Latest News and Developments about Humankind's Drive Towards Biological Immortality

You Have Good Strength In Your Legs

Good lower body strength means you will have solid balance; you will be flexible and have stronger endurance. As your age advances, these will become key factors in making you less vulnerable to slip and falls and the injuries incurred. These could include broken hips [which are specifically nasty in old age]; health will often decline rapidly after a fractured pelvis. Inside of twenty percent of those people who fracture their hip will face mortality due to difficulties caused by the injury distress. Weakened thigh muscles or quadriceps is the primary forecaster of fragility in the aged.

To increase your quad strength, target the thigh muscles directly by using the phantom chair exercise. With your back against the wall, slide your back down the wall until you reach a seated pose. Make sure your knees are situated behind your toes and your lower back is pushing into the wall. Hold this pose until you cannot do so any longer. Continue this exercise daily while increasing your holding time by several seconds every time you do it.

You Are A Party Animal

Overt people will be fifty percent less liable to develop dementia, based on a study of men and women age seventy eight or older from Sweden. Study contributors said they were not the kind of people who could get stressed easily. Scientists assessing them feel their brain resiliency results from decreased amounts of cortisol [stress hormone] studies have displayed the stress hormone can impede the brain cells’ communication.
The best ways to reduce cortisol quantities are by meditating, sipping black tea or having a quick nod off.

You Are Motivated To Be A Positive Force

Approximately seventeen percent of Americans are classified as being flourishers, based on a study printed in American Psychologist. They maintain an optimistic mind set toward life; have strong principles and community spirit. They are also healthier than their opposite numbers, the languishers – made up of roughly ten percent of society who are down on themselves. The majority of us will come in somewhere between the two.

We should all try and be flourishers, look for a sense of meaning to life. Folks who live in Sardinia and Okinawa, places where inhabitants seem to outlive the rest of us, believe that working hard is vital, but not so vital that it interferes with family time, cultivating their spirituality and helping other people.

You Feel Younger By Thirteen Years Than Your Chronological Age.

 That was according to five hundred elderly women and men, aged seventy years and older who were in sound physical condition claimed in an analysis. Feeling youthful is strongly associated with better health and a longer life says the lead researcher. It can enhance a person’s outlook and inspire them to meet particular challenges. This in turn decreases stress and anxiety and will improve their immune systems, in the final analysis it will lessen their risk of contracting illnesses.
 
You Welcome A Challenge

Those individuals who practice discipline, exercise self control and are achievers live longer and enjoy an eighty nine percent lower chance of getting Alzheimer’s disease, than those who are less meticulous, based on several studies. When you are able to concentrate on the task at hand, you are using your brain more according to the research psychologists.

Set out personal and professional objectives then take up the challenge to achieve these goals by a particular time. Furthermore, take on new ventures to encourage your brain function: If you jog each day, try riding your bike for a while. The next day, try and remember three things you noticed while taking that route with the bike, a nice garden, a particular house, a quaint park. 

You Are A Veritable Social Butterfly

Having a good time with others will act as a great stress valve. Having special people around you who are supportive, aid in keeping you mentally healthy and fit physically is important. Too much stress will make your immune system fragile and cells will begin to age faster. Your life span will eventually be shortened by four to eight years based on the results of one study. Just anyone to hang out with is not the point. You need a supportive friend/s that you can be open with and who are nonjudgmental and will not criticize.

It Helps If They Are Also Healthy
 
When you have friends that are prone to weight gain, your own weight could increase by as much as fifty seven percent, based on a study from the New England Journal of Medicine. To sustain your healthy life choices, it is a good idea to have likeminded friends and acquaintances. This can be accomplished by joining weight loss groups or participating in charitable events or at least train with a partner.

Your Marriage Is Solid And Uneventful

Having good personal interactions with close partners will be a deterrence measure against stress. Knowing there are people in your corner offering unconditional love is just one more confidence builder that will ultimately reduce your level of stress. That strong interpersonal connection is something you can count on in your life when the stress levels hit unmanageable heights.

You Have Attended College At The Freshmen Level

Harvard Medical School researchers discovered that someone with a minimum of at least one year of college or more than twelve years of official schooling, lived eighteen months longer than average. It is believed that the more education you attain, the chances you will take up smoking are lessened. The fact is that only ten percent of adults who have an undergraduate degree were smokers, when compared with thirty five percent of those with less than a high school education.

You Are All About New Tech Innovations

 When you teach yourself how to use FaceBook, Twitter or Skype, you are exercising your brain cells and this keeps them healthy and youthful. A good many elderly Americans use email, Google lost or old friends and even use online dating sites. Analysts believe that utilizing technology aids in keeping you mentally agile and also socially participating. When you use these tech tools it keeps you current, interesting and you feel confident and vital – more relevant.

  Your Heart Rate Is Fifteen Beats Every Fifteen Seconds

That means you have a heart rate of sixty beats a minute – this is the ideal resting heart rate. Most people have a resting heart rate between sixty and one hundred beats per minute, the closer to the lower end of the scale the healthier you will be. The slower your heart beats the longer it will last, hopefully, that is the theory anyway. Everyone should work to reduce their resting heart rate, especially those who are older.

You Began Menopause After The Age Of Fifty-Two

According to research, going through menopause later in life can mean a prolonged life span. One reason might be that women who experience menopause later have a reduced risk of contracting heart disease so says Mary Jane Minkin, Physician and clinical professor of OBGYN at Yale University School of Medicine.

You Gave Birth Later In Life

If you became pregnant naturally after the age of forty four, you have a fifteen percent less risk of dying during any year beyond age fifty than your peers who experienced child birth before the age of forty according to a study out of the University of Utah. If you have healthy reproductive organs and are capable of having children at that time of life, it is a marker that you have genes healthy and working that will assist you in living longer.

Your Mother Had You When She Was Young

If your mother had you when she was under the age of twenty five, you have twice the chance of living to age one hundred as those people born to an older mother. Scientists believe that a more youthful mother’s best eggs go through fertilization first, thus ensuring healthy progeny.

You Are Not Prone To Snoring

When you snore, it is a signal that you have obstructive sleep apnea; this condition can lead you to cease breathing for short periods due to a collapse of throat tissue, which blocks your airway. Bad cases of this mean you can experience this sixty to seventy times each hour. Sleep apnea can cause hypertension, memory difficulties, weight gain and depression.

Based on the results of an eighteen year study, people who did not have obstructive sleep apnea were three times more likely to outlive those with severe OSA. If you snore and are excessively sleepy during the day, suffer mood swings than you should speak with your doctor regarding a referral to a sleep clinic
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You Have Your Blood Checked For Vitamin D Levels

To ensure we are well protected from disease, we need to have a minimum of thirty nanograms of vitamin D per ML of blood, almost eighty percent of Americans have less than that amount. Vitamin D is not just for healthy bones and to impede osteoporosis, but it might also decrease the chances of getting cancer, heart disease, and infection.
If you require more vitamin D, you can make it up with a daily supplement to increase your levels. Physicians can monitor you D levels by a simple blood test and intermittent testing might be necessary. Vitamin D becomes toxic at one hundred to one hundred fifty nanograms per ML.

Your Commute Does Not Have Heavy Traffic

This is very good for your heart based on research from Germany. Patients who had heart attacks were three times as likely to have been driving in traffic just prior to symptoms occurring. While the exact association cannot be nailed down, researchers think that the combination of pollution from the oncoming cars and high stress levels might be the cause of increased myocardial infarction risk.

Psoriasis Has Never Been A Problem

Women who have suffered with chronic skin ailments are sixty three percent more inclined to contract diabetes with a seventeen percent increased risk of hypertension based on studies by dermatologists. The chronic inflammation linked to all three of these conditions might be the reason. Using data from a study of seventy seven thousand participants, researchers realized that psoriasis should be considered not simply a skin disease but an overall systemic disorder.
 
You Participate In Religious Ceremony Minimum Once A Week

Women who go to services regularly have a twenty percent reduced likelihood of dying, whether they smoke, drink alcohol or even exercise, according to research on more than ninety two thousand women conducted by Yeshiva University and Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Scientists give credit to the emotional support and the absence of stress that are part of regular attendance at religious services.

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