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Biomarkers of Tissue and Organ Aging Part 2
Author: fiona
Breathe Easier. Your breathing capacity is an excellent measure of how strong your ventilatory muscles still are and how compliant your lungs remain. Two simple measures taken by your doctor can diagnose problems that can increase your rate of aging. The ? rst is the maximum amount of air you can breathe out quickly, which is known as your forced expiratory volume in one second, with the second measure being the total amount of air you can breathe in and out (your forced vital capacity). Diseases like emphysema can severely limit your breathing ability and increase your biological age. If you currently smoke, the best thing you can do to slow your lungs’ more rapid rate of aging is to stop smoking.
read comments (0)Biomarkers of Tissue and Organ Aging
Author: fiona
Different tissues and organs change over time at varying rates, so enhancing their function by taking the steps in this book will likely slow your rate of biological aging and, in some cases, even reverse it. Some of the more common biomarkers for aging that you can have tested are listed in the following sidebar. Unfortunately, most of them you can’t do on your own, but by learning more about them, you will at least know which tests to consider having at some point.
How Old Are You Really?
Author: fiona
“My birth certi?cate was in the Bible and the goat ate the Bible.”
—Leroy Robert “Satchel” Paige (1906–1982)
Your chronological age is your actual age in years from the date of your birth; however, what really matters is your physiological, or biological, age. This latter age is an estimate of your well-being and general health compared to others of your age and to those who are younger or older than you. People who are limited by health problems at ?fty are considered to be biologically older, while robust eighty-year-olds are “super-agers.”
Have you ever heard of the “French paradox”? If you saw a recent, bestselling diet book called French Women Don’t Get Fat, then you know about this paradox indirectly. It comes down to this: French people consume about ?fteen more grams of total fat daily; yet on the whole, they are less overweight than Americans. What’s more, the French have a relatively low incidence of coronary heart disease, despite their diet being rich in the kind of saturated fats found in meat and cheese that we usually warn people to eat less of.
Can You Alter Your Life Expectancy?
Author: fiona
There is no doubt that life expectancies have risen dramatically in many areas of the world during the past century. The average life span of anyone in an industrialized nation has increased by over thirty years due to improvements in public health, vaccinations, and disease prevention since the turn of the last century. Fewer people have been negatively impacted by uncontained outbreaks of infectious diseases such as smallpox that can be vaccinated against or from easily treatable conditions like pneumonia.