Over 50s content....

If I am not over the hill at fifty years of age why do I feel it?

Just as important as this question is why do I feel I have suffered a downward spiral in my health since my early to late forties? Some people will have even felt something before this age. If you have had a particularly difficult start in life either through sickness or mental or physical health or any of the kinds of abuses that exist out there. Then you may of felt a sense of being overwhelmed by events, and an even earlier decline than the average.

What ever age you come to this page. You have stumbled across a way to support your body and brains decline or its inability to cope no matter what your age. I will only talk about what has had a possitive affect, with demonstratable results amongst these pages, on my physical and mental health. I have no affiliations or sponsers to affect anything I write or endorse. There are critics that think a anecdotal experience is nonsense. This is part of a notion that the only way to proceed is with science, or at least proceed with the scienctific approach. Although any scientific success is welcome or even shall we say any scienctific accident that has resulted in scientific progress should be welcomed too, penecillin for example.

I do feel sometimes that the scientific approach is often confused with the modern day brilliance of highly sophisticated manufacturing using robots and AI, and yet it is the great observations in history from humble people using their anecdotal experiences that have gone on to pave the way of future explorations and discoveries, and it is consistently this that is sought by employers and science in an ever growing automated world in the work force. Observant thinking people. That is what has brought you my friend to this page. I congratulate you on taking part in being part of your own solution.

It is not your fault that you are in this predicament. We were born into a culture that acted as though there is nothing wrong with eating this food or that food. Advertiser jumped on this and even made participents in their marketing look happy and healthy, which aided in the deception. However, some of us were lucky to have inherited their own micro culture through their immediate families and quite often I hear some really good family traditions that help restore health. One obvious one is chicken soup. Vegetarians might say spinach soup. Someone from poland might mention beetroot soup. I think it falls down a bit with haggis and the scotts though, just kidding! These are ofcourse home made. This is and will always be a step in the right direction for any of us.

There are many many home made get well, keep well, traditions and micro family tradtions to aid us in our bid to succeed in the mental and physical battle that comes to the fore as we get older. Infact, often we naturally adopt these healing habbits combined with rest and less or no alcohol and plenty of water. It is in our nature to survive. It comes as easy to rest up and eat well as does breathing if we are left to our own devises and are not too stressed.

So what went wrong I hear you asking? Luckily for most of us it is a temporary set back only, perhaps from a virus or an low lying infection of some kind than rest and some good home cooked food fixes just fine in due course, it does this by giving our immune systems a chance to bounce back. However, what if it is not a temporary virus or low lying infection. What if it has become your natural state. What if you feel knackered or even borderline ill all the time, no matter how much you rest? Or no matter how much chicking, lentil, spinach and beetroot soup you eat? What then?

Is it old age? Old age gets a bad wrap sometimes. The news is really good at showing old people in a bad way. However, there are lots of old people in really good health too. Some of these were born into some really good habbits. Like moderate exercise, working and eating from an allotment, not drinking too much alcohol, choosing home cooked foods regularly, having a plate full of vegtables at meal times, good genes, do not smoke, having no major illness in the first two years of life where anti-biotics where needed, not being born premature, not being born via a cesarean section, being born after a term where your mother did not drink too much or smoke or she did eat vegtables or infact did all of the healthy stuff listed above too.

So we are born with what we have, and we grow with habbits that are taught to us, and we benefit or not from all that makes us up as a human person coming from our family and our families culture. It is easy to feel that this ship at fifty has already sailed, and that at this late stage,or any age, that nothing you do can affect any of your outcomes going forward. Infact, if you have just come away from a visit with the NHS, than it is my opinion that, because of their policy on compassion, ie meeting you where you are and not making themselves ill by avoiding empathy where ever possible, than it is very likely that you were given the impression that you just have to live with it. It almost does not even matter what it is. There are lots of things the NHS are brilliant at, they saved my life more than once. I am tramendously gratefull to the NHS.

However, if you have a chronic condition that has not reached a diagnosed end of diseased state yet, than the NHS will not be able to help. Maybe after things have deteriorated enough so that you can be diagnosed with a disease and you now have something to work with, all the help you will get will most likely be to deal with symptoms. This might even be good as a short term relief. I would take what ever they offered personally. Relief is relief after all. However, the next thing you will hear is you have to live with it. This is because, the NHS (national healthcare service) has become an accident and emergency service. Maybe Eastern medicine has more in common with the term national healthcare service than the NHS does. I do not know anything about that.

The reason you are reading this ofcourse is because you already know this. You are here to do something about your health for yourself before it gets too late. According to Ofcourse he maybe right, since he is a PhD in the field of longevity! However, after you have perused my health revelations, which according to orthomolecular medicine, which is the study of dietary changes and supplements, that can potentially affect the epigenetic expression, you will see that we are uncertain about what can and cannot be changed in this new cutting edge field. Here in this book one of the authours Karen Lillycrop PhD says that individual food components or even how much food one eats can potentially induce a persistent change on gene-expression. This book mentioned b12 as an example along with a whole host of antagonist like amino acids etc. This is exciting, because it has only been since 2005 that we have seen a major growth in the science of epigenetics. Although Conrad Waddington coined the phrase in 1942, and proof was found in 1996.

It is my conjector that you and I are just as much at the forefront of this science, since our tools can be very similar. I admit after listening to David Sinclair that I get the feeling I need a lab and all its equipment. However, if likethan just like him why not grab a bunch of potentially genome disrupting vitamins in quantities that solicit a change and see how you feel? After all no one has ever died from taking supplements. Where as the medical profession cannot make the same claim with regards mal practice. It being the

• So what do next? If I were you I would start with, if you have not already got this covered, first with cooking more and more of the food I eat.
  
• Next I would start to shift out some of the high sugar content foods.
• Next I would begin shifting through all the foods that contain lectins and cut them out too.
• Next I would begin to eat for what ever condition or conditions was my problem. This might mean cutting out all carbs and exploring intermitent fasting if I had diabetes, followed by moving closer and closer to the ketogenic diet. Or if my condition was high blood pressure, then I would take vitamins that help my poor epithelial cells that line all my arteries, as well beginining to treat exercise a little bit like brushing my teeth, in that I just do it. 1 minute of exercise is better than none! And so on.
• We all only want to do what we have to and no more than we have to. So speaking to someone who knows how difficult these changes can be will be worth the investment. Sure if you did everything, than you will soon be absolutely seeing remarkable shifts in how you feel, and I cannot say anymore than this or it will spoil the fun to be had.