X-Message-Number: 27688 References: <> From: Peter Merel <> Subject: SR for Longevity? Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 23:19:47 +1100 Doug Skrecky writes, > [Alpha-lipoic acid was a dud as well. Even caloric restriction > provided > only a marginal 13% benefit on maximum lifespan. Suggestions are > welcome > for more effective interventions...] I naturally hesitate to mention this. Last time I talked about it was on sci.l-e maybe 15 years ago. But since Doug asks in all sincerity ... There are any number of hokey tao-chiao sites on the web making miraculous claims about "semen retention". There's also Keith Lynch's famous April Fool's Day post on his more invasive western equivalent. But despite the magic claims - cerebro-spinal fluid in ejaculates, mystic correspondence with eastern astrology, and so on and so forth - SR is by all reports an enjoyable way to maintain male sexual performance into advanced age. If there is a correspondence between caloric intake and aging, however, I wonder if there's one for sexual emission too? If the evolutionary justification for CR is that it helps recover population more rapidly after a famine, might not the same justification promote longevity in men who, through geographic or social isolation, experience fewer opportunities to father children? Do monks live longer? Hermits? Ugly men? Did anyone quiz those long lived Okinawans about their sex lives? Or, hearing claims of old age sexual function, did they perhaps confuse effect with cause? If taoist sexual practice results in balancing hormone levels and maintaining testosterone levels into old age, what are the long term effects? Having asked, I might as well report anecdotally. I learned to do SR strictly for recreational purposes in my late twenties. Poorly performed, it's a retrograde ejaculation; that is, you reverse the muscle contractions and come into your own bladder. With more discipline you learn to reroute orgasms to loop up your spine and down below your navel, without muscle contractions or apparent semen loss. I was surprised to discover an immediate boost to overall energy level when I learned this. Now almost 44 I'm often picked for a man 10 years younger. I have all my hair and teeth, my skin is smooth, my eyesight remains excellent including at close distances, and I don't suffer various ailments and fatigues my peers complain of. I could put my condition down to diet - no red meat, lots of chocolate, and for the last 3 years I've drunk mostly rainwater and local a2 milk, plus eaten eggs from my own chooks. Or I could point to a 2 year stint of EOD CR in my thirties. But I don't watch my weight now nor exercise beyond a daily strenuous walk. I wonder whether my apparent sprightliness might rather have to do with a regimen of no less than 2 orgasms a day every day for 2 decades? I have no idea how to test this in rats or flies ... but we immortals gotta have a hobby :-) Peter Merel. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=27688