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===Definition===
 
===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 ability more often than their physical ones. In Greek history, a perfectly balanced person was one that had a balance between physical self and mental self. (citation needed) This balance, for most people in society, is rapidly disappearing in many modernizing cultures.  
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The balance between intellectual and technical pursuits and the connection to one's physical body is in flux. For many, long periods of sitting and working wreck havoc on the physical self. 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.  
  
The Body Optimization Problem Statement is defined as this:
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Tantek Çelik, a software developer who runs a wiki on Body Optimization, points out that "at some point in everyone's life there comes a moment of realization that the container that you exist in will not last forever".<ref>Çelik, Tantek. Body Optimization Problem Statement. Body Optimization Wiki. http://bodyoptimization.pbworks.com/w/page/9345170/ProblemStatement Accessed Jul 2011.</ref> To mitigate this downward trend, Çelik offers the following techniques:
<blockquote>"At some point in everyone's life there comes a moment of realization that the container that you exist in... will not last forever. Or perhaps a reality check - your first bad physical, first doctor's warnings about your health" <ref>http://bodyoptimization.pbworks.com/w/page/9345170/ProblemStatement</ref>.</blockquote>
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===Techniques===
 
 
====Environmental risk factor reduction====
 
====Environmental risk factor reduction====
By avoiding sources of harm from your surrounding environment, you can decrease risk to your health.
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By avoiding sources of harm from your surrounding environment, you can decrease risk to your health.<ref>Çelik, Tantek. Body Optimization Wiki. Tantek.PBWorks.com. http://tantek.pbworks.com/w/page/19402864/BodyOptimization Accessed July 2011.</ref>.
 
   
 
   
 
====Intelligent Consumption====
 
====Intelligent Consumption====
Simply by making small, scientifically informed choices about dietary intake, many metrics can be improved.
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Simply by making small, scientifically-informed choices about dietary intake, many metrics can be improved.<ref>Ibid.</ref>
 
   
 
   
 
====Physical Training====
 
====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" <ref>http://tantek.pbworks.com/w/page/19402864/BodyOptimization</ref>.
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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.<ref>Ibid.</ref>
 
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===Extreme Body Optimization===
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[[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" <ref>[http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/05/14/100008848/ The smartest (or the nuttiest) futurist on Earth - interview with Ray Kurzweil] Fortune Magazine online. 2007-05-14.</ref>.
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===External Links===
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[http://bodyoptimization.pbworks.com/ Body Optimization Wiki]
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Latest revision as of 19:59, 28 November 2011

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Definition

The balance between intellectual and technical pursuits and the connection to one's physical body is in flux. For many, long periods of sitting and working wreck havoc on the physical self. 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.

Tantek Çelik, a software developer who runs a wiki on Body Optimization, points out that "at some point in everyone's life there comes a moment of realization that the container that you exist in will not last forever".[1] To mitigate this downward trend, Çelik offers the following techniques:

Environmental risk factor reduction

By avoiding sources of harm from your surrounding environment, you can decrease risk to your health.[2].

Intelligent Consumption

Simply by making small, scientifically-informed choices about dietary intake, many metrics can be improved.[3]

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.[4]

References

  1. Çelik, Tantek. Body Optimization Problem Statement. Body Optimization Wiki. http://bodyoptimization.pbworks.com/w/page/9345170/ProblemStatement Accessed Jul 2011.
  2. Çelik, Tantek. Body Optimization Wiki. Tantek.PBWorks.com. http://tantek.pbworks.com/w/page/19402864/BodyOptimization Accessed July 2011.
  3. Ibid.
  4. Ibid.