What if you had.. and used..a really powerful longevity method.. but didn’t even know that you did?

Warning! I am not qualified to make therapeutic claims. This article contains my story. It does not purport to make any therapeutic claims. The effects I experienced may not work with others and I recommend you talk to your registered doctor before you act upon the information I have given here.

 

I received an email today about this strategy. It was one of those long emails that end up selling you the latest supplement.. I’m sure you get them!

It talked about research carried out in Valencia, Spain, which attempted to discover why women outlive men.

Researchers discovered that women “over-express” a certain gene that in turn,triggers the production of a powerful “super enzyme.”¹ This super enzyme apparently extends a woman’s life by supporting the health of every cell in her body.

Results were published in the journal of the Federation of European Biochemical Societies. You’d think the industry would be falling over each other trying to replicate it. But like many excellent studies, Big Pharma obviously looked at it, took out the calculator, and decided the returns weren’t astronomical enoughut most doctors are still in the dark.

Scientists who know about it call it the “Methuselah enzyme,” after the Biblical figure that lived for almost a thousand years.

Further aging studies found that animals that produce the highest levels had the longest health spans. And, when they genetically engineered fruit flies to have double the amount of this super enzyme, ruit flies lived twice as long.

So if we do have a method of increasing this magic ‘Methusaleh’ gene.. wow!

The email went on to describe how difficult it was to replicate, how many had tried, and yes, of course, how only they had succeeded. Just like all the other supplement selling emails I’ve read.

The super enzyme that continues to amaze researchers is superoxide dismutase or SOD.

One of SOD’s protective roles comes from being a big time free radical fighter. SOD rules over your body’s immune system and is your primary and self-generated antioxidant. As an antioxidant, it’s the most powerful your body has. Antioxidants that come from vitamins and food sources pale in comparison.

ANTIOXIDANT	PROTECTION LEVEL
Primary Antioxidants
SOD	Highest
Catalase	Exceptional
Glutathione Peroxidase	Exceptional
Secondary Antioxidants
Glutathione, CoQ10	Very Strong
Carotenoids, Vitamin E	Strong
Flavinoids, Vitamin A, C	Strong
Minerals, Proteins	Moderate

Just look at this table to see where SOD sits!

SOD Production of  starts in the womb. In one study, genetically engineered mice whose bodies couldn’t make their own SOD died in just days from massive free-radical damage.2

Antioxidants only come from two places; body and diet. The ones our body can make – like SOD – are primary antioxidants and the most powerful.

Secondary antioxidants come from your diet or supplements like CoQ10, vitamin E, etc. Or…..

You’ve probably heard about secondary antioxidants like CoQ10. They are very powerful and very expensive. 

According to the email, the big ‘breakthrough’ was a new way to get SOD into the body instead of relying on us manufacturing enough at a cellular level. This is a a great achievement.. but is it the only way? The email claims that this new kind of SOD is ‘the only way to boost your body’s level of SOD’.

Why is that? SOD is such a fragile molecule, it was impossible for it to get through the digestive system without being destroyed. Ongoing research has shown:3

• Free SOD is destroyed in the stomach.
• Oral supplementation of free SOD does not increase tissue SOD activity.
• A small percentage of SOD can be placed in the intestinal tract but cannot get past the gastrointestinal (GI) barrier.

So their ‘big breakthrough is enteric coating. They put the SOD into a capsule that doesn’t break down until it gets past the stomach. Nothing new. Sang Whang used it six years ago to create a bicarb supplement that could get past the stomach without being neutralised.

The email says that from the very first moment, and for as long as you use SOD, you can increase your health span.

This increase in the length of time you can live while still feeling healthy and happy, comes from powering up your immune system and zapping the free radicals that accelerates how quickly you age.

The Bad Guys: Free Radicals

Free radicals are the “bad guys” that damage your organs and tissues, causing them to age faster and fall apart more quickly. Some are simply metabolic byproducts. When your cells burn oxygen for energy, depleted oxygen molecules become unstable and may damage surrounding organs and tissues.

Free radicals are also generated when your body absorbs toxins and other poisons in our environment.

Every time you breathe in car fumes, cigarette smoke, smog, or chemicals, that’s causing a new swarm of free radicals. These free radicals tear through your body causing damage every moment of the day.

One doctor estimates that every cell in your body gets 10,000 free-radical attacks every day.How many cells do we have? 50 trillion cells. Ouch.

SOD keeps cleaning up the attacks on your organs and tissues and keeps them in a strong, youthful condition for much longer… depending on how much SOD you have.

That’s why the mice in the experiment mentioned earlier died without SOD. You can’t survive in the outside world unless you have enough.

SOD’s free-radical fighting power stands alone. There’s nothing better. Compared to vitamin C, it’s 3,500 times stronger.4

But SOD doesn’t just seek and destroy free radicals. That’s what secondary antioxidants do.

SOD Protects Your DNA

SOD makes every cell in your body more resilient and able to fight off attacks better from the outside. No other antioxidant even comes close to that kind of power.

What’s more, SOD safeguards your DNA, the blueprint your body uses to build every organ, tissue and cell in your body. Everything I’ve rad about antioxidants zeroes in on this; that free radicals can and do break down our DNA: our cell replicator. So we lose the ability to regenerate.

In a randomized, placebo-controlled study, researchers exposed two groups of people to high pressure oxygen. In the study, the control group’s delicate strands of DNA broke. But not the group taking the super new SOD supplement. Their cellular membranes remained virtually intact and even more important, there were no DNA strand breaks.5

SOD supports your immune system and safeguards your DNA in a way that fights off the devastating forces of aging.

That’s why the fruit flies that were engineered to have twice as much SOD in the experiment I mentioned earlier lived twice as long.

And that’s why you’ll enjoy a longer health span when you raise your levels of SOD.

All good so far.. but.. there’s always a but … not everyone has the same levels of SOD.

Making Sure Your Levels of SOD are High Enough!

Ever wonder why some people eat well and do everything right but still age quickly, while other people drink, smoke and eat junk food and live to be 90? This might explain it:

Levels of SOD vary by as much as 50% depending on the subject.6

Perhaps that’s why some people age quickly and why others live to a ripe old age without any problems.

SOD is such a critical measure of longevity, it seems to outweigh other risk factors like diet and exercise … even smoking.

For me, this data stinks. It tells em that if I am one of the people who doesn’t produce enough SOD, I can live the good healthy life- which I do – and still die young. And if I don’t buy their supplement I am dicing with my DNA’s future. 

And then….I remembered…

It was a sentence in a study carried out in Japan that i had read many years ago.

“The superoxide dismutase (SOD)-like activity of reduced (That’s alkaline ionized water!) water is stable at 4 degrees C for over a month and was not lost even after neutralization, repeated freezing and melting, deflation with sonication, vigorous mixing, boiling, repeated filtration, or closed autoclaving..”

Dr Shirahata and his team of research scientist had discovered that our water acted just like SOD!¹⁰
I searched a little more.. and found a Korean study showing how the water protected DNA, RNA and Protein!¹¹ This study was carried out not on rats, but humans.
 And just below that, I found a study that said the water enhanced the effect of other secondary antioxidants!¹²

Then I remembered something more.

Some years ago I was at an exhibition in Sydney, displaying our water ionizers. I’d been talking non-stop for three days when a friend dropped into our stall and said “Hey, there’s a guy a few aisles away that tests your antioxidant ability.” I was tired. I’d been on the go non-stop for a week, setting up and then talking.

But… what did I have to lose? Things had slowed up at my exhibit – so I followed my friend to the stall. It was a man with a machine and a computer. You sat down, he put a sensor on the inside of your wrist, and it measured your level of Antioxidant protection. He was, by the way, also selling antioxidant supplements to all the failed test-ees. He passed the probe over my wrist, looked at the computer and frowned. “Something wrong?” I asked. “What have you been taking?” he asked. “Taking? You mean antioxidants? Nothing. Why?” I replied.

“Why?” He answered.”Because this machine measures up to 30. If you’re ’30′ you have good antioxidant protection.
And you have 45. Come on, tell me. What are you on?”

Well the only thing I was ‘one’ was water. Alkaline Ionized water. the same water I’ve been drinking for almost twelve healthy years.

1. Vina, J. et al, “Why females live longer than males? Importance of the upregulation of longevity-associated genes by oestrogenic compounds,” FEBS Letters; 579(12): 2541-2545
2. Li, et al, “Dismutase,” Nature Genetics 1995; 11:376-381
3. “Dietary free superoxide dismutase does not affect tissue levels,” American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 1983; 37:5-7 
4. Colman, J., “Life Span-Increasing Effects of Super Oxide Dismutase (SOD),” LEM Winter 2005/2006
5. Muth, C.M., Glenz, Y., Klaus, M., et al, “Influence of an orally effective SOD on hyperbaric oxygen-related cell damage,” Free Radic. Res. Sept. 2004; 38(9):927-32
6. Ueda, K., et al, “Levels of SOD in Japanese people,” Acta. Med. Okayama Dec. 1978;(6):393-7
7. Vouldoukis, I., et al, “Supplementation with gliadin-combined plant superoxide dismutase extract promotes antioxidant defenses and protects against oxidative stress,” Phytother. Res. Dec. 2004; 18(12):957-62
8. Weise, Elizabeth, “Wine ingredient resveratrol as anti-aging pill,” USA TODAY Nov 29, 2006 
9. Rahman, I., Biswas, S.K., Kirkham, P.A., “Regulation of inflammation and redox signaling by dietary polyphenols,” Biochem. Pharmacol. Nov. 30, 2006;72(11):1439-52

10>Electrolyzed-reduced water scavenges active oxygen species and protects DNA from oxidative damage.

Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 1997 May 8;234(1):269-74. 

Shirahata S, Kabayama S, Nakano M, Miura T, Kusumoto K, Gotoh M, Hayashi H, Otsubo K, Morisawa S, Katakura Y. 

Institute of Cellular Regulation Technology, Graduate School of Genetic Resources Technology, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan. sirahata@grt.kyushu-u.ac.jp 

Active oxygen species or free radicals are considered to cause extensive oxidative damage to biological macromolecules, which brings about a variety of diseases as well as aging. The ideal scavenger for active oxygen should be ‘active hydrogen’. ‘Active hydrogen’ can be produced in reduced water near the cathode during electrolysis of water. Reduced water exhibits high pH, low dissolved oxygen (DO), extremely high dissolved molecular hydrogen (DH), and extremely negative redox potential (RP) values. Strongly electrolyzed-reduced water, as well as ascorbic acid, (+)-catechin and tannic acid, completely scavenged O.-2 produced by the hypoxanthine-xanthine oxidase (HX-XOD) system in sodium phosphate buffer (pH 7.0). The superoxide dismutase (SOD)-like activity of reduced water is stable at 4 degrees C for over a month and was not lost even after neutralization, repeated freezing and melting, deflation with sonication, vigorous mixing, boiling, repeated filtration, or closed autoclaving, but was lost by opened autoclaving or by closed autoclaving in the presence of tungsten trioxide which efficiently adsorbs active atomic hydrogen. Water bubbled with hydrogen gas exhibited low DO, extremely high DH and extremely low RP values, as does reduced water, but it has no SOD-like activity. These results suggest that the SOD-like activity of reduced water is not due to the dissolved molecular hydrogen but due to the dissolved atomic hydrogen (active hydrogen). Although SOD accumulated H2O2 when added to the HX-XOD system, reduced water decreased the amount of H2O2 produced by XOD. Reduced water, as well as catalase and ascorbic acid, could directly scavenge H2O2. Reduced water suppresses single-strand breakage of DNA b active oxygen species produced by the Cu(II)-catalyzed oxidation of ascorbic acid in a dose-dependent manner, suggesting that reduced water can scavenge not only O2.- and H2O2, but also 1O2 and .OH. PMID: 9169001 

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11. Electrolyzed-reduced water protects against oxidative damage to DNA, RNA, and protein.

Appl Biochem Biotechnol. 2006 Nov;135(2):133-44. 

Lee MY, Kim YK, Ryoo KK, Lee YB, Park EJ. Department of Genetic Engineering, Soonchunhyang University, Asan, Chungnam 336-600, Korea. 

The generation of reactive oxygen species is thought to cause extensive oxidative damage to various biomolecules such as DNA, RNA, and protein. In this study, the preventive, suppressive, and protective effects of in vitro supplementation with electrolyzed-reduced water on H2O2-induced DNA damage in human lymphocytes were examined using a comet assay. Pre-treatment, co-treatment, and post-treatment with electrolyzed-reduced water enhanced human lymphocyte resistance to the DNA strand breaks induced by H2O2 in vitro. Moreover, electrolyzed-reduced water was much more effective than diethylpyrocarbonate-treated water in preventing total RNA degradation at 4 and 25 degrees C. In addition, electrolyzed-reduced water completely prevented the oxidative cleavage of horseradish peroxidase, as determined using sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gels. Enhancement of the antioxidant activity of ascorbic acid dissolved in electrolyzed-reduced water was about threefold that of ascorbic acid dissolved in nonelectrolyzed deionized water, as measured by a xanthine-xanthine oxidase superoxide scavenging assay system, suggesting an inhibitory effect of electrolyzedreduced water on the oxidation of ascorbic acid. PMID: 17159237 

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12. Biophys Chem. 2004 Jan 1;107(1):71-82.

The mechanism of the enhanced antioxidant effects against superoxide anion radicals of reduced water produced by electrolysis.

Hanaoka K, Sun D, Lawrence R, Kamitani Y, Fernandes G. 

Bio-REDOX Laboratory Inc. 1187-4, Oaza-Ueda, Ueda-shi, Nagano-ken 386-0001, Japan. hanak@rapid.ocn.ne.jp 

We reported that reduced water produced by electrolysis enhanced the antioxidant effects of proton donors such as ascorbic acid (AsA) in a previous paper. We also demonstrated that reduced water produced by electrolysis of 2 mM NaCl solutions did not show antioxidant effects by itself. We reasoned that the enhancement of antioxidant effects may be due to the increase of the ionic product of water as solvent. The ionic product of water (pKw) was estimated by measurements of pH and by a neutralization titration method. As an indicator of oxidative damage, Reactive Oxygen Species- (ROS) mediated DNA strand breaks were measured by the conversion of supercoiled phiX-174 RF I double-strand DNA to open and linear forms. Reduced water had a tendency to suppress single-strand breakage of DNA induced by reactive oxygen species produced by H2O2/Cu (II) and HQ/Cu (II) systems. The enhancement of superoxide anion radical dismutation activity can be explained by changes in the ionic product of water in the reduced water. PMID: 14871602 [PubMed]