1990s members

[phil harris]

It has been a while.

I was one of the early members of CR Soc. I think I last posted anything in 2000. I see from the archives that sometime in the early 2000s somebody asked the question about where the 'oldies' might be.

Well, I still do CR, though just now I am in the middle of one of my periodic 'weight correction' times, which is what, together with a local surge in CR, see below, prompted me to come back to CR Soc for a visit.

Back in the day I was one of the few members in GB. I made some good friends and am still in contact with one in the USA. Some months ago I got the recently revised edition of Brian and Lisa's "The Longevity Diet', and a copy is on loan to a local friend for her health reasons. She is doing well. There has been a recent stong surge locally in interest in CR (this time nothing to do with me) because of the BBC program this month by Dr Michael Mosley, featuring Luigi Fontana and others. The program started with Mr Fauja Singh finishing the London Marathon earlier this year, aged 101. Well ... I do not do marathons, but I do two half-marathons a year for fun, and finished one last Sunday. Meanwhile I hear that two neighbours have started some CR, one because of his weight/Type2DM and the other because of her arthritis.

 

Very best wishes - it would be nice to hear from some other 'old boys'.

 

Phil (71y)

[BrianMDelaney]

Hello Phil!

 

As you may have noticed, people (including me!) have been slow to transition from our older email lists to our new Web-based forums, but we're getting close to reaching a critical mass here now.

 

Thank you for the update about your CR status.

 

I'm pushing 50 (hard), and, after many years of only moderate CR, I've decided to go down to a lower caloric-intake target. The primary reason I hadn't wanted to do more severe CR is that I didn't like looking so skinny, but now I'm willing to put up with being scrawny (scrawnier) in exchange for more years of healthy life. I think I'd also been living in the typical fantasy world that many of us born in the 1950s or later grow up in, fed, as it often is, by too much science fiction: the fantasy that science and technology will be our redemption. I'm as much a believer in the power of scientific research as most people, and I hope even the wildest dreams of Ray Kurzweil and Aubrey de Grey come true, but gerontological research has been much slower than I thought it would be. In the 1990s, I figured CR would be an outmoded life-extension regimen two decades later. Not so!

 

Anyway, glad to hear you're doing well!

 

Best wishes,

Brian

[onetinypug]

Hi there! I, too, am a returning member - my last time here was over 10 years ago. I used to practice this way of life but got away from it about four years ago. Looking for a way back after eating too much sugar and flour and gaining weight. Miss my lean, mean fighting machine and sleeping like a baby!