Think and Grow Young - Powerful Steps to Create a Life of Joy

Grow Younger. Feel More Alive. Enjoy Being You.

My name is Ellen Wood - welcome to my website. Here are a few highlights of what you'll find here.

Watch the video of one of my television interviews. It has one of my best anti-aging tips.

Learn how to do the Tibetan Rites of Rejuvenation, a series of physical movements that make you grow younger.

Want to know about how I got to this point? Or when I was born? Go to the About Ellen page.

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Joy and Love,

Ellen

Several weeks ago I sent you an email about my new book but I neglected to tell you what the Five Tibetan Rites have done for me.

Let me start at the beginning. For ten years I watched my mother waste away with Alzheimer’s. Towards the end, she didn’t even know who I was.

Then five years after she died, I found myself with the early symptoms of that dreaded disease. My short term memory was fragile, my tongue kept tripping on words – if I could even find the word – and I wouldn’t ask a question because I couldn’t remember if I had just asked it. I used tons of sticky notes as reminders.

Although the symptoms were not severe, my kids insisted I go to the doctor for testing. Some test! She asked me what year it was and I laughed. Then she asked me who was president of the United States. Well, of course, I aced the quiz but because I had asked for the test, it went into my medical records and when I applied for long term care insurance, they turned me down because they had found the Alzheimer’s test in my medical records. Genetic testing revealed that I carry the APO-e4 gene, linked to a higher risk of Alzheimer’s, but I refused to accept that fate.

I had always been on a spiritual path and I was very familiar with the books by Deepak Chopra, Greg Bradden, Dr. Bruce Lipton and others, so I used my spiritual practices to keep the early symptoms from becoming severe. I used prayer, meditation, watching my thoughts, writing affirmations and others.

I didn’t think about growing younger – that came later – I just wanted my brain function to return to normal.

And it did – in an extraordinary way – which I tell you about in my new book, “Five Tibetan Rites – the Right Way!”

I started practicing the Five Tibetans in 2004. They’re ancient physical movements that were kept secret in Tibetan monasteries and practiced only by the initiated for over 2500 years until 1939 when a book was published showing how to do them. The author was Peter Kelder who met a British Army Colonel who had been to the Himalayas and found out about the Five Tibetans.

Ellen Wood with her new book!

They certainly work for me: The early symptoms went away and my brain returned to normal.

You can watch my video – just go to YouTube and put in: Five Tibetan Rites – Ellen Wood. I was 73 then.

I’m now 88 (I’ll be 89 on November 18) and I still do them (almost) every day.

Here’s a photo taken on September 19, 2025, with my new book.

Better yet, order my book, “Five Tibetan Rites – the Right Way” and because it’s spiral bound, it will lay flat on the floor while you follow the instructions.

Below is a review of the book by Terry Grossman, M.D., Author and the World’s Foremost Anti-Aging Physician:

“Ellen Wood’s journey is truly inspiring. After witnessing her mother’s struggle with Alzheimer’s, she faced her own early symptoms and the discovery of the Apo-e4 Alzheimer’s gene with determination. Instead of succumbing to fear, she embraced a daily regiment of transformative practices and in 2004 added the Five Tibetan Rites of Rejuvenation. These ancient movements not only helped her grow younger, they also played a role in reversing her early symptoms of Alzheimer’s. Ellen’s approach highlights the power of intentional daily practices in shaping well-being and vitality. I too have the Alzheimer's gene and I plan to add the Five Tibetans to my daily routine.”

P.S. Recent studies, particularly one published in Nature, suggest lithium deficiency in the brain may be a driver of Alzheimer's disease, with amyloid plaques binding and sequestering the naturally occurring lithium. Research in mouse models shows that replenishing lithium can reverse some Alzheimer's pathology and memory loss, with lithium orotate showing promise at low, non-toxic doses. You should not start taking it without medical guidance. Just FYI, I take 5 mg of lithium (it’s over the counter) in the morning and 5 mg in the evening. Also, a friend whose husband has Alzheimer’s started taking 5 mg. in the morning and 5 mg in the evening and he has had remarkable changes. Consult your doctor, especially if a relative has Alzheimer’s.

Fifteen years ago, researchers at Harvard-affiliated medical centers published remarkable results of a study using gene therapy on mice -- that reversed aging!

That’s right, in the study they saw the total reversal of age-related problems, including decreased brain function which returned to normal and failing organs that started working well again. Even fur on the mice that had turned grey was restored to dark fur.

Dr. Ronald DiPinho, a geneticist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, and co-author of the study results, said he thinks this research has identified the core pathway explaining many different theories of aging.

I find this so exciting! The researchers were surprised by the results, which not only slowed aging but reversed it, effectively making the mice grow younger.

In this study, researchers boosted the cellular levels of telomerase, enzymes that lengthen telomeres, in the mice -- and saw the signs of aging reversed. In measurable ways, the mice grew younger!

The next big question is: Can they do the same for people?

Yes! On July 12, 2023, researchers from Harvard Medical School, the University of Maine, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) published a fresh research paper on Aging. The paper, titled, “Chemically induced reprogramming to reverse cellular aging,”

“Until recently, the best we could do was slow aging. New discoveries suggest we can now reverse it,” said David A. Sinclair, A.O., Ph.D., Professor in the Department of Genetics and co-Director of the Paul F. Glenn Center for Biology of Aging Research at Harvard Medical School and lead scientist on the project. “This new discovery offers the potential to reverse aging with a single pill, with applications ranging from improving eyesight to effectively treating numerous age-related diseases,” Dr. Sinclair said. This breakthrough earned a Nobel Prize.

Now, as exciting as this is, we don’t want to sit on our laurels and wait -- we want to do everything we can right now to grow younger!

Do you worry because someone in your family has Alzheimer’s? This disease is fatal, and women are disproportionately affected by Alzheimer’s; two-thirds of all Alzheimer’s Disease patients are women. Women are also more likely to be caretakers of AD patients; two-thirds of all AD caretakers are women.

If you need scientific anti-aging evidence to believe it’s possible to reverse aging, you’ve got it in the studies I mentioned. In the meantime, there are quite a few anti-aging practices and techniques you can use to start that process right now, as explained in my 2-volume book, “The Secret Method for Growing Younger.” It is endorsed by Maryanne Williamson and five M.D.s, including Terry Grossman, M.D., one of the world’s top anti-aging physicians, with patients on every continent. Dr. Grossman gave speeches with me and his lab tested me for the Alzheimer’s Disease gene, APO-e4. I have it.

The action steps in my book worked for me and they’re still working. My mother died of Alzheimer’s, and I successfully reversed the early stages of the disease, despite having the gene. My short-term memory had become very fragile, my tongue kept stumbling on words (if I could even find the word) and I used an enormous number of sticky notes as reminders.

My next book “The Five Tibetan Rites – the Right Way” will be published later in 2025. These are powerful physical movements that are supposed to make you grow younger – and they really work! In the meantime, you can watch me do The Tibetan Rites of Rejuvenation on a video and follow along. Go to YouTube and put in “Five Tibetan Rites – Ellen Wood.” I do them every day and I am growing younger.

Now, at 88, my brain is sharp, I’ve kept breast cancer from returning after many years, my creativity is supercharged - and I have no gray hair!