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Waging a War Against Aging

The Latest in Anti-Aging Techniques

By Teri Brown

According to Mindell, these stressors cause early aging, wrinkles and disease. He believes that, for the most part, we are not expiring from old age, we are dying of degenerative diseases, such as heart disease, cancer, hardening of the arteries, high blood pressure, diabetes and Alzheimer's, which were relatively unknown 100 years ago.

"These can be prevented, if we just take care of ourselves by eating healthfully, exercise and supplementing our diets with the right vitamins and minerals," says Mindell.

Perhaps no one is as close to the cutting edge of anti-aging medicine as is Dr. James Barber, cosmetic surgeon and author of The Forever Factor (New Horizon, 2003). Dr. Barber takes all the best from a cosmetic standpoint, a nutritional standpoint and a mental standpoint and weaves it together with the latest in anti-aging research to present people with a whole new way of looking at the aging process. "The research in this field is just astounding," says Dr. Barber. "New discoveries are being made all the time."

After losing his mom at the very young age of 58, Dr. Barber began to study aging and why some people live to be 110 while others pass away at 58. He feels that there are a number of reasons that we age, and only some of them are genetic. "We age ourselves by the stresses we put on our lives through work and in our social lives," says Dr. Barber. "We also age by the foods we eat. We have what we call 'age-accelerating' foods that increase our aging process. We also age by having no direction and having lack of passion in our lives. People need to have a reason to live. As an example, in interviews with Holocaust survivors, it was found the only criteria the survivors had in common was a reason and a passion to be alive. Each and every one of them had a passion for life."

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