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I beg the readers indulgence for a bit of futurology about what things may look like if the life extension movement continues to develop. Right now, a full vitamin and vitamin-like substance life extension program costs between $50 and $100 dollars per month.
Q-10 is becoming very popular with athletes who measure their overall cellular output against known standards. Besides acting as a general tonic, when fed to lab animals, Co-Enzyme Q-10 makes them live 33 to 45 percent longer! DMAE is another extremely valuable vitamin-like substance that is not widely known.
Sick fasters may be wise to take in minerals from thin vegetable broths or vitamin-like supplements in order to prevent uncomfortable deficiency states. For example calcium or magnesium deficiencies can make water fasters experience unpleasant symptoms such as hand tremors, stiff muscles, cramps in the hands, feet, and legs, and difficulty relaxing.
Not only do different samples of the same type of food differ wildly in protein content, amino acid ratios and mineral content, their vitamin and vitamin-like substances also vary according to soil fertility and the variety grown. These days, food crop varieties are bred for yield and other commercial considerations, such as shipability, storage life, and ease of processing.
Medical researchers and research gerontologists have noticed that many other vitamin and vitamin-like substances have similar effects on laboratory animals. Some will object that what helps rats and mice is in no way proven to cause the same result on humans. I agree. Proven with full scientific rigor, no. In fact, at present, the contention is unprovable.
In the life extension approach, vitamins and vitamin-like substances are used as a therapy against the aging process itself. Will it work? Will they live longer? It is impossible to say with full scientific rigor? To know if life extension works, we would have to first determine "live longer than what?"
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