I’m coming up fast to my 40th birthday this month (please, no birthday email wishes). I’ve

always ignored the number because it was only a chronological age based purely on my birth certificate. Looking around at other people my age, some play hockey while others sit around the

couch all-day, overweight and exhausted, eating the wrong foods usually watching the game. I’ve always wondered how old I am biologically and one would think that this type of age would in some

part have to do with your genes (maybe 20%?) and with your lifestyle (the other 80%), like the food we eat, the amount of exercise we get and the stress we go through day to day and lets not forget our disposition or what I like to call our PMA (positive mental attitude or lack thereof). Now, how does one keep their biological age low? If we allow our common sense to come into play here a few things come to my mind. First, it would make sense to eat bioenergetic whole foods (I’m talking whole fruits and vegetables here that are beneficial or neutral to your blood type). This type of food is very easy

to digest in its natural state, especially fruit. It carries it’s own enzymes that help break it down in

your digestive system (our body uses less or next to none of it’s own enzymes when eating fruit). It

is great on an empty stomach and this is why it should be eaten alone. Up until the time I was living with my parents, it was customary to have fruit after a meal (it’s the Italian way?). Usually 20 minutes after the final fruit I would plop myself on the couch and I would fall into a slumber eventually falling asleep (I have a theory that my grades in school were lousy because of the fruit ritual…never got my homework done). The fruit, when eaten after a big meal, sits in your stomach while your other food is being digested slowly and the fruit begins to ferment turning into a kind of alcohol, hence the slumber and sleepiness. Vegetables, the other bioenergetic food, help keeps the body alkaline and less acidic

(if you want to find out your PH levels, go to a health food store and ask for PH strips). If anyone watched the movie, the Matrix, the machines ran out of energy sources so they used us humans as batteries because of our Alkaline/Acidic bodies. If you’re not in the right PH balance, you’re usually feeling sluggish or low on energy. Ask yourself, are you an Eveready or a third rate battery? With the high rate of Diabetes out there, it would make sense that we should look to reduce our insulin and glucose levels. Easy?…reduce your sugar intake from high-density carbohydrate consumption in the form of processed foods (soft drinks, donuts, candy bars etc) and stick to the low density bioenergetic carbs like fruit and vegys. Reducing stress in this day and age is a tough one but in my case being a type O, I need to exercise hard three times a week or my stress levels get too high and I start to

feel like Bruce Banner before he turns into the Incredible Hulk (I hope I’m not scaring anyone). Lastly getting a good night’s sleep is paramount… 8 to 8.5 hours of sleep in a dark environment each night. Watching TV after sun down with the couch side lamps on and munching on a late night snack apparently screws up the nighttime hormonal function and hence your sleep cycles. A friend of mine was a nurse for 10 years working the graveyard shift, had a tough time getting pregnant and

miscarried many times. It wasn’t till she quit and got a regular 9 to 5 job that she got pregnant and carried to term…reason being her hormones were so out of whack because of being up at night and sleeping during the day. I left positive attitude for last because I’m a firm believer that if you have

the right attitude, everything else will take care of itself. In my line of work, I hire people for their attitude and not their work history, because like viruses, bad attitudes can spread and suck the

energy out of people. OK, with all my rambling so far…how old am I biologically? If you asked me 2

years ago before I started the BTD diet, I would have said 38.Since reading the book, I only eat fruit on a empty stomach…my PH level is a healthy 7.0.My energy levels are good (could be better) since

I began staying away from wheat and high sugar laden foods and sticking to beneficial meat as a source of protein. I try not to eat anything after 8pm and I go to sleep at 10am(except weekends)

and rise at 6:30(except weekends). I could be better at sticking to my exercise regiment. Lastly my attitude is much better because I feel I’m in more control of what I eat (thx to the BTD). So I’ll give myself a biological score of 32. If you looked at my picture, would you have guessed 40?

Oops…it’s 10:55pm.It’s time for a glass of water before my 8 hours of hopefully, uninterrupted sleep. Lucky for me, I have a strong bladder…remember, I’m 32 yrs old!!