Ageless Salome

The view from the top. It's not every day you get to introduce people to climbing. It's extra special when they are these special people from my Ageless Grace class in Panorama. Aged 69-79 this was their first time trying climbing and I felt honoured that they trusted me to belay them.
Getting older means pushing fear aside and doing things that scare you...because if you let fear win, your world gets very small.

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IT’S PROBABLY NOT IN YOUR GENES | S I E N
THE TRUTH ABOUT AGEING
What do most of us fear in old age? Illness and poor quality of life, not being able to do the things we enjoy doing? Part of what scares us is the idea that old age decline is inevitable, it is written in our DNA, in our family history.

We are beginning to learn that lifestyle factors like: diet, sleep, exercise, levels of stress, breathing; brain-body coordination; thoughts and emotions. can affect how you genes expression.

Although the gene sequence you were born with is fixed, gene expression depends on how you live your life.

The study of this is called epigenetics and this means that you can turn on or dial up some genes and turn off or dial down others.
I might be about to blow your mind: the majority/80+% of old age or chronic illness is linked to lifestyle. Think about it, this means that many age associated illnesses are because of a life time of consistent choices. It’s not because of a gene you have that flicks on when you turn 60, you’ve spent most of your life creating this. Realising that our health outcomes are not cast in stone [genes], we have an opportunity and we hold great power.
We know a lot more now about how specific dietary and lifestyle habits are major determinants of chronic diseases. A general conclusion is that reducing identified, modifiable dietary and lifestyle risk factors could prevent most cases without drugs or expensive medical facilities. By looking at populations that are genetically similar but have very different lifestyles, we can see how certain diseases are linked to lifestyle and income. As these populations migrate and their lifestyle changes, diseases start to appear too. Diabetes, coronary artery disease, cardiovascular disease, certain kinds of stoke, and some specific cancers.
You inherit more than DNA form you ancestors. Ideas, beliefs, biases and preferences are also passed down. This is why some diseases that are not genetic can run in families.
One of the biggest lifestyle factors is diet. A plant-based wholefood diet may be able to prevent many of these illnesses. But unfortunately, the prevention of chronic disease through diet and nutrition is an area of medicine in which most doctors are not trained and subsequently lack sufficient knowledge to properly advise patients. SO WHY NOT JUST TAKE SUPLIMENTS? There is no substitute for fibre in wholefoods. - Dr Michael Greger.

IT TAKES TIME FOR THE EFFECTS OF OUR CONSISTENT CHOICES TO BECOME VISIBLE HENCE ILLNESS IN LATER LIFE –although we are more often seeing age associated illnesses present sooner.

The sooner you start making different choices the sooner you can change your outcome years from now. Think of it as investing in your retirement health.

IT’S PROBABLY NOT IN YOUR GENES | S I E N THE TRUTH ABOUT AGEINGWhat do most of us fear in old age? Illness and poor quality of life, not being able to do the things we enjoy doing? Part of what scar...

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BUILDING TOOLS STRESS | S I E N

If I asked you to cut down a tree but I don’t give you an axe, you won’t be able to. No matter how much you may want to!
The same is true for cutting down on stress; you need to have certain physical tools. These tools are aimed at a long term lowering of baseline stress.
MUSIC: There is no pill you can take than can affect your mood like music.
FOCUS: Focus is linked to Emotional maturity [lengthening the time between impulse and action] and uses same circuitry in the brain:
There are many things we can do to learn how to focus, like meditation, yoga and tai chi.
EXERCISE: New research is showing that frequency is more helpful than intensity so 10 mins a day is enough to maintain and even improve your wellbeing.
COMMUNITY: reach out, but choose your community wisely, stress is contagious! The Friendship Bench
ADVENTURE: doing things that make you feel uncomfortable or roughs you up a little helps build or remind you of your own resilience.
MASSAGE: Physical touch can be calming but also emotionally stimulating.

BUILDING TOOLS STRESS | S I E N If I asked you to cut down a tree but I don’t give you an axe, you won’t be able to. No matter how much you may want to! The same is true for cutting down on...