I have listed some alterations one could expect their body to undergo as they advance in age. How drastically these physiological systems change will be determined by various issues, this would include your genetics and the kind of way of life that was lived and choices that have been made during a life well lived. The type of emotional composition we have developed over the years makes a difference along with our coping mechanisms to deal with discontent, failure, impediments and just normal stuff life throws your way. Here we go:

• Circulatory Capability Of Heart And Blood

When we age our hearts work less effectively and it needs to labor more as we get older. The peak pumping rate is diminished and there is a decrease in blood oxygenation. The muscularity of the heart becomes thicker and it becomes larger as arteries become more rigid, fat and plaque deposits begin to build up inside the blood vessel walls. When this occurs many of us experience a slow and deliberate reduction in our strength and stamina as time passes. Some will contract atherosclerosis and various heart ailments.

• Body Fat, Composition And Our Metabolism

Our slowly diminishing metabolism combined with changes in our hormones frequently means a reduction in muscle tone. We are prone to more body fat as we grow into mid life, it will then become constant for a few years before beginning a steady reduction in our senior years. Though as we age, the fat layers we are plagued by begin to relocate from just under our skin to areas around our deep organs. In particular many women start to store fatty deposits in their upper legs and hips while men are more prone to having fat deposits in the mid section. We do not metabolize medicines or alcohol like we once did and our reflexes los some swiftness when we drive or play sports or other forms of recreation.

• Our Nervous System And Brain

By the time we reach our thirties, we will start to slowly lose and do harm to some neurons or nerve cells, blood circulation is lessened, the weight of our brain decreases, we suffer a slow loss of brain neuron functionality obvious in our memory fatigue which reveals itself as a failure to recall names, details or events. The brain though has the ability to adjust to these alterations by adding additional links among cells known as synapses, along with dendrites and axons which are branch extensions that transfer information within the brain. The Journal of Neuropsychology published an investigation which revealed that a loftier education could prevent age associated cognitive failure due to helping seniors to mobilize assets from the frontal lobe of their brain. The average life expectancy of the human species is approximately one hundred twenty years or so. Mammals in particular appear to have a powerful connection linking the span of their life with the weight of their brain.

• Skeletal Structure

Once more from our thirties, our bones start to have less mass and strength; they lose minerals quicker than they are able to be replenished. The loss of bones mass appears to trouble women mostly after menopause or the change of life as it were. This means many endure an increased risk of osteoporosis. Upon reaching the age of sixty five years old, on in every three individuals has claimed to suffer a slip and fall. One in every twenty of these ends up with a fracture.

• Our Lung Function And Breathing

When we reach our twenties our lung tissue starts losing its elasticity, our rib cage muscles start to get smaller and our top end breathing capacity becomes reduced. When we age, specifically in those people who are couch potatoes, lungs become much less effectual and the cells in our bodies suffer from a lack of oxygenation.

• Our Bladder and Kidney Function

The kidneys become smaller and lose function when we age and they are far less effectual at dealing with dehydration or waste removal of particular medications from our blood systems. When the bladder function is reduced, we begin to urinate more often and if the urinary tissue starts to weaken, incontinence could become a problem.

• Our Muscularity

When we lack physical activity, our muscle density begins to reduce by as much as twenty two percent in women and twenty three percent in men from the age of thirty to seventy. Powerful muscles, though, have a tendency to acquire oxygen and nutrients from the blood more effectively, make less work for the heart muscle and aid the body in remaining sensitive to insulin and absorb sugar in the blood.

• The Epidermis

As age progresses, our body slows its production of collagen and oil glands generate a smaller amount of oil. This makes our skin inevitably less elastic, dry and more creased and lined. We could develop brown patches or spots – what are also referred to as liver spots appearing red, brown or even yellow – due to an insufficient amount of melatonin, an accumulation of waste by-product and even developing carcinomas.

• Our Nails and Hair

Toe nails, finger nails and hair start to grow more gradually when we get older and we also have reduced ability to heal when we have a wound or sores. Our scalp hair, pubic and armpit hair eventually get thinner and when we have a decrease in hair pigment cells our hair begins to turn gray and finally going white. The appearance of our nails can be an early indicator of certain severe medical ailments; however, the changes in nails are hardly ever the initial indicator. For instance, red nails could mean heart disease, pitting nails and rippling of the nails face could mean inflammation like arthritis. If your nails are white it could suggest liver disease or perhaps anemia. If your nails appear to be yellowish in color, thicker and grow more sluggishly – this could be a sign of potential lung disease.

So you see, as we age we have many things that change and there are many things that could go wrong with us due to a “lack of maintenance”, however we can achieve an extended life and NOT suffer the sometimes agonizing decline that many seniors face. Committing to taking better care of ourselves in the face of advancing age means we could slide by relatively unscathed by father time!

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When it comes to a declining mental state, it is one of the initial indications that we are aging and this can be a troublesome scenario for many. We have all seen the older person who has a difficult time remembering things, like what they had for dinner last night or breakfast this morning or even their spouses name. Experts believe that this situation does not need to take place at all. Their belief is that anyone can sustain a fit and healthy mind regardless of their age. These experts are assisting people regularly with their memory who are concerned they may be losing their cherished mental functionality.

Popular Brain Stimulating And Memory Enhancing Remedies

It’s time to look at some remedies that can be utilized by anyone that will enhance their memory and brain function right away. Your brain neurons will be healthy and fit giving you maximum clarity and a quick mind.

Brain Oxygenation To Safeguard Memory And Brain Function.

Your primary concern should be whether or not your brain is getting proper amounts of oxygen. As apparent as this sounds, in actuality it is not as rudimentary as it might appear. Your brain neurons [cells] are quite susceptible to oxygen and when this is lacking your cells begin to misfire and begin to perish – they cannot be replaced, ever.

If you are one of the thousands with blocked arteries or a compromised cardiovascular system, you will experience inadequate blood flow due to thickening blood caused from toxicity, cholesterol and fat. Your vital organs depend on this continual flow of blood to supply them with oxygen – counting your brain as arguably the most important destination.

If your diet is high in calcium you could have an accumulation of plaque in your arteries that can impede blood flow. Your carotid arteries stretch into your brain and they are frequently vulnerable to these deposits that mean not enough blood and oxygen is getting to your brain.

Physicians are also finding in their patients a lowered capability to transport the oxygen in the blood and even if things are working smoothly otherwise. Not enough red blood cells to oxygenate the cells, they will become hypoxic – an ailment resulting from decreased oxygen levels.

When this occurs the consequence is a deliberate decline to brain cell mortality. There will be no immediate loss of memory, only if your reduced blood flow is significant [such as having a stoke that can cause permanent cellular harm]. What will be noticeable is a steady and measured drop in your cognitive function and memory.

In order to solve this problem you must clean out your arteries entirely and reinstate a steady and strong flow of blood throughout your body to each organ, including your brain. This will make certain you are receiving enough memory augmenting oxygen into your brain – provided you have adequate red blood cells for oxygen transport.

Some professionals recommend that a person have a total detoxification regimen with extra corporeal blood oxygenation – or EBOO – claiming it is the most effectual method of cleaning your entire body including your arteries.

When this has been completed, it is time to evaluate your red blood cell count to ensure you have enough of them to transport the vital oxygen throughout your system and into your brain. This only requires a blood test to find out. If your red cell count is deficient certain steps are necessary to solve the problem, your brain function depends on it. You should speak to your physician regarding your options.

Your Brain, Your Memory, Your Hormones

Hormones could well be the most important components in your body. Your general health and wellness is dependent on hormones for sexual fitness, bone health, heart function and most importantly for the health of your brain.

It is a little known fact that the brain is home to the most hormone receptors in your whole physiology. This means that our brain neurons are considerably more vulnerable to insufficiencies in our quantity of hormones. If our neurons are not receiving adequate hormones, functionality will suffer and the metabolism will become sluggish. It is at this point your brain capability will be depleted and your memory will suffer.

Your thyroid hormone is of considerable significance to the health of your brain. If you have limited thyroid hormones your metabolism becomes sluggish and this saps your health causing numerous problems. The person will become tired; they gain weight, lose their hair, have bouts of brain haze and suffer memory lapses. Indeed, numerous individuals have been told they are suffering with dementia when in reality they have insufficient thyroid hormones. The good news is when the problem is rectified; their memory issues and dementia usually vanish.

 Women have two vital hormones in estrogen and progesterone. Today there seems to be an estrogen ascendancy or surplus and conversely a progesterone deficiency that results in a hormonal inequity. The result of this imbalance is a dramatic surge in health conditions like elevated breast cancer rates and heart disease being the two primary problems. They also affect mental health causing depression, anxiousness and loss of memory. Your primary healthcare provider can easily test you for this increasingly more common problem.
 
Brain fitness is also vulnerable to another significant hormone – testosterone – in both men and women. This hormone has consistently been criticized and has a battered reputation because of its abuse by athletes and bodybuilders. Nevertheless, testosterone is vital to your wellness and there are huge numbers of receptors specifically for testosterone, not only for sexual health in men and women but for their brain and heart also.

Science has determined that reduced amounts of testosterone could be responsible for some memory loss and increase susceptibility of the brain to Alzheimer’s disease and other similar diseases and conditions. Beta-amyloid is a peptide that can build up in particular regions of an elder’s brain and has been linked to the progress of Alzheimer’s disease.

Scientific investigators have determined that testosterone helps safeguard the brain from the effects of beta-amyloid toxicity. A report was printed in the Journal Brain Research, stating that neuron cultures were laid bare to beta-amyloid in the company of some testosterone. The inevitable toxic build up from beta-amyloid was dramatically lowered due to the testosterone’s presence.

One more crucial hormone is Pregnenolone in your system as it has a vital part to play with brain and memory capability. It is known as the “mother hormone” that is responsible for each of the other sex hormones growth.

Pregnenolone is also a primary brain hormone. This hormone is manufactured by some particular brain neurons and is also absorbed into your brain from the blood. It safeguards your brain neurons from impairment due to lack of sleep, and a certain quantity has a soothing effect on our emotions – this means it is crucial for stress management that could mean an overproduction of cortisol – the stress hormone.

Any form of hormone replacement needs to be in its bio-identical formulation, or the exact same hormone that is being manufactured by your body. There can be no synthetic or manmade substitution for the hormones. Bio-identical hormones will respond in a healthy manner within your body where, conversely, synthetic hormones might mean some improvement in symptoms for a while but over time they can lead to considerable health issue with your physiology.

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This body of ours is made up of numerous systems which when operating in unison manage to sustain our life. There is our digestive tract, our circulatory system, respiratory tract, our excretory structure and neurological configuration among many others. Each of these systems plays a prominent role in our life sustenance and they work together to keep our bodies vigorous and vital. When one of these systems fails, every other system within us is innately affected and when left unchecked the body could decline and perish. 
In nearly all cases, the disparity between those who reach the century mark in age and the ones who do not make it to mid life comes down to the day to day choices that are made and the standard of care supplied to the body. When you talk to those people who live past seventy years of age, maintaining their vim and vigor and ask them how they stay so youthful, they will tell you there is no special magic involved. Simply looking after the body they have is their secret and in doing so their body returns the favor in good health and personal well being.

When asked the question of how they care for themselves as they age – their elementary response is listed below in no particular sequence.

• Physical activity is paramount [exercise] – all our bodies need to be conditioned and worked out regularly. Exercise is important since we sleep on average on third of every day and we eat [usually too much] so we can gain weight easily. By working out we can burn extra calories and lose weight while benefiting our heart, keeping it working in peak levels. People overall should simply walk more often or begin a program of jogging to lose weight and keep fit. You will feel healthier and prolong your life span.

We sit at home and at work, driving back and forth from work in our cars and even when we go out for entertainment – we are always sitting. This adversely affects our health as our body is weakened by sluggishness and is anything but alert. We must find a method we can stick to so we get a little physical activity each day. Walk the steps at work, in fact, walk to work. If you drive, park your car further away and walk farther to get to work.

• Take a bath daily – Okay, hopefully everyone is already at least showering regularly but taking a bath is different. It makes you feel revitalized and looking good but it also is more effective at removing natural oils from your body, cells that have died that build up on your body’s exterior surface, and effectively remove the germs and bacterial grime associated with sweating. All are better cleansed with a bath and you will feel very clean and refreshed as well.

Another advantage of bathing over other hygiene methods like showering is disease prevention. You are efficiently removing external toxicity from your body that could otherwise make you ill. Take at least one bath per day along with your shower and feel the difference. Better still have a bath before you leave your house in the morning and one before you go to bed in the evening.

• Lubricate your body – Using lotion aids in closing up your pores and the bodies façade and averts assists in retaining water in the body. You will greatly decrease the stress on your skin and thwart the cracking and creasing associated with dry skin. Apply lotion liberally, especially in the beginning of this routine. Utilize a facial lotion that will also safeguard you from UV ray exposure, a critical step in skin care. Go ahead and use anti aging products on your face as you begin to see the signs of age appearing. It will be good for your skin and great for your self esteem.

• Consume plenty of water – since it is a crucial component of our overall health. Our body is made up of water for the most part and knowing this many people still do not drink much water. Experts highly suggest that we ingest at least three large glasses of H2o each day. You should space these glasses out over the course of your day. Too much water consumed at one time will place stress on your excretory system and strain on your kidneys for no reason. Absorption of water is finite and so only so much can happen at one time.

We place ourselves at risk of disease and illness when we do not get enough water into our system regularly. Drink only fresh, clean water that has been distilled or purified if the source of supply is questionable. Keep a bottle of water handy wherever you are and sip from it often. Drink water only and avoid soft drinks and other liquids in frequency. When you are thirsty be sure to reach for a cool drink of water rather than coffee, alcohol or soda.

• Dress neatly – Your clothing is a representation of yourself to the public and those close to you. When you are dressed neatly and appropriately you will feel better about yourself and people around you will feel more comfortable about you as an individual. Clothing is also important as a safeguard from the elements. Keeping yourself appropriately attired for the climate conditions will prevent harmful exposure to the cold and heat.

Those around you affect the way you feel about yourself and when they see you dressed well they will be less inclined to speak poorly about you to others. When you are dressed well people treat you better whether you know them or not. Their sense of you will be formed based on their initial impression of you. If you want it to be favorable, dress favorably. No one is suggesting that you need to spend a fortune on the latest styles – this is not about fashion. Clean, proper attire will open doors for you and how you are treated will do wonders for your personal self worth.

• Consume nourishing and healthy food – This tops the list of things you can do to improve your life expectancy. You truly are what you eat so some food that you put in your body will do nothing but shorten your life. Anything that has been processed or quickly cooked will negatively impact your body. French fries, burgers, anything deep fried etc, is going to harm you over time. Natural or organic food is far and away the better choice. Junk food will make you gain weight and it is prepared with additives designed to make you crave more of the same. Be extremely selective about what you eat and drink. The choices you make for your diet will determine how long you will live and how healthy you will be during that time period.

• Be sure to get plenty of rest – This is one of the best things you can do for your body. Sleep for no less than six hours a night and no more than ten. Studies have revealed the increased mortality rates [upwards of sixty percent] of those individuals who sleep outside of these parameters. If you are tired your body is telling you something vital. Take a nap but not after seven p.m. but preferably in the latter part of the afternoon and for no longer than an hour. Stress is relieved when you rest through the day, even for a ten minute break so finding the time to decompress during the day is great if possible and close your eyes!

• Enhance your level of immunity – You can do this by simply visiting your health food store and beginning a regimen of vitamins and minerals that will give you the essential elements you require. There are particular foods that you need to consume regularly to supply you with the various nutrients your body cannot store or produce naturally. Antioxidants are an integral part of your augmented immunity plan and you can find certain products that will do this quite well.

There are too many to discuss here but with just a small amount of research online and you will know exactly what to start with [green tea and grape extract are both excellent]. The objective is to safeguard you from the more common forms of contagions that exist everywhere today. We all have a natural immune system and healthy eating combined with proper nutritional supplements will improve your immunity innately.

• Everyone should have their own personal health care provider they trust and one who knows their physical condition thoroughly. This could be a physician or trusted holistic professional. This health care professional should be consulted regularly for an examination. When you do not feel one hundred percent something is not working correctly so you should speak to your health professional about it.

Ongoing maintenance for your body is critical to overall health and well being so regular checkups are critical about once per year at a minimum. Even if you feel great you must still seek the medical professional’s opinion to avoid serious illness and disease. Your healthcare provider can give you advice about how to prevent certain health problems and monitor any fitness or diet and supplement regimens you may be following.

There is every reason to believe that if you follow the tips on the list above you will prolong your life by a number of years and live those years in quality health with peace of mind.

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We have been seeing a surge in protection against potential health diseases. In 1991 people began to utilize condoms and subsequently in 1995, sunscreen became common. Now we can see people wearing surgical mask in order to maximize protection against life-threatening diseases such as H1N1.

However, what are we doing to protect our heart? Most of us are practically denying the threat of heart diseases.

This review consists of a combination of multiple scientific studies arranged in a way to provide tricks, techniques and tips to circumvent the most lethal disease that exists; heart disease.

1. Grilled Steak
Most people believe that steak is bad for the heart. However, beef has homocysteine-lowering B vitamins and immunity-boosting selenium. Half of the fat present in beef is a monounsaturated type, which is beneficial for the heart.

2. Enjoy a Scary Movie
Factors boosting up the speed of your heart such as a scary movie, enthralling books or even falling in love can enforce your heart. Scientists at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center say that accelerating the heart beat rhythm occasionally is similar to pressing the reset button, it supports the heart to keep on operating.

3. Band Passive Smoking
A previous study conducted in Greece demonstrated that people who are passive smokers and directly exposed to cigarette smoke for only 30 minutes during three days of the week has a 26 percent more likely risk to suffer from heart diseases in the future in comparison to those who are rarely exposed to cigarette smoke.

4. Exercise indoor during hot days
A Finnish study concluded that it is not appropriate to do exercise outside during hazy days. During hot days, air pollution is at its most deplorable level, and this decreases the availability of oxygen for the blood. Thus, it increases the risk of blood clotting.

5. Diving
A study in U.K showed that men burning 50 calories a day from demanding activities such as hiking or swimming have a 62 percent lower risk of dying from heart disease in comparison to those who burn around 340 calories a day from less active activities such as golfing and walking.

6. Mediation & Relaxation
A Thomas Jefferson University study demonstrated that mediation help to decrease depression and anxiety by above 25 percent. This is a significant result as earlier the University of Florida had found that coronary artery disease seems to be highly correlated with mental stress. Those being mentally stressed are according to the University of Florida’s study three times more likely to suffer from coronary artery disease than those who are not stressed.

7. Consume Aspirin

The risk of Coronary heart disease can be decreased by 28 percent simply by consuming aspirin. This was reported by a study conducted at the University of North Carolina. To have the most effective outcome, one should consume a tiny dose of aspirin prior to bed time.

8. Depression
People experiencing depression is 50 percent more prone to heart disease in comparison to those who are not depressed. A Duke research involving some 150 women and men showed that a 3-month therapy through exercise and antidepressant helped to alleviate most of the symptoms associated with their depression.

9. Externalize Anger
A recent Harvard study claims that men who internalize anger are more likely to suffer from heart disease compared to those who express anger.

10. Combat Cholesterol through Fat
In an Australia study, 17 participants substituted high cholesterol consumption with macadamia nuts. The macadamia nuts represented around 15 percent of the total calories of their normal diets. The result was that cholesterol decreased by three to five percent and the level of HDL (Good) cholesterol increased by roughly 8 percent. According to the study macadamia is one of the best sources of monounsaturated fat from natural food substances.

Source: Men Health

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On its own, this revealing data makes a person think twice about having that second piece of cherry cheesecake! Only at this time, the scientific community is talking about how we could be closing in on the time when they will be able to enhance the current human life expectancy by twice today’s length. This is an awesome statement, if it was not for the fact that it has its origin based on pure fiction and hope.

The people at Guinness World Records have stated in various printings between the nineteen sixties and eighties have said there is no other solitary subject that is more obscured by vanity, deceit, falsehoods and purposeful deception than the extremes of longevity in humans.

Data And Deceit

The pundits utilize their vast detailed figures in order to persuade a youth driven yet aging society that it is in fact experiencing a prolonged life span. No doubt about it that they are rather willing to get across particular details, but the numbers can also be skewed and slanted to present faulty hypotheses. The problems result when people’s hope corrals them into fascination with research data from expert sources. This then is a critical problem not easily harnessed.

Numbers are not supposed to lie but the problem lies in the users of these figures that are also liars. The silver tongued rascal Mark Twain once said that “there are lies, damn lies and statistics.” Information used as a rule to explain progress made in life expectancy is deceptive. The equation is based upon less infant mortality in an attempt to show that individuals are experiencing prolonged lives. This is inaccurate information that makes for great political rhetoric and economic forecasting but is hardly ever truthful.

We must acknowledge that statistics are merely averages – not genuine numbers. The terminology “Life Expectancy” simply portrays the probable median age when an individual passes away. This means that when a report is issued that life spans have increased, it means only that based on averages, someone brought into the world today will survive longer than a person born in previous years, according to certain extenuating circumstances.

Looking Into The Life Expectancy Fairy Tale

At the beginning of the last century, children were experiencing death at very early ages, however, currently that situation has righted itself in a big way. Today’s kids easily make it to maturity, their extra time enjoying life means the median age at the time of death rises. This will skew the data when it is balanced against years gone by.

From the year 1920 up until today, American baby deaths have dropped from one hundred in a thousand to 10.9 in a thousand. Understanding this, during the same time period life expectancy is supposed to have increased up to eighty years from about fifty years. This difference of thirty years is what we are asked to believe.

Then there is this tidbit, based upon the numbers, when a mature adult in the year 1920 reached sixty years of age he could count on living a further sixteen year to roughly seventy six years of age. Currently, that sixty year old individual can count on living another twenty more years, until they are eighty years old.

This means that rather than having a thirty year rise, today we look at only a four year increase in life expectancy. The only real significant adjustment in the last ninety years has been the likelihood we would reach sixty years of age.
 
Stated a different way, theoretically, if fifty percent of the babies born in 1920 die as infants, and the other half lived until they were one hundred years old, the average life span would be an age of fifty years old. If all of the babies born in 2010 made it out of the infant stage and survived until they were eighty years old, then the average life span is then eighty years old. Initially it appears that those babies born in 2010 are surviving thirty years beyond the ones birthed in 2010. This statistic is only an average and reveals only that fewer infants are dying.

The individuals in our societal structure who last until they are eighty or ninety years of age are the sole age group that seems to add anything to the stats that are close to solid numbers. Everyone else would land in the group of averages, really only estimates, where there is no guarantee that any of us lives any longer life.

Age Reversed Enthusiasm

Humans are too easily taken in by claims of longevity due to the fact we hate thinking about the fact we will die one day. The thought of perhaps having a prolonged life or utilizing the many anti aging remedies available today has embedded itself in us due in large part to the media hype and promotion – though the reality is there is nothing available today that will turn about, halt or slow the advancement of age. We are left with only being able to fend off advancing age by reducing our behavioral or lifestyle choices that carry with them harmful repercussions and pressure toward aging. This means that we can build up or body’s defensive health posture of our body’s while we elevate our likelihood of living a healthful day to day existence along with a prolific old age. This is referred to as living to our maximum inherited possibilities.

When an individual does not buy into this realistic truism, they attempt to camouflage the exterior outcome of aging by getting cosmetic surgery, Botox or other forms of anti aging treatments or the dreaded verbal pretense. Only the closest to them are hoodwinked by the transformation from physical age progression and declines in health by these inelegant and potentially harmful methods.

These anti aging therapies reach into medicines and supplements which are prime bait for those naïve enough to believe the promotion from even respected medical voices.

Those in science and medicine have great sway over the thought processes of those desperate enough to buy into these anti aging concepts making the process even more distasteful. However, there are other hands reaching for the same wallets that are no less contemptible. They drill deep into the core of those who desire a prolonged life and they do so by less than sterling ethical means.

Life Extension Via Modern Medicine

How we die currently is vastly different from what killed us in the initial part of the last century. Rather than succumbing to transmissible disease, we perish in higher numbers due to degenerative diseases and illnesses. Notwithstanding, strong curatives and rash assertions do little to stop the quickness of the advancement of the aging process or the period when our bodies simply begin to fail us and breakdown. Modern medicine and clinical techniques might be utilized with varying degrees of success and failure to slow, reduce, circumvent or eradicate ongoing degenerative illnesses and their progress, but in the final analysis, all they have accomplished is extending the misery of the patient.

 As a population we are scammed and sidetracked into contentedly accepting a process that is not living up to the claims being made. There seems to be no hope in sight as far as curing any diseases and that’s after spending tens of billions of dollars on research and study.

Our population is faced with unbelievable numbers of cases of heart disease, cancer, diabetes, obesity and so many other harmful and potentially deadly diseases that obviously do not aid in the extension of our lives, who wants to think of extending the life of a chronically and seriously ill person?

Instead of pointlessly searching for ways and means of extending or reversing the advance of aging – or rejecting, even disguising our external indicators of age – we need to focus on accentuating an natural way of life and get rid of the reasons why we get sick. The value we hold for life will always be greater than living in severe pain or wretchedness. Living in this way gives us the best chance of sustaining a higher tier of physiological and emotional functionality.

When we believe that living a longer life only means living with disability and being dependent will only add to the coffers of major pharma and private health companies. The health industry and major media must begin to set a paradigm for the truth and accurateness of this subject matter and stop the deception and false information being presented to the public. 

Aging with dignity and grace has a whole raft of valuable booty that goes along with it such as vast experience, knowledge, finely honed skills, wisdom, calmness and refinement. Our life’s greatest triumph will be when we accept with unavoidable strength of character the inevitable outcome of our life well lived and avoid denial. We need to be less concerned with how we are physically and steer clear of those thought processes that result in ill advised choices.

With any luck, by the time we reach the limits of our maturity, both physically and mentally, we will be able to add something to our community and family by putting others first and not being consumed by our own decline. In order to achieve this higher tier, we need to expend our available energy by maximizing our innate God given gifts learned through experience. This is how we live a long and vigorous existence and when we do start to breakdown, we can then hope for a painless and swift final phase.

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People alive today can expect to live for about seventy five years or so and we have a senior population that is more than thirty six million strong! Diseases took most people’s lives in the year 1900; illnesses such as TB, pneumonia and gastroenteritis were the primary life takers. These days the major killers are cancer and heart disease. People in this day and age have much better odds of survival.

If an individual today is age sixty five, statistically they have on average another seventeen years of living to look forward to. If genetics are on your side, your genes have provided you with even more time upright. Females get a pretty good deal since the average American women will outlive the average guy by about eight years.

Currently, a man’s life expectancy hovers around seventy one years and for the ladies it’s about seventy nine years. The ratio of women to men in the over sixty five age group is four to three respectively. Within the next twenty years it is said that there will be fifty eight million individuals in the sixty five year plus group making up approximately seventeen percent of the total population.

In the majority of developed nations, the age of sixty five is the age of obligatory retirement. It was a policy begun by the Prussian leader, Bismarck, as a means of setting up social reforms upon his population. Reaching the “retirement” age was thought to be remuneration from the government for the worker’s years of hard work. At this time of course, a person’s life span was much shorter than it is these days.

Obviously there were not a whole lot of retirements “awarded” for a person’s hard work and slogging. Mandatory retirement today is illegal in many countries but it still is the benchmark age recognized today for retirement as many countries seek a method to supply goods and services to its senior citizens so they can relax and enjoy the time remaining to them.

 A specific civilization could be defined as a compilation of official and unofficial assemblies of people who came together for shared continued existence. A family being the core group in our civilization that is in charge of raising children within society and with decency. Families convey positions as well as rank to individual elements within the family supplying numerous honors, support and vetos that give our lives direction.

Our civilization gives preference and favor to its youth. Our youth are highly ranked in societal status, warranting years of nurturing, educating and concern. Our elderly, on the other hand are neither held in esteem in the way the youth is represented nor are they productive as those in mid age tend to be. Therefore, based on their treatment by our society, they are made to feel useless and troublesome.

Even the elderly in question begin to believe the same thing about them, either subconsciously or giving into the belief intentionally. These prejudices come from the Puritan society’s working standards – idle hands or mind is the devil’s workshop” and all of that! What is strange is the biggest boosters of work ethic are the elderly citizens themselves. This kind of thinking makes it even more difficult to handle the difficulties occurring from the retirement itself, whether it was forced or intended.

The elderly also experience further intolerance on top of this. If indeed they look for work out of necessity, many companies will pass them over due to their age. Research has revealed that those who work or provide care elder people would much rather be working with younger individuals, apart from when a life is at risk.

Elderly people that are fairly well attuned are better able to stare down the dismal truth that is their life situation provided they are able to continue to be sociable and unrestrained. Some entering retirement see it as an opportunity to take part in things they never had the chance to do earlier in their lives. There is some depression and isolation during ordinary age advancement when handling the eventual losses.

For millennia no, there has been many published accounts of the cognitive functionality of the elderly individual. Research has displayed that our populations older people are just as competent as anyone when it comes to utilizing long term memory in the decision making process. It may just take them a bit longer due to the numerous memories they have stored over the years.

With such a vast warehouse of experience to draw upon means the elderly have a unique viewpoint that younger people just cannot match. For n nonsense reasons, this means that elderly people are quite capable of doing nearly anything to the same standards or better that a more youthful person could do, if only they were allotted the time to do so.

A quite common theory about seniors that is put out there is that they remain overly dependent upon others for care. The proof required to back up the dependent hypothesis is established using three criteria – relying on someone else for living conditions, healthcare and financial support. This just does not fly in most cases. Investigations have shown that seventy five percent of elderly people still own their own homes.

They reside usually in an urban location and the mortgages are paid off. This means they are cheap to own for the most part. There are some realistic issues that come into play certainly for instance, problems climbing up and down stairs and a lack of transportation. Most regions are instituting programs offering assistance to the elderly when most practical issues begin to arise after the age of seventy five years and over.

Seniors are actually healthier than we give them credit for. Of course the elderly will suffer from chronic ailments like hypertension, diabetes mellitus and heart problems but they have less instances of acute health trauma than younger people have. Acute health crisis as a rule are more serious when they occur.

There is a hypothesis having to do with the failure of reserve power or more commonly known as “second wind” or a lack of it. This is more prevalent when people speak of feeling older. In actuality it is stress and day after day wearing on the body instead of age that is impinging upon the body’s homeostatic, or self balancing systems. However, age gets the goat horns when we feel slow or out of sorts. We can do something about this energy loss and reduce its effect upon us. Getting regular physical activity, better eating habits, meditation for stress relief and avoiding tobacco will help improve the circulatory system and make us feel better overall.

Throughout North America the loss of income equals a loss of social rank and foreshadows the departure of our independence. This means that a loss of income is a viable and pragmatic area of trepidation. Senior citizens have four real means of income and they are social security or government pension, personal pension, salaries and social assistance programs. More than eighteen percent of men and eight percent of women still remain employed.

In the previous three decades, the valuation and numbers of pensions has dramatically increased for those reaching retirement. The elderly however, when times are difficult are amazingly prideful and autonomous. There really is no true financial independence, for most it is just a fable.

In some other societies, the elderly are revered as sage givers of insight and looked upon with the greatest reverence. In our society, the perspective has got to shift from its devotion to youth to one of valuing its senior population and all they have to give us. Attitudes must change and once they do, people in general will begin to look forward to growing older rather than being alarmed by the notion.

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When implementing their novel lifestyle options many of which are all encompassing from a health and natural healing perspective, these folks are holistically improving their lives. The personal well being of an aging person, for the most part, involves their capacity to upgrade their knowledge of exactly how they can age better and then actually putting what they have learned into action. Obviously the study was very comprehensive and this area of mature adult study – or Gerontology – is so immense, we will only briefly scratch the surface by talking about the most important discoveries with an intention of having older readers apply the information in their own lives.

The most up to date data regarding healthy aging can be found in any library or bookstore. It is available in copious amounts on the Internet and through various media sources. You could also contact different adult health and aging facilities or organizations for information about government services waiting to assist the elderly or their caregivers. The government actually provides through varying agencies some very useful published materials that will assist an aging population to enhance their health and personal well being.

The Harvard Study of Aging Well and Adult Development, the chief author Professor George E. Valliant of Harvard Medical School, recognized four fundamental actions that contribute to a gratifying and contented retirement period:

• Upon retiring from the job, people you once spent time with at work and considered to be friends and a network for you must now be exchanged and substituted with a different kind of social system of acquaintances and relationships.

• Involve yourself in competitive games, engage in recreational activities so you can spark new relationships and improve or maintain a sense of self worth

• Utilize the creative portion of your brain and join activities that require some skills and talent you may or may not have known you had. Explore many avenues of creative play such as photography, painting and arts. You could plant a garden or learn a musical instrument and write your own music!

• Never stop the process of learning since it promotes good mental and emotional fitness and health. Professor Valliant makes a point of stating that the ancient Greeks defined the word scholar as meaning leisure. This may mean that one’s recreational time could be best utilized by increasing our knowledge base. We all need a good reason to wake up to each and every day so exploring these reasons will give you some life spark!

It is never too late to begin to make changes related to your health. If you smoke, try hard to quit. If you drink too much, cut back or quit alcohol all together, you will feel an immediate boost in your level of health and well being by making these two simple choices as you age. If you have not been eating a nutritious diet, now is the time to change that. Good eating habits combined with an exercise regimen that you can tolerate encourage a healthy outlook and you can begin a program to suit your particular fitness level and age. If you are older you should consult with your physician for exercise and diet advice based on any existing health problems or conditions that need monitoring.

Exercise is particularly important to people as they age as is their weight. Building muscles while shedding excess weight will mean an improved posture and better balance. You will have more endurance and regardless of your current age you will show improvement and be able to enjoy it. There are plenty of online resources for healthy diets and you can choose something that takes into account your age, current weight and fitness level. Discuss your new plan with your doctor and modify it based on their medical input.

As you get older you should start doing little things that contribute to your overall health. Stuff you do each day like taking the dog for a walk, working on your garden or even cleaning your home can all be done with an eye on mobility improvement and enhancing your future life as a senior. You can look into joining a gym if financially able or inquire at many public recreation or senior centers for programs that promote health and fitness. Any guidance you can get to assist in motivating you and directing your program will be a benefit. Often these centers will offer short term programs that teach tai chi, yoga, and even martial arts training for middle age adults or seniors. Preparing for old age requires a commitment from you.
 
You can make fitness a family affair and get your children or grand kids involved to make it more of a recreational activity rather than an exercise regimen. Hiking is a great way to enjoy nature while working on skeletal stability, endurance and muscle growth. Even going for a vigorous walk in your neighborhood will help you realize the many health benefits that include:

• Living a prolonged life.

• Immediate reduction in your stress levels.

• Increasing your mobility for long term future independence.

• Cut your risk of contracting type 2 diabetes and heart disease – two major killers and considered age related illnesses.

• You will be able to sleep much more soundly.

• You will improve your memory and not be so moody.

In these modern times, we live in a world where our appearance is everything and maintaining our physical fitness actually means so much more than simply looking good. Beach bodies were fine when we were kids but now exercising is more about feeling good than it is looking good. Knowing that every day we do some type of exercise that increases our heart rate, we are quite likely adding years to our life span – this is important stuff!

As seniors who are busy aging with as much dignity as they can muster, coping with change is a lifestyle in itself. Through age comes the wisdom to understand that not everything can be changes and that life is much easier to deal with when you add a sense of humor. These things are simple but also vital to our augmented longevity. Lightening up on you as one gets older and letting go of stubborn prejudices, leaving one open to growth and change is critical. Open-mindedness and a willingness to continue learning from a younger generation cannot help but aid you in staying mentally youthful with a mental acuity and dynamism others will want to emulate.

Fighting back at aging is an effort that will require interaction with others who care about you and wish to assist you in your quest for improved mental awareness and health. Being surrounded by familial love and networked with close and dear friends will keep you connected and vital. The elderly who are living independently need to reach out to the larger community and participate in activities, especially if family is few. Being an aging loner could lead to mental depression, poor diet and bad sleep habits resulting in a breakdown of health that could spiral out of control.

If a senior is forced to live on their own they should have a caregiver or companion that will see to their needs and stay in touch with them frequently. Maintaining a spiritual connectedness will help mentally and emotionally as well as provide a resourceful community of potential volunteers to aid in providing comfort and companionship. Triumphing over age advancement means knowing that aging is not something to be frightened of or dislike but instead it should be embraced with vigor.

 As the baby boomer population begins to recognize their vulnerability to aging, new thoughts concerning growing older and doing so triumphantly are beginning to emerge. Growing older will no longer be a time of dread but it will be welcomed with a strong and powerful outlook and positive blessing to be embraced. If anyone can change the face of aging and how it is accepted by the elderly of any generation it will be the baby boomers!

Henry Amiel, the Swiss born poet and philosopher said of aging – “I’m not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.” And also “To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.” Our understanding of the questions of age is making our personal triumph over growing older sweeter than we ever thought possible.

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Knowing this information one is inclined to question how if the body is so adept at rejuvenation, why on earth do we get so many illnesses and diseases? Why did our evolutionary process not bestow upon us a means of achieving “new health”?

We need to consider two points in order to come up with some answers to these queries. One has to do with our physical tier and the other deals with the mental tier. Where our physical field is concerned, if we traumatize our bodies through mistreatment the functionality of it will be affected so when our cells divide the effected portion is transferred to the subsequent generation of cells and so forth. There is also the inevitable altered form of DNA occurring with each cell division – little wonder why caring for our cells are such a big deal.

What occurs at the mental tier is also significant. It only stands to reason that the majority of us if not ach one of us has at one point unknowingly turned off the “good health control”. There has been a pre-conditioning process happening to us thanks largely to the manufacturers of health care items and health care professionals – likely unintended – that aging means ill health as usual. We have this again pounded into us when our own elderly friends and relatives take ill and pass away and even we become blunted to the inevitability of illness and age equals death. So, everyone believes this to be the eventual outcome – except for our own bodies.

What can we make of this? In this way, whatever we attempt at the conscious tier to better our health situation, our subconscious plane is going to be hearing that same old song “forget it, it will not help, it won’t work” or something close to that anyway. This must also be why the majority of weight loss attempts eventually prove futile and elementary confirmation and optimistic thinking do not have much success in instigating any prolonged modification.

The answer is fairly straightforward, our subconscious requires a bit of reprogramming being able to acknowledge that we are indeed capable of experiencing energetic health as well as a magnificent sex life, and anything else we want for our body for as long as we want it. To make this happen we have to see to it our subconscious mind is continuously supplied with positive scenarios based on action and reward [sort of like training your dog!]. Stated a different way, we need to be sure our method is based on action and movement, not just something we think about and it must be followed up with unquestionable incentive.

Re-Programming The Subconscious Mind

So, our discussion thus far has been about:

• The obstacles that interfere with our personal health management seem to solely concern themselves with our body’s physical situation, when in fact they are also innately psychological. Somewhere along our timeline we have managed to shut off our “good health” switch.

• We underestimate the power of our subconscious as it pertains to its effectual influence over our health.

• We have unintentionally been acutely pre-conditioned into believing aging and poor health is a normal eventuality and part of life.

Time to have a closer look at that last point above…

Advertising gurus understood long ago that the most effective means of marketing their health care products was through the promotion and effects displaying symptoms of aging and poor health. Health professionals and pundits are continuously bombarding us with disturbing data that reinforces how we are prone to this disease or that chronic condition – cancer, diabetes, you name it. It is no wonder that our belief system is altered to their way of thinking – that this decline is inevitable. Throw in the mortality of our loved ones and friends from whatever kills them, then those kind souls who state how we are not to blame for getting sick and that it all just seems so out of control!

 And what about us? We could just be the biggest contributor to this mind set. Many of us are doomed to a Groundhog Day experience of insane health. Some smart guy with a high forehead once said the definition of insanity was doing the exact same thing over and over while expecting to get a different outcome. This is how most of us treat our own mental and physical health.

Day in and day out we follow the same game plan where our bodies are concerned. We think in the same way continuously and then hope our health gets better or can at least be sustained. We are lacking a tactical plan to aid in our escape from this insane form of “health” and to robotically alter our thought process and how we do things – allowing us to once again have power over of our health.

It does not require a Mensa membership card to realize how this kind of pre-conditioning can be an extremely effective way of impeding our quest for prolonged health and well being. Regardless of our conscious effort to have better health, squirreled away in our subconscious mind is “real truth” [at least according to our own mind] and that no matter what we do, aging and ill health will have their way and we will perish.

The clear answer here is we need to recode our subconscious mind. This, however is not so easily accomplished since our subconscious state can swiftly recognize the tiniest doubt that might slip by. This means then that whatever we do or action we undertake will only succeed if we apply the following:

• We have a true desire for the results;

• We have the capacity to succeed with the preferred result;

• We have no doubt that the preferred outcome will in fact be accomplished;

If we do not have these factors going for us from the outset, this is not going to occur. In fact in part, this could be the reason why optimistic thinking, confirmed thoughts, even taking medications for treatment do not seem to be achieving any real results for our rejuvenation and prolonged health.

The net result is that if we are going to better our health we need to assure our subconscious psyche that without a shadow of doubt we have absolute power over the condition of our health. We must know conviction that we have the capability to produce whatever pinnacle of health and wellbeing that we want.

The most effective way that we can achieve this level of control is via the action and reward model. This requires us to have absolutely no doubt about what we wish to accomplish and any procedures we utilize to make this happen actually work and not just things that we think may work or ponder over. Just as vital is that these procedures need to eventually have some reward attached that is very potent with the ability to back up and kindle the belief that in fact we do have power to manage our health.

So, in summing things up, the ideal scenario for a tactical solution is to place yourself straight in line to control your health by recoding your subconscious intellect by acting on something and eliminating all indecision by achieving powerful affirmative outcomes. Having stated that, there are not many, if any at all alternate methods that carry the same power as the ability to manage your own health. Think about the extraordinary and profound experience of actively participating in the inner exploration and survey of your physical and mental self.

The ultimate success of this tactical plan rests on the premise that the procedures utilized could generate results that are so worthwhile and so conspicuous that the recipient cannot possibly fail in being persuaded they do indeed have the power over their own health and body. When this experience is first achieved, there will no longer be any room for negative messages within their subconscious mind and only positive mental communication will be relayed.

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High cholesterol is a precursor to forms of heart disease and triglycerides and cholesterol [both are fat substances found in the bloodstream], while important to your overall health, can begin to accumulate within the lining of your arteries. They begin to get narrower and the blood flow becomes constrained. The result of this process can mean contracting numerous deadly illnesses such as coronary thrombosis or heart attack as well as strokes – having high cholesterol is a very dangerous thing.

Research in a number of nations has revealed how a number of tea varieties appear to effect the production of cholesterol building in the bloodstream by decreasing cholesterol in blood fats. Of the tea brands tested, oolong tea was responsible for the greatest outcome. Tea is loaded with polyphenols and the suspicion is that these polyphenols impede the absorption of cholesterol when it is in the digestive system. This in turn reduces the level of cholesterol within the blood stream. As enlightening as this is there is still more, confirmation was discovered that these polyphenols in tea reduce the propensity of blood to create thrombi, these are dangerous blood clots.

Being grossly overweight or just some measure of obesity is becoming far too commonplace in our modern society. When a person is suffering from obesity it is much easier for them to fall victim to numerous heart conditions and diseases. In today’s fast paced environment many individuals find it easier to exist on junk food rather than preparing a healthy diet plan. This ultimately means your body will pay the price by clinging to this added fat and become devoid of the numerous minerals, vitamins and antioxidants your body requires to function optimally. The Chinese believe consuming tea will aid in the reduction of fat deposited in a person’s tissue. Oolong tea specifically receives the most accolades for this breakthrough discovery, though most tea probably will have some form of fat fighting advantage.

Traditional Chinese medicine practitioners could easily refer to any number of successful situations where individuals have experienced weight reduction due to the consumption of two or three cups of oolong tea each day. When oolong tea is combined with various other herbal elements together they form the basis for specific teas that are marketed commercially for weight reduction.

One particular Chinese advertisement for a weight reducing tea states that consuming it for a period of 90 days can assist tea drinker dropping upwards of fifteen pounds of excess weight. Whether or not drinking tea will actually aid in such dramatic weight reduction remains to be seen but there is enough evidence that it should certainly form part of any diet or slimming program.

Quite a bit of study has been committed to the part that tea drinking plays in cancer prevention. For instance, from twenty five health related reports that were offered at a Hangzhou Conference, nearly one third of these had to do with research into cancer and oolong tea. The studies have revealed that there is definitely a correlation between oolong tea and how it combats cancer by impeding the development or functional activity of carcinogenic substances. It seems that the epigallo catechin gallate or [EGCC] lowers the incidence of unrestrained DNA duplication.

Another well known antioxidant is vitamin E; EGCC is thought to be approximately two hundred times more potent at disposing of free radicals from the system. One more manner that oolong tea could aid in the battle against cancer is by stemming mutation in cells. The powerful antioxidant characteristics of oolong tea might impede this mutation of healthy cell DNA that can lead them to becoming cancerous cells.

Meat that has been cured has in it nitrates which could be transformed into nitrosamines during the process of digestion. Nitrosamines have been proven to be a cancer causing agent. Tea is capable of inhibiting the function of nitrosamines that are responsible for causing any cancer according to a physician named Han Chi, also an associate professor at the Institute of Nutrition and Food Hygiene, linked to the Chinese Academy of Preventative Medicine. One study evaluated one hundred forty five varieties of tea and Dr Han and her associates actually rated green tea the most effectual, which had an inhibiting factor of ninety percent. This was immediately followed by oolong tea and black tea in order as the fermentation procedure eradicates the EGCC. When the oolong tea is fermented during the production phase, the EGCC quantity is reduced by roughly fifteen percent.

Centuries past in China, tea was a significant element in various immortality elixirs used often by Taoists. Even in this day and age, maybe just a resonance from the ancients, testimony is rampant that consuming oolong tea and other types are responsible for the old age acquired by many people. It is by no means a magic potion for immortality or youth but it does have many benefits that certainly add to a person’s longevity. It encourages optimal functionality of one’s body systems; it triggers the immune system, aids in optimized stomach function and assists in lowering the risk of developing heart disease. Tea also contains fluoride which helps build strong bones to prevent osteoporosis while it strengthens dental enamel.

Women who are pregnant or lactating should limit their oolong tea consumption to minimal quantities, it could also get in the way of MAO inhibitors and medications whose job is to thin the blood. When you consume oolong tea it could hinder the absorption process of any prescription medications you are taking. You have been reading about the benefits of oolong tea only and in no way should this information be substituted for medical advice from a qualified physician. You should always seek consultation with your primary health care professional prior to taking any new medication or herbal remedy or combining the same.

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First, let’s have a look at the two terms most mentioned when this topic is discussed: Life span and life expectancy. Life span is referring to the physiological time limit a particular life has been blessed with. Life expectancy means the average in years a group of people born at the same time could be projected to survive. Over the many year of human existence mans average longevity or life expectancy has never quite kept pace with his life span.

Average Longevity Throughout History

In about 600 B.C., Solon, the Greek politician and man of state, once said that in a man’s length of days he might see and suffer many occurrences that he does not much like. For I have set the limit of a man’s life at seventy years. Based on what he had to say at the time, one could believe that the average life span was seventy years of age. Still, based on information retrieved off of burial captions dated about four hundred B.C., life expectancy at the time in Greece was around twenty nine years of age.

In the earliest of days, the average longevity in many of the nations in Europe was not much different from that of early Greece. Since so many perished at such a young age, average longevity was much less than the life span. Compared to present day life spans, those of the ancients were significantly lower due to many variables, not the least of these was lack of medical treatments.

The increase in life expectancy was discussed in a 1981 book named Vitality and Aging. The authors stated that the average length of a human life in America had increased roughly from forty seven years of age at the start of the twentieth century to seventy three years old at the time their book was published in 1981. This was an increase by over twenty five years in just over eighty years. However, upon closer scrutiny the elevated life expectancy is a direct result of diminishing the cause of early mortality instead of actually extending the innate life span of the population.

When average longevity is considered from a specific age, as that age gets older there is not as much of an increase. By the age of forty years old the average longevity has not increased much at all. If calculated from the age of seventy five years, there is a barely noticeable increase in life expectancy. Past eighty five years of age, it is impossible to determine a positive certain increase figure at all. To the best of our current capability, the average maximum innate human life span has been calculated to be eighty five years old.

It is natural to wonder if man could increase his life expectancy by taking dietary supplements, vitamins, minerals, drugs of various kinds and even try switching around his diet, could any of this help keep him alive any longer?

Those same authors stated in their book that over many centuries’ alchemists tried concocting numerous revitalizing potions and experienced zero success in doing so. One can only assume that they were the best that history had to offer at that time and they did not come close. Throughout the ages there have been many hundreds – perhaps thousands of elixirs and materials such as herbal mixes or a herb itself, drugs, vitamins and minerals, elements from animal cells, fermented dairy as well as numerous serums and doses of one thing or another thought to be History’s answer to longevity.

There has not been a modicum of verifiable proof, ever. Even in the modern western society there have been the proverbial snake oil salesmen peddling their cure all potions all eventually falling into oblivious disgrace – though we maintain our use of vitamins. One remedy that has been tried known as Gerovital has been used by various world public figures like Khrushchev, Sukarno, Ho Chi Minh and other international notables. None of these luminaries lived to any great age because of it but it had as its main basic element, Novocain, a local anesthetic. There was never any real evidence that it would make any difference regardless of the reputations of those taking it.  

Renowned scientific researchers Packer and Smith had their data concerning vitamin E printed in science journals back as far as 1974 reporting on studies conducted that revealed vitamin E actually extended the life span of average human fibroblast cells that were cultivated and refined invitro at their lab. Though once having done so, they withdrew their assertion when they or anyone else could duplicate the results of the experiment.

To this date there have been no diets, lifestyle choices, vitamins or minerals, pharmaceutical or serum that has shown any inclination that it can prolong a human life span. There have been approximately four billion human beings that have lived on earth and died here and during that time it is quite conceivable to believe that any and all potential amalgamations of diet, chemical revelations and psychological life must have subsisted. The fact there have been no extreme centenarians makes for a very good argument that finding a means to an extended life will not come easily at any time – if it did, we likely would have discovered it by this time.

It is by now obvious that humans just simply cannot extend human life spans, other than by ensuring the reduction of infant mortality due to illnesses and disease, which has in itself succeeded in extending life spans to some degree. From a purely human perspective, any hope of prolonging the life span of the average human is certainly faint. That said, the human hope remains of extending its life span but how will it ever be achieved?

The primary focus for controlling human life spans has been leveled at lifestyle and status/circumstance with continued attempts at increasing it a continuous burden for medical and scientific researchers. Genetic sequencing holds some very real possibilities but certainly not in the near term. The likelihood that genetics will aid an individual into maximum longevity is about ten to twenty percent so even genetics plays a rather insignificant role for those few lucky enough to have that DNA.

One’s status or circumstances in general have a decided impact on life span, status meaning money can buy the best medicine has to offer and those variables that cost money like proper diet and health therapies are easier to manage for someone of higher socio-economic status. Circumstances like accidental death, famine, drought, war, natural disasters all of these can shorten a person’s life span – regardless of lifestyle and status.

What can the average person do to increase their current capacity to live a longer life? The best and most effective thing would be to maximize their health by avoiding hazardous lifestyles and altering their current damaging habits that will gradually cause early death. Lifestyle choices are a major cause of shortened life spans in western society today. Diseases and illnesses such as lung cancer and cardiovascular disease are almost always a result of environmental or lifestyle choices with some being genetically predisposed. All the more reason why we should all avoid destructive choices – just to be on the safe side!

The average human needs to watch what they eat at all times. They need to avoid harmful habits like smoking and alcohol consumption regardless of what the experts say is good or bad for us. Average longevity is complicated by diet and the more balanced your nutrition is the more balanced will be your odds. There are numerous things that can affect the average longevity of the average human and all we can do is control these to have a shot at increasing our personal life span.

Average humans were meant to get physical and so increasing our strength and muscle leanness is essential to our average longevity. We need to be strong enough to propel us for an extended period of time – our mobility is vital to our average longevity. Physical activity impacts our longevity by strengthening our bones and heart muscle, improving our respiratory system and our digestion function will also improve. All these things are going to increase our average longevity and all of these things can be controlled by the average human.

We also have control over our mental state and keeping our minds as fit as our bodies will help our way toward extending our personal life span. Maintaining control of who we are as people and what we are here for, our purpose of being, this is crucial to our average longevity so we need to keep a strong mind as well as a lean and mean body as we age and this too is in our control.

It is certain that none of us knows how long we each have on this earth. Life spans have not changed as much as one might have hoped and people are still dying for all kinds of reasons from famine and war to cancer and strokes. There is no doubt that luck has quite a bit to do with the entire equation of average life span and above average longevity. We can only increase our odds by maximizing what we can control and it is such a wonderful life we have so why not?

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