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Delay, Prevent and Reverse Aging
People are born with an energy for living that, unless
continuously restored, will fade with age. After about age 25, unless care
is taken to replenish energy, many people stop growing up and begin growing
old. Aging is optional and controllable for most motivated people, and
degeneration may be delayed, and, in some cases, reversed.
Degenerated body tissues are unlikely to be replaced,
except perhaps by major surgery. The degeneration of aged tissues is far
easier to prevent than to repair.
Aging & Life Coaching
The deterioration of bodily functions that accompany old
age is often considered a one-way road towards suffering and death. Although
many theories explain one or two aspects of aging; no single theory explains all
aging phenomena. Yet many changes associated with old age are not from natural
aging - but from diseases which occur more frequently with increased age. With
appropriate care, people can delay, prevent many of the problems of old age,
and even reverse the aging process.
Systemic Coaching can help you delay and prevent your
fragmentation and loss of mental resources associated with ageing.
As time passes, cellular damage accumulates and impairs the
function of a tissue. If the damage interferes with metabolism, whole organs
may malfunction. An example of this is adult-onset diabetes, which can often
be controlled by diet and exercise.
One theory of aging assumes that the life span of a cell or
organism is genetically determined. Another theory of aging assumes that cell
death is the result of the formation of enzymes that do not work efficiently.
Yet another theory assumes that aging is due to the gradual accumulation of
mutant cells that do not perform normally. (The natural mutation may be
increased dramatically by toxins, radiations and carcinogens associated with
Diseases of Old Age
Old Age & the Cardiovascular system
The heart changes with advancing age, gradually losing
muscle, and reducing in performance. Heart diseases are the biggest cause of
death after age 65.
- The heart does not contract as rapidly in older people.
In response to exercise, the heart can double or triple the amount of blood
pumped, although the maximum output diminishes with age.
- Arteriosclerosis (hardening of the arteries) is a
progressive disorder and is present in most people by middle age,
and increases markedly with age.
- Blood vessels become less elastic with age, with a
progressive thickening of the walls of blood vessels. These changes may
increase blood pressure, increasing the work of the heart.
Old Age & Digestion
The overall digestion of sugar, proteins, vitamins, and minerals are similar to young people. Most nutritional deficiencies can be avoided if the diet assures all nutritional elements. Deficiencies are most likely to develop from poor eating habits, such as excessive sugars and refined flour. The loss of teeth in elderly people is often a result of long-term neglect.
Old Age & the Nervous system
Human behavior requires the brain to integrate information from the eye and ear, skin and internal organs. There is only a slight loss of brain cells in old age, however, brain cells are extremely sensitive to oxygen deficiency. Consequently, it is likely that loss of brain cells results from heart disease, which reduces oxygen delivery to the brain.
Old Age & Vision
From about age 50 there is an accelerated decline in the ability to discriminate detail, usually compensated for by spectacles and increased illumination. Aging reduces the ability to focus the eyes for viewing near objects, so that distant objects can be seen more clearly than close objects.
Sensitivity to darkness and glare is also greater in the old than in the young, and the incidence of eye disease, such as glaucoma and cataracts, increases with age.
A rare childhood disease is characterized by many aspects of aging, such as baldness and thin skin. Children with this disease rarely usually die of old age - as teenagers. Premature aging is associated with lifestyle - such as sunlight, smoking, alcohol and overeating.
Causes of Aging
People exposed to hard radiation die younger, although the only definite effect of continuous irradiation throughout life is cancer. Diseases such as leukemia increase after irradiation. Natural radioactivity in the body, from the Earth and from cosmic rays, are not major contributors to aging, but increase the incidence of cancer.
Many organisms live longer at low temperatures. A rate-of-living theory holds that an organism's life span depends on critical substances that are used faster at higher temperatures. Some aging may occur as a result of heat destruction of proteins, but this does not seems to be a strong contributing factor.
The psychological features of aging are impaired short-term memory and longer reaction times. Yet some aged people become fearful and depressed, withdraw from social contact, or act like children to their own children. Some aged people commit suicide or passively invite death with self-destructive, unhealthy lifestyle choices.
Elderly people can acquire new information and remember it as well as the young. Age differences in learning increase with the difficulty of the material to be learned. People who “age successfully” often maintain their mental alertness by continuing to learn and by social contacts with younger people.
Stress . Depression . Suicide . Anxiety
Parenthood and Aging
Human life, including old age and death, is focused on successfully creating and raising children. Old age is linked to the reproductive process. Although the onset of old age is gradual, without specific systemic or environmental cause; an early manifestation of age is a decline in sexual performance.
The proportional contribution of an individual to a family or community diminishes as the number of living children increases. This implies an optimum number of children that reflects the survival of those children to maturity. In many developing countries, the number of living children is proportional to the food supply. Before medical advances, an optimum number of children would balance those who could be expected to die from disease. In modern industrial countries, the optimum number of children reflects the beliefs and values of the parents.
Children, and later grandchildren, provide a natural focus and purpose for older people. In many cultures, there is a special relationship between grandparents and grandchildren. The children often gain indulgent "second parents", while most grandparents enjoy caring for their children's children.
Advantages of Aging
In most traditional cultures, the elders represented the knowledge of the community, and were the teachers of the young. In Western cultures, old people are often seen as liabilities, and inexperienced young adults teach "academic subjects" instead of the wisdom of life experience. If older relatives are perceived to limit the freedom of the young; then "old folks homes" may be perceived
Older people tend to have more time and patience, acting
as family and community mentors. They have seen more of life; they have
solved more problems and they are not so easily shocked. They have seen
birth and death, health and disease. They have a perspective of joy and suffering - of
life and death - that younger people cannot easily imagine.
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about medical symptoms or other medical questions.
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