Mike
Carruthers:
It's amazing how average life expectancy continues to increase.
Dr. Ronald
Klatz:
In 1900, the average life expectancy was only 47 years of age.
Today it's 77 years of age.
Dr. Ronald Klatz,
president of the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine and
author of the book Stopping
The Clock.
And those of
us at the Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine believe that 50% of
the baby boomers who are alive and well will see their 100th
birthday in good condition.
And the basics
of the anti-aging prescription are quite simple.
Well, the basics
are: lead a relatively healthy lifestyle, exercise a little
bit, eat a lot of vitamins or if you're not going to eat vitamins,
then at least get 5 to 10 servings of fruits and vegetables
every day. Get outside, get some fresh air. Try to keep your
neuroendocrine system working well throughout life with some
modest exercise, at least twenty minutes a day. Try not to worry
about too many things-stress is a major precipitator of aging-related
disease.
And Dr. Klatz
believes we should go to the doctor for preventative testing.
You want to be
tested for heart disease. You want to be tested for cancers.
There are screenings for many of the diseases that will kill
you prematurely and if you can spot cancer early on in stage
one, it's 90% curable. Heart disease is at least 80% preventable
and if you catch it early, it's curable. You can actually prevent
that first heart attack from ever taking you down.
For more information
on anti-aging medicine, you can link to Dr.
Klatz's website from ours, somethingyoushouldknow.net.
I'm Mike Carruthers and that's Something You Should Know.
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