While some human diseases are based on errors in the DNA structure (requiring gene therapy), most derive from the normal aging process of cells.
When cells are young, they are equipped with a large number of automatic self-healing mechanisms.
These are built into the natural DNA structure.
Unfortunately, this self-repair structure becomes inaccessible as cells age.
Thus, we have to find ways to recover accessible structure.
And that is exactly what rejuvenation is concentrating on.
Chromosomes have long ends called telomeres.
These telomeres consist of repeat units of the same structure.
telomeres are the holding strings in the cell division process which starts with the chromosomes.
As the telomere reconstruction enzyme is at low concentration in most cells, the telomeres eventually get too short to serve as holding strings.
Then the cell just ages.
Eventually, an American company found an activator which promotes the transcribing process from DNA to the telomere-regenerating enzyme.
That activator is now available and thus allows true rejuvenation by increasing the cellular concentration of the enzyme which extends the length of the telomere.
Then the self-repair mechanism becomes accessible again and thus the self-healing process.
To prevent actions which promote aging to develop all areas of consumption need to be considered.
Thus, one needs to look at ordinary foods, food supplements, activators of critical enzymes and hormones, as well as OTHER enhancing influences.
Ordinary foods include health-promoting foods and those that lead to disease and should be carefully avoided.
The latter are for instance those that produce surges in the concentration of the small sugar glucose.
Food supplements include the vitamins.
But they also include enzymes such as the important superoxide destruction enzyme, the level of which has been shown to correlate with anti-aging.
This enzyme removes a dangerous free-radical bi-product in the use of oxygen from the air.
The history of the appearance of vitamins is marked by vitamin C and includes the important infection-fighting isomer Vitamin D-3.
This area also includes natural agents which fight cancer.
Some of them (the polyphenols) have been proven to be quite effective.
Others derive from grape seed extract.
A third group consists of activators for the production of critical enzymes and hormones.
The best known one is a control protein (initially for human growth).
But as protein, it can not be given orally (would be digested in the stomach) or in a skin patch (molecule too large).
But daily injections have been used successfully.
Now special agents are available which stimulate the production of this protein then being supplied directly into the blood stream.
Into this group also belongs the mentioned activator for the production of the telomere-extending enzyme.
The third group consists of DNA activators like the ones discussed earlier.
There are also some critical hormones which are proteins and thus need DNA structures for their synthesis and activating agents for transcription.
A final (fourth) group consists of agents which enhance rejuvenation "in other ways".
They may even be electromagnetic in nature (as derived from recent research results).
The effectiveness of magnetic fields and of homeopathic agents will be analyzed critically.
The effectiveness of high dilutions in homeopathy was only explained in early 2010.
This explanation opens up new approaches to disease treatment, possibly including a speed-up in healing.
Best wishes, George Czerlinski.