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Originally Posted by Botnst
Man I hate that feeling, Brian. I think the major psychological problem is the disconnection between what one wants to do but cannot do because the old carcass just wont perform as it did. It's related to looking in the morning mirror and NOT seeing a 20-something looking back.
Getting old is a PITA and I hate it.
Best wishes and may entropy neglect you for a bit now and then.
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I've no doubt some here will consider this ultimate 'woo-woo' but I worked for about a year at the
Optimum Health Institute of San Diego back in '88. I'd been a guest there twice before.
As God is my witness, a week or two there is about as close as I think we'll come to a fountain of youth in this life. The fare there would be hard to take full time if not impossible to do on your own but the change in diet for a week or two is not that hard to pull off and well worth it.
They put you on a raw foods diet with a 3 day fast (well, raw veggie juice and wheat grass juice) the first week. Wheat grass juice is the butt of many jokes and it tastes awful but I swear you can feel an energy zing from it. Supposedly it enhances oxygen flow throughout the system. It's also (supposedly) quite close to blood in overall makeup. My study of nutrition indidcates that a common theme among some dieticians is that an overly repetitive diet, year round, can lead to various sorts of congestion. Two weeks here has a serious cleansing effect on one.
They have a branch in Austin now also -- these places are especially attractive to northern folks in wintertime.
I saw people come in there pasty faced and listless and after 2 or 3 weeks, they'd be about 10 pounds lighter with rosy cheeks and a bounce to their step. What's more, it's not that expensive -- $600 to $1000 a week depending on accomodations.