The Fountain of Youth

The Fountain of Youth Those seeking some sort of "Fountain of Youth" intuitively know that there is "an answer" close at hand. Most of us today are in the habit of looking for immediate and manufactured answers. They are looking for external chemicals that they can ingest or inject which will enhance their body systems. We assume that the currency from which to acquire our goal is in our wallets. If only we could find the most esoteric vitamin(s) or special exercise teacher or for that matter machine, we could buy some magic. Those of us on this path are an example of the error in assuming that the grass is always greener on the other side, someplace other than our own consciousness or Bio-yard. The search should be turned around not to external, man-made chemicals, but to the body's internal pharmacy. Those chemicals are potentially available from their very own bodies. The search should be for the way to activate this production of these chemicals from their personal "Fountain of Youth". We should stop searching for a foreign and synthetic fountain. The internal pharmacy holistically maintains all of the body chemicals in concentrations that are the correct ratio to one another. The absolute perfect ratio is called homeostasis, which in reality, is a very demanding theoretical goal that is approachable but not actually totally attainable. When outside chemicals are inserted without body control to maintain them at holistic concentrations, they act to further disturb homeostasis. The body is an electro-chemical system. This means an electrical signal (hopefully produced under body control by a nerve) ~ connected to the total nerve main frame ~ controls the chemicals your body produces. There are very specialized nerve endings which cause a nerve response to several different stimuli. It is therefore possible to alter body chemistry with light, sound, touch, movement, atmospheric pressure , humidity, heat or cold, acidic or alkaline substances and tissue damage even as mild as acupuncture. The electrical holistic control center of the body is located in the hypothalamus, which drives the autonomic nervous system. The famous pituitary glands are only a portion of the hypothalamus, which is the true "master" gland. Some means of accessing this master gland (hypothalamus) would make contact with our domestic "Fountain of Youth". This is a worthy goal and no direct method is available since we are also emotion response machines. The emotional center of the brain known as the limbic system, has many interconnections with the hypothalamus thereby making psychological factors a potent force in altering body chemistry. Also (and unfortunately), the suboccipital muscles, located at the base of the skull, rest on nerves, which reflex into the hypothalamus thereby allowing the physiological state of these muscles to act as a potent force in rearranging the correct formulas, and actually altering body chemistry. To find the internal "fountain"; this is certainly a noble quest.