What are the health benefits of serenity?

With studies we now know that we connect with some miraculous source of healing when you experience times of serenity. Your blood pressure goes down, your immune system gets a boost, and you slow down the aging process. Scientific research clearly reveals that your body replenishes and heals as you practice serenity.

In the silence, your thermostat resets and you settle into the real rhythm of your mind, body, and soul.

Sex is one of life's greatest pleasures, and not one that we want to give up because we're too old. It helps us be emotionally, physically, and mentally satisfied. Remaining sexually active will help make your RealAge (physiologic age) younger no matter what your calendar age.

Why? Sex decreases stress, relaxes us, enhances intimacy, and helps form the foundation of strong and supportive personal relationships.

Surveys show that 60% of older American women live alone. Those who get out of the house and stay involved with their communities, activities, friends and families do well; those who don’t tend to decay. Hundreds of studies confirm that isolation hurts us and connection heals us through the same basic, physical mechanisms as exercise and diet.

Older people who have at least one close friend have cardiovascular systems that are younger by a series of objective measures than those of isolated people. Blood vessels are measurably more elastic, cardiac reserve is higher, cardiac inflammatory protein levels are lower, blood pressure response to exercise is better, and so on. More connected people also have stress hormone blood profiles that are measurably healthier than those of isolated people.

Less cortisol, less inflammation, less insulin, lower blood sugar. Cardiac catheterization studies show that the less socially connected a woman is, the more plaque she has in her arteries. Women with fewer social connections have fewer circulating immune cells in their blood and weaker immune responses to vaccines.

In one study, researchers swabbed viruses into volunteers’ noses, and the most socially connected volunteers got markedly fewer colds than the least connected. When you take a puppy away from its mother, there are immediate disturbances in heart rate, digestion, cortisol levels, blood pressure, energy and sleep. The same is true for humans.

The more a baby is touched and held in the neonatal ICU, the higher its survival rate; babies who are not touched at all are highly likely to die. That same limbic chemistry operates in adults, too. When nurses touch cardiac patients in the ICU, it brings an immediate reduction in the number of abnormal beats on the heart monitor.

Your blood pressure falls when you hear the sound of another person’s voice. Electrical resistance in the skin, a chemical marker for the fight-or-flight response, falls off dramatically with therapeutic touch or mas-sage. The list goes on for pages and pages, and the point is that connecting is a biological imperative.

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Resveratrol, the chemical found in grape skins (not seeds) is being tried as an alternative method to cause the same anti-aging benefits as calorie restriction. (The calorie restriction theory led to a series of experiments on different animals. Results showed that reducing total calories by 15 to 30 percent of the normal amount extended life by 30 to 150 percent.) Resveratrol apparently acts on certain cellular elements to cause the same changes calorie restriction causes.

Whenever calorie restriction has been applied to groups and species of animals, it has almost always prolonged life span. Calorie restriction without nutrient deficiency is being tried by a few self-selected humans in the United States. Clearly, this is difficult to achieve, as we can't even persuade humans to eat just the right amount of calories, let alone 15 percent less than they would ordinarily eat.

Investigation is being aggressively pursued to see if the effect of resveratrol can be produced by medicine or another food substance.