Young adults who are slowly adding years to their chronological age are certainly wondering why some people look younger while others older, despite being the same age. If you look back some 20 or even 30 years, you will be surprised to see that some of the people you had known in your graduation years look the same while other seem to be reaching 60 years. Yet, why do people age differently?
Some Facts on Aging:
Aging is normal, but nutrition, exercise, dietary supplement and lifestyle factors can delay the aging process. Until now, no one has been able to stop aging.
Interestingly, new generation and future generation will be able to live longer than their parents. This gradual but constant increase in lifespan since the 1800 has been achieved via improved access and medical treatments. People are nowadays eating healthy food and doing physical exercise to increase overall health. This is why elders being 80 to 90 years, today, are even more fit than people where in their 40s to 50s a century ago.
Scientists do consider that the maximum human lifespan is 120 years, while others believe that the maximum lifespan limit will be increased and broken constantly, in the same way as runners constantly reach new record time limits.
Jeanne Louise Calment is a French woman who smoked cigarettes for her whole life until she deceased at the age of 122 years. There must be a specific factor that contributed this lady to reach such an advance age, noting that she smoked.
Juan Ponce de Leon, was a Spanish explorer who was on the steady quest for the fountain of Youth. Unfortunately, no elixir of youth, fountain of youth, or youth pill has yet been found. So the process of aging can currently not be stopped.
There are dozens of theories on aging, focusing on how to alleviate factors causing damage to our body and mind. Progress in anti-aging is going fine, with significant advancement in terms of genetic engineering and potential new cures derived from mice and worm research.
The process of aging is highly complex and begins at the very moment that you are born until the day you die. The most compelling explanation of aging is that the human body is like a machine, and it does over a long period of time experience wear and tear, and if accumulative damage to the body could be treated, lifespan limits could be leveraged to new infinite heights.
The key point is, live healthy, gracefully, joyfully and be happy. We never know how long we will be able to live but a positive attitude does promote longer lifespans.
Source: MB
Sat, Feb 18, 2012
Anti Aging, Gerontology, Longevity