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Do you think illness, frailty and gradual decline are inevitable parts of life? But they don’t have to be. Today, science increasingly views ageing as a treatable (energy deficiency) disease.
The credo of leading researchers: if we tackle the causes of ageing and utilise the amazing potential of our energy metabolism, we can not only increase life expectancy and live longer, but also prevent the diseases of ageing – including cardiovascular complaints.
As one of the leading centers of a bold new approach to slowing aging, the Swiss Center for Health & Longevity harnesses the rapidly evolving science of longevity. We show you the steps you can take – at any age – to live well for longer.
Longevity means changing your mindset
If you want to focus on health and longevity, you have to actively open yourself up to a new way of looking at things and rethink. In our fast-moving times, we all too often fall into short-term thinking. We follow the quick impulses of our lives, the urgent “want it all” voice in our heads. Now. Now. Immediately! What entices us is the immediate gratification of impulses.
But if you want true health and a life of possibly 100+ years, you will gladly forgo short-term satisfaction in favor of long-term success and sustainability.
Longevity demands a lot from us – in favor of a longer, healthier and more vital life. This may not be so nice at the moment, but it will be all the more so in the future! And the supposed renunciation only lasts as long as it takes to turn a wish into a firm will.
Longevity is a decision. Health often is too! Success belongs to the tenacious!
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Longevity – a Question of Attitude
To sustain longevity, you have to evolve!
An intensive programme at our Swiss Center for Health & Longevity can make a big difference and contribute significantly to your biological rejuvenation and revitalization. Nevertheless, longevity is not a sprint. Rather, it reveals itself through the shared path of health optimization, on which we would like to accompany you, preferably for many years to come.
Personalized. Precise. Preventive.
Instead of a one-for-all approach, we are moving towards highly individualized precision medicine. Information provided by state-of-the-art laboratory diagnostics forms the basis for customized therapies for diseases and salutogenesis – i.e. the creation of health – as well as for optimal preventive measures to maintain health and avoid premature ageing and rejuvenation. Our treatments are explicitly tailored to the unique biology of each individual. Our goal: to treat the causes of disease, health risks and ageing.
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Longevity – what matters
Know one thing: if you want to live a longer life, you have to avoid the main risks associated with our civilized way of life. These include cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes mellitus and Alzheimer’s disease. We use all our skills to protect you from these risks and to minimize the risk of illness for you.
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These strategies work by triggering hormesis, a series of healing systems that activate DNA repair, counteract silent inflammation, strengthen the body’s antioxidant systems, stimulate stem cell production, increase brain neuroplasticity, improve protein function and energy production, increase insulin sensitivity and improve gene expression. All factors that are necessary to prevent or reverse disease – and to extend your healthy lifespan.
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High-intensity interval training (HIIT) or strength training is an excellent way to trigger hormonal reactions. HIIT is a modern training method in which short phases of exertion, usually lasting 20-60 seconds, alternate several times with short active recovery phases of around 10-30 seconds. The training equipment used is mainly a bicycle ergometer, cross-trainer, treadmill, rowing machine or simply sprints alternating with calmer running.
During intensive sessions, your muscles are briefly deprived of oxygen (hypoxia), which stimulates the production of mitochondria. Muscles are also activated and built up, which in turn has a positive effect on longevity. Completed at regular intervals and with sufficient regeneration phases in between, HIIT combines many positive effects of other sports.
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Tasty hormetic effects can be created with secondary plant substances.
Plants cannot escape their predators. They have therefore developed chemical defense mechanisms to keep insects and other animals at bay. We consume small amounts of toxic substances that plants use for self-defense when we eat fruit and vegetables.
These substances are pungent, coloring and bitter substances. They protect the plant from predators and environmental influences such as UV radiation, heat and cold.
They cause mild stress reactions in our body, which make the cells of our body more resistant. In addition to many other positive effects, this activates the sirtuins. Sirtuins are protein-based enzymes that repair DNA damage in the cells and stimulate autophagy (cell rejuvenation).
Well-known secondary plant substances are
- Resveratrol in red grapes
- Curcumin in turmeric
- Quercetin in apple peel and onions
- Epigallocatechin gallate in green tea
- Capsaicin in chili peppers
- Sulforaphane in broccoli
- Flavonoids in dark chocolate
Through these substances, we can use what protects plants from pests to make our brains less susceptible to Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and other neurodegenerative diseases.
Our body tries to keep its core temperature constant. Cold stimuli disturb this balance. The reaction: a strong increase in blood circulation so that the affected area warms up again quickly. The regular use of cold water trains this reaction. The body learns to process the cold stimulus better and better.
This regulatory training has a positive effect on the body: It strengthens the immune system, helps to reduce stress, trains the circulatory system and makes you less sensitive to cold.
Cryotherapy can therefore help you to control your own nervous system, boost your immune system, gain more mental strength and feel better physically. In our whole-body cold chamber, you can expose your body to extreme cold for a few minutes.
Fasting is the best example of hormesis. This is because starvation stress over a longer period of time forces the organism into a survival and repair mode.
Fasting triggers recycling in the cells, known as autophagy. This allows our body to cleanse its cells on its own and generate new energy. That’s what makes it so healthy.
Intermittent fasting is a nutritional strategy in which periods of eating alternate with periods of fasting.
As a rule, different time windows are selected, for example the 16/8 protocol. Here you fast for 16 hours and restrict your food intake to 8 hours. During the fasting phases, you experience a low hormonal load, which encourages the body to adapt and strengthen itself.
Intermittent fasting lowers insulin levels, which causes the body to draw on fat reserves. This promotes fat loss and can help you lose weight.
It is important not to think of intermittent fasting as a diet, but as a long-term lifestyle approach. It offers a sustainable method to improve your metabolism, control weight and promote your health as well as longevity.
Make sure that your meals during the eating windows are balanced, predominantly plant-based and nutrient-rich to provide your body with optimal nutrition. Avoid white flour, sugar and too many animal products, replace butter with ghee and integrate high-quality oils such as coconut oil and C8 MCT oil into your daily diet. This will put you well on the way to a long and healthy life.
Exposure to intense heat – e.g. in the form of a sauna visit, during sport or naturally through fever – stimulates the production of antioxidants and heat shock proteins (HSP) in the cells. Both strengthen our immune system in the fight against pathogens.
The rapid change between hot and cold is particularly effective for our health. In addition to the effects already mentioned, this is particularly effective against inflammation.
A few minutes at 95 degrees Celsius is therefore a wonderful stimulus to stimulate the complex processes of hormesis in the body. The brief overheating repairs damaged proteins and strengthens the immune system. Then take an ice bath and you have done something for your health.
Calorie restriction, i.e. greatly reduced calorie intake without malnutrition, is also a hormetic effect. It has been proven to prolong life and reduce age-related diseases such as osteoporosis, arteriosclerosis and cancer. There are different ways of restricting calories. One is to reduce the average daily calorie intake by around 30 percent. Another is “dinner canceling”, i.e. skipping the evening meal.
Calorie restriction also stimulates longevity enzymes in the body: sirtuins. These are enzymes that essentially repair DNA. This is essential, as chronic damage to our genetic material ages us and leads to cancer. Sirtuins can be stimulated by all kinds of stress stimuli (cold, IF, sport) – and also by diet. We therefore recommend that you integrate “sirt foods” into your daily diet. These are foods that stimulate sirtuins – especially broccoli, spinach, arugula and chicory as well as celery, chili, kale, walnuts, raspberries, blueberries and garlic.
Brain hormesis works best when you combine conscious thinking with the other strategies already mentioned.
Processing information (thinking) requires energy and is therefore a hormetic process. Our brain is constantly challenged by new information from our environment. Make sure it stays that way.
Active thinking is the ultimate answer to mental performance into old age!
Losing half a liter of blood is a stress factor for the body – one that we are well equipped to deal with! There is therefore evidence that donating blood has a hormonal effect.
After just one blood donation, the body readjusts a number of its defense strategies, making it more resistant. It could even be possible that a blood donation removes age-promoting factors from the blood. Here, science is not yet fully aware of the mechanisms of action.
In any case, donating blood can save lives – and possibly prolong yours.
In recent years, modern research has made significant progress in deciphering the mechanisms behind lifespan. One of the most fascinating players in this context is mTOR (mechanistic Target of Rapamycin). mTOR is a highly complex protein complex that controls growth within the cell. It plays a crucial role in the control of various cellular processes, including cell growth, cell division, protein biosynthesis and metabolism.
This means that activating mTOR has a performance-enhancing, growth-promoting, muscle-building and wound-healing effect. That sounds good at first. However, science assumes that chronic overactivation of the mTOR signaling pathway can be linked to the ageing process.
Excessive mTOR activity (e.g. due to constant nutrient intake, too many proteins in the diet or cellular dysfunction) leads to increased cell division and proliferation, which is associated with accelerated cell wear and tear and an increased risk of the following diseases:
- Obesity
- Type 2 diabetes
- Depression
- Alzheimer’s disease
- Parkinson’s disease
- Certain types of cancer
Against this background, prolonged inhibition of mTOR may be necessary and useful to reduce inflammation and increase cellular regeneration and repair processes (autophagy).
The activity of mTOR can be inhibited by certain dietary and lifestyle factors:
- Calorie restriction:
Calorie restriction is often considered one of the most effective strategies for extending lifespan. - Protein restriction:
Reducing protein intake can inhibit mTOR. - Intermittent fasting:
Periodic fasting or intermittent fasting, which alternates specific eating times with periods of fasting, can affect mTOR activity and promote the cellular cleansing process of autophagy. - Natural foods and nutrients:
Some foods and nutrients can also influence the activity of mTOR. Resveratrol, found in red grapes, and curcumin from turmeric are examples of compounds that can inhibit mTOR. - Omega-3 fatty acids:
Omega-3 fatty acids, found in fatty fish such as salmon and in plant sources such as flaxseed, can influence mTOR and reduce inflammatory processes in the body.
Spermidine is a natural compound found in various foods such as wheat germ, soybeans, mushrooms and some fruits. It is a polyamine compound that plays an important role in various biological processes. Spermidine is increasingly becoming the focus of scientific attention due to its potential health-promoting properties, particularly in relation to autophagy, cell health and possibly longevity. We know from studies on mice that spermidine can prolong the life of mammals.
The mode of action behind this:
Spermidine jump-starts cellular waste removal (autophagy). This helps the cells to remove harmful protein deposits and other toxic elements. By promoting this cleansing process, spermidine supports the overall health of cells and helps maintain their functionality. By activating autophagy, spermidine also has an anti-ageing effect and helps our body to slow down the ageing process and promote longevity.
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