Free Anti-Aging Book Provides Self-Tests For Determining Your Real Age & Health
by Art Kunkin
June 24, 2010

This week I want to tell you how to obtain at no cost a valuable 198 page anti-aging book. I sincerely suggest you immediately take advantage of this wonderful offer while you also examine my own proposals for more than doubling your healthy life span.

The free book, “Life Extension Express” is available from the Maximum Life Foundation on the internet at www.maxlife.org. If you are a senior who doesn’t have access to a computer, I suggest you go to the nearest public library or contact a computer-literate friend to accomplish the free download.

Meanwhile, the author, David Kekich, has given me permission to reproduce here the free self-tests he details in his book that will help you determine your own real age as a starting point for beginning your own efforts to become younger. As he observes, there can be a significant difference between your chronological age as established by your birth date and your actual health as compared to others. If you are actually healthier than your chronological age, that’s encouraging.

Skin Elasticity: Lay your hand down on a desk or table, palm down. Pinch the skin at the back of your hand for five seconds. Let go and time how long it takes your skin to go back to its smooth appearance. If you’re very young, it should snap back immediately. An average 45-year-olds’ skin will take 3–5 seconds. At age 60, it takes about 10–15 seconds on average. By the time you are 70, it usually takes 35–60 seconds to crawl back. So if you are 60 and it takes 3–5 seconds, this test indicates your biological age is around 45.

If you want to increase your skin elasticity, there are diet and antioxidant recommendations in the book “Life Extension Express.”

Reaction time: Ask someone to hold an eighteen-inch ruler or yardstick vertically from the one-inch line. Place your thumb and forefinger about three inches apart at the eighteen inch line. Then ask your partner to let go without warning you. Then catch the ruler as fast as you can between your thumb and forefinger. Mark down the number on the ruler where you catch it. Do this three times, and average your score. A 20-year-old will average about twelve inches. That generally decreases progressively to about five inches by the time you are 65 or about 1 ¾ inches per decade. So, if your score is seven and one-half inches, you test out at about age 50 for reaction time. Games like ping-pong, tennis and foosball can increase your scores.

Static balance: Take off your shoes, and stand on a level uncarpeted surface with your feet together. Close your eyes and raise your right foot about six inches off the ground if you are right-handed, or on your left foot if you are left-handed. See how many seconds you can stand that way without opening your eyes or moving your supporting foot. Most 20-year-olds can do it easily for 30 seconds or more. By age 65, most people can only stand for 3–5 seconds. You lose about six seconds a decade, so if you score 12–14 seconds, you test at about 50 years of age. Yoga, balance board training and exercise can improve your scores.

Vital lung capacity: Take three deep breaths, and hold the fourth without forcing it. Healthy 20-year-olds can hold it for two minutes easily. We lose about 15%, or 18 seconds per decade, so a 60-year-old will do well to hold it for 45 seconds. If you can hold your breath for 65 seconds, you test at about the 50-year-old level. You can improve with exercise and deep breathing techniques.

Memory/Cognition: Ask a friend to write down three random seven-digit numbers without showing them to you. Ask him or her to say the first string of seven numbers twice. Now repeat the string backward. Do the same for the other two numbers, and average the results. A 30-year-old should score 100%. Most of the 50-year-olds will miss one digit out of seven. Most of the 60-year-olds will miss two, and 70-year-olds will miss three. See the brain exercise section in chapter six of the book, “Life Extension Express” to boost your memory skills.

So how did you test? Is your biological age younger than your chronological age? Great! Now you can do even better. Is it lower? Don’t despair. I had a friend who originally tested older than average but now tests twenty years younger. If you’re right on the mark, that just says you have lots of room for improvement. Who wants to be average?

The average American isn’t very healthy. Average means you get sick and die on schedule. Who wants that? If you test younger than your chronological age, congratulations! However, unless you are already doing everything right, you can improve even more.

When someone asks your age, why not tell them your biological age instead of chronological? From now on, I’m tempted to say something like “I was born in 1943, but I’m actually about forty-five years old.”

Maybe fifty years from now, you will be able to say, “I was born in 19__, but I’m actually about twenty-five years old.”

So, go to www.maxlife.com and obtain your free book and newsletter from Mr. Kekich today. Meanwhile, get on my mailing list at www.immortality-is-possible.com and come to one of my stop aging classes in Joshua Tree. I am having one this Thursday, June 24th, 7pm, at the Joshua Tree Retreat Center.

Art Kunkin is the journalist who founded the alternative weekly newspaper, The Los Angeles Free Press in 1964. A free download of a magazine cover story interview with Art about his current research into stopping aging is available at www.immortality-is-possible.com. (“ The Last Alchemist: Has The King Of The Hippies Discovered The Secret Of Everlasting Life?”) Art’s book, “Life Extension Alchemy: The Secret Of Immortality Finally Revealed” is available at a reduced sale price of $9 at his web site www.alchemyrevealed.com. Please email Art at artkunkin@gmail.com with your questions or comments