Extreme Life Extension

Striking Back at CYTOMEGALOVIRUS

posted on June 25, 2007

We are on the cusp of extreme life extension. In fact, you may outlive degenerative aging and disease as we know them. But you may not. Whether you do or not is partially up to you.

Unfortunately, your friendly regulatory agencies may have a say in your destiny as well. Current and pending legislation may rob you of your chance. Since any little breakthrough - or bottleneck - could be the difference between your life and death, let your friends and contacts know that Health Freedom needs their help right now.

You can send 5 friends information about this opportunity. Or you can send it out to your entire address book by cutting and pasting the information (or sending the link) with a short message in your own words asking them to send an electronic letter to their Congressperson and forward this information to their circle of influence as well.

Thanks for your activism and thanks for taking the time to let everyone know that health freedom needs their protection.

Take easy action now at:
http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizations/healthfreedomusa/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=11754&t=

STRIKING BACK AT CYTOMEGALOVIRUS

If you don't know what cytomegalovirus (CMV) is doing to you and everyone you know ... well, time to find out. A great deal of the deterioration of the immune system with advancing age is due to CMV:

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/001247.php

"CMV doesn't really hurt you at all in the short term; most people don't even show symptoms. But because you cannot clear it from your system, its presence chews up more and more of your limited immune resources with time. This is what happens to all of us with increasing age, speeding the downward spiral: if your immune system isn't up to snuff, you're that much less able to resist further damage."

Scientists are making progress in developing a vaccine, however - which is good for those of us not already damaged to the hilt:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-06/uoc--nvp062207.php

"Using a two-pronged approach, we successfully created and tested a vaccine in a mouse model with CMV that shows enormous promise for re-directing the body's immune system, enabling it to fight the virus."

For those with significant damage to the operation of our immune system, more adventurous medical technologies will be required - reconfiguring our immune systems by destroying the wrongly specialized cells, for example, or forcing the body to completely recreate the immune system from scratch. Fortunately, researchers are moving through the early steps on that path also:

http://www.longevitymeme.org/news/view_news_item.cfm?news_id=3017

"Revimmune works by temporarily eliminating peripheral immune cells ... stem cells uniquely have high levels of a particular protective enzyme that can be measured in advance of therapy, which makes them impervious to Revimmune, and allows the surviving stem cells to give rise to the new immune system over 2 to 3 weeks."

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