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Guidelines

As a scientist I have watched the emerging research results with fascination. For me the keys to health are to work out a set of recipes and a sound diet, design a programme of vigorous exercise that I enjoy and to fast occasionally, and then to enjoy the vibrant health that results.

Above all, it seems that our bodies thrive on being stressed. Loading your muscles, bones and joints, working your heart and lungs hard, challenging your immune system with dirt and infections, giving your brain problems to solve, starving your body sometimes, even being exposed to the background radio-activity that we all encounter, all keep us fit and well.

I do not gamble, judging its wisdom by the vast wealth of those who take bets. However life is a gamble. Any one of us, including me, might be unlucky and get an incurable disease however hard we try. However if I knew of a bet as certain as the health benefits of the new ideas, I'd wager nearly every penny I've got. We all must die, but it is better to do it as late as possible and to be infirm only at the very end. There are people running marathons in their nineties.

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(C) Peter Scott 2021

Last edit 26 August 2021