– “Bees may hold ability to slow effects of aging”
“New research from Arizona State University finds that older honeybees turned back the clock on brain aging when they took on new duties, such as caring for baby bees.”

“A newly released report suggests that bees may have the ability to slow down the aging process, possibly providing them with additional time to collect food and protect hives.

The study, published in the scientific journal Experimental Gerontology, finds that bees have developed the ability to reverse the aging process when it comes to memory,” quoting The Bunsen Burner.
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– “6 Personality Traits Associated With Longevity”
“In a study published this past May in the journal Aging, researchers from Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Yeshiva University pinpointed several personality traits linked to a longer lifespan. Among the list?”

And:
“In their 2012 book “The Longevity Project,” which looked at research over the course of 80 years, authors Howard S. Friedman and Leslie R. Martin identified an association between being conscientious and a longer life span:
1. Conscientious
2. Easy to laugh
3. Socially connected
4. Optimistic
5. Happy
6. Extroverted”
From Laura Schocker in The Huffington Post.
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– UPDATE: October 22, 2014
“What if Age Is Nothing but a Mind-Set?”
By Bruce Griers, The New York Times.
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– UPDATE: June 12, 2015
“The Math that shows humans could live ten times longer”
“In nature, there are numerous species that die immediately after reproducing, like the female octopus. Others, like the alligator, may not age at all. So what do they have in common? They’re evidence that aging may not be an inherent trait, but a product of how species evolve in given environments—and that evolution may actually be programming species, including humans, to die.

The tantalizing prospect is the subject of a new study, “Programmed death is favored by natural selection in spatial systems,” from some top flight complex systems researchers and biologists,” by Brian Merchant, Motherboard.
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Ramtha has spoken many times about the longevity of the human body
– “Ramtha on the Body’s Capacity for Longevity”
“I want you to know that every cell in your body was created to live forever. The body has the ability to rejuvenate itself to its youngest, most flowering aspect and is able to hold the boundaries of that constitution into infinity. However, a person whose life is suffering — personal suffering, indeed personal anguish and sorrow — living in fear that somebody is going to guess what is wrong with you, living in fear that someone is going to know your lie, and always having to live every day as a hypocrite, ages the body.”

— Ramtha
September 1998
Excerpt from: Ramtha, The Greatest History Lesson Ever Taught.
Yelm, WA
September 14, 1998.

– Ramtha: The Salamander’s Power of Regeneration
“The body was created to live forever.”

“Your body is prepared to regrow a limb, an organ, to re-create eyesight, to re-create any living portion of its whole self. Every cell that you have, in its genetic structure of its DNA and its chromosome structures, carries with it the print of the whole.”

— Ramtha
Excerpt from: Ramtha in Los Angeles, The Next Step — Superconsciousness
Los Angeles, CA
May 31, 1986.