there's the rub, for without your body, where does your love go to? Indeed, you owe it to yourself to open a blind eye for sake of the people you love, even if you continue to delude yourself as to the nature of your body and its lack of value to you.

--"Yes, it's time in your life to face yourself and truth, even though it might hve been better had you come to these realizations earlier in your youth. You're old only in your mind's eye. In the 'feelings' of your heart lies youth.

---So where do you turn to? Remember, there's just one such as myself who has followed the particular path I have followed in life which led me to these truths of knowledge and understanding, and which should have permeated throughout society years ago, but which has been slow in coming. And as you see by now, just going to a 'doctor' or fitness trainer or whatever will not do it for you. But what can I say? I didn't make up the rules of Nature. I am just one of its messengers presenting them to you, yet to be sifted through. But at least it's a beginning of a new way of thinking.

---Till now, this complacency of yours and society in general has allowed this knowledge to go by the wayside, as well as that of other knowledgeable and sincere doctors who lived and practiced their art [for a scientific 'art' is what it is], even centuries ago. Yes, many of them had amazing ideas and a great and unique understanding of the human body, especially as it interacted with the environment. And that knowledge, unfortunately, in good part has been lost, for various asundry reasons, except to those who have chosen to sift through that information...doctors like myself.

---For you though, who worships the dollar, and others like you, money has always come first. True, you need money to buy medical care, or at least modern day medical care. But what I talk about lies beyond, and comes from another realm.

---I've read the works of many such doctors from the 1800's and before. They were great doctors, although nowadays you'd hardly recognize nor ever known their names. But their life-saving knowledge is not the only knowledge to have fallen by the wayside secondary to the ills and self-centeredness of our modern day society, for what I have to offer has also never really been learned.

---I remember after having given a lecture at a bookstore when I was in my middle fifties, a plastic surgeon walked up to me, skeptically, after the lecture. He seemed almost annoyed at me, and I realized immediately what he might be thinking, that he was going to 'get me,' trick me into admitting that I had had surgery on my face. He said to me-- studying my face as if I were some kind of specimen to be studied, "You had plastic surgery. You can't fool me." I just about laughed. Poor man. In an ironic sort of way, I pitied him.

---Well, needless to say, people like him give me encouragement actually, for statements like that, especially coming from a plastic surgeon, help to support my own belief in myself, that what I have been doing is working. And I've learned to accomplish it naturally, with natural means, and with a natural resultant appearance.
---...And these natural methods, alien to the mind-set of the plastic surgeon (which is probably why this particular plastic surgeon looked stupified)...these natural methods can have a 'youthful' effect on the entire body, both inside and out, and not just superficially on the skin of the face as with cosmetic surgery, wherein people only fool themselves into thinking they look young...while they line the pockets of the plastic surgeon. He ends up with a nice beaming smile on his face, while the patient can end up looking like a plastic surgeon...plastic!

---You see, even now, my face looks years young, the skin soft and subtle with a natural appearing turgor to the skin ('turgor' of skin being more significant than 'lines' when it comes to aging). And all this via natural methods which last, and which are 'natural' not just to the face, but to the whole body (as opposed to a possibly dangerous 'quick fix' like plastic surgery). With natural methods there is no 'pulled back,' 'stretched out,' or 'fake' look (sometimes described as the Mask of Frankenstein look) which can often occur with plastic surgery (not to mention medical complications) and which 'looks' can first manifest themselves even years later, after initially 'so-called' successful results!

---And remember, the natural methods I have been using have resulted in amazing success not only after my having almost died from open heart surgery, but before the surgery I'd gone into heart failure and total body emaciation (wherein at the time I looked like I'd come out of a concentration camp, my weight having dropped down to just over 100 pounds)! The doctors at the time, I remember, couldn't believe that I was alive and told me time and again that anybody else would have died from my condition years ago, but that I must have been doing something unusual to have kept myself alive for all those years. .
---...No kidding...and since then, the methods I have discovered, and am continually improving upon, have brought me back to the status I am now in, as you can see from this web site. They call it a miracle. Perhaps. I call it 'believing'...and a miracle!
[I'd probably have died in my late forties had I not made my discoveries and thereby learned how to totally transform my body at the age of 48. Now all that is 'history,' thank goodness...and good riddance to it too!]

---So when other people tell me they can't do the things which I propose and which I have learned are a 'natural' genetically inherited endowment to all of us, while their being perhaps 'healthy' to boot, not plagued with severe congential illness like I was, or when they tell me that my amazing results must have come from my having had 'good genes'...well, I guess you know by now, I ain't gonna buy it! I'm not going to let you off that easy. With proper instruction and learning and perseverence and 'belief,' others can learn about what I have discovered and learned to apply, practically...and in the long run help themselves too.

---...So I said to this plastic surgeon who had approached me after my lecture at the bookstore, "Look at the skin under my eyes. You see the lines, don't you? Had I had a 'face job,' as you very well know from your being a plastic surgeon, the lines under my eyes is the very first thing I would have taken care of had I had plastic surgery. And if I'd done so, I'd have no lines under my eyes now. You know that."

---Actually, I've had lines under my eyes since I was in my thirties, probably from all those years of rubbing my eyes from having had pretty severe seasonal allergies, and which have since pretty much dissipated.

---But to do under eyelid plastic surgery is among the easier of facial cosmetic surgeries to do, although like other such procedures, you run the risk of it's getting botched up or your healing poorly, with the eventuality that you might look worse than had you not had the surgery in the first place. Sometimes the skin retracts, even years later, and your eyes appear to buldge--you begin to look 'bug-eyed'--like you had some kind of disease, like from an overactive thyroid.

---He nodded. He knew it was true.

---You see, if I do the wrong things and make the wrong lifestyle moves, even today, I can see the beginning of those under eye lines, even pouches developing, so I immediately go back to the lifestyle I know to do to offset such changes. I've learned, over the years, how to apply that same process to my entire body, both inside and out. And basically, with this web site, I'm trying to inform people about it.

---At any rate, I also pointed out to him that I had had a double chin in the past, which appeared after I had lost all my weight when I was forty-eight, and that currently there was still a little loose skin under my chin as a reminder of those overweight years of my mine. I proceeded to point out to him that had I had plastic surgery, under chin surgery is also one of the first places I'd have had the surgery performed, primarily because of its simplicity and relative effectiveness.

---Ah...but you're looking for a 'quick fix doctor,' aren't you? A doctor who can fix you up a little bit, ease your mind somewhat...but then your body will still continue to too rapidly deteriorate, much more so than it was meant to.

---You look into the mirror at yourself...oh so complacent the populace is, to be so resigned to the inevitability of facial deterioration, fatty jowls, under eye bags large enough to carry groceries; and this is not to mention the flimziness of the skin of your face (which if it hasn't yet shown up because, most likely it will when you become older)...and how about your ruddy nose and complexion, and the multiplicity of veins scattered upon the surface of your cheeks, or the enlargement of your ears and your nose?...a circumstance I've observed in people as they become old!

---...Ironically, this latter circumstance, which is hardly recognized or written about in books, stems from a simple but obvious observation when you check out peoples' looks, and which, in large part, seems to have come about from an insufficiency of blood to the corresponding tissues of the nose and ears, and which circumstance I have learned to offset, via a combination of methods I have discovered. My video, "Total Body Transformation," because it is a visual medium, more clearly demonstrates things like this. But generally speaking, the idea is--whether via mind, motion or meals--to bring more blood to the face on a regular basis (and I do a combination of all three i.e. if you are interested in knowing more about this, contact me via email at ralterwein@aol.com)
[...all this incorporates other theories of my theories...after all, what do you want? I've been doing this a long time. I happen to have a lot of theories...and most of them will probably one day turn out to be true!]-

---"Better to live a shorter life, you say, but of a higher quality?" I hear this statement all the time. So beit. Your wish is granted!... lest you beget the bed-ridden stroke (paralyzing you for years of your life) that your flippant ways of life would also grant you.
---...You see, there is no getting away from this 'lifestyle' I speak about. If you want that better quality of life, you're gonna have to accept the whole package...a longer life included!

---Actually, I could name a whole load of other 'diseases' or 'medical conditions' besides 'stroke' that would similarly throw you for a loop and incapacitate you, and offset the naivety of your delusions!

---Do a face to face with yourself in the mirror and face the destiny of your self-destructive ways. The battle of your buldge, your wanton lifestyle...oh eventually they are most likely to get you!...lest you make amends. The flabbiness of your chest, of your breasts, you accept so complacently. Yet there was a time in your life when you would have been mortified at such a plight...
---...at such an unattractive sight.

---Oh I see...it's all got to do with nothing more than 'being out of condition' when it comes to your reasoning as to what lies behind the slight ‘shortness of breath’ or 'windedness' you feel in your chest? Yet you would not hesitate to attribute the same ‘breathiness’ to the diseased and deteriorated status of emphysematous lungs? Oh, the incredible blindness of it all, that the former should be nothing more than a 'lack of conditioning,' while the latter should take on the ominous portent and status of a 'disease.' Oh, doctor, doctor...can you see the falacies in that reasoning!
---...And if you don’t, how can anybody else?

---Look more upon those symptoms of ‘old age’ for what really are. A little bit out of breath when going up steps, perhaps. Yet those very same or similar symptoms would justify a diagnosis of heart disease in another context...but, undortunately to our times, the 'disease' status of the symptoms usually only first come into play only so long as there is also a positive medical test!

---Oh, that makes sense. If we don't have a test to call it a 'disease,' then it must be something other than a 'disease' that we don't have to treat or that we might treat flippantly!

---"Mr. McGillicutty... I've done a whole load of tests on you...and they are all negative. So there is nothing to worry about. There is nothing wrong with you that a little bit of conditioning couldn't offset."

---"So what do I do doctor?"

---"I don't know...join a gym or something. Or do some form of exercise."

---...That's right pass the buck for sake of your lack of knowledge or for having never become trained regarding these subejcts. Let's put the Mr McGillicutties of the world in the hands of non-medical, uneducated or partially educated people who haven't the foggiest idea as to the true underlying 'medical' nature of these underlying conditions...
---...let alone that there is not just one form of exercise (as there is not just one form of treatment for disease), but rather hundreds of different motions or postures or whatnot, each relatively specific for the 'treatment' of a multitude of different underlying deleterious (medical) conditions. Or why not tell Mr McGillicutty, or you, to just go home and exercise on your own, and thereby put you into your own hands. Let you flounder in the wind in terms of really being able to help yourself. But then again, you would know no different!

---You see, we might designate some condition that we can do a medical test on as a 'disease,' and thereby also be designating it under the domain of 'diagnosis and treatment of medically trained people'...or, we might designate some other entities as being nothing more than due to a mere 'lack of conditioning,' when in fact BOTH SETS OF CONDITIONS (i.e. 'disease' or 'lack of conditioning and other lifestyle related conditions') might represent two massive categories of severe and deleterious dysfunctions of human beings...both categories in large part secondary to improper lifestyles.

---We can therefore elect to place BOTH SETS OF CONDITIONS (many 'diseases' or 'lifestyle related conditions') under the heading of 'disease,' to be diagnosed and treated by medically trained and learned people...
---...or we might elect to designate or categorize BOTH SETS OF CONDITIONS ('disease' and 'lifestyle related ones') for what, for the most part, they really are...Underlying Abnormal Deleterious Effects Or Conditions Of The Body And Mind Secondary To Having Not Follewed Lifestyles In Accordance With The Directives Of Our Underlying Inherited Genes!

---In short, both sets of conditions are all medically related deleterious circumstances of the human body and as such are all medical conditions which, long ago, should all have been categorized under the domain of the diagnosis and treatment of medically trained people.

---We are basically taking what are all medical conditions and placing them into the hands of either nobody or the patient himself or herself, or into the hands of non-medically trained and educated people.

---Unfortunately, the medical community doesn't yet (or is just in the infancy of beginning to) recognize this other set of lifestyle related conditions, and has almost no pertinent practical knowledge of them whatsoever. Otherwise, for one, it would have been routine for all doctors, as part of their practice and training, not only to serve as role models, but to have been getting their hands wet, so to speak, by getting out of the office, at some time in their practicing, to work directly with, and treat and diagnose people...as a fitness medical doctor, just for beginners.

---...but, sadly, for that to happen, I say...don't hold your breath!

---Why is it that weakness and fatigue, for discussion purposes, sometimes with good reason justifies their application to so many innumerable diseases, from infectious to autoimmune ‘disease’ to cancer itself...but when we cannot diagnosis and blame a specific disease, we then manufacture one, like some kind of 'chronic fatigue syndrome' or whatever. You see, with a name such as this (chronic fatigue syndrom) we’re afraid to give it the name ‘disease’ because we really don’t know what it is, so we give it the name syndrom instead, since it appears to be a conglomeration of a whole bunch of signs or symptoms, the etiology (or cause) of which we cannot quite put our fingers on.

---I would suggest perhaps that usage of the term 'syndrome' instead of the term 'disease,' is perhaps one step in the direction of the realization by the medical community that many of these abnormal states of the body we really cannot put our finger on, are really lifestyle related conditions.

---It is an irony...how it is 'okay' to be 'fatigued' or to 'slow down' with ‘age.’ “Don’t bother me now. Go home. You’re fine. There’s nothing wrong with you. You’re just getting older. What did you expect?”

---“I expected you to look at this logically, and broadly, so you could help me, rather than tell me there's nothing much that can be done...or let's watch it...for years!”

---'"Fatigue," for example, "is fatigue is fatigue, whether you give it a name or not. It still bothers me. It is not enough to simply say, 'It’s fine...there's really nothing wrong with you. Go home,' when under other circumstances your diagnosis might be to give it a name of some horrifying 'disease'. Either way, I've got the same or similar symptoms. I'm still aching and suffering. And what's worse, I don't even know what it is that I'm suffering from!"

---I would lay odds there are a whole host of annoying or painful and stressful and deleterious conditions of the body which we can't seem to diagnose or cure or treat, let alone even know what some of them are, which are really coming from what I have been defining and talking about, 'lifestyle related disease,' or more appropriately, 'abnormal lifestyle related conditions.'
---...I'd even lay odds that many, many diseases to which we have even given names, from Alzheimer's even to cancer, to thyroid, to autoimmune, to neurological, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's, you name it [remember, this is all theory, my theory]...to even psychological and emotional diseases numbering in the hundreds and much, much more...are all in some way, in smaller or larger part-- affected by, caused by, promoted by, manfiested by, or whatever...are all in some way interrelated with 'improper lifestyle' the way I have been talking about and defining it.

---It's not enough to say--like I always, always hear-- "Oh doctor...I follow a healthy lifestyle!" I'm talking about a whole new entity here. You should know that by now...but that doesn't mean it's too difficult or alien to our ability to follow it, or even part of it. But it is alien to our ability to accept it!

---I would propose, as with this article and elsewhere in this web site, that there are two great categories of deleterious affects which strike our bodies...the one being the diseases we have designated as being just that, 'diseases.' For example, all of the 'diseases' you see in a medical text or whatever would be included here, as part and parcel of medicine, and many of which 'disease' we have learned to effectively treat, while others of which a lot is left to be desired in terms of our being able to treat, from the acute, to the chronic long lasting disease, to the untreatable and incurable.

---But then, I would also propose that there is an equally vast 'other' category of deleterious effects which strike at the body, and which for the most part we have not yet categorized as 'disease,' from simple things like being out of breath while walking up a flight of steps and which might currently be attributed to a mere lack of conditioning, or to many of the preliminary signs and symptoms we otherwise currently attribute to 'aging,' or at least to what we call the first thirty or forty years of aging.

---I would propose that a large part of both of these vast categories, the category we think we know about and often regard as 'disease,' and the vast category we don't yet necessarily categorize as 'disease,' but which either harm or otherwise deleteriously affect the proper functioning and maintenance of our bodies, and unfortunately which we have in large part neglected to study and learn to treat, let alone incorporate into the practice of medicine. There is clearly though an overlap between both categories, 'diseased' defined, and 'disease' undefined.

---The irony of all this is that this second category reaks devastation on our bodies while we seem to accept it willingly (since we believe there is nothing much we can do about it), as if we were cattle naively being led to slaughter.

---The 'kicker' to all this, as I began to note above, is that a large part of this second category includes many of the signs and symptoms we otherwise attribute to aging, and as to which we think there is nothing much we can do to offset.

---Imagine, just for a moment, that all along, all your life, you've always known or thought of this thing called 'aging' as nothing more than just another 'disease.' Imagine then how horrifying you would look upon yourself or other people stricken with 'aging disease,' since before your very eyes, you would be watching your very own body, or that of other unfortunate people, literally falling apart, both functionally and physically. [Goodness, even the 'disease' called high blood pressure doesn't do that. Nor are most other 'diseases' so visually and symptomatically devastating!]

On the other hand, since we normally don't think of 'aging' as a 'disease,' that makes it okay to go about our lives and live in La-de-da Land, naively thinking of everything else our lives as being of utmost importantance. Somehow--the human mind is really ironic...somehow, since we believe there is nothing much we can do about aging, we, in a subdued or resigned sort of way, seem to accept its devastating effects. If for one moment we regarded it as a 'disease,' we'd go bonkers, panic even, stop everything we were doing, and go straight to the doctor to be treated!

---It's pathetically ironic. We take a genetic disease called 'Progeria' wherein, from birth, the body rapidly undergoes what appears to be 'aging related changes' so that within the first decade of life the unfortunate person stricken with this 'disease' looks like and gets the diseases as of an elderly person, high blood pressure, strokes, heart attacks and the like.
---...We tend to think that in 'Progeria' premature aging is occurring. Since this kind of 'aging' is regarded or define as a 'disease,' it's horrifying to us. But yet, as 'we' age from the forties to the fifties and through the sixties, seventies and eighties and up...the irony is that we don't realize that it is really us...that we are the ones who are 'really' prematurely aging and, just like in Progeria, we are...in so doing, in 'aging'...being subjected to and stricken by all the 'diseases' and 'abnormal conditions' related to it...heart attacks, strokes, diabetes, you name it.

---Then the irony or all ironies. While in 'Progeria' the 'genes' dictate the occurrence of the premature aging (something as to which little can be done about), we on the other hand allow our 'lifestyles' to dictate the occurrence of our premature aging (an occurrence as to which we can readily do things about). Ironically, we live lifestyles which directly circumvent and offset the natural directives of our genes which have been designed for us to be aging more slowly than we do, and living longer.

---“I'm sorry Mr. McGillicutty, but muscles deteriorate and become weak with age. Balance goes. Reaction time deteriorates. The mind slows down. Bones demineralize to the point they break. You're getting older. this is what happens with age. What do you think, that I’m a miracle worker? Go home. Don’t bother me. It’s normal for your age. What did you expect?”

---“I expected you to do what a doctor is supposed to do. If the truth has been in the medical and scientific literature for centuries, why hasn’t it been passed down and learned? Why haven’t you at least looked it up and tried to put it all together? That’s your job. That’s what you’re supposed to do as a doctor. You're supposed to preserve and save life!”

---No...let non-medical people do it. Let laymen do it. Let gyms do it...let them treat heart disease and high blood pressure and osteoporosis and immune system dysfunction, and loss of balance and reaction time. Let them treat all of those diseases. Besides the insurance companies wouldn’t pay for it anyway, not to mention the people themselves. “Hey doc...my insurance company could care less, so here’s a hundred bucks. Can you sit down with me for an hour or two and tell me how I can offset a future heart attack in about five or ten years from now?...Normally I wouldn't have thought twice about spending the money in a restaurant on a gourmet meal, or putting it toward a new fishing rod. But I’ve changed now. I now know what’s really important in life.”
---...on which planet...Earth? In whose lifetime?

---I'd always thought the purpose of being a doctor was to keep people alive and as robust and healthy as possible. All these signs and symptoms you call ‘aging,’ and many of which for the most part are similar to or also coming from such diseases as diabetes and heart disease and the like, and all of which for the most part are interrelated with improper lifestyles...aren’t we then supposed to treat all of them, the way they were supposed to be treated, at the root causes, rather than just doing a band-aide sort of temporary symptomatic treatment.

---“Here you go Mr. McGilicutty. Here are some pills to lower your high blood pressure. You might need to take them for the rest of your life. But if you join a gym...and don’t ask me to go with you or tell you what to do there. Ask some bodybuilder or some fitness trainer who managed to pass a three hour exam and become certified fitness trainer...even if he or she only went to high school or even some college. Then, you might be able to get rid of the high blood pressure permanently. they'll show yo how to do it!"

---So what do we doctors do, the ones relegated educationally to treat the human body? We pass the buck for lack of additional education and experience or who knows what. If I personally were to do that, pass the buck, regardless of what everybody else was doing, could I face myself as a little boy who said, “I’m going to become a doctor when I grow up and learn everything I can to save peoples’ lives and keep people alive.”

---Looking back, to this very day, I still don’t understand the true underlying self-destructive nature of man. And why so few, like I, have followed such a different path...which I know to be the right one.

---"Oh nobody told you...Tell me another one. Maybe I’ll believe that...I don’t think so.

---I sit sometimes and think how I’ve been developing and trying to get this kind of knoweldge out to people for years. One time it was a book, one time a video, one time for years a magazine, at other time hundreds of speaking engagements. I suppose I’ve helped some people, probably a lot of people, but hardly the dent I would have liked to make. After all, look at the deteriorated state of people today...which can only be judged by comparison to the long-lived populations living in the world today. For if they can do it--primitive as they are, so we think, in comparison to us...if they can do it, why can’t we?

---So now I’m on the internet. My printing press days are over. And I didn’t run the press myself because I loved inking and running a six ton printing press. But I did it as a means to an end in those days. There was no internet. And I didn’t have the money to hire sombody to run it. So I learned to do it myself, although I will admit, it was pretty neat to do.

---So now, instead of a typewriter, a computer has taken its place. And instead of physically running around distributing my free magazines in supermarkets and trying to make ends meet with advertisers, I can now push some buttons on a computer and send my unique messages of life to the world. But also, I now find myself in a sea... in a multitude of garbage strew web sites claiming this and claiming that, and most of which when it comes to this field of knowledge, lack quality. I am now less than a needle in a hay stack.

---How are people ever to differentiate between the words I say, and the sincerity and quality of the knowledge behind the words, and how it can indeed save untold misery and save life.
Sometimes I sit and think how, during all these years which have gone by wherein this knowledge has not been gotten out to the degree it should so it can be studied and refined, how many lives have been lost in the interim?

---As to where my knowledge comes from I cannot truly say even I know. I am not that lucky to have acquired it on my own. I stand on the shoulders of great people, I know, and many of them have gone unrecognized, as myself, over the centuries, especially some amazing doctors of the 1800’s and well before, most all of whose names you’ve never come to know, let alone recognize if you were told.

---And I also do not know why and how I have persevered in the face of disappointment and rejection and failure and personal tragedies, as in the recent past in the face of the loss of my own life.

---Had it not been for my looking into the 'mirror' at myself, I might have given up by now and thought that all those years of studying and sacrifice and trying to figure things out, perhaps I’d been off track. But, as I look at myself in the mirror at my apparent youthfulness, that all my endeavors had not gane for naught, that it was working in spades, that I've accumulated a new knowledge with which to maintain a markedly youthful appearance even in the face of severe underlying disease, and which I can impart to others who might also be interested...well, I have now realized that perhaps I am like some kind of messager with a purpose.

---Perhaps if I continue to persevere and look the part, I would be a role model toward the belief of others in themselves, and as to what they too can do with themselves, with their own lives. I have now become a man of humility, and believe it or not have learned to cherish anonymity. And although by virtue of the publication and construction of this web site it might seem otherwise, how else, I have thought, could I possibly have gotten word out as to the importance and meaning of what I say to the lvies of others? I've even gone so far as to take my shirt off. [After all, I am a doctor.] But what better way to portray the success of my theories regarding the natural appearance of youthfulness even at an older age?

---...No, I am far from boasting. Rather, I am still continuing steadfast in my determination to preserve and save life.

---We each have a purpose in life although we might not know what it is. Perhaps mine is yet in the beginning as to its becoming fulfilled. As I watch interest in this web site grow by word of mouth, as it apparent is doing so, perhaps a force of a spiritual nature is helping my weary hand, just as that force is always there to help all those who wish to help others.

---Perhaps the current generation with scratch their heads and not know what to make of what they read, since they have for so long been bereft of sincerity or knowing where to turn to for truth. Unfortunately, many of them will go by the wayside due to their own lack of faith not only in themselves, but also in the belief that there are many people out there who sincerely wish to help others (and in so doing, are also helping themselves).

---I would say to you that for you to have belief, you would have to judge for yourself, and that can only be done by reading through and putting together so much of what you will read at this site. Enough of it having been sifted through your mind, it will make amazing sense even if I do maintain its theoretical nature. For as I have said elsewhere, it is the combination of the facts and the development of concepts that make for a higher truth. And for those who would make the effort, they might just bring themselves to see the wonderment that lies beyond the clouds.

---But it will be a lonely business, for you as it has been so for me, for what you will see, if you are so fortunate to be able to do so, is in part out of the context of our humdrum daily realities, or at least outside the nature of the existence wherein our minds are normally tuned in to. You might tell others, and I would encourage you to do so, but you will experience, as I have, many a perplexed head shaking, despite your words of encouragement to them, to see what you might have come to see.

---Insight is not easy in coming, but if the desire is there, it should at some time be realized. The nature of man is often to be a narrow-minded people who know and believe in what they already know and are comfortable with, even if a new learning could open the wonderment of the world to them, for that is their nature. Hopefully those you love and your family will believe in you and your new vision...otherwise it will be for naught...for when it comes down to it...love of mankind and, most significantly, of the people we closely love, is the essence of reason for being, and learning, and doing...and for life itself...