THE ETERNAL VALLEY

What is the eternal Valley ?

It is a unique valley in the heart of the black Perigord, in the South West of France. The place called, les Eyzies, is world famous for the discovery of the cro magnon man, our ancestor, so it very quickly became synonym of our origins. It is a Unesco World Heritage of Humanity.

The heart of the eternal valley is called gorge d’enfer. It is surrounded by fields and forests, more than 10 types of biotops. It has been looked after by the doctor Jacques Leclerc for more than 40 years now. It is a beautiful and natural valley where people love to walk, to run, re connect with the beauty and healing power of Nature.

One of the most ancient calendar of humanity has been found there, near a tiny spring called l’éternelle. After years of studies, the Doctor Leclerc published in a famous book his discovery : the spring of l’eternelle was probably the first spring known by humans in Europe, more than 30 000 years ago and was naturally pure, among the purest spring water in Europe.

The locals believe that people who drink its water live longer and in perfect health.

The astonishing discovery we made is that it is probably true. People here drink lots of wine, don’t do sport, eat a lot of fat , specially duck fat, but they live much older and healthier than the average population in the world ! This discovery was adding the eternal valley among the top hot spots of longevity in the world, like the Okinawa Island in Japan, Sardinia in Italy, the Nicoya Peninsula in Costa Rica…

Today, the most advanced medical researches show that our ability to live long and healthy comes from the application of several ancient wisdoms which all together could explain why the habitants of the eternal valley beat longevity records.

These ancient wisdoms are today shared by leading doctors and geneticists who work on longevity. Among these researchers Dan Buettner, Aubrey de Grey, Cynthia Kenyon, David Wolfe who recently presented their findings on TED.

The first pro longevity wisdom

is that we can only be and stay healthy if we live in an healthy and natural environment, where the air, the water and the soil are clear from toxins. It is therefore the base of our responsibility to keep them likewise, or reverse the damages which have been done, detoxificating helping them to heal naturally.

The second wisdom

is to understand that caring and loving are healers. Our relationship with our communities matters. Being in contact with our family and with the people we love is vital, it activates our genes of longevity and many other processes which contributes to our overall health and longevity. Being important for the others is to project one self in the future, it is to keep living because we have a role to play, it is to keep a sense in living. One of the most dangerous word is “retirement”, it literally kill thousands of people each year prematurely. As we “retire”, we loose our role in the society, a social death which commends a biological degenerescence. The world “retirement” is in fact absent of the vocabulary of the people who live long and healthy. They always have projects and dreams, they work till the end and keep their heads full of dreams and projects, they are curious and open minded.

The third wisdom

is about eating local, seasonal and most of all organic, living foods. Organic food is the food that allowed us to thrive since our origin. Organic and wild food is our first medicine, it has the highest level of nutrients and healing properties by far meaning that it keeps our metabolism and immune system at their best. It is only over the past 60 years that the we have introduced artificial processed foods into our diet. As the Unesco underlined last year, for the first time of the human history, our generation will live less than our parents. This is due to the rise of new health issues linked to our lifestyle but most of all our intoxication from tones of artificial molecole which are released every second in our air, soil and water.

It takes more than a thousands of years for our genes to adapt to new foods, so our optimum diet is still what our ancestors used to eat 10 000 years ago, raw, local, wild foods like on the eternal valley. people at that time had nearly no cardio vascular diseases nor cancer.