The Practice of More Life

Page Usage Notes

By "practice" we mean the actions or processes required to successfully implement (to apply) the scientific (both theoretical and experimentally proven) basis for achieving a healthy, long, happy and productive life. This page is the general index to all those actions and processes described on MoreLife. These practices are categorized according to the following sections, each of which is also reachable from its appropriate structural major heading.

The Practice of Quality of Life Enhancement
by means of optimizing Health.

Examples of physical statistics and practices of a healthy mature man and woman are provided in our Personal Health section. Updates 12/10/11

Keeping physically fit in one's 60s and beyond can keep one living longer and in health. A study published in early 2008, conducted at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital tracked 2,357 male doctors whose average age was 72 when they joined the study in the early 1980s. A total of 970 - 41% - lived to 90 or older. Those who exercised two to four times per week, did not smoke, maintained normal body weight and blood pressure, and avoided diabetes had a 54% chance of living to 90. From the paper abstract: "CONCLUSION: Modifiable healthy behaviors during early elderly years, including smoking abstinence, weight management, blood pressure control, and regular exercise, are associated not only with enhanced life span in men but also with good health and function during older age." (free full text available) The study is also described in "Fit elderly 'can boost longevity'".

A study at Queen's University, Belfast Ireland, investigated the views of young people in regards to happiness of those in older age and their own current health practices. A press release by the University included the following:
"This study aimed to find out whether this risky behaviour [binge-drinking, smoking, avoiding eating fruit and vegetables and failure to do regular exercise] is associated with young people's estimates of happiness in old age. Are they determined to 'live it up' while they are young because they are convinced that as they grow older they will become more and more miserable? "The research found that, contrary to common belief, old age does not mean a decline in happiness - older people are just as happy as younger people. Whilst many young people associate old age with doom and gloom, this is not the case." (A Science Daily article on the research.)

Collection of articles on "How to Live to 100" from the Science section of Time Magazine's August 30, 2004 issue - given the honor of the Cover for the issue. Short excerpts available free online; more with subscription.

Some wise 2000+ year old words:
"My dear [friends], we must stand up against old age and make up for its drawbacks by taking pains. We must fight it as we should an illness. We must look after our health, use moderate exercise, take just enough food and drink to recruit, but not to overload, our strength. Nor is it the body alone that must be supported, but the intellect and soul much more. For they are like lamps: unless you feed them with oil, they too go out from old age. Again, the body is apt to get gross from exercise; but the intellect becomes nimbler by exercising itself." Cicero (106 B.C.-43 B.C.) On Old Age. The Harvard Classics. 1909-14.

The Practice of Using Food
to Increase Quality and Quantity of Life

TABLES of VALUE:

Methionine Content of Foods - An abbreviated table of foods containing the lowest and highest protein percentages of methionine from downloadable spreadsheet of wide selection.

Amino Acids in Proteins - A table of the amino acid content of selected non-meat sources of protein.

Factors Affecting Vitamin Loss in Foods - A table of nutrients and main causes of loss.

Heat-Labile Antinutritional Factors Inactivated by Thermal Processing - A table of factors, common sources and effects of factors.

Nutrient-dense Fish - A table of comparisons.

Selected Nutrients in Selected Grains & Grain Substitutes - A table of comparisons.

Selected Nutrients in Selected Nuts - A table of comparisons.

From Description to Prescription: Lessons from the Mediterranean Diet by MoreLife Yahoo Group member Matt Papa, provides a good overview of the traditional way of eating in the eastern Mediterranean countries that has been shown to have considerable health benefits. (Thread at Yahoo group)

The Calorie Restriction Support Group - for enthusiasts, whether "newbies" or old-timers - with "how to do it" questions and answers on living a calorie restricted life. However, this Yahoo group is strongly controlled by its owner (and one of four moderators), Francesca Skelton. She maintains the archives as hidden to everyone except members; the membership numbers are inflated with more that 20% of the listed total by the practice of not removing those who have a bouncing status - bad email addresses and therefore not receiving emails of the messages (and this does not even count those members who have elected not to receive email, but no longer read or post to the group). All new members are moderated and introduction of information with which Francesca Skelton does not agree and/or comments that question her opinions are belittled or not allowed to appear at all. Older members have been placed on moderation status when their messages have challenged the owner's statements and sometimes their messages have been deleted from the queue. Both of these last have happened to Kitty and Paul Antonik Wakfer and both were banned from the CRSupportGroup Yahoo January 23, 2007.

Some useful ideas on how to utilize food for increased quality and quantity of life are given on our Diet Regimen page.

Some more ideas from our "attitude" towards and "relationship" with food are available at More Dietary Ideas from Our Diet Regimen.

A MoreLife Yahoo post covering some specific concerns of a reader about tea brewing time and toxicity.

An attitude change is needed to stop over-eating. Dr Hurd explains how self-change is easier than one may think.

Juicing is given a well-balanced presentation by Tim Tyler at his webpage with many suggestions and links to abstracts regarding issues as well as benefits.

A new food pyramid^R is outlined to replace the decade old US Department of Agriculture attempt to tell the US citizenry what and how much they should eat. It is a good start and long overdue.

The Practice of using Various Forms of Exercise
to Increase Quality and Quantity of Life

Some useful ideas on how to incorporate exercise within normal activities of life are given on our Personal Mental and Physical Activities page.

Discussion of types and amount of physical exercise periodically takes place at MoreLife Yahoo. A thread in 2006.

Some methods for improving one's mental skills by way of improving thinking and vocabulary are the subject of a thread at MoreLife Yahoo.

The Practice of Getting Adequate Sleep
to Increase Quality and Quantity of Life

A report on experience of and solution for longstanding nocturnal leg cramps. Update 10/5/11

The Practice of Using Dietary Supplements
to Increase Quality and Quantity of Life

Examples of supplement regimens for a healthy 73 year old male and for a healthy 66 year old female can be found in our Personal Regimens. Updates 10/5/11

Measuring Powdered Supplements - Supplier density information and measuring dosages of dry bulk supplements.

Mixing Powdered Supplements - Effective methods of mixing and administration of dry bulk supplements.

The Practice of Increasing Quality of Life
by means of enhancing your Outlook on Life

The following books using the cognitive model of a person's thoughts, environment and behavior are recommended based on my (Kitty Antonik Wakfer's) familiarity with them. New items will be added as I read them myself:

• Beck, J. (1995) Cognitive Therapy: Basics and Beyond A textbook for the novice cognitive therapist but of value to those who have an interest in the subject beyond their own personal application. (Also available in Spanish: Terapia Cognitiva.)
• Burns, D.D. (1999) Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy Revised and Updated - Good grounding for the novice in the principles of cognitive therapy or someone who has used the later workbooks and wants more detailed explanations. The active participation of the reader is essential for learning, making use of and gaining from the examples of patient-therapist interactions, questionnaires and sample worksheets. (Also available in Spanish: Sentirse Bien.)
• Burns, D.D. (1999) The Feeling Good Handbook - An extension of the original Feeling Good, including blank worksheets and exercises for reader fill-in. (Also available in Spanish: El Manual De Ejercicios De Sentirse Bien.)
• Greenberger, D & Pedasky, C. (1995). Mind Over Mood: Change How You Feel by Changing the Way You Think - The cognitive model is described and used for 4 patients with differing situations and degrees of unhappiness, as a general description. Several basic written tools are demonstrated with the example clients; reader fill-in tables for hir own situation(s) are part of every chapter. This is an active workbook, intended to be used to guide the reader towards solutions for now and in the future, should the situation arise, or possibly just as a "check-up". An appendix of blank forms - Thought Record, Action Plan, Depression Inventory, Activity Tracking, etc., beyond those in the chapters where they are introduced, is provided to allow copying for future usage. (Also available in Spanish: El control de tu estado de animo: Manual de tratamiento de terapia cognitiva para usuarios.)

New 1/29/12 Scientific American Interview, "The Power of Introverts: A Manifesto for Quiet Brilliance". Author Susan Cain, of "Quiet: The Power of Introverts", explains the fallacy of "groupwork," and points to research showing that it can reduce creativity and productivity.

Self-evaluation, often referred to as introspection, is a necessary periodic practice towards understanding one's self and determining whether certain ideas and/or practices warrant changing in order to achieve the goal of optimally increasing one's own lifetime happiness. Kitty, who has often used writing as a tool for "thinking aloud", shares some thoughts about herself in a "Kitty Reflects on MoreLife" entry.

Emotions are much like habits and can be reprogrammed when they conflict with one's values; taken from a thread on MoreLife Yahoo.

Some methods for improving one's thinking, while increasing spoken and written vocabulary for effective communication, taken from a thread on MoreLife Yahoo.

Dealing with personal problems sometimes requires the assistance of an "outsider" - someone who can assist in helping to stay focused on the problem(s) in the search for true solutions. Michael Hurd, PhD, practicing cognitive therapist psychologist, writer, and talk-show host has in the past had numerous Internet accessible short pieces covering subjects such as considering the use of "therapy", how to have self-esteem, the importance of life's challenges, why self-help books may not be enough, benefit of self-honesty. He has changed his website considerably so that all archived material must now be either directly purchased (when available) or obtained as a subscribed premium access group member. Most likely there is much of value in regards to improving one's self to be gained from reading many of the items available only in this manner from Michael Hurd's website.

Important Note: Since the World Trade Center disaster of 9/11/2001, Hurd has inconsistently, and completely unrelatedly to his main area of expertise, been espousing views on the causes of and solutions for such terrorism, both of which are very collectivist based. We strongly disagree with his views on this subject, as is clear from the fundamental principles developed in the Self-Sovereign Individual Project.

Nathaniel Branden, PhD utilizes a sentence completion technique that he developed in his clinical practice, which can be used to facilitate self-understanding and personal growth. The essence of the sentence completion procedure is to start with an incomplete sentence, a "sentence stem," and to keep adding different endings, between six and ten, with the sole requirement being that each ending be a grammatical completion of the sentence.

• Taking Responsibility: Sentence Completion Program. The thirty-week sentence completion program, from Dr. Branden's book Taking Responsibility: Self-Reliance and the Accountable Life, is designed to help an individual take more responsibility in all areas of his or her life.
• Working with Self-Esteem in Psychotherapy: Sentence Completion. This thirty-week sentence completion program is designed to help a person practice more consistently what Dr. Branden calls the six pillars of self-esteem.

While Kitty had read several of Branden's earlier books in years past, it was only in December 2007 that she started and soon completed Taking Responsibility: Self-Reliance and the Accountable Life. In it Branden makes it very clear that the ideas that individuals have regarding responsibility directly effects their individual lives, not only in their view of themselves and the quality of the various relationships they form, but on the very society in which they live. Branden's clear reasoning on self-responsibility, self-reliance and individualism is a breath of fresh air from the many psychology writers who excuse and even promote the idea that others are to blame for whatever distress a person makes complaint.

The Practice of Attaining Optimal Quality of Life
by means of Just and Honest Interpersonal Relationships.

Productive Non-aggressive Interpersonal Relating

The Self-Sovereign Individual Project, a program to achieve freedom from government coercion for those who understand and want it and are responsible enough to live it. Improved 2/27/12

Books by authors using the cognitive model of a person's thoughts, environment and behavior can be especially helpful in improving interpersonal relationships, even when the reader considers hirself to have no mood problems. I (Kitty Antonik Wakfer) will add new items as I read them myself:

• Burns, D.D. (1999) Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy Revised and Updated - Good grounding for the novice in the cognitive model or someone who has used the later workbook and wants more detailed explanations. Chapter 6, "Verbal Judo: Learn to Talk Back When You're Under the Fire of Criticism" is very helpful for the reader in identifying hir own reactions to criticism. The included number of excellent ways to realistically handle criticism are especially worthwhile for improving how a person perceives hirself when criticism does occur, and can be effective for reducing the occurences/severity of the criticism itself. (Also available in Spanish: Sentirse Bien.)
• Burns, D.D. (1999) The Feeling Good Handbook - An extension of the original Feeling Good, including blank worksheets and exercises for reader fill-in. Part IV of the book, "Feeling Good Together: How to Strengthen Relationships Through Better Communication" contains 5 chapters that address the subject from various aspects. (Also available in Spanish: El Manual De Ejercicios De Sentirse Bien.)
• Greenberger, D & Pedasky, C. (1995). Mind Over Mood: Change How You Feel by Changing the Way You Think - The cognitive model is described and used for 4 patients with differing situations and degrees of unhappiness, as a general description. Several basic written tools are demonstrated with the example clients; reader fill-in tables for hir own situation(s) are part of every chapter. While there is no chapter or section devoted to communication, this aspect of human behavior is included throughout the book. (Also available in Spanish: El control de tu estado de animo: Manual de tratamiento de terapia cognitiva para usuarios.)

Communication between people who care greatly about each other can often be improved in quality and completeness. While Kitty and Paul relatively quickly "talk out" the misunderstandings that do occur between them, recently an email exchange was a method of bringing a particular issue into the open. Kitty, who has often used writing as a tool for "thinking aloud", shares this in a "Kitty Reflects on MoreLife" entry.

Some methods for improving one's vocabulary and thinking for effective communication are of benefit with interpersonal relationships as well as for one's own outlook on life.

Friends Don't Let Healthy Friends Commit Suicide. Friendship is more than knowing someone for a long time, sharing tastes in productive or recreational interests, or even being the sexual/marital partner of a person. Kitty responds to a commentary by J. Neil Shulman highly upset by the suicide of someone he thought of as a friend, done by making use of Method #22 in the book, Final Exit (Third Edition): The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying.

A discussion of the Non-Aggression Principle (NAP) as it applies to a romantic relationship is the subject of a thread at MoreLife Yahoo.

Numerous posts to MoreLife Yahoo are directly about or relate to the interactions of humans as they could be in a free society, specifically that for which the Social Meta-Needs essay and Natural Social Contract were written. Some of these posts, all of which contain comments by Paul (and sometimes Kitty):

• Critique of Social Meta-Needs Within this MoreLife Yahoo message Paul rebuts a criticism of "The Purpose of Life" section in the Social Meta-Needs essay based on the author's contention that Paul has falsely leaped from "ought" to "is". David D Friedman's position against Ayn Rand's argument, referred to by the message author is critiqued by Paul whose writings do not have the same basis as Rand's.
• SelfSIP: The Pissing Incident This is an actual occurrence and the author of this MoreLife Yahoo post demonstrates how many principles from the writings at Self-Sovereign Individual Project can be utilized *now* and increase the maximum life-time happiness of the individuals involved. It also has the side benefit of being humorously written ;>)
• Force in a Free Society? Originally entitled "Why is a peonage enjoinder not just a valid contract?", this entire thread at MoreLife Yahoo is a true seminar on why and how restitution in a Freeman Society is ensured when the Violator can not or will not meet the restitution requirements of the Victim.
• Simple Self-Identification as a new (7/25/05) requirement for posting to MoreLife Yahoo has aroused a fair amount of discussion both by those who refuse to provide Kitty and Paul Wakfer (owners of the MoreLife Yahoo group) with a copy of a photo ID (to be purged upon viewing by them), sign their posted messages with their full name, and provide any aliases used for public posting elsewhere on the Internet (also encouragement to use a photo with their Yahoo ID, on their own website or at MoreLife Yahoo) - and by a few who have already done so but do not fully understand the fundamental value for all. The linked thread and its offshoots contain virtual seminars on the logical reasons for personal identification in Internet discourse just as is routinely expected in other areas of interpersonal exchange.

Dealing with personal problems, which most often relate in part to others, sometimes requires the assistance of an "outsider" - someone who can assist a person in helping to stay focused on the problem(s) in the search for true solutions. Michael Hurd, PhD, practicing cognitive therapist psychologist, writer, and talk-show host has in the past had numerous Internet accessible short pieces covering subjects such as considering the use of "therapy", current lack of common kindness, how to be a "soulmate", and objective criteria for judging people. He has changed his website considerably so that all archived material must now be either directly purchased (when available) or obtained as a subscribed premium access group member. Most likely there is much of value in regards to interpersonal relations to be gained from reading many of the items available only in this manner from Michael Hurd's website.

Important Note: Since the World Trade Center disaster of 9/11/2001, Hurd has inconsistently, and completely unrelatedly to his main area of expertise, been espousing views on the causes of and solutions for such terrorism, both of which are very collectivist based. We strongly disagree with his views on this subject, as is clear from the fundamental principles developed in the Self-Sovereign Individual Project.

Nathaniel Branden, PhD, a well-known writer and practicing psycho-therapist with a very strong background in philosophy, provides applications of his successful self-esteem principles to the problems of modern business, and romantic and other relationships in several essays on his website.

• assertiveness - how to develop a healthy level of self-assertiveness without offending other people...
• valuing love - by its very nature it entails a process of selection
• children - helping them to develop self-esteem, the confidence that they are competent to deal with the basic challenges of life -- and also the feeling that they are worthy of happiness.

While Kitty had read several of Branden's earlier books in years past, it was only in December 2007 that she started and soon completed Taking Responsibility: Self-Reliance and the Accountable Life. In it Branden makes it very clear that the ideas that individuals have regarding responsibility directly effects their individual lives, not only in their view of themselves and the quality of the various relationships they form, but on the very society in which they live. Branden's clear reasoning on self-responsibility, self-reliance and individualism is a breath of fresh air from the many psychology writers who excuse and even promote the idea that others are to blame for whatever distress a person makes complaint.

Aggressive Interpersonal Relationships - Achieving Harmony and Justice

An example from a TV program of when killing someone not in self defense can be an allowable moral action.

Dialogues and Critiques of the Fundamental Viewpoints of Others - Aids Adequate and Correct Understanding

Including:
• Randy Barnett
• David D. Friedman
• George H. Smith
• Miscellaneous Internet Discourse on Social Order

Focus on Freedom

Harm - Responsibility and Restitution. An examination of often disregarded aspects of harm.

Anonymity - Hazard, Not Protection; Limitation, not Enhancement. And the type of information valuable to learn and provide.

Personal Characteristics as Market Commodities. Information pertaining to the personal characteristics of a person (except what governments can use to harm people) should be accessible for the assessment of each by every other, thereby increasing the likelihood that his/her decisions will maximize his/her own lifetime happiness. Comment section added 2/27/12

Social Preferencing - Evaluation and Choice of Association; A Method for Influence. Evaluating the actions of particular others and deciding to associate or not associate with them on the basis of whether those actions are in the evaluator's own widest viewing and longest range thinking best interest is a practice everyone should be doing on a regular basis, if they wish to have any major reducing effect on those negative actions.

Communication Fluidity and the Obstacle of Privacy Claims. Those who claim that emails and other forms of communication are by default private, unless permission has been granted to use them, are denying certain basic facts of reality.

Harm Resulting from Boredom; Causes and Solutions. "We were bored" is the reason given by local teenagers for vandalizing a restaurant; a deeper look is provided at what this really means and how to eliminate it as a reason for destructive actions.

Replacing Those in Power is not "The" Answer. Increasing numbers of voices (verbal and in print) are calling for the removal or resignation of George W Bush as the list of his (and associates') errors in judgment become apparent. But few if any address the real causes for the problems or suggest any fundamental solution.

Improved Effectivity Prescription for Those Against War. Members of the military who freely acknowledge the damage they have done (and in some cases still are doing) as enforcers of government-directed harm, or in direct support of those enforcers, can be most effective in their messages to others towards their objective of stopping war (the one in Iraq being the most currently flagrant) if they are no longer employed by government.

Working Within or Violence Against The System - An Alternative. Many libertarian writers present their readers with the alternatives of trying to change the government from within or using violence against it, albeit maybe not quite yet for the latter. Very few have presented a non-violent alternative to these, both of which are doomed to either fail or lead back to the same or an even worse condition, and none have presented a non-violent alternative to these which is based on sound principles, practical reasoning and can be used right now by those who understand and want it and are responsible enough to live it.

Government Distortion vs. Market Realism in Space - or - Is the GPS Worth It? Who Knows?. The US government initiated, controlled, financed (with taxes of course) space service program - Global Positioning System - is contrasted with the Iridium communications system using Kitty's insider information, obtained from having been the mechanical engineering task leader for a portion of the GPS program, and her analysis, learned later from studying the problems with government coercion and the values of liberty.

The Beginning of a Start? Maybe. The public debates over the first US military officer, Army First Lt. Ehren Watada, to refuse deployment to Iraq, based on that action's illegality could begin the start towards the decline of government.

More Than Reflection. Simply remembering what took place on September 11, 2001 is insufficient. Understanding the underlying reasons for the tragedy and comprehending a fundamental lasting solution require more, but are within the capabilities of anyone truly desirous of a society of individuals interacting to mutual benefit.

Incremental Approach - A Better Method for Effecting Change. Accepting paradigm shifting ideas may require an initial approach consisting of small steps, something Kitty did not keep in mind in September 2005 when she communicated with her nephew about his position as a US Air Force pilot.

The Incompleteness of Free Market Economic Arguments; as illustrated by "How to Bureaucratize the Corporate World". Paul Wakfer was prompted to write a lengthy comment after reading one of the daily articles at Mises.org, which Kitty gets as a regular email every day and this time sent him the link. While the original article is very good in its defense of the free market (which doesn't actually exist), it still misses some essential points.

Government Created Tragedies - An Inevitability of the System. Tragedy - "an unfortunate, sad, or discouraging occurrence or situation", per the dictionary, but even more so when it is the result of government.

Health Care Provision Responsibility and Social Preferencing - A Personal Example. Here's Paul's and my response to an outrageous health care charge and its wider implications. We are two people who work at staying in excellent health and reserve assets for emergencies, rather than pay insurance premiums.

Note Who is Paying the Bills. When the call arises from someone for government to "pay for it" or claims are made that it did, there is a BIG gap in reality. Pointing this out to people is something anyone can, and if forthright, will do.

Getting to the Bottom of the US Economic Woes. Disgust with the current economic situation in the US, and the rest of the industrialized world, is understandable and warranted. But an understanding of the actual factors present and how they came about is necessary before any real resolution of the problem can even begin.

Tax/Regulation Protests are Not Enough: Relationship of Self-Responsibility and Social Order. Numerous Internet news sources and commentaries have carried an increased number of reports for many months [2008/2009] about various group in-person protests and email/petition actions in the US (and elsewhere) in regard to high government taxes and/or various regulations. I contend that public complaining and even protesting in public is of little real meaning unless those protesting withdraw their sanction/approval from and usage of the things that government does, all paid for by taxes or from borrowed money with principal and interest then repaid from taxes.

Self-Responsibility - The Cure for Healthcare 'Crisis' and More. The recently passed legislation (Obamacare) requiring all citizens to purchase government approved health "insurance" (actually prepaid health services) is the latest in a very long progression from individual self-responsibility for all aspects of one's personal life to government mandated and/or provided life-long "protection" and "maintenance".

WikiLeaks: What can one person do to help?. Signing petitions is one way. But getting support money to WikiLeaks has become very awkward for those able to donate only small amounts. PayPal, MasterCard and Visa all appear to be currying favor with the US government, if not actually kowtowing to direct political pressure, by agreeing that WikiLeaks is engaged in "illegal" activities thereby justifying their removal of services. Here is a plan to circumvent this artificial obstacle. Updated 7/21/11

Libertarians Need less Strategy -- and more Principle! Paul examines the illogical writing and the lack of principle displayed by several prominent libertarian writers in regard to support measures for WikiLeaks; and presents a reality based, unifying approach to decision making.

Are Principles Unaffordable? "We can't afford to do that", was the answer Kitty received from one online editor when she suggested that his website use alternatives to PayPal, MasterCard and Visa because of their harmful actions towards WikiLeaks, which took place without those corporations being legally compelled to act as they did. She sets out to demonstrate that this editor and others like him are wrong, showing the field of existing and promising alternatives. Updated 7/21/11

How Real Estate Will Work in the Freeman Society. Alton Lindsay Jr provides a brief but clear explanation of how Real Estate will be established and exchanged in a society based on the principles of Social Meta-Needs.

Abandoning a Fundamental Principle of Liberty to Justify Mortgage Default. Kitty exposes the philosophical errors in noted libertarian writer and Mises Institute President Doug French's defense of mortgage default on a house that has lost market value. New 7/21/11

Just Another State In The Making? Alton Lindsay Jr points out some shortcomings of non-statists' replacements for government compared to a society based on the principles of Social Meta-Needs. New 7/22/11

Voting - Now and For a New Social System? Kitty responds to several questions put on her Facebook Wall regarding political voting, boycotting it and its use to bring about a new system. Updated 2/27/12

Social Networks - Freedom Enhancers or Internet Ghettos? Kitty and Paul look at the practice of self-isolation within social network niches and its consequences for moving from the current top-down rules enforced society to one based on the principles of Social Meta-Needs. New 2/27/12

The Practice of Methods aimed to help you
Reach your Current Potential Life Expectancy

Examples of health statistics and practices of a mature man and woman, both seriously practicing life-extensionists, are provided in our Personal Health section. Updates 12/10/11

The Practice of Methods aimed to help you to Increase your Lifespan beyond you Current Potential Life Expectancy
Toward the Current Human Maximum and Beyond

Calorie Restriction (CR), as the only method currently shown to lengthen the lives of test animals, frequently requires some assistance in beginning and maintaining.The CR Support Group is a Yahoo group for enthusiasts - "newbies" or old-timers - with "how to do it" questions and answers on living a calorie restricted life; it is less populated with extreme practitioners than some others. However, this Yahoo group is strongly controlled by its owner (and one of four moderators), Francesca Skelton. She maintains the archives as hidden to everyone except members; the membership numbers are inflated with more that 20% of the listed total by the practice of not removing those who have a bouncing status - bad email addresses and therefore not receiving emails of the messages (and this does not even count those members who have elected not to receive email, but no longer read or post to the group). All new members are moderated and introduction of information with which Francesca Skelton does not agree and/or comments that question her opinions are belittled or not allowed to appear at all. Older members have been placed on moderation status when their messages have challenged the owner's statements and sometimes their messages have been deleted from the queue. Both of these last have happened to Kitty and Paul Antonik Wakfer and both were banned from the CRSupportGroup Yahoo January 23, 2007.

The Practice of Preserving life through Suspended Animation.

Once having become knowledgeable about the science of cryonics and the possibility that it may provide for continued life in a far future, it greatly benefits the individual to make one's thoughts known on the subject, including the continued ability to obtain such services. Kitty and Paul have done that by having their photos and statement included in a thread "Putting a Face on Cryonics" (May 2, 2004 entry).

Paul and Kitty signed cryopreservation contracts with Alcor in March 2005 - after having contacted them the previous December regarding using a variable annuity contract as the method of financing. It took until December 2005, before Alcor sent the formal "Congratulations! You are now an Alcor Member." letter. Neither of us consider ourselves "members" in the sense that we agree with what the Board of Directors of that organization does. We simply have a contract, financed by insurance backed variable annuities through Vanguard Trust, with Alcor (beneficiary of the annuities) to carry out cryopreservation procedures on each of us when/should the need arise. (Thread at MoreLife Yahoo where this was discussed in January 2007.)

The Alcor Forums include many topics of interest to cryonicists and life extensionists and include a "Private Forum" which is only accessible (and only able to be seen to exist!) by those who are both registered with Alcor Forums and are enrolled as cryopreservation members with Alcor. Some of our posts are on the public forums, but many of Paul's are unfortunately on the Private Forum (much to our displeasure at its existence) because that is where the posts to which he has been responding originated and that is where most of the current controversy/concern is arising. However the public "Financial" forum does contain some posts relevant to the situation described in MoreLife Yahoo message on 1/10/2012. New 1/29/12

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