How Old Are You Really?
Sometimes it make sense to question what we know (or think we know). How often have we heard the saying about “you’re just getting old”. When you go to the doctors and they turn around and say very simply “oh! It’s your age catching up with you”. Those aches and pains that you wake up in the morning with are they just showing you’re getting old or are they simply a symptom of something out of balance.In these next few days we are going to provoke, unashamedly, a discussion about ageing and if we can stop it. Many will disagree, some may get angry, some will dismiss us as crackpots and some will learn things that will change the way that they think as a result may change the outcome of their latter years.
So to start with but look at the 10 biomarkers of ageing proposed by the medical community:
Biomarker 1: Your Muscle Mass
Biomarker 2: Your Strength
Biomarker 3: Your Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR)
Biomarker 4: Your Body Fat Percentage
Biomarker 5: Your Aerobic Capacity
Biomarker 6: Your Body’s Blood-Sugar Tolerance
Biomarker 7: Your Cholesterol/HDL Ratio
Biomarker 8: Your Blood Pressure
Biomarker 9: Your Bone Density
Biomarker 10:Your Body’s Ability to Regulate Its Internal Temperature
A continuing controversy is whether there exist processes of ageing per se, which can be identified and studied independently of age-related disease. It is clear that there are age-related risk factors for disease, and that these overlap with risk factors for ageing, but there is disagreement about whether diseases to which older persons are vulnerable should be considered merely by-products of ageing, or an essential component of the ageing processes.
In response to “How old are you” He would say, “How you suppose to answer if you didn’t know how old you was?” Paige never knew his exact chronological age because he was born before good records were kept. He used to tell people to use his performance on the pitcher’s mound to estimate his age. But that was almost impossible because Paige’s long heyday as a leading pitcher stretched from the 1920’s to 1950’s.
If you didn’t know your age how would you feel?
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