#active aging

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Perfection is a number! Fun eye pooping summer design in my shop.

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Am I too old to go to concerts now? Like rock concerts? I'm officially 40

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10 min HOME WALKING WORKOUT FOR ELDERLY PEOPLE/SENIORS. BEGINNER FRIENDLY 100% [Video]

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Active Aging: Staying Fit And Healthy Through Retirement

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seriously have been thinking about this all night long. call me autistic but the fact that 90% of workplaces the point is not to get your work done and then be done doing it but to instead perform an elaborate social dance in which you find something to do even when you're done doing everything you need to do in order to show your fellow workers that you, too, are Working . because you are at Work . disgusting why cant we all agree that if there is no work immediately to be done. we just dont do anything

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As we age, the significance of maintaining an active and healthy lifestyle becomes even more paramount. For seniors residing in adult family homes, incorporating regular exercise and physical activity is not just a luxury but a crucial aspect of elderly care in Washington.

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As we age, the significance of maintaining an active and healthy lifestyle becomes even more paramount. For seniors residing in adult family homes, incorporating regular exercise and physical activity is not just a luxury but a crucial aspect of elderly care in Washington.

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The first time Danny sees Dick Grayson he calls him Tata.

Danny, in his Ghost Zone travels, befriended the Flying Graysons. John and Mary like him so much, that it started as a joke, sort of.

"Ahhhhh, the son we never had! Welcome!"

"My little Robin's long lost little brother, come, come!"

And it morphed into him jokingly calling them Tata and Daj. Then it wasn't really a joke anymore.

Then the Observants inform him that as far as Ghost Law is concerned, they're his Ghost Guardians.

This means that Danny has two sets of parents; Jack and Maddie on the human side of things, and John and Mary on the ghost side of thing.

So when he sees Dick Grayson, who looks a lot like John, it just slips out.

This leads to a very awkward stare off in the middle of a coffee shop.

Danny has no idea how to explain himself.

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Being physically active is one of the foundations of healthy aging. It helps with managing weight and preventing many health problems. It also improves strength and balance which lowers the risk of falls. But being active physically does not mean strict exercise regimes. Being active and productive around the house is already a big help. Professional caregivers can assist seniors with their daily activities.

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it’s my birthday!

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Morgantowns Powell commits to VMI [Video]

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Understanding the Dynamics of Aging

By Arjuwan Lakkdawala

Ink in the Internet

When does aging begin? When we are born we start to grow and most scientists agree that growth stops at 20.

"Most people stop growing sometime around the age of 20. By this time, our skeletons have reached their final size, and the growth plates between bones have fused closed. Once that happens, there is no way for the bones to grow anymore. 

The only bones that continue to get larger are the skull and the pelvis. The growth of these two body parts isn’t dramatic, however. Your pelvis might gain an inch in diameter between the ages of 20 and 79, and your skull may get slightly more prominent around the forehead." - Compass: Healthy Aging Guide.

So what happens after we stop growing? In our body we have trillions of cells that work around the clock to try and maintain our health in the best way and keep themselves alive while doing so. How we live, what we eat, exercise, sleep, mental health, and whether we get sick or how many times we get ill, all this and more effects how well our cells can function. 

No two people age the same way, so anti-aging intervention cannot be one size fits all.

There is a field of study called Epigenetics, which says that our behaviour and our environment effect which of our genes get expressed and which get suppressed, and that these changes if negative can lead to poor mental and physical health. 

"Your genes play an important role in your health, but so do your behaviors and environment, such as what you eat and how physically active you are. Epigenetics is the study of how your behaviors and environment can cause changes that affect the way your genes work. Unlike genetic changes, epigenetic changes are reversible and do not change your DNA sequence, but they can change how your body reads a DNA sequence.

Gene expression refers to how often or when proteins are created from the instructions within your genes. While genetic changes can alter which protein is made, epigenetic changes affect gene expression to turn genes “on” and “off.” Since your environment and behaviors, such as diet and exercise, can result in epigenetic changes, it is easy to see the connection between your genes and your behaviors and environment." - CDC

Trillions of cells in our body are interconnected.

"Your body is comprised of trillions of cells, and each one is not only responsible for one or more functions specific to the tissue it resides in, but must also do all the work of keeping itself alive. This includes metabolizing nutrients, getting rid of waste, exchanging signals with other cells and adapting to stress.

The trouble is that every single process and component in each of your cells can be interrupted or damaged. So your cells spend a lot of energy each day preventing, recognizing and fixing those problems." - Ellen Quarles and the Conversation.

What about pregnancy and childbirth, does it accelerate aging?

There are ongoing studies and a study has shown women who got pregnant had shorter telomeres than women who didn't, but another study showed that women in a community in Africa who got pregnant had longer telomeres than other women in their community who hadn't gotten pregnant. So perhaps it is the emotional state and not the pregnancy that effected the telomeres, some women might get stress from society because of the pregnancy, while other women might get supported.

What are telomeres? As we age our telomeres keep getting shorter.

"A telomere is a region of repetitive DNA sequences at the end of a chromosome. Telomeres protect the ends of chromosomes from becoming frayed or tangled. Each time a cell divides, the telomeres become slightly shorter. Eventually, they become so short that the cell can no longer divide successfully, and the cell dies."

There is another point here that scientists are investigating that is cells known as senescent.

"Senescent cells are unique in that they eventually stop multiplying but don’t die off when they should. They instead remain and continue to release chemicals that can trigger inflammation. Like the one moldy piece of fruit that corrupts the entire bowl, a relatively small number of senescent cells can persist and spread inflammation that can damage neighboring cells.

However, not all senescent cells are bad. The molecules and compounds expressed by senescent cells (known as the senescent secretome) play important roles across the lifespan, including in embryonic development, childbirth, and wound healing." - NIH: National Institute on Aging.

Senescent cells can build up in the body as we age and our immune system becomes less sufficient to expel them by a process known as apoptosis. These cells can cause cognitive decline in the brain and a multitude of age-related diseases and complications.

"Investigations are underway to see if senescent skin cells may contribute to sagging and wrinkling, and if senescent cells might also be connected to the cytokine storm of inflammation that makes COVID-19 so deadly for older adults." NIH: National Institute on Aging

When we age our bodies gradually lose the ability to maintain homeostasis.

"Homeostasis reflects the aggregate effect of varied mechanisms that maintain normal physiologic constancy in the face of different extrinsic challenges. Aging is associated with impaired homeostasis, or homeostenosis, in the form of diminished capacity to respond to varied challenges," - McGraw Hill Medical: Access Medicine 

What we eat is one of the best ways to maintain good health, and scientists say which fruits and vegetables are most effective.

"Aging is a complex, multi-factorial process that starts in our cells, resulting in a gradual decline of the larger systems in the body. Scientists have proposed various theories for the reason we age, including mitochondrial dysfunction, inflammation, DNA damage, cell senescence, and telomere reduction." - Inside Tracker: Diana Licalzi, MS, RD, CDCES

Strawberries are said to be very effect against senescent cells.

"Researchers have been studying fisetin, a plant compound, for years for its capacity to act as an antioxidant and reduce inflammation in the body. However, in more recent years, scientists have discovered it also works by killing senescent cells—one of the hallmarks of aging."

The Jellyfish is being studied to understand how it can revert back to larval state and reverse its aging.

"The analysis revealed that T. dohrnii (species of jellyfish) had twice as many copies of the genes associated with DNA repair and protection, which helps producing greater amounts of protective and repairing proteins. Moreover, this jellyfish also had unique mutations which stunted cell division and prevented telomeres (chromosomes’ protective “caps”) from deteriorating,"- Earth.com: Andrei Ionescu

Copyright ©️ Arjuwan Lakkdawala 2023

Arjuwan Lakkdawala is an author and independent journalist. Twitter/Instagram: Spellrainia 

Email: arjuwan.writer@gmail.com 

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SciTechDaily.com - 8 Anti-Aging Vitamins and Nutrients That Actually Work, Ranked

University at Buffalo - To reverse aging in stem cells, NANOG gene ‘rewires’ metabolic networks - Cory Nealon

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Center on the Developing Child - Harvard University

NIH - National Library of Medicine - Bilian Jin, Yajun Li, Keith D. Robertson

NIH - National Library of Medicine

JAMA Network Open

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Published online 2022 Jul 27. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.23285

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Analysis of Epigenetic Age Acceleration and Healthy Longevity Among Older US Women

Purva Jain, PhD, MPH, 1 Alexandra M. Binder, ScD, ScM, 2 , 3 Brian Chen, PhD, 1 Humberto Parada, Jr, PhD, MPH, 4 , 5 Linda C. Gallo, PhD, 4 John Alcaraz, PhD, 5 Steve Horvath, PhD, ScD, 6 , 7 Parveen Bhatti, PhD, 8 Eric A. Whitsel, MD, MPH, 9 , 10 Kristina Jordahl, PhD, 11 Andrea A. Baccarelli, MD, PhD, 12 Lifang Hou, MD, PhD, 13 James D. Stewart, PhD, 9 , 10 Yun Li, PhD, 14 , 15 , 16 Jamie N. Justice, PhD, MS, 17 and Andrea Z. LaCroix, PhD 1

University of Nebraska System - Aging starts right after growing ends - Sabine Zempleni and Sydney Christensen

Compass by WebMd - What to Know About Nose and Ear Growth as You Age

 Written by WebMD Editorial Contributors

Reviewed by Dan Brennan, MD on November 01, 2021

The Washington Post- Do pregnancy and childbirth accelerate aging in women? Maybe.

By Sindya Bhanoo

NIH - National Institute on Aging - 10 myths about aging

NIH - National Institute on Aging- understanding the dynamics of the aging process

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Friendly reminder that:

The concept of starseeds promotes ableism by minimizing or denying ADHD and autism.

The ancient astronaut hypothesis promotes spiritual colonialism and destruction of other cultures by twisting other people's mythologies and sacred texts to fit their narratives.

The reptilian alien mythology is based on conspiracy theories historically used to justify oppressing and murdering real people. Loosh/blood/adrenochrome harvesting is just repackaged blood libel.

New Age mythology is chock full of repackaged right wing conspiracy theories, the same kind pushed by QAnon.

It's also full of repackaged racist pseudoscience about genetic superiority/inferiority and the function of evolution.

Ascension to 5D was supposed to have happened back in 2012, and the prediction failed.

New Agers are recycling their predictions over and over to catch new waves of people who don't know the movement's history.

Belief in Atlantis is strongly motivated by white supremacy.

For more info, see:

Looks like it's time to talk about starseeds and the New Age movement again.

How the mythology of starseeds, indigo children, crystal children, rainbow children, etc. harms kids

New Age YouTube channel caught recycling claims of imminent "first contact" for three years

Is the spiritual person a conspiracy theorist? A list of red flags

What is spiritual eugenics?

New Age beliefs that derive from racist pseudoscience

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Older adults are more active than ever and businesses calling them "elderly" or "senior citizens" may be a barrier when engaging with them. As times have changed, words to accurately describe have also progressed. Take the time to learn new terms.

For almost three decades, I, Erwin González, have been innovating inclusive exercise strategy for older adults, one that can touch hearts, fortify bodies and engage minds.