Adding a decade to the end of your life...

[Magical Realist]

Outstanding interview with cutting edge researcher Dr. Peter Attia on increasing our longevity past age 75. Spoiler alert: it involves exercise. But heck, it might just be worth it! Those daily park walks are looking better all the time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAWnYi4xf5g

[Syne]

If you're smart, as soon as you start to see/feel the signs of aging, you start an exercise routine/habit. It's easier to start before aches and pains set in, and it can help protect against and work out many of them. My knees were starting to act up, but squats, to build the muscles supporting the joints, and glucosamine supplements have worked wonders. My goal is to be more fit every year.

[Magical Realist]

In the past month my left knee has been painful. I couldn't figure out why. I hadn't strained it. I thought maybe it was due to the pressure of crossing my right leg on it when I sat in my recliner. So I started consciously not doing that. Over the past week it's gotten better and better. I am going to the park to walk every day now to loosen it up. I will not go down without fighting. lol

https://www.toc.md/2018/12/21/is-crossin...our-knees/

[C C]

Exercise is it, alright. Along with minimally processed vegetables and fruit, and supplements.

I walk up and down a steep hill several times a day (one round in the morning, another in the evening).

Standing up to bend down and touch my toes 150 to 200 times daily is the only thing keeping the backaches away. (I swiftly learned that when I had to temporarily stop it for a couple of weeks.)

Always start out small in quantity (with respect to whatever activity) and simply add one more each day until reaching the goal. But exercises like push-ups probably could kill a person if only beginning them from the late 40s to the 60s, after the blood vessels have started clogging up. Yet, for firefighters who began them earlier in life, they lower the incidence of cardiovascular trouble. (According to one study.)

Of course, I'm still going to die earlier than I otherwise would, because I don't go to the doctor to get check-ups for myself. I'm purely just doing what I can to avoid the 15 or twenty medications that s/he would otherwise be incrementally prescribing me, along with the hospital stays, and having to use the Walmart disability scooter... while I AM still alive.

[Magical Realist]

Always start out small in quantity (with respect to whatever activity) and simply add one more each day until reaching the goal

I am presently walking one lap of the park enough to get my heart rate up for 10 minutes. I will increase it to two laps as I get more in shape. With any luck I will transition to jogging, which is something I haven't done since my years in the Navy.

Of course, I'm still going to die earlier than I otherwise would, because I don't go to the doctor to get check-ups for myself.

You should. Do you have healthcare? I am pretty much set with free healthcare thru the VA. Catching conditions early like colon cancer and diabetes and glaucoma and liver disease is vital. And everyone should get at least one MRI early to rule out aneurisms.