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Centenarian Consciousness:

A Paradigm Shift for Healthy Longevity

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1 CE Hour
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While molecular biology has made significant advances in identifying genetic and epigenetic markers of aging, the behavioral interventions offered are the usual suspects known for more than 30 years: lifestyle change, exercise, meditation, cognitive behavior therapy, and supplements from the benign spectrum, and short-termed biomechanical interventions from reductionist models of aging. Although most of the treatments offered may be necessary, none is sufficient for sustainable biological age reversal.


Based on my work with healthy centenarians (100 years and older) worldwide, I have identified four unique perceptual and four recurring affective meaning-making modes contributing to their longevity. While lifestyle is more important than genetic endowment, I propose these eight health span factors, are as important. Additionally, I will illustrate how each of the eight factors has psychoneuroimmunological (PNI) benefits, as well as how centenarian consciousness can be learned at any age. Surprisingly, most longevity studies have not included centenarian cohorts in their research and have mostly focused on the pathology of aging rather than the causes of health in the process of growing older. I will also describe the research I am conducting to correlate these eight factors with biomarkers of aging related to inflammation, and how to cultivate the four perceptual and four affective factors to reverse biological age. The presentation will be based on principles of cultural neuroscience, cultural psychoneuroimmunology, and cultural anthropology.

Target Audience
  • • Social Worker
  • • Psychologist
  • • Marriage & Family Therapist
  • • Counselor
  • • Substance Use Disorder Professionals
Learning Objectives

At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Describe the 8 centenarian factors of healthy longevity.

  • Identify 3 Causes of Health and how they are epigenetically inherited.

  • Describe 2 ways longevity is culturally learned.

  • Compare aging and growing older. Identify 2 similarities and differences of how these models affect longevity.

  • Describe three reasons why genetics is not as contributory as cultural beliefs.

References

  • Martinez, Mario E. (2023). Redefining empowerment, stress, and hybrid leadership in the workplace. Article submitted to the Harvard Business Review.

  • Martinez, Mario E. (2020, May). The Art of Creating an Environment for Healthy Longevity. Sunday Opinion (May 17), Geopolitical Intelligence Services, Vaduz, Liechtenstein.

  • Martinez, Mario E. (2019). The Biosymbolic Immune System: How Cultural Beliefs Affect Health and Longevity. Lecture, Fulbright Series, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.

  • Martinez, Mario E. (2019). How Longevity is Culturally Learned and the Causes of Health Are Inherited. Workshop, Digital University, Warsaw, Poland.

  • Martinez, Mario E. (2017). The Cultural Self: How Longevity is Learned and the Causes of Health Are Inherited. Carlsbad, CA: Hay House Publishing.

  • Martinez, M.E. (2014). The MindBody Code: How to Change the Beliefs that Influence Your Health, Longevity, and Success. Denver: Sounds True Publications.

  • Martinez, M.E. (2013). Hacia un nuevo modelo del sistema inmunológico: El gran confirmador de la conciencia corporizada que vivimos. En: Aguilar J. L. Bases de la Inmunología Clínica. Lima, Perú: Ed. Hamex & AM. 1ra Edición, pp. 700-18.

  • Martinez, M.E. (2012). Fibromialgia: El aprendizaje de una enfermedad. ¿Diagnostico o Estigma? Encrucijadas Éticas, eds. A. Trimboli, J.C. Fantin, et al, 241-243. Buenos Aires: Asociación Argentina de Salud Mental.

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Social Worker

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0654.

TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LCSWs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 1 hours of continuing education credit for LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

TPN.health, #1766, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 03/31/2022 – 03/31/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 1 General continuing education credits.

Psychologist

Trusted Provider Network is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Trusted Provider Network maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Marriage & Family Therapist

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0097.

TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 1 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

Counselor

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0220.

TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LPCCs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 1 hours of continuing education credit for LPCCs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

TPN.health has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7267. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. TPN.health is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

Substance Use Disorder Professionals

This course has been approved by TPN.health, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #198061, TPN.health is responsible for all aspects of the programming.This course has been approved by TPN.health, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #198061, TPN.health is responsible for all aspects of the programing. Counselor Skill Group: Legal, Ethical and Professional Development

CE Policy
This course is fiscally sponsored by Exchange Events. There may be potential biases or conflicts of interest inherent to this relationship, and it must be disclosed to participants. These conflicts of interest have no bearing on the course content and have been resolved.
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Mario Martinez, PsyD

Dr. Mario Martinez is a licensed clinical neuropsychologist who specializes in how cultural beliefs affect health and longevity. He proposes, based on extensive centenarian research, that longevity is learned, and the causes of health are inherited. He has studied healthy centenarians (100 years or older) worldwide and found that only 20% can be attributed to genetics – the rest is related to how they live and the cultural beliefs they share. Dr. Martinez is the imminent proponent of cultural psychoneuroimmunology. He is the bestselling author of The MindBody Code and The MindBody Health and has published numerous articles on mindbody science. He serves as member of the scientific advisory boards of The International Longevity Center (Poland and Germany) and Apeiron Center (US).

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