120-Year-Old Woman Claims Smoking Pot Everyday Is Her Secret

[Rosy Cheeks]

Yes, Jeanne Calamant used to end the day with a glass of liquor... probably helped her arteries not to clog, but she wouldn't have reached that age unless she wasn't genetically programmed to live that long. The fact that Fulla's daughter is 92 and still going strongs shows what we already know, that old age is inherited.

Environment is a factor of some importance, and eating habits even more so. The area in the world that gets the most centennials is Okinawa, Japan, where people live simple, ascetic lives and feed basically on raw fish, sea weed and tofu.
Science has already established that eating less (but right) prolongs your life considerably.

Do you know how much food you need in order to walk 40 kilometers (25 miles)? The equivalent of an apple.

Which means that most people in the industrial world overconsume and abuse food, and generally end up in the morgue for a reason connected to it. Heart attack is still the number one reason for deaths in the US and Europe, and the number one reason for heart attack is fat. Fat people put strain on their heart, they get back, hip and joint problems for carrying that extra weight around. Some end their lives 10 or 20 years before their programmed life span because of bad eating habits. Research shows that the increase in age we have aquired in the western world (approximately 75 years) will slowly start to drop in the decades to come, because of junk food.

Disgusted by pizza and hot dogs yet?

 

[mriko]

Well pointed Rosy, Genes most surely plays some role as well, but they must be considered only as a potential. Easy to fuck them up with a unhealthy life style.

Irie !

 

[Rosy Cheeks]

I definitely agree with you Indicad. But rather than looking for pleasure (which can be highly energy consuming), I think it is rather to keep a positive mind all along life and especially when facing hard times, is crucial for good health and long life . Our body is able to clean out the shit we eat, breath or drink, but if we let stress and negative feelings to take over us, then our body create its own shit which makes this self-cleaning ability getting less effiscient.

I think you touched another important factor here mriko, staying positive in life and enjoying it.
Some studies (yes, I love reading scientific journals) make a point of that what most centennials have in common - drinking, smoking or not - is a positive attitude in life, and a way to deal positively with problems. Staying healthy is somehow connected with feeling good about yourself (I'm moving into metaphysics here, but still...), in short being zen.
I think that if Jeanne Calamant would had smoked three packs of Gauloises and downed two bottles of red wine a day, it would have changed her life conciderably, but since she simply used it as a stimuli, without abusing, it added more to her life than what it took.

Remember, many substances are good for you in small amounts and bad in large amounts. Small amounts of aspirin will have positive effects on your health, but can kill you if overdosed.

 

[Guest]

Thats interesting that you knew Jeanne Calamant smoked Galoises... How did you know this? I searched google last night for a bit, trying to find information on her smoking habits. One article said she smoked a few Gauloises (filterless) per day. But another article said she smoked her whole life, but only after she lost some of her eyesight did she CUT DOWN to 2 or 3 cigarettes a day. Basically, it seems like no one really knows exactly how much she smoked.

Also, it says she enjoyed PORT WINE twice a day... and 2 lbs of chocolate a week. That is what you can consistenly read on the net.

But does it even matter? Maybe she really WAS just a genetic freak. But then again, I have also read studies that say genetics don't really determine much of your long life... but I guess you could argue anything.

Rosy, I agree...staying healthy if related to feeling good about yourself. Thats a holistic perspective on health...which isn't new.

 

[Rosy Cheeks]

Um, I read it on a French website, but I think I saw it in a few Anglophone ones as well.
You know, a lot of things can end your life prematurely, but you will never live longer than your genetic code allows you (according to recent research though, soon we will be able to tamper with that). In a sense, humans aren't that different from Cannabis. Some strains flower in 7 weeks, others need 14. It's not much you can do to decrease the flowering time, it will flower until its time is up, and that's that.
http://www.truthbeknown.com/lifespan.html

 

[Guest]

When it comes to genes and longevity, I think you have to take into account that genes are turned off and turned on in accord to your environment and the chemicals you encounter.

I was watching naked science on the national geographic channel and they showed why the reason everything is different as far as plants, humans, and wild animals is because we each chose to use different things to be the top notch species in our environment and when you do this you activate and/or turn off genes and it doesn't take as long as we once thought.

What I think is important is that plants are the oldest of complex species which means they have MANY ways of utilizing all the things in their environment to survive and plants have been here for MILLIONS of years while most animals come and go. Considering that they don't move, they are some INTELLIGENT BEINGS.

The episode showed that we have 1/3 of the same genes as daffodils, which I find significant because out of all the many species of plants, I wonder how many are closer to us?. For instance hemp seeds has the perfect ratio of protein and essential fatty acids that OUR body needs, yet they are plants.

Another thing about genes that should be remembered is that when you go into the sunlight and get different wavelengths, you turn on certain genes that helps you and taking plants, specifically brightly colored, make you more sensitive to the light and you can absorb more of it which will make your genes active more quicker than just sitting in the sun without any help and something that can prevent inflammation from this powerful light.

Like I stated earlier in the thread, exercise also activates dormant genes. Meditation also has been shown to thicken the grey matter which enhances your senses and this is good because you can be aware of something before it gets to late to respond in a precise matter which means you will have a long and healthy life.

When you put all these things together humans have the capability of being a VERY advanced species but most people don't eat plants in high amounts and in concentration, they don't sit in the sunlight with sunscreen such as coconut oil mixed with certain essential oils, and they don't meditate and exercise in a precise and daily manner.

On the topic of sunscreen, I remember years back watching Dr.Robert melameade showing how thc is a natural sunscreen, which I find wild because when I used to smoke in the summer, I remember the sun actually started feeling better to me and it would happen within 5-10 minutes. It's crazy that thc would be a sunscreen for humans because the trichomes that contain thc have been shown to absorb the light of the sun and it seems to mbe doing the same within us. Peace.

 

[mriko]

thc indeed acts as a UV protestion for the plant. But this is about the THC which is inside the plant itself rather than that of the resin heads.

Irie !

 

[Guest]

Also, you can bring a flower to start flowering early because the plant responds to light intensity, and how long it encounters it.

I saw an article showing that you can get a plant to flower early if you give it less than 11 hours of light as soon as it sprouts from seed. Plants that encounter certain hormones can also start to flower early than what is normally done. This is why plants grown in jamaica can be harvested in 6 weeks from start to finish.

High oxygen given to the roots and carbon dioxide given to the leaves, also enhances early flowering.

Another thing that I find interesting is that certain genes in the cannabis plant can be turned on to make certain cannabinoids by what you feed it because pot-tv did a test on nutrients and what was the best and what was shown was that some enhance thc production and some enhanced cbd production. The only thing that was different was the nutrients given but the plants were the same.

Another thing I learned which was wild was that a plant is actually more nutritous(potent) if it is given light in a slow way such as the morning sun rising, also when the sun is setting. This seems to give the plant time to react to the light and therefore protect itself without having to still deal with the light at a high intensity which will take away a lot of energy.

Lastly, I'm sure you heard about music and plants being better than plants not given music, well it has been shown that the stomatas open up when they hear certain frequencies such as the kind a cricket may give off or a classical song and this lets the plant recieve more nutrients thorugh the stomatas which help it flower earlier also. It seems that if a plant is given a high amount of the right nutrients and light intensity, it starts flowering based on the fact that it needs to make use of excess nutrients instead of letting the nutrients put a tax on the body by just being stored. Peace

 

[Guest]

mriko can, you let me know how the high was from the fermented cannabis in africa?.

Also, the resin glands also hold other essential oils which have been shown to protect against sunlight and in some cases enhances the sensitivty to the light such as the oils in lemon essential oils. Peace.

 

[Tripco]

Yes, that's it, way of life in general. I'm sure that people in rural areas don't know what means stress in urban areas, but they do have their own problems that causes some kind of stress too. Maybe they look at it from more fatalistic point of view, you know, when something bad happens, they say "It's Gods Will" and that's it. They simply move on. I'm pretty amazed every time i hear about approach to religion in rural areas. Most of those people don't know much about holy books, but they DO BELIEVE. And that helps.

 

[treehuggers]

Sometimes it's difficult to tell if you're joking.........If not, well, people have to die at some point. If herb was her secret to a long life, excellent, but I doubt it makes anyone immortal...

You need at least 10 joints a day for the immortality...

 

[Guest]

lotty - that makes sense that plants are intelligent beings. how they learned to interact with their environment...attracting bees... stuff like that. Now if only they could learn to talk... WATER ME NOW BITCH!

 

[Guest]

That's funny that you mention the talking because I just watched a program on the science channel called megascience and the episode was called cybermind.

In it they showed a qi gong teacher effecting his student in a different building by doing certain movements to build up chi and when he wanted her to be pushed, SHE WOULD PUSH BACK WITHIN LESS THAN A SECOND. This is crazy because they were in NO NEAR CONTACT yet he was effecting her with his thoughts. They were wired up and analyzed and it has been shown that chi is something is build up where it is told to by the person directing it.

I saw this episode before and this is amazing to me both times that I've seen it. Maybe plants have a method of doing the exact same thing and don't feel the need to talk, they just effect the thoughts of the things around them to get what they need accomplished.

Pheromones which have no smell have been shown to effect peoples behavior from afar because it uses the smell centers of the brain that bypasses the part of our "conscious" brain. Plants might do the same thing in their own way.

Just wanted share what I saw today. Peace.

 

[Guest]

Thats cool dude. You know, I think there is a whole lot more out there than we obviously know about. Its cool your learning all that stuff. I think there are invisible sort of forces in our universe.

Ahh... well well. I finally got to take a few tokes off a joint tonight. Pretty relaxing.

Well on to the next discussion..

 

[Guest]

Right... *cough* bs *cough*

 

[Nikijad4210]

Tripco, just to respond to the comment about your (great?) grandfather---My great-grandmother made it to 96, I believe. She lived a long life, but she was an Alzheimer's victim for nearly the final 40 years of her life---I can't exactly remember how long ago her mind went. My grandma cared for her for 30 years, because of her Alzheimer's, and my grandma finally put her in a nursing home up north and moved down here to FL almost 10 years ago. My grandma's a trooper, though. A major pain in my ass, but a trooper none-the-less. She took care of my great-grandma full-time with no help from anyone even through aggressive breast cancer treatments 15-20 years ago......

One can live a long time, but the mind doesn't always play fair.....

 

[Guest]

niki - WOW... that is something else.

 

[naga_sadu]

This is no new news. My grandparents from both my parents' side as well as grandparents of all the comrads have lived more than 100 yrs w/o health problems. Mmj helps, but another part of the "secret" is the diet you take, and the type of life you lead. And as Tripco said, our grandparents' generations lived in mostly rural settings. The issue of the day, the month, the lifetime was: do we have enough to eat 3x a day? If the answer was a "yes" there was simply no tension in the family.

And 1 farming cycle saw us thru for 6 months at least.

That type of attitude simply isin't possible in today's "urban" setting ("Industrial age" as Tripco put it). Nearly every fucking thing other than air costs money. Any amount of money is simply "not enough" and we always have to "do more." That plus the quality of the environment, etc, etc...

 

[Guest]

Naga - yeah I agree. You know its sad. I got in my car to go to a trail so I could go trail running. I went to these trails years ago, but haven't gone since. When I finally got there, I noticed there were all these new housing developments being built into the wilderness. But the biggest suprise is when I got to the area where the trailhead was. In its place was this HUUUUUUUGGGGGGGEEEEEEE mammoth hotel. It looked as big as a large hospital. I couldn't believe it.

I drove around the place and I saw people in synthetic fibers walking around the street for their exercise. I just thought so many thoughts....

Finally after driving further out and getting into nature, and returning to the city, I just got a renewed glimpse of how further we have gone from being in contact with nature. We pave over the land with rock so we can get in our metal cages to go places. It just all disgusts me. I am vowing now to live in a small village or town where wilderness is near me.

 

[Guest]

Okay I have been thinking more about this...
If you look at these two old woman, they both used drugs that were relaxant type drugs. Tobacco is relaxing, at least to me. Tea, can be relaxing. But none of them drank coffee. I just read a study that said coffee actually hardens the vessel walls.

Chocolate, OTOH, actually relaxes it. And marijuana is known to have a substance that helps stop heart disease, supposedly.

Wine of course also helps with heart disease.

But if you look at it, both of these old people enjoyed smoking moderate amounts of tobacco or ganja (or both)... they enjoye having a glass of alcohol once a day... or eating chocolate... all of these things are inherently relaxing to the body, and ward off stress.

Stress seems to be the number 1 killer. Coffee can increase stress... and both of these woman, from what I have read, didn't drink coffee. They just tried to take life from a more relaxed perspective... didn't stress that much.

So with this, its my new plan. I'm not going to be afraid of dark chocolate anymore. I will use cigarettes and ganja moderately. And definitely start drinking wine again. Along with this get outdoors with the sun and fresh air most days to exercise. I think with this plan, I can really enjoy life and actually get some benefits. I may not use tobacco though, if I can just smoke a joint at night instead. I like the smoke from ganja more than tobacco...but still smoking a good organic additive-free cigarette is cool.

Anyways, what does anyone think of my conclusions?