FEEL YOUNG AND STAY HEALTHY

Age is a question of mind over matter.  If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-LeRoy (satchel) Paige

More and more people are living longer and longer.  More and more of us are shooting for the Biblical 120 years -- which researchers feel is our potential -- the age at which Moses died, free of disease, with his faculties intact and full energy.
Old age doesn't necessarily mean sick age: 85% of people over 65 have no real physical problems.  Many studies show that it's possible to live a long, full life, physically and mentally healthy for one's entire lifetime.  It is also possible to reverse or slow the process of aging and recover physical and mental strength.


For example, nine 86- to 96-year-olds worked out with a weight machine three times a week and increased the strength of their quadriceps by an average of 174 percent.  When 92-year-old Dorothy Tishler was first asked to pump some iron she said, "i thought they were cuckoo! But after I started it, I saw what a fool i was. They made a new person out of me."
Senility is also not a part of normal aging.  Study of healthy elderly--as opposed to the sick elderly people medicine habitually studies--reveals 80% of healthy Americans, barring psychological distress such as loneliness, depression or lack of outside stimulation, suffer no significant memory loss as they age.  the ability to retain new information can decline but long-term memory actually improves.  As Cicero said, "I've never heard of an old man who forgot where his money was hidden."



As long as your stay mentally active, you will remain as intelligent as in youth and middle age.
Tap Into inner Health
and stay Youthful Forever.
Whats Prolongs Life?
Gerontologists, the scientists who study aging, know that people life longer and better with a less stressful lifestyle. 

A long and happy marriage and strong friendships extend healthy life span...When 73 residents (average age: 81) of old-age homes were randomly assigned to groups that practiced meditation, relaxation, or nothing, the meditation group showed the greatest improvement in blood pressure, memory, and survival.  Everyone in the meditation grouped was alive after three years; 12.5 percent of the relaxation group and 37.5 percent of the control group died. 

Religious faith appears to have a role in heart healing and rehabilitation--feeling connected seems to have a powerful effect on longevity.
People, relationships are what nourishes and keeps everyone alive...that's why women live longer than men and married men live longer than single men with the same cancers...If you have connections, you keep going?

Chiropractic For The Elderly
Chiropractic offers a healthy non-medical healthcare system for the overdrugged older population.  In one study of people aged 75 and older it was found that chiropractic users were: ... less likely to have been hospitalized, less likely to have used a nursing home, more likely to report a better health status, more likely to exercise vigorously...more likely to be mobile in the community...less likely to use prescription drugs.
In a study of elderly patients seeing chiropractors for maintenance care researchers found: Reduced nervousness with years of maintenance care (MC)...possible reduced symptoms of depression... a 50% reduction in medical visits.  Chiropractic MC appeared to replace rather than be complementary to medical treatment.  The need for hospitalization and high costs.... were markedly reduced...The total annual cost of healthcare services... was conservatively estimated at only a third of the expenses made to the US citizens of the same age.

Accepting that certain medical procedures have a place in our lives, chiropractic care helps people avoid drugs, surgery and other procedures.  No one, of course, knowns all the secrets of a long and healthy life, but clearly one of them is that regular chiropractic spinal adjustments should be a part of every older person's healthcare regimen to help keep them feeling younger and healthier.
No Set Formula
There is no set formula for reaching advanced age: 

Centenarians have been drinkers and teetotalers, they have been believers in God and atheists, they have been meat eaters and vegetarians.
Flanders Dunbar, MD, told the American Geriatrics Society that "exceptionally healthy" people who survived into old age "rarely consult a physician."  Whether they don't see doctors because they are healthy, or they are healthy because they don't see doctors is probably a subject to study.