The Rate Of Aging - Inherited Genetics Plus Important Lifestyle Choices
The rate of aging
varies significantly in individual humans for many different reasons. If we
study a large sample of people who are middle aged or older, the impact of these
differences become quite obvious, but the vast majority of people do not
understand the complex underlying cause-and-effect relationships.
In general, most
human genetic adaptations in a large population take place very slowly over long
periods of time. The human life form has changed very little over many
thousands of years. In contrast, lifestyle changes that dramatically impact the
rate of aging take place quickly in a single lifetime – significant benefits
can be achieved in only a few weeks.
For example, there
has been a significant increase in American morbid obesity since World War II.
For the last twenty years, American obesity has increased 200% to 300%,
depending on age group. More than 60% of Americans are now overweight. 30% to
50% of Americans (over 100 million) are obese, depending on sex and ethnic
group. As the “body mass index” increases, the risk of deadly diseases
increase, while life expectancy decreases significantly. The U.S. Centers for
Disease Control state that obesity is costing over $117 BILLION per year, and
increasing each year.
Many deadly
weight-related, age-accelerating diseases like heart disease (heart attack and
brain stroke), high blood pressure, type II diabetes, cancer and obstructive
sleep apnea (respiration blockage during sleep) have increased dramatically,
due to daily lifestyle choices of poor nutrition, fast foods, insufficient
exercise, improper negative thought patterns and irrational decision-making
cognitive processes.
The expensive,
rapid decline in the health of our sedentary society in recent years cannot
possibly be due to inherited genetics, but they are often passed from
parents to their innocent children through injurious unhealthy lifestyle
training examples.
Food intake has
increased, while the level of healthy exercise has decreased. The average
portion size of unhealthy french fries, sugar drinks and candy bars have
increased 400% to 500% in the last thirty years. In only 20 years, the average
weight of American women has jumped from 140 pounds to 164 pounds (largely due
to low fat, low protein, high carbohydrate female diets).
More Americans spend more time in front of computers, televisions and video games (eating large quantities of bad snacks), and less time standing, walking, playing sports, exercising and doing heavy labor. Parents are transferring their poor lifestyle choices to their children, with dramatic life threatening results. An alarming number of young children are getting adult-onset diabetes, etc.
Overspecialization will Prevent an Integrated Solution
Specialists must learn more-and-more about less-and-less, until they become totally useless when they know everything about nothing at all. (smile)
Our non-learning world is now so chaotically complex and super-specialized that very few people can see The Big Picture, or think about Large-Scale Innovative Integrated Sustainable Solutions. Our ineffective self-proclaimed "leaders" are overwhelmed with far-too-many details. They almost-always lack elevated holistic perspective.
Medical Doctors and Hospitals KILL 200,000 Americans each yearby avoidable Iatrogenic errors, and their malpractice mutilates, and misleads many millions more.
Doctors often enter into business partnerships. When one commits malpractice, the partners often lie and cover up the error - to minimize their malpractice insurance premiums. It is the only way they can stay in business.
Another problem created by overspecialization is the "Not My Job" syndrome. Your General Practitioner (GP) says: "You'll have to see a specialist about that." One specialist sends you to another - ad nauseum - Your problem is not correctly diagnosed or solved.
If a fat man visits gynecologists, they'll probably diagnose him as pregnant. (chuckle) If the only tool you have is a saw, you'll keep cutting a board that is too short even shorter. Very rarely does a person with one internal organ problem not have complications that impact other organs. What is the original source cascading cause and effect? How do your organs and the specialists that treat them interact with each other (if at all)? Medical Doctors refuse to learn modern computer communication and information integration technology - Their schedule is already too full - Half a dozen unsafe pharmaceutical vendors all want to take them to play golf this week!
Specialists often contradict each other. Eventually they say "You'll have to return to your GP to coordinate all of this." The GP sends you to yet another specialist: "Not MY Job" - Catch 22. Many people eventually die of drug interactions from different specialists, or failure to accurately diagnosis a complex problem and treat it correctly in time.
Republicans want to deregulate expensive inept profiteering health care, and slash medical malpractice claims, which would increase doctor's profits and reduce their motivation to improve poor malpractice health care quality and integration of conflicting specialities. They do NOT want to hold inept and unscrupulous Medical Doctors accountable for repeated avoidable malpractice mistakes. Failure to prosecute criminals encourages their immoral behavior.
Removing the punishment for medical malpractice is like the Bush $700 Billion taxpayer bailout of the big banks that created our 2008 economic crisis. Arrogant Wall Street bankers did many immoral / unethical things that blew a $15 Trillion hole in America's economic system, putting millions out of work. Bush bailed them out, so they could pay themselves billions of dollars in undeserved bonuses. INSANE Corrupt Politics-As-Usual.
Medical Doctor and corrupt Senator Rand Paul (R) thinks that Medical Doctors should receive increased compensation, but that union workers should take at least a 10% salary cut. Did you vote for him?
Medical Doctors are so used to high-profit, over-specialized, isolated malpractice-as-usual that they STILL do not use 1980's Personal Computer Spreadsheet Technology to study cause-and-effect of medications from multiple doctors. In MANY cases medical symptoms are PREDICTABLE side effects, complex interactions, and left-over metabolites from TOO MANY PRESCRIPTION and OVER-THE-COUNTER MEDICATIONS (and bad lifestyle choices).
It has been said many times that "We are what we eat." Nutrition is one of the most significant of all human health issues, BUT, medical doctors have almost NO formal training in nutrition. For example, hydrogenated trans-fat margarine (a laboratory-produced unnatural chemical) causes far more heart-disease artery plaque build up than butter (which is a natural food), but for decades Medical Doctors ignored documented nutrition science. When they put heart-attack patients in the hospital, they fed them deadly margarine, and arrogantly taught their unskeptical dying patients to imitate this insane stupidity. My (the research scientist) father refused to eat margarine. He knew how trans-fats are made, and how they clog human arteries causing brain strokes and heat attacks. Dad knew more about nutrition than any of his medical doctors did, (as do I).
"We caution homebuyers AGAINST the use of popular "ionic" air fresheners
They are designed to introduce harmful ionic "free radicals" like unhealthy ozone, etc. into the air that their users breathe. Intelligent humans intentionally consume "antioxidants" (fruits, vegetables, and food supplements) to neutralize free radicals from our polluted environment, extend our lives, and slow the oxidative aging process. SO, Why buy a device designed to generate free radical ions?
Using a device that increases powerful free radical ionic oxidizers has been shown to be a really dumb idea, despite what the late night cable television advertisements say. Ionic air fresheners do remove certain types of allergenic particles from the air, BUT they are unsafe due to their long-term "burning" of the lung's alveoli (air exchange sacks).
Ionic air fresheners should be legally banned from use by non-professionals. Ionic air fresheners should ONLY be used when no one is in the home, and then immediately turned off when any air-breathing occupant arrives. The worst possible use of such an unhealthy device would be to sleep near an ionic air freshener. Your allergies may be reduced, but so will your life expectancy.
How Joyful Aging Can Help
If one physician offers you no hope of a cure or a
satisfactory, effective, affordable, low-risk treatment, then we suggest that
you seek additional information and second opinion(s) from multiple types of
qualified specialists and information sources.
