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Longevity for You
Aging is a disease. Anti-aging is slowing down, if not controlling, the disease of aging, which is neither a natural process nor a consequence of time. Healthy longevity is combating aging through nutrition and lifestyle.
Aging
“The price we pay for sex is death,” says Dr. S. Jay Olshansky, scientist in the department of medicine at the University of Chicago.
Simply put, once you have reproduced and passed on your genes, you are literally disposable. In fact, many mammals in the animal kingdom perish as soon as they have completed the process of reproduction.
But even a life of abstinence won’t make you live any longer.
Why not?
Because all humans, regardless of whether they reproduce or not, will die. This is the nature of things.
Aging begins in adulthood, picks up in middle age, and accelerates after age fifty. No sooner has your body reached its peak in your twenties than it begins its long and slow decline, thus starting decades of change, which is aging. To combat aging, you need to begin anti-aging nutrition at any early age.
Why do you age?
· You age because your intake of nutrients dwindles due to depletion of digestive enzymes and lack of hydrochloric acid in your stomach.
The chronic lack of nutrients in your body may further deteriorate due to the consistent build-up of toxins from foods and the environment.
Time does not age you, but abuse does. Aging is a progressive deficiency disease, and anti-aging is combating that disease.
· Your age because your body’s metabolism rate has decreased, gradually adding physical weight to your body and further increasing your inactivity, which is the Number One enemy of longevity living. Don't stop exercising your body!
Even if you have compromised mobility, you can still do full-body, low-impact exercise while seated. Just get yourself a state-of-the-art resistance chair! Find out more from my website Physical Exercise For All, where you can get all the resources you will need to stay physically fit and healthy.
· Your age because the capacity of your lungs to breathe in and out has reduced, thereby restricting oxygen supply to the rest of your body.
Good posture is especially important as you age. For example, a neck leaning forward will impair the quality of your breathing, thereby affecting your overall health. Go to my website Good Posture to find out how to maintain good posture to enhance your health.
· You age because of the free radicals freely produced in your body, which damage your cells. Cellular damage by free radicals is accumulative over the years, giving the illusion that you age because of time.
All degenerative diseases, such as cancer, heart disease, arthritis, Alzheimer’s disease, are not separate and distinguishable entities: they are merely different expressions of the free-radical damage to your cells. Delaying, if not eradicating, that damage due to free radicals is anti-aging.
With human intelligence and advancement of technology, you can hold on to life a little longer. You are meant to age, but not meant to be immortal. You can bargain with Nature, but you cannot outsmart Nature. Death is inevitable, but dying before your time is not. Beat the clock, and add many more years to your life. And that is what anti-aging is all about.
How you age is a result of how you have lived, an accumulation of the right and wrong things you have done everyday in the past decades.
In spite of what you might have done to your body, there is a great deal of research on anti-aging indicating that your body is infinitely renewable and forgivable. It is never too late to renew both your body and mind with anti-aging strategies.
George Burns, the comedian, once said, “You can’t help getting old, but you don’t have to get old.”
So do something about your aging! And do it now! It is never too early or too late to interrupt the process of aging. The anti-aging nutrition and liquid vitamins cost little compared to the cost of not taking them. Get all your natural herbs, vitamin and mineral supplements from Herbal Remedies, where you can get useful information on dietary supplements related to your ailments.
Live fast and die young
Diseases are not a consequence of aging, but rather of poor lifestyle.
Disease begins at the cellular level. Cherish and nourish your cells with anti-aging herbs and vitamins, such that they regenerate instead of degenerate.
Living to your maximum lifespan is mostly in your hands. Anti-aging experts can tell you what to do about anti-aging, and perhaps you already know what to do. But then you have to do what you have got to do to reverse aging. Only you can make a decision to live an anti-aging healthy lifestyle.
Don’t ignore the anti-aging advice of those anti-aging experts; don’t overindulge yourself in excesses, such as smoking, drinking, and drug abuse; and don’t adopt a happy-go-lucky attitude in your lifestyle.
And don’t even work too hard to reach your goals in life. What are they at the end of your life? Don’t shorten your life to reach those goals you have set for yourself, or to leave a legacy behind. Woody Allen made the point: “I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.”
Therefore, don’t overexert yourself. It is often when you are trying hard to be strong that you are at your weakest. If you learn to relax, you can always find your greatest strength. Learn how to live the anti-aging healthy lifestyle of Zen from my website The Way of Zen.
Remember, death is on the fast lane. Lin Yutang, a well-known contemporary Chinese philosopher, said, "A wise man is never busy, and a busy man is never wise." A sage is one who never seems to be in a hurry, yet gets everything done.
Always strive to live an anti-aging healthy lifestyle. (Read my web page Healthy Living For Healthy Longevity.)
The sky is the limit when it comes to longevity
One of the longest-living men according to The Guinness Book of World Records was a Japanese by the name of Shigechiyo Isumi, who lived to a ripe old age of 120 years and 237 days.
Probably you won’t live as long as he did. Anyway, just aim for that remarkable milestone, if not beyond. Just push the envelope for anti-aging!
(Find out about anti-aging lifestyle and the longevity profile of centenarians from my web page The Okinawa Centenarian Study.)
If you are not going to die from degenerative diseases such as heart disease and cancer, you will just die of total organ shutdown when your cells are no longer able to repair and regenerate. And that, according to Dr. Ronald Klatz, president of the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine in Chicago, “will be at least around age 160.” Therefore, the sky is the limit when it comes to longevity and anti-aging.
Even the Bible gives you a glimpse of how long you may live.
“And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh; yet his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.” Genesis 6:3
The average life expectancy is 72.4. But lifespan is different from life expectancy. You may die tomorrow, or you may live to one hundred and beyond. You don’t have to schedule yourself to die just because you are approaching 72. There are still many years ahead of you. They are within your grasp.
Factors that reverse aging
There are many anti-aging factors that may help you live longer and stay younger:
Genes
Of course, genes play an important role in how you age. There are anti-aging genes: 80 percent of all centenarians are women. There are killer genes, such as those contributing to high cholesterol levels, and hereditary genes accounting for about five percent of breast cancer.
Even if you don’t have good anti-aging genes, you can make up for them through a healthy anti-aging lifestyle.
Optimism
Optimism is anti-aging. Don’t worry and be happy. This is simple and down-to-earth wisdom that holds the key to longevity. All long-lived people are optimistic, and don’t let troubles make them depressed, passive, or inflexible.
Optimistic individuals choose a healthy lifestyle and tend to take advantage of social supports, such as family and friendship.
Of all the problems of negative feelings, the greatest threat to a long life is stress, which often results from negative or pessimistic thoughts.
Ironically, stress can even be anti-aging at times; in fact, good stress can even extend life. Examples of good stress are sexual excitement (read my web page Sexual Health Is Anti-Aging), social excitement, and physical challenge. The main difference between good stress and bad stress is in control. Make stress work for you, instead of against you.
Go to my website:World Religions on Stress Control to understand what world religions have to say about stress control in your life, and get the state-of-the-art device STRESS ERASER to de-stress yourself.
Humor
Humor is a free healthful anti-aging medicine for longevity: it lifts your spirit and lengthens your life.
o You give your face a workout by curling up the corners of your mouth.
o You elevate your heartbeats to 120 per minute to benefit your heart.
o You accelerate your breathing to pump more blood and oxygen to your muscle groups and the rest of your body.
o You change your attitude and perspective on your problems.
Develop a sense of humor in life. Laugh at yourself as well as others. Laughing in the face of adversity, even of death, relieves your stress and lightens your mood.
Humor is the way of life, especially for those who are aging. An individual who has a sense of humor and who laughs all the time lasts and lives longer.
You might say, “This is all well if you were born with a sense of humor or your are funny by nature.” Children laugh a great deal; adults don't laugh enough.
But humor can be acquired and cultivated, and how to be funny can even be learned. How To Be Funny teaches you humor that will change your life, drawing people to you like a magnet. Written by a real, accomplished professional, How To Be Funny will show you "humor success" and cutting-edge humor with advanced techniques to be applied in all unpleasant situations in life for positive outcome.
Curiosity
Curiosity may kill a cat. But curiosity may prolong human life. Curiosity is an anti-aging driving force, which cherishes and enhances your mental capacity.
Continuing education is the way to go to improve yourself, to increase your self-esteem, and to open yourself to new ideas. Continue to learn to improve yourself.
Remember, you do not grow old; however, when you stop growing, you become old. So continue to grow with new knowledge, new ideas, and new endeavors - they are all anti-aging potions.
Healthy love relationship
Many experts believe that a happy marriage holds the key to disease survival. According to research at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Miami, individuals who were married lived longer than those who either were never married, or were separated or divorced. Companionship is anti-aging because it gives you a reason to live or to combat a disease for your spouse.
The trauma of bereavement has a negative impact on longevity living. But it is something that is not within your control. However, it is never too late to look for another partner for the rest of your life. E-Harmony provides excellent service to help individuals of any age to seek lasting love relationships.
Separation and divorce can actually improve health, except a relationship involving sudden discovery of infidelity.
Separation is more detrimental than divorce.
Companionship is anti-aging for the following reasons:
o Companionship leads to opening of your heart to someone dear or close to you; sharing is critical to longevity living, since the lonely, the disenfranchised, and the disconnected often feel their existence purposeless, which may be a cause of suicide among the elderly.
o Sharing thoughts and feelings with others is anti-aging healing in itself.
o Some experts have said, “An individual whose only social role is worker will find problems at work more distressing than another individual who works, has a family, and belongs to social groups.” Stress from social environments is one of the causes of heart attacks in elderly individuals whose immune systems are already impaired and frail.
o Individuals, who are lonely and isolated, are more inclined to smoke and drink, or indulge in binge eating. Feelings of alienation and disconnection are conducive to behaviors that may increase the risk of premature death or disease.
Not only does relationship contribute to good health, "quality" relationship is a prime factor in anti-aging longevity living. To develop and establish "quality" relationship, you need to:
§ Learn the art of communication.
§ Practice expressing feelings that connect, rather than thoughts that may alienate or influence.
§ Listen before you talk; listen more than you talk.
§ Learn to share secrets to invite confidence of others.
§ Learn to become sociable by joining clubs, church, study groups, support groups to develop a sense of community.
§ Learn to develop spirituality for your anti-aging living. (Read my web page Spiritual Health.)
To find out how to improve love relationship, go to my website Mindful of Love Relationship.
Correct breathing
When you were born, you took a long, deep breath that was your first breath of life. Some day when you die, you will take your last, loud gasp before you stop breathing for good. Thus, you both begin and end your life with a breath of life.
You breathe all through your life. Your breath of life from God is essentially life-giving oxygen, without which there is no form of life in you.
Why is correct breathing important to longevity?
o You take about 20,000 breaths each day (12-14 breaths per minute).
o You get rid of your body’s toxins, such as carbon dioxide, through breathing.
o You cleanse and oxygenate your blood through breathing.
o You increase your energy and endurance through breathing.
o You manage and control your pain through breathing.
o You lower your blood pressure and even cholesterol level through breathing.
o You clear your unpleasant emotions through breathing.
o You de-stress yourself through breathing.
o You enhance your concentration and clear-mindedness through breathing.
Breathing gives you invisible food. Maybe that is why you do not pay much attention to it because you cannot see it. Breathing may have become so natural and spontaneous to you that you seem to have taken it for granted all along.
Oxygen from your breathing is transported through blood, providing each one of the cells and organs in your body with invisible food. What gives life, ironically enough, also brings about death - a mastery stroke of your Creator to make sure you will not be immortal. In the very process of living, death is simultaneously created in the form of deadly toxins (carbon dioxide), which are then exchanged for the life-giving oxygen derived from your breathing.
If your outgo of carbon dioxide exceeds your intake of oxygen, you will have serious health problems, such as Cancer. Such imbalance of oxygen and carbon dioxide may be due to not only the quality of air you breathe in, but also how deep you breathe in and out. For more information on oxygenation, go to my website Cancer Treatment Resources.
Deep and slow breathing
All centenarians have one thing in common: they all breathe deeply and slowly.
Rapid breathing always shortens life. That is also true of the animal kingdom: all rodents, which are rapid breathers, have a short lifespan.
Conscious deep breathing may calm and integrate your body and mind. Your body is always breathing, and so are you. Each conscious, deep, and cleansing breath helps you release all negative thoughts and sadness from you. Proper breathing is anti-aging because it de-stresses you. The secret is to take your lungs wherever you go, wherever you are, and whatever situation you may find yourself in - and breathe deeply and slowly.
Proper breathing enhances many healing modalities, including Qi Gong, and Yoga.
The wrong ways to breathe
You are breathing improperly if you try to hold in your stomach or have a flat stomach. You might have been taught wrongly to stand up straight and puff out your chests, while sucking in your gut to hide your flabby midsection.
That, unfortunately, is the wrong way to breathe!
Avoid the pitfalls of taking rapid, small, upper-body breaths, which will starve your body of oxygen, eventually damaging your overall health over time. This is because exhaling carbon dioxide too quickly will disturb the balance of acidity and alkalinity - also known as your pH level - in your blood.
When the acid and alkaline level is unbalanced, a complicated reaction occurs that actually keeps your blood cells from delivering oxygen to your muscles and organs, including your brain.
In addition, shallow breathing - when your upper chest, specifically the muscles at your neck and upper back, takes over the job of breathing - may result in high blood pressure, and racing heartbeats, including heart disease.
Your sedentary lifestyle may further aggravate your breathing. Sitting slows down your breathing, making you unable to get the toxic carbon dioxide out of your body. You will not want your body to be full of aches and pains, and prone to premature aging. You will find your mind more refreshed after a brisk walk or even moving around in your office.
Just do not become a sitter at your desk over a long period. Move around as often as possible. A sedentary posture makes your breathing incomplete.
Western doctors have now begun to realize the importance of proper breathing. In fact, Western doctors now are using breathing techniques for a variety of treatments, for everything from sports performance to reducing high blood pressure, and from headaches to emphysema.
Breathing deeply and slowly
Breathe diaphragmatically! That is to say, breathe deeply enough to make your belly and diaphragm move noticeably.
Breathing is something that you do all the time, but you just do not do it well enough. You need to relearn consciously how to breathe properly and healthily - like a baby.
Yes, make no mistake about it - like a baby! You were born to breathe diaphragmatically. Unfortunately, you may have stopped breathing deeply, as you grow older - often a result of vanity or social pressure.
You simply have to re-learn your way of breathing. Once you get it and start practicing it, you can see what a difference it will make in your life.
Teaching deep breathing should be an important aspect of modern medicine, because improper shallow breathing is a recipe for a variety of disease. Improper breathing often leads to everyday stress in the form of anxiety and even panic.
Remember, you take literally thousands upon thousands of breaths each day, and there is no special trick to turning some of them into deep breaths. Just be conscious of your breathing at all times, such that your breathing habits may become habitual and ingrained.
How to breathe deeply
· Find a comfortable place to sit down, and put yourself in a relaxed mode with your feet comfortably on the floor. Place your hand on your stomach.
· Breathe in slowly through your nose on a count of five, while gently pushing your hand up on your stomach.
· Hold your breath for a count of five.
· Breathe out through your mouth also on a count of five, while pushing your hand down on your stomach.
· Repeat. Allow your eyes to close as your breath deepens so your belly begins to rise and fall.
Begin with five to ten minutes of deep breathing at a time, several times a day, and see how you feel. Surely, you have the time for that! You can lengthen your sessions as you become more comfortable. It is a worthwhile investment of your time until deep breathing becomes second nature to you. You will soon be doing it naturally throughout the day without any conscious effort.
Do not fret if you cannot do the exercise correctly right away. It takes practice. You are in control, and you can stop at any time. Take it as slowly as needed. Just be persistent.
Deep breathing, however, is not a miracle cure for your everyday problems. It only provides your body with better ammunition to deal with them.
Find out from my website Good Posture how posture can directly affect breathing, and hence your physical health.
Oriental approach to anti-aging breathing
In the Orient, Yoga, Qi Gong, and Zen meditation all teach correct breathing as the basic principle for practice. This is because correct breathing focuses on the power of qi (anti-aging internal life force) which radiates throughout your entire body.
While Western medicine breathing techniques focus only on getting more oxygen into the lower lungs, the Oriental approach focuses on a more elevated level - getting more anti-aging internal life force into the body.
Qi is the essence of breath. As such, breath is your connection to the universe, and your conscious use of it as a means of living in harmony with heaven and earth. This is because your breath assumes the middle position between your conscious and unconscious life; the rhythm of your breath may be consciously controlled from the center of your autonomic nervous system. Your awareness of your breathing is the first step in becoming conscious of the otherwise unconscious processes of your organs.
Oriental healers understand the most powerful force in living things: the power of qi. This may be too abstract and inexplicable, even to the extent of incredible, for most Western doctors because qi is not definable and quantifiable. However, Oriental healers have thousands of years of accomplishment of success of medical systems based on the management of qi.
Probably the most well known system of cure based on qi is acupuncture. Acupuncture charts show twelve major meridians (paths that qi flows through) in your body, as well as minor meridians and other points across your entire body. The acupuncturist uses hair-thin needles placed in designated spots along these meridians to stimulate your body's energy or life force, thereby instrumental in initiating the process of natural healing.
Qi has everything to do with your breathing. You do much more than simply getting more oxygen into the lower lobes of your lungs. You actually radiate anti-aging life energy through your entire body if you breathe correctly.
The ancient Chinese believed that when your qi is stalled in your body, you become sick. When you breathe correctly, your energy is able to travel through your entire body more freely, thereby promoting self-healing and preventing disease. That is why qi is the basis of so many Eastern-healing arts. They believe that healing and wellness stem from the care and management of that central life force, the energy system that is within every living creature. When qi flows freely and smoothly, your body's organs and systems are in a state of harmony. When qi becomes blocked, imbalance and illness often result. (To find out more about qi, read Natural Healing For Longevity Health.)
To breathe is to live. To inhale fully is to live fully - manifesting the full range and power of your inborn potential for vitality in everything that you sense, feel, and do.
To inhale deeply and fully is to empty yourself, enabling you to open yourself to the unknown, to awaken your inner healing potential, thereby giving you the energy of wholeness, which is essential to natural healing. Correct breathing is anti-aging!
Calm emotions
Learn how to keep a calm and balanced center. Avoid extreme emotions of all kinds, especially as you grow older. Nothing drains the internal energy from your body as quickly, nor disrupts the functional harmony of your vital organs as completely, as your strong outbursts of emotion. Your disease is deeply rooted in the strata of your being - how you react to people around you and the natural world.
Do you know which kind of food is the most nourishing? Your calm and relaxed mind. From your own experience, you know a troubled mind spoils not only your appetite but also your health.
Learn to balance your emotions not by suppressing or ignoring them, but by harmonizing and transforming them, such that they become part of your spirituality. When you are captive to your emotions, that is, allowing yourself to be controlled by them, it would be difficult for you to become spiritual.
(Read my web page Spiritual Health.)
Learn to deal with your everyday stress as you continue to age.Get back your anti-aging lifestyle by conquering stress. Conquering Stress may help you find natural relief, without medication, from stress, depression, and anxiety, which are characteristics of ailments associated with aging.
Worrying about the future will cause distress in the present; despairing about the past will cripple you in the present. So, live in the eternal now, and you will have power over both the past and the future. Always live in the present. Even Jesus says: "Give us this day our daily bread ...." (emphasis added), so live the present to the fullest.
Remember, emotions are energy states: they can either contribute to your energy or deplete it.
Do not allow yourself to go to the extreme with your emotions that you lose control. Find the middle place, neither extreme joy nor extreme sorrow, so that you can have harmony and peace for longevity.
To be able to bend with the wind will enable you to live, not only longer, but happier.
For more information on calming emotion, go to my other websites Anger Management, and also Rethink Your Depression.
Herbs against aging
Herbs are the world’s oldest medicines with thousands of years of wisdom. Herbs give everlasting strength, whereas regular foods give only temporary strength. Some of the best and indispensable herbs against aging are as follows:
o Burdock: to detoxify body
o Dong quai: to provide hormone health
o Garlic: to reduce cholesterol
o Ginkgo biloba: to help memory problems
o Ginseng: to provide physical and mental vitality
o Grape seed: to fight oxidation at the cellular level
o Milk thistle: to reverse liver damage due to pharmaceuticals
o Psyllium: to combat constipation, potential risk for colon cancer
o Saint-John’s-wort: to treat mild depression
o Saw palmetto: to shrink the prostate
o Valerian: to induce a restful sleep
The Home Made Medicine teaches you how to prepare and make your home-made remedies from herbs for all ailments and disorders, including shampoos and mouthwash. You save a lot over not using those toxic over-the-counter drugs and medications.
For all your herbal needs, go to Herbal Remedies. Also, visit my website on Herbal Cures.
Temperance
The best thing is to eat a little of everything and not a lot of anything. (Read my web page Longevity Wisdom on calorie restriction for longevity.)
Health assessment
As you continue to age, it is important to take inventory of your health to monitor your health conditions:
o Blood pressure check
o Blood count - the quality of blood, the optimum of three types of blood cells (red cells, white cells, and platelets)
o Urinalysis to look for signs of urinary tract infections, prostate problems, kidney dysfunction, diabetes, and some cancers
o Tuberculosis test
o Cholesterol screening
o Regular eye exam
It is also equally important to note disturbing signs of failing health or imminent disease:
o Sudden change in bowel or bladder habits
o A hard-to-heal sore
o Unusual bleeding
o A lump or thickening
o Continual indigestion or difficult swallowing
o Hoarseness and prolonged coughing
Causes of death
Death has no meaning, while living has a meaning and purpose. (Read my web page Death At The End.)Therefore, live long.
Aging does not kill you. If you have a normal life expectancy, you will live long. The medical and biological anti-aging advances today as well as those over the next ten to twenty years will allow you to live past 100 and beyond. Time is on your side - if you will use it wisely and properly. Death from old age will become a thing of the past if you lead an anti-aging lifestyle.
But disease and accidents may kill you. Death due to accidents and violence will not disappear - they will happen to anyone because of poor judgment, bad luck, and evil doers. Avoid them wherever possible.
You may also kill yourself by committing suicide - which is a silent killer in the aging process.
Did you know . . . .suicide is the ninth leading cause of death in the United States?
Nobel-Prize writer Ernest Hemingway once said, “A long life deprives a man of his optimism.” There may be some truth to that, and Hemingway’s own wayward lifestyle certainly attested to that statement, when he took his own life.
Remember, in life, you reap what you sow. Your healthy lifestyle determines the quality and quantity of your life. If you have done all the wrong things in your life, there is every reason for you to live poorly in the later years. If you do not have a positive attitude towards anti-aging living, a long life may indeed deprive you of your optimism, and suicide may ultimately be the only way out. How tragic and yet how true!
Factors that contribute to suicide in the elderly are many:
· Personal loss due to bereavement or divorce
· Drinking and drug problems
· Sickness and physical suffering
· Loneliness and isolation
· Genetic link
Signs of suicide
· Thoughts and talking of death
· Making final arrangements
· Previous suicide attempts
· Prolonged depression
Physical, mental, and spiritual health, as well as a positive anti-aging attitude to adaptation and adjustment to changes in your life are the best ways to avert suicide as you age.
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Copyright© by Stephen Lau
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Aging
“The price we pay for sex is death,” says Dr. S. Jay Olshansky, scientist in the department of medicine at the University of Chicago.
Simply put, once you have reproduced and passed on your genes, you are literally disposable. In fact, many mammals in the animal kingdom perish as soon as they have completed the process of reproduction.
But even a life of abstinence won’t make you live any longer.
Why not?
Because all humans, regardless of whether they reproduce or not, will die. This is the nature of things.
Aging begins in adulthood, picks up in middle age, and accelerates after age fifty. No sooner has your body reached its peak in your twenties than it begins its long and slow decline, thus starting decades of change, which is aging. To combat aging, you need to begin anti-aging nutrition at any early age.
Why do you age?
· You age because your intake of nutrients dwindles due to depletion of digestive enzymes and lack of hydrochloric acid in your stomach.
The chronic lack of nutrients in your body may further deteriorate due to the consistent build-up of toxins from foods and the environment.
Time does not age you, but abuse does. Aging is a progressive deficiency disease, and anti-aging is combating that disease.
· Your age because your body’s metabolism rate has decreased, gradually adding physical weight to your body and further increasing your inactivity, which is the Number One enemy of longevity living. Don't stop exercising your body!
Even if you have compromised mobility, you can still do full-body, low-impact exercise while seated. Just get yourself a state-of-the-art resistance chair! Find out more from my website Physical Exercise For All, where you can get all the resources you will need to stay physically fit and healthy.
· Your age because the capacity of your lungs to breathe in and out has reduced, thereby restricting oxygen supply to the rest of your body.
Good posture is especially important as you age. For example, a neck leaning forward will impair the quality of your breathing, thereby affecting your overall health. Go to my website Good Posture to find out how to maintain good posture to enhance your health.
· You age because of the free radicals freely produced in your body, which damage your cells. Cellular damage by free radicals is accumulative over the years, giving the illusion that you age because of time.
All degenerative diseases, such as cancer, heart disease, arthritis, Alzheimer’s disease, are not separate and distinguishable entities: they are merely different expressions of the free-radical damage to your cells. Delaying, if not eradicating, that damage due to free radicals is anti-aging.
With human intelligence and advancement of technology, you can hold on to life a little longer. You are meant to age, but not meant to be immortal. You can bargain with Nature, but you cannot outsmart Nature. Death is inevitable, but dying before your time is not. Beat the clock, and add many more years to your life. And that is what anti-aging is all about.
How you age is a result of how you have lived, an accumulation of the right and wrong things you have done everyday in the past decades.
In spite of what you might have done to your body, there is a great deal of research on anti-aging indicating that your body is infinitely renewable and forgivable. It is never too late to renew both your body and mind with anti-aging strategies.
George Burns, the comedian, once said, “You can’t help getting old, but you don’t have to get old.”
So do something about your aging! And do it now! It is never too early or too late to interrupt the process of aging. The anti-aging nutrition and liquid vitamins cost little compared to the cost of not taking them. Get all your natural herbs, vitamin and mineral supplements from Herbal Remedies, where you can get useful information on dietary supplements related to your ailments.
Live fast and die young
Diseases are not a consequence of aging, but rather of poor lifestyle.
Disease begins at the cellular level. Cherish and nourish your cells with anti-aging herbs and vitamins, such that they regenerate instead of degenerate.
Living to your maximum lifespan is mostly in your hands. Anti-aging experts can tell you what to do about anti-aging, and perhaps you already know what to do. But then you have to do what you have got to do to reverse aging. Only you can make a decision to live an anti-aging healthy lifestyle.
Don’t ignore the anti-aging advice of those anti-aging experts; don’t overindulge yourself in excesses, such as smoking, drinking, and drug abuse; and don’t adopt a happy-go-lucky attitude in your lifestyle.
And don’t even work too hard to reach your goals in life. What are they at the end of your life? Don’t shorten your life to reach those goals you have set for yourself, or to leave a legacy behind. Woody Allen made the point: “I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.”
Therefore, don’t overexert yourself. It is often when you are trying hard to be strong that you are at your weakest. If you learn to relax, you can always find your greatest strength. Learn how to live the anti-aging healthy lifestyle of Zen from my website The Way of Zen.
Remember, death is on the fast lane. Lin Yutang, a well-known contemporary Chinese philosopher, said, "A wise man is never busy, and a busy man is never wise." A sage is one who never seems to be in a hurry, yet gets everything done.
Always strive to live an anti-aging healthy lifestyle. (Read my web page Healthy Living For Healthy Longevity.)
The sky is the limit when it comes to longevity
One of the longest-living men according to The Guinness Book of World Records was a Japanese by the name of Shigechiyo Isumi, who lived to a ripe old age of 120 years and 237 days.
Probably you won’t live as long as he did. Anyway, just aim for that remarkable milestone, if not beyond. Just push the envelope for anti-aging!
(Find out about anti-aging lifestyle and the longevity profile of centenarians from my web page The Okinawa Centenarian Study.)
If you are not going to die from degenerative diseases such as heart disease and cancer, you will just die of total organ shutdown when your cells are no longer able to repair and regenerate. And that, according to Dr. Ronald Klatz, president of the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine in Chicago, “will be at least around age 160.” Therefore, the sky is the limit when it comes to longevity and anti-aging.
Even the Bible gives you a glimpse of how long you may live.
“And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh; yet his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.” Genesis 6:3
The average life expectancy is 72.4. But lifespan is different from life expectancy. You may die tomorrow, or you may live to one hundred and beyond. You don’t have to schedule yourself to die just because you are approaching 72. There are still many years ahead of you. They are within your grasp.
Factors that reverse aging
There are many anti-aging factors that may help you live longer and stay younger:
Genes
Of course, genes play an important role in how you age. There are anti-aging genes: 80 percent of all centenarians are women. There are killer genes, such as those contributing to high cholesterol levels, and hereditary genes accounting for about five percent of breast cancer.
Even if you don’t have good anti-aging genes, you can make up for them through a healthy anti-aging lifestyle.
Optimism
Optimism is anti-aging. Don’t worry and be happy. This is simple and down-to-earth wisdom that holds the key to longevity. All long-lived people are optimistic, and don’t let troubles make them depressed, passive, or inflexible.
Optimistic individuals choose a healthy lifestyle and tend to take advantage of social supports, such as family and friendship.
Of all the problems of negative feelings, the greatest threat to a long life is stress, which often results from negative or pessimistic thoughts.
Ironically, stress can even be anti-aging at times; in fact, good stress can even extend life. Examples of good stress are sexual excitement (read my web page Sexual Health Is Anti-Aging), social excitement, and physical challenge. The main difference between good stress and bad stress is in control. Make stress work for you, instead of against you.
Go to my website:World Religions on Stress Control to understand what world religions have to say about stress control in your life, and get the state-of-the-art device STRESS ERASER to de-stress yourself.
Humor
Humor is a free healthful anti-aging medicine for longevity: it lifts your spirit and lengthens your life.
o You give your face a workout by curling up the corners of your mouth.
o You elevate your heartbeats to 120 per minute to benefit your heart.
o You accelerate your breathing to pump more blood and oxygen to your muscle groups and the rest of your body.
o You change your attitude and perspective on your problems.
Develop a sense of humor in life. Laugh at yourself as well as others. Laughing in the face of adversity, even of death, relieves your stress and lightens your mood.
Humor is the way of life, especially for those who are aging. An individual who has a sense of humor and who laughs all the time lasts and lives longer.
You might say, “This is all well if you were born with a sense of humor or your are funny by nature.” Children laugh a great deal; adults don't laugh enough.
But humor can be acquired and cultivated, and how to be funny can even be learned. How To Be Funny teaches you humor that will change your life, drawing people to you like a magnet. Written by a real, accomplished professional, How To Be Funny will show you "humor success" and cutting-edge humor with advanced techniques to be applied in all unpleasant situations in life for positive outcome.
Curiosity
Curiosity may kill a cat. But curiosity may prolong human life. Curiosity is an anti-aging driving force, which cherishes and enhances your mental capacity.
Continuing education is the way to go to improve yourself, to increase your self-esteem, and to open yourself to new ideas. Continue to learn to improve yourself.
Remember, you do not grow old; however, when you stop growing, you become old. So continue to grow with new knowledge, new ideas, and new endeavors - they are all anti-aging potions.
Healthy love relationship
Many experts believe that a happy marriage holds the key to disease survival. According to research at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Miami, individuals who were married lived longer than those who either were never married, or were separated or divorced. Companionship is anti-aging because it gives you a reason to live or to combat a disease for your spouse.
The trauma of bereavement has a negative impact on longevity living. But it is something that is not within your control. However, it is never too late to look for another partner for the rest of your life. E-Harmony provides excellent service to help individuals of any age to seek lasting love relationships.
Separation and divorce can actually improve health, except a relationship involving sudden discovery of infidelity.
Separation is more detrimental than divorce.
Companionship is anti-aging for the following reasons:
o Companionship leads to opening of your heart to someone dear or close to you; sharing is critical to longevity living, since the lonely, the disenfranchised, and the disconnected often feel their existence purposeless, which may be a cause of suicide among the elderly.
o Sharing thoughts and feelings with others is anti-aging healing in itself.
o Some experts have said, “An individual whose only social role is worker will find problems at work more distressing than another individual who works, has a family, and belongs to social groups.” Stress from social environments is one of the causes of heart attacks in elderly individuals whose immune systems are already impaired and frail.
o Individuals, who are lonely and isolated, are more inclined to smoke and drink, or indulge in binge eating. Feelings of alienation and disconnection are conducive to behaviors that may increase the risk of premature death or disease.
Not only does relationship contribute to good health, "quality" relationship is a prime factor in anti-aging longevity living. To develop and establish "quality" relationship, you need to:
§ Learn the art of communication.
§ Practice expressing feelings that connect, rather than thoughts that may alienate or influence.
§ Listen before you talk; listen more than you talk.
§ Learn to share secrets to invite confidence of others.
§ Learn to become sociable by joining clubs, church, study groups, support groups to develop a sense of community.
§ Learn to develop spirituality for your anti-aging living. (Read my web page Spiritual Health.)
To find out how to improve love relationship, go to my website Mindful of Love Relationship.
Correct breathing
When you were born, you took a long, deep breath that was your first breath of life. Some day when you die, you will take your last, loud gasp before you stop breathing for good. Thus, you both begin and end your life with a breath of life.
You breathe all through your life. Your breath of life from God is essentially life-giving oxygen, without which there is no form of life in you.
Why is correct breathing important to longevity?
o You take about 20,000 breaths each day (12-14 breaths per minute).
o You get rid of your body’s toxins, such as carbon dioxide, through breathing.
o You cleanse and oxygenate your blood through breathing.
o You increase your energy and endurance through breathing.
o You manage and control your pain through breathing.
o You lower your blood pressure and even cholesterol level through breathing.
o You clear your unpleasant emotions through breathing.
o You de-stress yourself through breathing.
o You enhance your concentration and clear-mindedness through breathing.
Breathing gives you invisible food. Maybe that is why you do not pay much attention to it because you cannot see it. Breathing may have become so natural and spontaneous to you that you seem to have taken it for granted all along.
Oxygen from your breathing is transported through blood, providing each one of the cells and organs in your body with invisible food. What gives life, ironically enough, also brings about death - a mastery stroke of your Creator to make sure you will not be immortal. In the very process of living, death is simultaneously created in the form of deadly toxins (carbon dioxide), which are then exchanged for the life-giving oxygen derived from your breathing.
If your outgo of carbon dioxide exceeds your intake of oxygen, you will have serious health problems, such as Cancer. Such imbalance of oxygen and carbon dioxide may be due to not only the quality of air you breathe in, but also how deep you breathe in and out. For more information on oxygenation, go to my website Cancer Treatment Resources.
Deep and slow breathing
All centenarians have one thing in common: they all breathe deeply and slowly.
Rapid breathing always shortens life. That is also true of the animal kingdom: all rodents, which are rapid breathers, have a short lifespan.
Conscious deep breathing may calm and integrate your body and mind. Your body is always breathing, and so are you. Each conscious, deep, and cleansing breath helps you release all negative thoughts and sadness from you. Proper breathing is anti-aging because it de-stresses you. The secret is to take your lungs wherever you go, wherever you are, and whatever situation you may find yourself in - and breathe deeply and slowly.
Proper breathing enhances many healing modalities, including Qi Gong, and Yoga.
The wrong ways to breathe
You are breathing improperly if you try to hold in your stomach or have a flat stomach. You might have been taught wrongly to stand up straight and puff out your chests, while sucking in your gut to hide your flabby midsection.
That, unfortunately, is the wrong way to breathe!
Avoid the pitfalls of taking rapid, small, upper-body breaths, which will starve your body of oxygen, eventually damaging your overall health over time. This is because exhaling carbon dioxide too quickly will disturb the balance of acidity and alkalinity - also known as your pH level - in your blood.
When the acid and alkaline level is unbalanced, a complicated reaction occurs that actually keeps your blood cells from delivering oxygen to your muscles and organs, including your brain.
In addition, shallow breathing - when your upper chest, specifically the muscles at your neck and upper back, takes over the job of breathing - may result in high blood pressure, and racing heartbeats, including heart disease.
Your sedentary lifestyle may further aggravate your breathing. Sitting slows down your breathing, making you unable to get the toxic carbon dioxide out of your body. You will not want your body to be full of aches and pains, and prone to premature aging. You will find your mind more refreshed after a brisk walk or even moving around in your office.
Just do not become a sitter at your desk over a long period. Move around as often as possible. A sedentary posture makes your breathing incomplete.
Western doctors have now begun to realize the importance of proper breathing. In fact, Western doctors now are using breathing techniques for a variety of treatments, for everything from sports performance to reducing high blood pressure, and from headaches to emphysema.
Breathing deeply and slowly
Breathe diaphragmatically! That is to say, breathe deeply enough to make your belly and diaphragm move noticeably.
Breathing is something that you do all the time, but you just do not do it well enough. You need to relearn consciously how to breathe properly and healthily - like a baby.
Yes, make no mistake about it - like a baby! You were born to breathe diaphragmatically. Unfortunately, you may have stopped breathing deeply, as you grow older - often a result of vanity or social pressure.
You simply have to re-learn your way of breathing. Once you get it and start practicing it, you can see what a difference it will make in your life.
Teaching deep breathing should be an important aspect of modern medicine, because improper shallow breathing is a recipe for a variety of disease. Improper breathing often leads to everyday stress in the form of anxiety and even panic.
Remember, you take literally thousands upon thousands of breaths each day, and there is no special trick to turning some of them into deep breaths. Just be conscious of your breathing at all times, such that your breathing habits may become habitual and ingrained.
How to breathe deeply
· Find a comfortable place to sit down, and put yourself in a relaxed mode with your feet comfortably on the floor. Place your hand on your stomach.
· Breathe in slowly through your nose on a count of five, while gently pushing your hand up on your stomach.
· Hold your breath for a count of five.
· Breathe out through your mouth also on a count of five, while pushing your hand down on your stomach.
· Repeat. Allow your eyes to close as your breath deepens so your belly begins to rise and fall.
Begin with five to ten minutes of deep breathing at a time, several times a day, and see how you feel. Surely, you have the time for that! You can lengthen your sessions as you become more comfortable. It is a worthwhile investment of your time until deep breathing becomes second nature to you. You will soon be doing it naturally throughout the day without any conscious effort.
Do not fret if you cannot do the exercise correctly right away. It takes practice. You are in control, and you can stop at any time. Take it as slowly as needed. Just be persistent.
Deep breathing, however, is not a miracle cure for your everyday problems. It only provides your body with better ammunition to deal with them.
Find out from my website Good Posture how posture can directly affect breathing, and hence your physical health.
Oriental approach to anti-aging breathing
In the Orient, Yoga, Qi Gong, and Zen meditation all teach correct breathing as the basic principle for practice. This is because correct breathing focuses on the power of qi (anti-aging internal life force) which radiates throughout your entire body.
While Western medicine breathing techniques focus only on getting more oxygen into the lower lungs, the Oriental approach focuses on a more elevated level - getting more anti-aging internal life force into the body.
Qi is the essence of breath. As such, breath is your connection to the universe, and your conscious use of it as a means of living in harmony with heaven and earth. This is because your breath assumes the middle position between your conscious and unconscious life; the rhythm of your breath may be consciously controlled from the center of your autonomic nervous system. Your awareness of your breathing is the first step in becoming conscious of the otherwise unconscious processes of your organs.
Oriental healers understand the most powerful force in living things: the power of qi. This may be too abstract and inexplicable, even to the extent of incredible, for most Western doctors because qi is not definable and quantifiable. However, Oriental healers have thousands of years of accomplishment of success of medical systems based on the management of qi.
Probably the most well known system of cure based on qi is acupuncture. Acupuncture charts show twelve major meridians (paths that qi flows through) in your body, as well as minor meridians and other points across your entire body. The acupuncturist uses hair-thin needles placed in designated spots along these meridians to stimulate your body's energy or life force, thereby instrumental in initiating the process of natural healing.
Qi has everything to do with your breathing. You do much more than simply getting more oxygen into the lower lobes of your lungs. You actually radiate anti-aging life energy through your entire body if you breathe correctly.
The ancient Chinese believed that when your qi is stalled in your body, you become sick. When you breathe correctly, your energy is able to travel through your entire body more freely, thereby promoting self-healing and preventing disease. That is why qi is the basis of so many Eastern-healing arts. They believe that healing and wellness stem from the care and management of that central life force, the energy system that is within every living creature. When qi flows freely and smoothly, your body's organs and systems are in a state of harmony. When qi becomes blocked, imbalance and illness often result. (To find out more about qi, read Natural Healing For Longevity Health.)
To breathe is to live. To inhale fully is to live fully - manifesting the full range and power of your inborn potential for vitality in everything that you sense, feel, and do.
To inhale deeply and fully is to empty yourself, enabling you to open yourself to the unknown, to awaken your inner healing potential, thereby giving you the energy of wholeness, which is essential to natural healing. Correct breathing is anti-aging!
Calm emotions
Learn how to keep a calm and balanced center. Avoid extreme emotions of all kinds, especially as you grow older. Nothing drains the internal energy from your body as quickly, nor disrupts the functional harmony of your vital organs as completely, as your strong outbursts of emotion. Your disease is deeply rooted in the strata of your being - how you react to people around you and the natural world.
Do you know which kind of food is the most nourishing? Your calm and relaxed mind. From your own experience, you know a troubled mind spoils not only your appetite but also your health.
Learn to balance your emotions not by suppressing or ignoring them, but by harmonizing and transforming them, such that they become part of your spirituality. When you are captive to your emotions, that is, allowing yourself to be controlled by them, it would be difficult for you to become spiritual.
(Read my web page Spiritual Health.)
Learn to deal with your everyday stress as you continue to age.Get back your anti-aging lifestyle by conquering stress. Conquering Stress may help you find natural relief, without medication, from stress, depression, and anxiety, which are characteristics of ailments associated with aging.
Worrying about the future will cause distress in the present; despairing about the past will cripple you in the present. So, live in the eternal now, and you will have power over both the past and the future. Always live in the present. Even Jesus says: "Give us this day our daily bread ...." (emphasis added), so live the present to the fullest.
Remember, emotions are energy states: they can either contribute to your energy or deplete it.
Do not allow yourself to go to the extreme with your emotions that you lose control. Find the middle place, neither extreme joy nor extreme sorrow, so that you can have harmony and peace for longevity.
To be able to bend with the wind will enable you to live, not only longer, but happier.
For more information on calming emotion, go to my other websites Anger Management, and also Rethink Your Depression.
Herbs against aging
Herbs are the world’s oldest medicines with thousands of years of wisdom. Herbs give everlasting strength, whereas regular foods give only temporary strength. Some of the best and indispensable herbs against aging are as follows:
o Burdock: to detoxify body
o Dong quai: to provide hormone health
o Garlic: to reduce cholesterol
o Ginkgo biloba: to help memory problems
o Ginseng: to provide physical and mental vitality
o Grape seed: to fight oxidation at the cellular level
o Milk thistle: to reverse liver damage due to pharmaceuticals
o Psyllium: to combat constipation, potential risk for colon cancer
o Saint-John’s-wort: to treat mild depression
o Saw palmetto: to shrink the prostate
o Valerian: to induce a restful sleep
The Home Made Medicine teaches you how to prepare and make your home-made remedies from herbs for all ailments and disorders, including shampoos and mouthwash. You save a lot over not using those toxic over-the-counter drugs and medications.
For all your herbal needs, go to Herbal Remedies. Also, visit my website on Herbal Cures.
Temperance
The best thing is to eat a little of everything and not a lot of anything. (Read my web page Longevity Wisdom on calorie restriction for longevity.)
Health assessment
As you continue to age, it is important to take inventory of your health to monitor your health conditions:
o Blood pressure check
o Blood count - the quality of blood, the optimum of three types of blood cells (red cells, white cells, and platelets)
o Urinalysis to look for signs of urinary tract infections, prostate problems, kidney dysfunction, diabetes, and some cancers
o Tuberculosis test
o Cholesterol screening
o Regular eye exam
It is also equally important to note disturbing signs of failing health or imminent disease:
o Sudden change in bowel or bladder habits
o A hard-to-heal sore
o Unusual bleeding
o A lump or thickening
o Continual indigestion or difficult swallowing
o Hoarseness and prolonged coughing
Causes of death
Death has no meaning, while living has a meaning and purpose. (Read my web page Death At The End.)Therefore, live long.
Aging does not kill you. If you have a normal life expectancy, you will live long. The medical and biological anti-aging advances today as well as those over the next ten to twenty years will allow you to live past 100 and beyond. Time is on your side - if you will use it wisely and properly. Death from old age will become a thing of the past if you lead an anti-aging lifestyle.
But disease and accidents may kill you. Death due to accidents and violence will not disappear - they will happen to anyone because of poor judgment, bad luck, and evil doers. Avoid them wherever possible.
You may also kill yourself by committing suicide - which is a silent killer in the aging process.
Did you know . . . .suicide is the ninth leading cause of death in the United States?
Nobel-Prize writer Ernest Hemingway once said, “A long life deprives a man of his optimism.” There may be some truth to that, and Hemingway’s own wayward lifestyle certainly attested to that statement, when he took his own life.
Remember, in life, you reap what you sow. Your healthy lifestyle determines the quality and quantity of your life. If you have done all the wrong things in your life, there is every reason for you to live poorly in the later years. If you do not have a positive attitude towards anti-aging living, a long life may indeed deprive you of your optimism, and suicide may ultimately be the only way out. How tragic and yet how true!
Factors that contribute to suicide in the elderly are many:
· Personal loss due to bereavement or divorce
· Drinking and drug problems
· Sickness and physical suffering
· Loneliness and isolation
· Genetic link
Signs of suicide
· Thoughts and talking of death
· Making final arrangements
· Previous suicide attempts
· Prolonged depression
Physical, mental, and spiritual health, as well as a positive anti-aging attitude to adaptation and adjustment to changes in your life are the best ways to avert suicide as you age.
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Stephen Lau
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