SECRET OF LONG LIFE

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 2, 24 March 1927, Page 16

SECRET OF LONG LIFE

FRENCH SURGEON’S ADVICE A “Daily ; Mail” correspondent writes as follows of a conversation with Ihe man who claims to have found the secret of rejuvenating mankind. “He is M. G. Knapp, -physician and surgeon, biologist, electrical expert, and sociologist, creator of five garden cities in France, and who, although he is 62 years of age, looks less than 50 and says he feels less than 35. Il anyone disputes this claim M. Knapp is fully prepared to put the gloves on with him and prove the point. “M. Knapp I found in his fiat surrounded by a collection of scientific apparatus. He* declares that if human beings busied themselves after the age of 50 with renewing their dying cells ‘instead of committing suicide,’ they might reach the age of 200 years. “The average man of to-day,” said M. Knapp, “reaches the age of 50, the stage when the cells composing his body lose their power, and from that moment onwards he begins to decline. Sometimes the decline starts as early as 45, or even 40, when it is provoked by constitutional accidents, and sometimes it starts a little later than 50 for the converse reasons.

“By experimenting upon myself as well .as upon numerous frie.nds 1 have perfected a method, first, of preventing the decline of the human body beginning as early as 50 by means of a perfectly simple method which anyone can follow; and, secondly, 1 have found the secret of rejuvenation bymeans of a catalysing agent which provokes the reproduction of new cells in the human body just as they take place in childhood and early youth.

“The nature of my catalysing agent which is the resuit of more than 30 years’ research I am not prepared to reveal at present, but I am willing to explain tlie nature of my method for arresting the decline which sets in about the age of 50. “Nicotine is the deadliest poison and brings 75 per cent, of men to a premature grave. Alcohol also is distilled death because we abuse the use of it. The man of 50 should start -at once to pass from the carnal to the vegetarian form of nutrition.

“At 50 then begin every meal with a dish of uncooked salad which contains the salts, or vitamins, as some people prefer to call them, indispensable for the reconstitution of the cells of the human body, anu gradually- cut down the carbonaceous: foods which destroy- the effects of the vitamins and poison the system. “If only we would follow these rules in a rational manner there is no reason why in 200 years’ tinv

man should not live to be 200 years old.”