“There is so much shame in our culture around aging,” said Koshin Paley Ellison, Buddhist monk and co-founder of the New York Zen Center of Contemplative Care. Whereas Asian, European and African cultures have for millenniums revered their ‘elders’ as harbingers of insight, knowledge and deserving of respect; North America is where the pursuit of youth is tantamount to a cultural obsession.
Lou Corona shares his secrets of aging backwards. Evolving from a life changing life and death event Lou Corona propelled himself into a lifestyle change by adopting: The Four Principles of Health that has seen him age younger ever since, a real life Benjamin Button- originally portrayed by Brad Pitt.
Food is one of those principles. On the show you will see a demonstration of a blended coconut, non dairy yogurt a mainstay in Lou Corona's dietary routine. Lou in the parlance of actors has an agr range of 48- to 59 and in dog years he is an unbelievable 10. Ageism is symptomatic of a nation that is in the throes of its own historical adolescence, a transient society where the ties that bind no longer do and sage wisdom is best conveyed with 140 characters or less.
Youth, at any age, is a desirable social currency. “On the flip side juvenilization, characterized by the loss of cultural memory and losing our place in a historical context should not be misconstrued with those positive attributes associated with youth,” said Stanford Professor and author, Robert Harrison. “Flexibility, optimism, humor and a zest for living do not come with an expiration date.”
By 2030, the number of people ages 65 and older is expected to exceed 73 million. This is 33 million more mature adults than today; comprising a third of the nation’s population overall. No longer should physical signs of aging be regarded with distaste. - By C. Roget - Show Runner, Dr. Dana Show & Tell
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Welcome to Dr. Dana's Show and Tell.
I'm Dr. Dana Churchill, I'll be your host today.
And we have an amazing guest today
who really has done a huge amount of work
for the medical field, for patient suffering, for himself.
And he's 70, it looks like he's 30.
I don't know how you do that.
Lou, come on out please.
Lou Corona.
Big hand for Lou Corona.
Thank you for coming on Lou, I really appreciate it.
Yeah, for sure.
So we have the coconut here and we have the almonds.
So let's just go into that a little bit, what's that for?
We'll just tell a little history here.
Those are two ancient foods coming together.
When you take the meat and the water of the coconut
and blend it up with the almonds,
these are non-pasteurized almonds
that have been soaked for 24 hours
to release the enzymes and inhibitors
and the acids from them.
When you blend them together into a special cream,
we put a teaspoon of these powerful probiotics in it,
mix it up, let it sit for about four hours
and it turns into almond coconut yogurt.
Nice.
We'll show a little bit more about how to do that.
It's a specialty, right?
Well, not just one of the many,
but it's a very special one.
So we talked behind stage
and you told me your history and your story,
which is very profound.
So I want you to run to the audience
and to the people at home.
What happened to you and how did you figure out
the four pillars of healing and what they are?
I was raised right here in Orange County,
first 21 years of my life.
I was raised on pretty much Italian food,
Mexican food, American food.
I did it all.
Yours, you didn't eat very well, right?
Right.
A lot of junk food, too?
Not just homemade Italian food.
Yeah, I did a lot of that, too.
Lots of that.
But I crashed and burned when I was 21.
I ended up with-
What happened?
I went from going to the bathroom twice a day
to once every three weeks.
All of a sudden, it just clogged up?
No, no.
Several months later, into it.
As I went into the Air Force, just shortly-
A lot of stress in the Air Force, probably, or whatever.
Give it what you will, but it's just that months later,
from going to the bathroom from twice a day
to once every three weeks, months later,
when that happened, my body became toxic.
And all the toxins will be completely reabsorbed
all the time, so you're not gonna detox anything.
Yeah. It's dangerous.
Very dangerous, and so that's why I ended up
with severe acne, and allergies, and hives,
and rash, and itching, and then after that,
I ended up with a big tumor behind my head.
A tumor?
A big tumor behind my head.
I was facing surgery because of it.
Well, I asked the doctor, what causes cancer and tumors,
and he said, I don't know, we just know you got it,
and we're gonna remove it.
So you're gonna press on certain things
that would make you very dangerous for you.
He said mine was operable, so he's gonna remove it,
sew me up, and give me some medication,
and then he said after that,
all we can do is hope for the best.
Okay.
Well, it didn't sound too good, but-
Right.
And I think the reason it didn't sound too good to me
was because when I was a teenager,
my buddy's mom had a tumor behind her head,
they removed it, and she died two years later.
Wow.
So I was a bit scared at that time.
Yeah, but-
What did you do then?
Well, when I was scheduled for the appointment,
I had a little still voice telling me
not to go to that appointment, and I never went back.
For the surgery, or?
Right.
Well.
I never went back, ever.
So you didn't have it taken out?
No.
Oh, you didn't even get the surgery?
Never had the surgery, but right after that,
I ended up with chronic asthma attack,
which I never had before, and so I was rushed
to the hospital, they gave me medication,
and then I was able to breathe again,
and then I had to take oral and intravenous medication
all the time, just so I could keep breathing.
Wow.
And so I was living like that.
Yeah.
And I asked the respiratory doctor,
what causes chronic asthma?
I never had this before, I don't smoke, drink,
or take drugs, I'm a good person,
and the doctor said, we don't know
what causes chronic asthma, we just know you got it.
Right, right.
So I took the medication, because I had to,
because I couldn't breathe without it.
Exactly, yeah.
So.
You had to trust in the medical orthodoxy at that time.
At that time, that's what I did,
that's what people do, right?
But how, why are you still here, then?
Well, after that, I started having pain in my joints,
and I remember my mom teaching me the power of prayer,
so I put my hands together, and I prayed to God
that he could teach me, I was just about ready to ask,
and all of a sudden, I had this realization,
and I realized that, like, all of a sudden,
I realized that we're not supposed
to be sick in the first place.
We were created to have a healthy life, a happy life,
and it wasn't happening to me anymore,
so all of a sudden, I said, I wanna know
what's causing my issues, I wanna know solutions,
what I could do about them,
and I wanna know how to live from now on,
you teach me that, I'll do it, and then I'll get well,
and then I'll have a great life.
Right.
And then I'll take this experience and knowledge,
whatever I learned from it, and pass it forward,
and I'll do that with my life.
And that's what happened?
And that's what happened, and after that,
I went through this near-death experience,
and I was shown these four principles.
Did you actually die?
Well. Close to it?
I can't tell you if my heart stopped or not,
all I can tell you is that I was suffocating, suffocating,
I was up, I was ready to check out,
and then I said, either take me, or show me.
Wow, that's huge.
And because when he told me to walk away from the hospital,
after that prayer, I left the hospital.
Took you here, and you just left, okay.
And so, when I went home that night,
when I went to sleep that night,
and I woke up with this attack,
I knew that was it for me.
So I just said, either take me or show me,
and then all of a sudden I had this
tingling, warm sensation run through my body,
and then I went into this really deep sleep,
and then I had a total reflection of my whole life.
And then I was covered by this bright light around me,
and then I was told these four principles.
And then I followed them the next day,
the six months, everything went away, never came back.
And that was 49 years ago.
So for me to be here, just sitting here with you,
and just sharing.
You look so young too, like you're not a day over 40.
It just turned my whole life around, transformed it.
And then I've been well for 49 years,
and I really am 70,
and I haven't worked out at the gym for 51 years.
Let's continue this conversation when we do your demo,
because I want to show everybody about the yogurt,
and how you made it, and give samples to everybody.
Okay.
All right?
Thank you for coming on.
Absolutely.
We're back here with Lou Corona,
and I want to show you what he's making in his home.
This is the most amazing, healthy food you could ever eat.
It has coconuts.
He'll tell you about the almonds in a minute,
but it is a coconut yogurt almond yogurt.
So explain to him why this is so good for you.
Well, we're taking two ancient foods,
and we bring them together.
We take the meat and the water out of the coconut,
blend it up together,
make it into a thick cream,
we put this very powerful probiotic in it,
you can get it, you know,
he's got access to it, so,
but just a teaspoon,
and it culturizes in four hours,
four, four and a half hours,
it depends on the temperature you're in,
and it turns into yogurt,
and what that means is that it gets pre-digested,
so these simple, powerful little friendly bacterias
that's inside the strains that are in there,
it breaks down the proteins into amino acids,
fats into fatty acids,
carbohydrates into glucose,
so it makes it bioavailable,
easy to digest,
easy to absorb and metabolize,
and convert into energy,
and builds strong muscle, hair, skin, and bones.
So this is just a demonstration of what it does.
I tried that.
It's very difficult.
My record's seven minutes.
Wow.
But to be 70,
and be living like this,
plant-based organic raw living foods for,
what, 40?
You're 70.
Isn't that amazing?
49 years of age,
49 years of living the lifestyle,
but to be 70 and feel like this,
this is a very-
I wanna get to something really important.
Oh, one last thing I'd like to say.
You can make smoothies,
dressings, soups, dips, sauces, ice cream,
with this yogurt, just so you know.
Very versatile.
So, go ahead.
So,
Lou has imparted the four pillars,
divinely imparted,
and had a near-death experience,
and I know you talked to me backstage
about terminally ill patients that you've helped heal.
How many terminally ill patients, approximately,
have you helped heal,
since you figured out a different way to live?
It's medicine, but it's also a lifestyle.
We don't have enough time to go into it,
but just on average,
and name a few of the pathologies you've helped.
I won't give you numbers,
but I would just say this.
Anybody across the world
that have taken on these four principles seriously,
and taken responsibility,
and really did the work,
and applied it just like I have,
they had some really incredible results.
Okay, cool.
Incredible results,
without saying any more than that.
Okay.
You know what I mean?
Yeah, it's hard to make people change,
I know that's true.
No, no, people that actually are ready
to do whatever it takes,
people that really want to live,
and willing to take responsibility,
and do this type of work,
and follow these four principles,
I've seen incredible.
Oh, yeah, endless.
So, it's been amazing.
It's been a wonderful journey,
and I don't want to say too much around that.
I'm going to bring you on again,
because we want to know more about those four pillars.
But thank you for coming today.
For sure, absolutely.
Okay, thank you very much.
Thank you.