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What
is the Elixxir Chronicles & Meditations
by Elixxir
It is the chronicles and meditations of one man´s quest to
stay young. And on how sweet life is when one can pass for 20-something
at almost half a century. ("Seeing-is-believing" pictures
are part of the book.)
It is about daring to live different. Not for fame, fortune or power.
But for eternal youth, health and vigor.
It is about the transformation of a supposedly "impossible"
scientific anti-aging regimen into The Elixxir Program and la dolce
vita.
Exchanging gluttony for lusts and loves, tearing through Yale, Wall
Street and the jet-set, trumping taboos, trials and tribulations,
and seizing more than his Warholian fifteen minutes of fame and
notoriety, including appearances on Oprah, this is a true tale of
a man who has extended youth, who lives as if immortal, and argues
that this is good not only for him, but for the planet.
Tapping into the human race´s most ancient quest for the elixir,
and proffering a lifestyle as audaciously and sweetly different
as any, How to Stop Aging & Start Living: The Elixxir Chronicles
& Meditations sucks the reader into Elixxir´s secret
parallel universe, complete with its own way of eating, loving,
thinking, and living. With Eros, nonconformist wisdom, and enlightenment
thrown into the pot, it makes for an irresistible stew.
If Anne Rice‚s vampire Lestat were an Immortalist feeding on
an anti-aging regimen, this is the tale he would have spun.
Interested?
Read the following Excerpt from Elixxir´s forthcoming book´s
first chapter.
Excerpt
below from How to Stop Aging & Start Living:
The Elixxir Chronicles & Meditations
Copyright © 2002 by Elixxir
How
to look 20-something at Almost Fifty
My childhood friends have all grown old, fat, and ugly.
I now look more like their son than their classmate or peer. I am
still getting carded by bouncers at bars and clubs. I will outlive
my enemies - and marry their children.
– Elixxir
He kept his youth. That was enough.
– Oscar Wilde in "Dorian Gray"
The story of my life is the story of my quest to stay young. To
this end, I have been on the only scientific anti-aging life-extension
eating program for almost twenty-five years, for almost a quarter
of a century. To the best of my knowledge, I´ve been on it
longer than anyone who is alive on this planet today. I call it
The Elixxir Program since I have successfully adapted and refined
this regimen and turned it into la dolce vita ("the sweet life").
It is the only game in town if you want to stop aging and start
living. But you have probably never even heard of it. Or if you
have, you have dismissed it as an option. Why? Because the experts
and the pundits unite in a deafening chorus to tell you that you
are too weak to do this program.
No
Mere Mortal
After all, it requires optimum calories (much less calories than
you consume), and optimum nutrition (much more nutrients than you
consume). In other words, you need to upgrade your nutrients intake
while slashing your caloric intake. A very tall order. I‚m
told the few who have dared to try it for a while complain hunger
is a constant companion. I´m told it demands Will and Discipline
that only Nietzsche´s Superman possess. I´m told it
is an "impossible" regimen for mere mortals.
Either I´m not a mere mortal, or it is possible. Whichever
is the case, having thrived on it for almost a quarter of a century
is a tale demanding to be told. Since I have adapted and transformed
this scientific program into what Italians call la dolce vita ("the
sweet life"), and since I‚m the only one teaching a discerning
few how to live my anti-aging life-extending lifestyle, I call it
The Elixxir Program.
Come, I shall reveal what a fabulous life can be lived on this supposedly
"impossible" anti-aging program if you only dare to eat
different, to live different! Come, I shall confirm what you know
in your heart - that another way is possible, one in which the highest
good is not fame or fortune or power, but Life, and more Life. If
one dares to march to a different drummer, such a stay-young life
is not only possible but glorious – and the only path to happiness.
When your mind is opened, you shall see why this lifestyle is not
only good for the individual, but for the planet.
My
Bottom Line
But I´ve gotten ahead of myself, as usual. Allow me to formally
introduce myself. I am Elixxir, the Immortalist! My vocation in
life is to stay young and live forever.
Yale, law School, Wall Street were passing fancies; staying on this
youth-preserving and life-extending program is my life work. Everything
else is a sideshow. Staying on this program is my performance art,
my supreme achievement, eclipsing even my apparitions on Oprah.
By staying young, I expose Old Age as Disease, the only one which
afflicts every human, the one which will surely kill you, my dear
reader, unless you wise up and learn my tricks. I refuse to go quietly
into that dark night like the Mortalists - groveling to Old Age
as "natural," worshipping Death as "fate." I
intend to go where no mortal has ever gone before. Preserving youth
and health – this is not a means to some trivial, vulgar end
like hoarding filthy lucre or grasping fleeting fame. No, preserving
youth and health and life is my end, my highest good.
Having stayed young is the only accomplishment that matters, the
only achievement I pride myself on. There is nothing more meritorious.
My immortality project is personal, audacious, and, most of all,
frontal. I do not believe in the surrogate immortality of children,
fortune, fame, or power. They are too orthodox for my Immortalist
taste. I do not believe in pie-in-the-sky immortality, or any other
form of posthumous immortality. I like my immortality physical,
in this life, not in the next.
What
They Say About Elixxir
So far so good! While my peers slide into biological decadence and
ruination, I remain young.
And don‚t take my word for it. Let me quote more objective
sources than myself first. Take Dr. David Weeks, an anti-aging researcher
and medical doctor who has studied why some people look younger
than their age, and Jamie James, the former art critic for The New
Yorker, one of the most prestigious American magazines, whose writers
aren´t usually prone to hyperbole. In writing their recent
book published by Random House titled "Secrets of the SuperYoung,"
both Dr. Weeks and Jamie James have seen some unusually youthful
people. Yet they rave that "Elixxir is amazingly youthful.
He looks barely old enough to vote. He is his own best argument
(for his program). "Marilyn Much, a business reporter at Investor´s
Business Daily describes Elixxir as "preternaturally youthful"
and writes that "Seeing is believing!" Having compared
him to the other so-called "anti-aging" gurus, she crowns
Elixxir as "the only anti-aging guru who has actually stayed
young."
What exactly are Dr. Weeks and the former New Yorker art critic
and the senior business reporter of Investor‚s Business Daily
so excited about? How young can one possibly look at the chronological
age of forty six, a mere few years away from the much-dreaded half-century
mark?
How
Young Can I Pass For?
Mortalist
"Modesty" aside, how would I describe myself?
I am boyishly goodlooking, slim, very slim, smooth, impossibly smooth.
My skin glows. I have a sinewy body, an androgynous beauty. My BMI
(body mass index) is that of a teenager. My face is wrinkle-free.
My body fat-free. I possess a 26-inch waist. Cellulite-free tight,
smooth buns. "Six-pack" abdominals. No "turtle neck."
No age spots on face or hands giving age away. A full head of hair,
still black. I have the face of a 20-something, the body of a teenager.
I can pass for a twenty-something. I live the life of a twenty-something.
Biologically and as far as my body and looks, I am a twenty-something!
But my birthday, my birth certificate, my passport scream, to no
avail and on deaf ears, that I‚m supposed to be middle-aged.
I weigh less – significantly less - than my siblings and peers.
My body is not as long as those fed on Mortalist portions. But the
proportion and symmetry of my body – what the Greeks believed
to be the essence of Beauty – is probably as good as it gets.
Physically, I have remained a very boyish boy. Is it any wonder
that boy-lovers still chase after me?
Assuming loose clothing, I can get away with not looking much slimmer.
But stripped down to T-shirt and briefs - or in the nude, it becomes
quite evident that I am much leaner than anyone my chronological
age, or for that matter most twenty years my junior.
My taut leanness achieved without gym torture - in an age where
fat is epidemic - never ceases to amaze and, yes, provoke. To those
who don´t know me, who are not aware of my chronological age,
I must be rather pleasing visually. This is deduced from the fact
that I get propositioned all the time - much more than any jock
or muscle queen I know of.
Who
Needs Viagra!
In the lovemaking department, I‚m better than a pornographer´s
dream. I can get it up anytime, and keep it up "forever."
I have lust and virility galore. I need not concede to anyone à
even those half my chronological age. So long as it‚s someone
I fancy, I have never had any problem even after a grueling day
of work, or at four in the morning when every mortal around me in
the club has collapsed into unconsciousness. I am the energizer
bunny, able to make love for a delicious - or is it delirious? -
length of time. No one on my program - The Elixxir Program - would
ever need Viagra. I shall explain later how I manage my feats. And
I´ll share some tricks - so you too can be a great lover -
or turn your boyfriend or husband or girlfriend or wife into one.
But most importantly, I shall reveal the bond between Eros and The
Elixxir Program, and how I have harnessed Eros to guarantee my success
on the program.
Dont
Let My Hubris Distract You
Read
on, you must pry from me - at all costs - the secrets behind my
"miracle." You must not let my "ego," "hubris,"
or any other "mortal sins"distract you. Do not let the
title of this book confuse you. Is it a memoir or a self-help book?
Is it memoir-cum-self-help-book or a self-help-book-cum memoir?
Is it a memoir of self-help or a self-help memoir? Or all of the
above? Why can‚t this be more like the typical Mortalist memoir?
Questions, questions.
I don‚t like the word "memoirs." It used to connote
the self-serving tale of one whose life is over, a pleading of one‚s
case for immortality to the gods. But at least it used to be you
had to have done something. Now you just need to have a miserable
childhood or life. To have something done to you. It reminds me
of how we tried in our church to top each other´s confessions
of how sinful we were before we came to Christ. Chronicles is a
much better description of this book. To me, it connotes an ongoing
report about something significant or exciting or adventurous and
not necessarily from someone who is merely waiting for the Grim
Reaper‚s cold summons.
Unlike Mortalists who plead for "immortality" through
memoir-writing, I, Elixxir the Immortalist, believes only in the
immortality that comes from not growing old, from not dying. I do
not believe in the surrogate or posthumous immortality of memoirs.
It is not good enough for me. So the incentive and motivation to
write a memoir is, for me, not particularly robust. So while Mortalist
writers have no problem spending most of their waking hours tethered
to their computers writing about life instead of living it, I would
rather be living life than writing about it. Would rather be out
partying, flirting, making love, living it up. So excuse me if at
times I might strike you as suffering a touch of "attention
deficit disorder." Don´t let any of these distractions
distract you. Unlike the quick-fix fakirs, I shall, like the master
from the eastern tradition, not make it easy for you, but instead
test your resolve, your patience, your perseverance by throwing
obstacle after obstacle in your effort to extract my wisdom about
the "elixir" from me. The knowledge and wisdom to slow
down, even reverse, your biological aging. To give yourself a shot,
a real shot, at not only attaining the rarely-reached maximum human
lifespan of 120 years, but even of exceeding it by up to 40 or even
60 years, for a grand total of 180 years. Just by means of this
one anti-aging breakthrough alone!
I
love life, and lust after more of it. This is why I am on this program.
I am not an ascetic, masochist, or atoner of "sins." I
am not a latter-day "bubble boy." I have not shut myself
in a room nor have I exiled myself to Timbuktu, or confined myself
to a monastery in the Himalayas for almost twenty-five years. From
Yale to Wall Street to Oprah: My Sideshows
I started on The Elixxir Program while I was studying at New Haven,
at Yale, one of the more demanding educational institutions in the
world. I adapted it to the demands, pressures, ups and downs of
a modern, ambitious, challenging life. As I marched through one
of the top American law schools, tore through Wall Street in the
roaring 1980´s, zoomed to the top of the nonprofit world,
got more than my Warholian fifteen minutes of fame and notoriety,
and guested on Oprah not just once but twice, I quietly, covertly,
steadfastly stayed the course on this very scientific but supposedly
impossibly difficult program.
I have worked on Wall Street. I have degrees from Ivy League and
top graduate schools. I have raised millions for charitable work.
I have been a philanthropist - giving my own money away. I have
fought the specter of intolerance and bigotry in the U.S. and around
the globe. I have experienced significant fame and notoriety. I
have my "successes" and my "failures." I have
liaisoned with the rich and the famous. I have made love to some
of the most beautiful and sexy people.
I have appeared on everything from Oprah to MTV to Entertainment
Tonight, from CNN to all the U.S. national evening news programs.
The New York Times, Andy Warhol‚s Interview, Newsweek, The
Economist - you name it, I have most probably been in it. I have
even attained that holy grail of TV guest appearances - Oprah. And
not merely once. But these accomplishments - even Oprah heaven -
fade into insignificance besides the fact that I have - undeniably,
glaringly, and against all odds - stayed young and pretty.
The
Things My Friends Most Want From Me
My friends and acquaintances glimpse this truth instinctively. They
know of my degrees, my achievements, my past lives. They know I
can hold my own in scholarly papers and intellectual discourses.
But all they really want to know is how I have managed to cling
to youth and beauty after the demanding careers, the trials and
tribulations, after a not-exactly sedate life. Even when I appeared
on talk shows like Oprah or Sally or Donahue, someone invariably
asked how old I am. When I tell them, they were amazed, shocked.
The topic of conversation is unceremoniously dropped. I am grilled.
They demand to know my secret.
Very well. I shall oblige them, and you. I will reveal what I eat,
how I eat, and how I live. I will share with you my regimen and
religion, the only scientific anti-aging life-extension program
known to humankind, our first major anti-aging breakthrough, the
only thing which can slow your biological aging by up to 50% and
give you a real shot at exceeding the maximum human lifespan of
120.
What Dr. Atkins & Barry Sears Are Forced to Admit about The
Scientific Basis of The Elixxir Program
Rest
assured, I am not one to build my case against Old Age and Death
on the quick sand of wishful thinking or quackery. Whether it‚s
at University of California at Los Angeles‚ Medical School,
Cornell Medical School, New York‚s Sloane-Kettering, or many
other respected U.S. and international laboratories, the dietary
foundation of my anti-aging life-extension program has greatly retarded
biological aging and greatly extended maximum lifespan.
Since 1935, before the Second World War, this scientific eating
program has dramatically slowed down aging and extended life in
the most rigorous, controlled experiments at some of the most respected
laboratories around the world. Its anti-aging life-extension effect
has worked its magic on every specie tested. And unlike fad diets
like The Atkins Diet which have zero credible scientific support,
the amazing results of these experiments on my diet have been published
and recognized in scores of prestigious peer-reviewed scientific
or medical journals. Even Dr. Robert Atkins, who is aging badly
and has no love for this diet, is forced to admit that as far as
anti-aging life-extension diets out there, this is the "best-researched
and most generously documented." And what does Barry Sears,
the creator of The Zone Diet, say about the scientific foundation
of The Elixxir Program? He calls it "the Holy Grail of anti-aging"
there is one magic elixir that can turn back the hands of time "it
is not by eating any special type of magical food that one reverses
aging, but simply by eating less of it."
Listen
to the New York Times, Jane Brody
Good news! This program works even if you weren´t born yesterday.
It can work even if you do not start on it in your twenties as I
did. Yes, it can work to retard aging and extend your lifespan even
if you are a baby boomer, one of those born after the Second World
War. As Jane Brody, the respected health columnist of The New York
Times, points out "the benefits of [this anti-aging life-extension
program] apparently can be reaped even if food restriction does
not begin until middle age."
The
First Major Anti-Aging Breakthrough
Recently, promising results from three major National Institutes
on Health (NIH) studies of monkeys on this program have created
an international media splash. The New York Times, Washington Post
, and Los Angeles Times have run major stories about it. It has
been featured in cover stories in Time ("Can We Stay Young?),
U.S. World & News Report ("Forever Young?"), and in
Life ("Can Aging Be Stopped?"). Wire services like AP,
UPI, and Reuters have all covered it.
The media is very belatedly waking up to the fact that this is our
first scientific breakthrough in anti-aging and life-extension research.
The New York Times and every credible media outlet know this is
the only way to slow down aging and extend maximum lifespan. But
they still insist on the tired refrain that no earthling is endowed
with the superhuman self-discipline and willpower to get on and
stay on such a regimen. The only hope, they say, is for science
to learn how and why this regimen works so it can conjure up a drug
which mimicks it.
Why did it take so long for me to come out? Because of my old-fashioned
Mortalist ideas about privacy. Because I have been in media circuses
before, and I realize this might be the mother of all media circuses,
at least for me. I have resisted telling my tale of my stay on this
program, and how it has kept me youthful. If I had come out at 35,
skeptics could have ascribed it to good genes, or to people of Asian
ancestries tending to look younger, longer. But now, the results
are so dramatic and so obvious that it is no longer ethical for
me not to report to you on my little experiment.
Oprah
Told Me!
How did I decide to write a book? During my second appearance on
her show, Oprah asked me how old I was. I told her. She was impressed.
Asked what I do to stay so youthful. I told her that I‚ve been
on this anti-aging program since Yale, longer than anyone. She said
write a book! And come back when you‚ve written it!
Herein lies my true tale. How have I adapted this impeccably scientific
but "impossible" diet into something that I not only tolerate
but thrive on? How have I managed to do it for almost twenty-five
years without hunger, without deprivation, without resentment, without
being a mouse in a laboratory cage?
What other anti-aging life-extending measures did I add to this
diet to create The Elixxir Program? Am I gifted with supernatural
self-discipline, motivation, and perseverance? And can I impart
them to you? Did I take it out on food when I was alone, abandoned,
hurt, tense, besieged, or desperate? Is there a fail-safe way to
ensure that what‚s eating you does not drive your eating?
And what is it like to look twenty-something at almost fifty? What
manner of man is this - who has the audacity to live like a twenty-something
at almost half a century? Who creates godlike out of the void his
own lifestyle, his own worldview, and even his own religion to sustain
and nurture himself in his quest for eternal youth? Who has the
"hubris"to live as if immortal?
And finally, the question all inquiring minds want to know: how
is it possible to look twenty-something at almost fifty à while
living The Good Life? I'll throw into the pot enough juicy bones
for you to suck on - my feeding habits, my dietary secrets, my lusts
and loves, my strengths and foibles, my trials and tribulations,
the rich and famous who have crossed my path, my life and times.
But most of all, the lifestyle and worldview I have woven around
The Elixxir Program which enables me to thrive on it. If that‚s
worth your while, read on.
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