TV presenter
Diabetes pills, spermidine and fermented vegetables: this is how Nina Ruge wants to grow old
“Rejuvenation is possible” is the title of the new book by Nina Ruge.
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Getting old healthy – who doesn’t want that? But prolonged life has its price: Nina Ruge revealed in an interview what she swallows and does to beat aging.
“Who wants to live forever”, Queen sang in 1986 in the soundtrack to the film “Highlander”. The focus is on the knight Connor MacLeod, played by Christopher Lambert, who has lived on earth for 500 years and no longer ages.
The film made it clear that eternal life is not necessarily a pleasure, but that does not prevent people in the 21st century from wanting to postpone death and aging. The television presenter Nina Ruge has even written several books on the subject, such as “Aging becomes curable: Staying young with the power of the three cellular competencies”, and most recently “Rejuvenation is possible”.
In an interview with “Welt am Sonntag”, the former face of the ZDF program “People Today” gave an insight into their philosophy and daily routine. Ruge believes that our genes are only relevant to around 30 percent of the aging process; lifestyle and dietary supplements are decisive. “With additional longevity drugs and gene or stem cell therapies, we could be healthy 90, even 95 or more in the near future,” says Ruge.
Nina Ruge believes that she is seven years younger biologically
She changed her lifestyle at the age of 40 and has been vegetarian for 25 years. “I’m only 58 epigenetic,” claims the 65-year-old. Her relative youth does not come for free: so that Ruge can outsmart the aging process, she has to adhere to a complex program. It starts as soon as you get up: “Greeting the day with gratitude every morning is an important ritual for me.” Then there is a large glass of warm tap water.
Even later there is no feasting: “Instead of breakfast, I have soaked psyllium husks with a little lemon juice,” reveals the moderator. At lunchtime, salad is on the menu, in the evening vegetables, often fermented – for Ruge “a key to rejuvenation”. She goes to bed at 10 p.m. on the dot.
In addition, there is the renouncement of sugar and a daily training program of 30 minutes. Even brushing your teeth is regulated here – Ruge does it standing on one leg – “it trains the sense of balance”.
“The data situation is not yet clear”
But that’s not all: So far, everything has been reasonably natural and inexpensive. But this is where medicine comes into play: Ruge takes a diabetes drug that is supposed to lower her blood sugar level. Although she admits: “The data situation is not yet clear.”
And because even the healthiest diet doesn’t seem to give the body everything, other supplements are added. Nina Ruge speaks of nicotinamide riboside, spermidine, estradiol and progesterone. In addition, other vitamin supplements, mineral and olive press water, “tastes awful, but seems to have good effects”.
If you read it like that, life with a normal duration seems more attractive with every line. This also dawns on the “Welt” journalist, who attests that the lifestyle has “something joylessly intrusive”. “Who wants to live forever”: Since the good old days of Queen, this performance has not gained much in attractiveness.
Source used: “World on Sunday”