Articles on Primal Therapy, psychogenesis, causes of psychological traumas, brain development, psychotherapies, neuropsychology, neuropsychotherapy. Discussions about causes of anxiety, depression, psychosis, consequences of the birth trauma and life before birth.
Monday, November 26, 2012
How Long Will I Live?
There are several ways to know about how long we will live. First, if you drink and smoke a lot it won’t be very long. If you do a genetic test you will get an idea, but also a very good way is to measure your telomeres. These are the ends of the chromosomes which, if you expect to lead a long life the telomeres need to be long. The shorter they are the shorter the life, in general. And the real question is what is their function and why do they get shorter and therefore shorten our lives.
Lifelong stress will shorten your telomeres, which shorten under stress or adversity. Telomeres form the ends of the chromosome that shorten under chronic financial problems, long-term care of a loved one, emotional neglect and being unloved, including getting divorced, or suffering chronic anxiety. It is one way that anxiety kills. It is that chronic stress indicates a system-wide problem that is expressed in telomere length. The key ingredient for this is long-term stress resulting from more rapid DNA replication. And the key ingredient, then, is imprinted stress that causes rapid DNA turnover; generally the earlier it begins the more deleterious it is because unavoidable stress is deadly. Living in the womb is about as helpless as we get.
Of course what stress does is ramp up levels of cortisol, the stress hormone that work in see-saw fashion with telomere length. The higher the cortisol the shorter telomeres will be, in the long run. When we couple higher cortisol, shorter telomeres together with higher body temperature and elevated blood pressure we have an index of a shorter life. Fortunately, there is something we can do about it since we do lower vitals after one year of our therapy; body temp is on average one degree less and blood pressure in hypertensives are 24 points lower. We have not as yet done telomere studies.
There have been studies on healthy adults who started in life in an institution; they had radically lower telomere lengths. (see Nature. Vol 490. Oct 11, 2012). More important, mothers who underwent severe stress while they were carrying (death of loved one) had offspring with lower than average telomeres. I have not seen studies on telomere length in those with adverse gestational lives but we plan to do it. Particularly, we want to study imprinted stress that continues in our system long after the very early trauma. We must never neglect the imprint; it is the way we engrave experience in the total system. A person can claim that he had a wonderful childhood but if his telomere length is shorter than average we need to examine him more carefully. When we have shorter telomeres we can expect that the person will be more vulnerable to such diseases as diabetes and heart problems. The shorter length individuals are much more likely to develop cancer, by the way. And dementia is another great likelihood. Can you die from neurosis? (chronic imprinted stress). Absolutely. Can you suffer from premature serious illness? Yes, Yes. Can we avoid it? Yes, yes. Take out the pain. It’s the pain, my friends. Take it out and there will be far less smoking, drinking and drug taking, and therefore, longer telomeres. It is the telomere that are shouting out the pain in their own way, We need to listen. And we need to talk back to them in their own language—physiology. And we need to say, hang on, friend, we will take your pain away, even if you do not know it is there.
Increasing and activating the telomerase in my mortal somatic cells will not compensate for the effects of entropy. Regardless of chromosomal lifespan, my body's system will continue to head towards chaos. Death will be inevitable. Primal Therapy will increase my lifespan, but it will not make me immortal.
ReplyDeleteI need to understand how the axolotl manages to grow entirely new, mechanically and electrochemically functional body parts after they have been removed. I need to apply this technology to my brain. I need to remove my brain and grow a new one while machines keep my body alive. Over time, all of my body parts must be removed and regenerated from the fetal stage.
I must become a baby again. And then I must be held in the arms of a loving mother. It is the only way.
Art, I am just kidding, but I will be interested in your research on telomeres.
How well can I live?
ReplyDeleteIt was necessary to understand my terror / epilepsy. To relive and to feel the wordless trauma of not being able getting out and having been cheated to struggle during two days in the wrong direction only to be turned around and eventually be sucked out as a strangled breech has been a physical, mental and neurological privilege. However, the documented demystification took years to relive, step by step, because of the tremendous magnitude of imprinted horror and pain that the fight, for life and death (equal to my subsequent epilepsy), had established.
How could I choose to live through all that pain? The reason can be summarized in the deep satisfaction it meant to finally understand knowing the importance of my real needs and to get rid of / dissolve a degrading neurotic behavior. Through continuous added small positive improvements, I could also brake the trend of over taxation of my organs.
Your question “How long will I live” has to a limited degree occupied me. My dominating returning issue has been “How well can I live?”. My priority of quality of life is the finest and most significant consequence that the Primal Therapy has had on my attitude to life. Primal Therapy, as my Operating System, has founded a literal feeling of growing younger and to resetting my biologic clock with the help of my different physical and diet applications.(What matters is to focus.)
Having experienced Art Janov’s “Evolution in Reverse”, during 40 years, has, step by step, given me an opportunity to relive life distorting pain. Imprinted, repressed pain creates depression, anxiety, neuroses, which includes shortened telomeres and is an vital piece in the puzzle of human aging, cancer and stem cells. The Primal Principle leaves a decisive answer / Frame of Reference to the question WHY certain telomeres shorten. The Nobel Laureates show without corresponding reference that these telomeres shorten.
Focusing on telomeres Elizabeth Blackburn and Jack Szostak received the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The “Nobel Prize.org” issued a press release with the following final conclusion: “The award of the Nobel Prize recognizes the discovery of a fundamental mechanism in the cell, a discovery that has stimulated the development of new therapeutic strategies”.
I hope my discontent that the innovator of the Primal Principal has not been able to produce convincing research data to be remembered by the Nobel Committee, should not lead to shortened telomeres.
Jan Johnsson
Primal Therapy "God-given" effect!
ReplyDeleteBeing aware of our emotions require more than a man who interprets what consciousness contains... it requires a limbic system in balance with neo cortex.
How do we begin at the right end when the end we got is the wrong end? What I'm trying to say is… the wrong end... neo cortex must first "understand" that we are at the wrong end before the wrong may be right and that requires a neo cortex off balance in timing with what the limbic system at time contains to be right in its misery... and to “prove” that we need a legal trial.
I know that's what you're trying to say for decades now but failed... failed a word that sounds wrong to me... but how do we prove this phenomenon when the evidence of the limbic system is experienced as life-threatening… more than standing for what it contains…its science.
A neo cortex in dreams of tomorrow will not accept this phenomenon… if not proven in a lawsuit. In this case... to wait for a misery to be right is lost time as the whole world looking for a mom who will never be there.
Frank
Hi Frank,
ReplyDeleteI feel it's good to 'assemble and present a case'. You might even get me to help but it's not good to take it to a legal trial. The problem is in the adversity built into the system. There is generally required a plaintiff and offender; a 'victim' and a 'perpetrator'.
Part of the defensive process of the neo-cortex is aggressive; in the sense that the best form of defence is aggression, so, the whole framework of the law tends toward 'pitting' each of us against each other as adversities. Thus we are "acting out in court" by our mere presence, in court. There is no choice in adversity and once one steps into 'court' one has actually entered the prison porch.
Court is a place of the act out. . . High Court: a right old ding dong. . .
What you can do I feel is to make your own written testimonies from your own heartfelt experiences using and refining your fine style of words to do that. Let Primal feelings enter the hall of literature again, they have before under a different pseudonym, This time round, with science attached there is a spring welling up from which we could all draw common water to make ink. Let's write it all down, send some of it, try to publish more and read it all later to see how we feel now about how we felt before we wrote down history.
Our Personal History is what's important today; in court all you get is histrionics and most of it, once it has spilled out cannot for legal reasons ever be published either. . . that's my experience anyway.
Paul G.
Paul: You are no doubt right. In court all you get is law, rarely justice. art
Deletepaul, if we are to write, i think we should try to write to as many people as possible as only a tiny percentage will listen. and the message should be delivered in a style that does not cause confusion. we don't need more mock therapy. what is the best way to get the attention of millions of people without damaging the primal center's reputation? i had some ideas but they were unpopular.
ReplyDeleteThank you Paul for supporting my idea that more must be done!
ReplyDelete“Lifelong stress will shorten your telomeres, which shorten under stress or adversity. Telomeres form the ends of the chromosome that shorten under chronic financial problems, long-term care of a loved one, emotional neglect and being unloved, including getting divorced, or suffering chronic anxiety. It is one way that anxiety kills. It is that chronic stress indicates a system-wide problem that is expressed in telomere length. The key ingredient for this is long-term stress resulting from more rapid DNA replication. And the key ingredient, then, is imprinted stress that causes rapid DNA turnover; generally the earlier it begins the more deleterious it is because unavoidable stress is deadly. Living in the womb is about as helpless as we get”.
Art we don’t need justice... what we need is the physiological law!
How shall we account for what you above are explaining… about what science contains concerning the primal therapeutic process... when what you report is for a completely different terminology when only neo cortex interpret the content?
With the limbic system involved it would not be possible to misinterpret the question… and how do we explain this phenomenon… if not in a legal process enabling for science... science as speaking the language the limbic system scientific reports?
What the result will become without this legal process? It will never be the big spread of primal therapy as necessary for a revolutionary process when we only let the neo cortex be involved
A lawsuit as forcing a language other than what neo cortex are knowledgeable for... knowledgeable about its "science" must be on the table… then cannot individuals within psychiatric and psychological area ignore what they have to live up as a legal process supposes to be of law and order.
Without a legal process we will relegate the primal therapy to the happy hunting grounds where the neo cortex is entitled to quiet suffering.
Frank,
Art: Exactly how do you measure Telomeres? Can you do it at the center?
ReplyDeleteRaindog: Telomeres can be measured and if we ever get any money it is exactly what we will do, along with cortisol and other biochemicals. art
Delete