Various Changes Caused In Our Body Due To Aging

May 8, 2008 by antiagingyoga

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Aging process brings with it myriad type of problems in human body. There is more susceptibility to cancer with age. It is because the metabolism process, that of cell repair and elimination of defective cells lessens. The musculoskeletal system, the gastrointestinal, sexual, and endocrine organs also function at lower than optimum levels.

 

With aging there is a significant reduction in muscle mass and strength. Spinal disks become thinner, cartilage and ligaments begin a process of degeneration. The tissues are less elastic making the person individual less flexible and mobile. With aging there is a loss of height and an increase in bone fractures. Arthritis is a very common ailment associated with aging leading to greater joint wear and tear.

 

Aging process also cause the nervous system to be affected. Nerve sensitivity and transmission diminishes, our brain mass decreases in volume, our reflexes slow, and there is a measurable decline in learning capacity and memory. Senility may result from the diminishing nervous system function along with the effects of reduced circulation.  There is a 20% chance of those aged above 65 contracting brain degenerative ailments like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.

 

Aging causes the energy metabolism rate and thyroid hormone function to diminish thereby decreasing the overall energy level. Lowered insulin sensitivity and pancreatic deficiency lead to diabetes. Body fat percentages including the visceral fat usually increase with age. Men find that their sex drive has been reduced because the levels of sex hormones have declined. Women may suffer from osteoporosis due to lack of progesterone and estrogen. Both men and women may develop arthritis, cancer, heart disease, or stroke.

 

In short, our ability to function optimally in the world deteriorates and our minds and bodies slow. This is like our biological clock slowly ticking into silence.

 


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Anti Aging Creams Do Not Stop Internal Aging Process

May 8, 2008 by antiagingyoga

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No anti aging cream has any impact on internal aging process. Aging causes gradual erosion of molecular, cellular and biological life and energy in our body. Most organs of the body and tissues deteriorate to produce the condition known as old age. The rate of aging varies greatly from individual to individual, outer physical changes occur. Once abundant hair begins to thin, grows more slowly, and turns gray. Wrinkles appear around habitually furrowed eyes. As we age we begin to shrink in stature due to poor posture and compressed spinal vertebrae. Our Waistlines expand as body fat begins to replace firm body muscle. The vocal cords stiffen, the lens of the eye thickens and the pupils shrink, the eardrums grow flaccid, the lungs lose their elasticity, and the heart’s pumping action diminishes.

In essence, aging is a general process of deterioration, which produces a series of changes in the body. The subtle and gross changes in the cardiovascular and respiratory systems lead to poor delivery of oxygen and nutrients to the tissues. It is the impaired  levels of oxygen in the body along with nutrient deficiencies that causes most of the problems of aging. A reduction in heart pumping action and decreased lung capacity reduces oxygen delivery. At the same time, aging individuals causes the blood vessels to become increasingly stiff, which leads to high blood pressure, poor circulation, and risk of heart disease. 

Aging causes other organs to go into a breakdown, especially the lungs and kidneys, which seem to be affected faster than the other organs. Aging causes the kidneys to become less efficient at extracting wastes from the blood. Bladder capacity also declines. In aging men, the prostate gland often enlarges blocking release of urine from the bladder and causing damage to the kidneys.


 

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Effects Of Aging In Our Body

May 8, 2008 by antiagingyoga

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The aging process affects various vital parts of our body.

 

Brain: Brain loses cells and mass ON AGING. While a normal brain weighs around three pounds at age 20 it may weight as much as 10% lower by age 90. The neural network (i.e.) the connections between brain cells could also be lesser. There is a diminished mental capacity. The ventricles in the brain which are filled with fluids get larger. There is a marked fading of memory in normal people in their fifties. There is an increasing chance of brain degenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s striking after the age of 60.

 

 

Eye sight: There is an increased difficulty in seeing nearby objects in one’s forties. There is a gradual ability to see fine details. By the age of 50, lifelong thickening of the lens causes a noticeable decrease in night vision and ability to focus on close objects. Glare, low levels of illumination, and less ability to discern moving objects cause vision problems. Cataracts begin to develop and the likelihood of macular degeneration (caused in part by hardening of the arteries within the eyeball) increases.

 

Hearing: The sense of hearing begins to decline about age 20 and worsens faster in adult men than in women. There is a decreased ability to hear higher frequencies as individuals get older.

 

Sense of smell and taste declines slowly at the age of 45 and faster after the age of 65.

 

There is a considerable drop in maximum breathing capacity between age 20 and 70 due to chest wall constriction. This prevents the lungs from completely filling on inhalation or emptying on exhalation. As a result, a greater quantity of air is left in lungs after each breath, leading to decreased aerobic capacity.

 

 

The aging process affects almost all the organs and tissues of our body

Thymus Gland produces hhormones that stimulate the production of certain infection-fighting cells. This gland bbegins to shrink at puberty, causing immune system response to slowly decline as aging sets in our body.

 

There is gradual deterioration of immune System. The functioning population of T cells (white blood cells) declines with age. Also, T cells subjected to trauma take longer to renew in the elderly.

 

Bones are living systems and are constantly being remodeled (torn down and rebuilt). After about age 35, and more in women than men, the forces of breakdown begin to overtake the rebuilding processes as bones become porous and brittle, leaving an individual vulnerable to fractures. Women are prone to diseases like osteoporoses with aging. In many elderly, joints begin to wear down, get stiff, and deteriorate. Cartilage melts away, causing bones to brush against each other unprotected, leading to arthritis.

 

Muscles/Fat:  There is a rapid decline of muscle mass by as much as 25% between the ages of 30 and 70, if adequate exercise is not maintained. The body redistributes fat with age, from just underneath the skin to deeper areas of the body. In women fat is stored in the hips and thighs and in men it is stored in the abdominal area. The hand-grip strength of a 75-year-old is only about much less than that of a 30-year-old.

 

There is generally no decline in output since the heart is able to pump more efficiently, despite the fact the heart grows slightly larger with age. Many people see a 20% decline in maximum rate during exercise after age 40, because the heart becomes less responsive to stimulation from the nervous system. The heart uses less oxygen as we age. In men, a 1% decline with each year of life can be expected.

 


 
 

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Aging is a process of progressive deterioration with time.

May 8, 2008 by antiagingyoga

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Aging is a process of progressive deterioration with time. Aging process makes our bodies less responsive, less viable, and more vulnerable to disease. Wrinkles on skin, thinning hair, receding hemlines, and tendency to put on more weight despite consuming less food, decreasing energy & stamina, decrease in level of sexual life, susceptibility to major degenerative ailments are the signs that mean that aging process is setting in our body.

 

 Aging process t is considered as an inevitable part of the human life cycle. Men always wanted to avoid aging. The field of longevity medicine is uncovering the reasons why people age. Factors most commonly cited include defective genes, chronic stress, hormone imbalances, increase in free radicals, an accumulation of bodily toxins, and a tired or overactive immune system. In essence, aging is a general process of deterioration, which pro¬duces a constellation of changes in the body. “Many subtle and gross changes in the cardiovascular and respiratory systems lead to poor delivery of oxygen and nutrients to the tissues.

 

There could be many primary reasons behind aging but what is common is that as we get older, not only is our physical appearance is altered, but other changes take place inside our body. Aging process is like a clock winding down; it gradually leaves our cells, tissues, organs, and systems less vital with greatly diminished functional capacity.

 

Emergence of The Alternative Medicine as a means to ward off, delay and prevent aging is offering new hope. The aging process may be slowed and even reversed, making it possible to add years to your life and life to your years with the help of proper Alternative Medicines.

 

 

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Anti aging therapy Delays the onset of aging and increase the number of disease-free years

May 8, 2008 by antiagingyoga

America is aging very fast. Within another 15 years (i.e.) by the  year  2025, 70 million Americans will be above the age of 65. And in the year 2040, as many as one million people will be centenarians celebrating their 100th birthdays.  But few people would want to reach such an elderly age if they knew they wouldn’t have the physical strength to blow out the birthday candles or would be too weak to cut the cake. Anti aging medicine is not simply about extending life for the mere sake of extending life. The aim of real anti aging therapy would be to delay the onset of aging and increase the number of vital, disease-free years that you can expect to enjoy.

 

There is also huge economics fallout of aging as well. In the United States, we spend over a trillion dollars on medical care each year, much of it devoted to crisis intervention and chronic care of elderly population. The diseases that afflict the elderly like cancer, diabetes, heart disease, osteoporosis, Alzheimer’s disease, arthritis, autoimmune disorders, and other conditions associated with aging cause a huge financial strain. As we continue to age as a population, we run the risk of stretching the health care spending beyond acceptable limits.  By taking the alternative approach of using strategies to maintain health throughout life and prevent illness before it occurs—we could potentially save billions of dollars in health-care costs every year.

 

Conventional medicine generally offers drug treatments or surgery once an illness has happened and does little to prevent health problems. In addition, these conventional approaches are often fraught with serious side effects. Alternative medicine recognizes that illnesses do not have a single underlying cause, but multiple factors acting in tandem overload our body systems to cause the ailments.

 

 

 

Our society is aging fast and with health problems of our elderly citizens. Preventing age related ailments and deterioration of mental and physical strength is the most important aspect of anti aging medicine. Merely increasing years to our life is not sufficient. The underlying causes of illnesses and diseases among eldelrly have to be treated. Modern conventional medicine treats only the symptoms and only after the disease has set in. Healing these underlying causes which lead to premature aging brings lasting relief and renewed vitality. This is the basic principle of alternative medicine and the reason why it succeeds where conventional medicine often fails in treatment of chronic disease. Merely masking the symptoms of diseases as in conventional treatment will not help anyone to live longer with required physical and mental caliber.

Health problems are not an inevitable part of aging—alternative medicine has practical solutions for identifying and treating underlying causes of illness and can help prevent disease from occurring in the first place. Once you identify and treat the age-accelerating factors that combine to slow you down, you can live a more vital and healthy life. Many patients are able to reverse their health problems and slow the aging process using alternative medicine.

Safe, non invasive alternative therapies can help you age well and successfully. There are many things you can do to impact the rate at which you age, such as improving nutrition, reducing stress, detoxifying the body, boosting immune function, balancing hormones, and rebuilding brain power. By starting now to stay healthy, not only can illnesses be avoided, but your overall vitality can be sustained as you age. Start with the alternative therapies to slow the aging process and increase both life expectancy and the quality of your life.

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