How being old again feels

I went off of all my medications, vitamins and hormones for a few weeks, as I do periodically, to get a feel for my baseline biology. I also went back to allowing things into my diet most Americans eat but shouldn’t. Over the holidays I had a lot of bread, pie, snacks and fried foods. I experienced what it feels like to be an old man again. A relatively healthy old man, but an old man nonetheless.

All it takes is a little reminder of what life was like before Cenegenics to renew my commitment to staying with the program. With a plant-based, whole foods diet, an effective exercise program and hormonal optimization, I feel young all the time. I have lots of energy. My mood is great. I’m stronger than ever and have my libido back. I sleep better and wake up rested. My mind feels sharp and focused.

Paradoxically, now I actually eat more and exercise less to stay in shape than ever before. I enjoy what I eat and I only spend ten minutes twice a week at the gym. My body burns off the calories like a youngster and my waist stays trim with hardly any effort. People often remark about how fit I look and college girls flirt with me.

If a person could do the reverse of what I just did – go on the Cenegenics program for a couple of weeks and then return to baseline – they would move any mountain to regain that youthful feeling. Living the rest of one’s years with relentlessly failing energy and mobility, with growing aches and pains, constantly feeling fatigued with bowels and digestion not working well, a foul mood, no sex and poor sleep is a dismal prospect.

It’s sad to see my friends turning into grumpy old men, cantankerous old codgers who constantly rant about how bad things have become and reminisce about “the good old days” which, let’s be honest, weren’t. That’s one of the hard parts about the second sixty – leaving your friends behind and watching them grow old and die before they need to.