Body Optimization
Definition
Body Optimization is a set of methods and guidelines for defending the physical body from decay. It is especially important to those who use their mental abilities more often than their physical abilities. In Greek history, a perfectly balanced person was one who had a balance between physical self and mental self. [1][citation needed] This balance, for many people in society, is rapidly disappearing.
The Body Optimization Problem Statement is defined as this:
"At some point in everyone's life there comes a moment of realization that the container that you exist in... will not last forever." [2].
Techniques
Environmental risk factor reduction
By avoiding sources of harm from your surrounding environment, you can decrease risk to your health.
Intelligent Consumption
Simply by making small, scientifically-informed choices about dietary intake, many metrics can be improved.
Physical Training
"With minor improvements in physical training over time, it is possible to ramp up physical capabilities and thus make steady forward progress per active measurements" [3].
Extreme Body Optimization
Ray Kurzweil "literally intends not to die. With an acute memory of his father's early death, he's been getting weekly blood tests and intravenous treatments. He also takes pills - lots of pills, more than 200 vitamins, antioxidants, and other supplements every day. It's all part of his effort to "reprogram" his body chemistry and stop growing old. "I've slowed down aging to a crawl," he claims. "By most measures my biological age is about 40, and I have some hormone and nutrient levels of a person in his 30s" [4].
External Links
Tantek Çelik's Body Optimization Wiki
References
- ↑ Citation needed
- ↑ http://bodyoptimization.pbworks.com/w/page/9345170/ProblemStatement
- ↑ http://tantek.pbworks.com/w/page/19402864/BodyOptimization
- ↑ The smartest (or the nuttiest) futurist on Earth - interview with Ray Kurzweil Fortune Magazine online. 2007-05-14.
