Your Health Is Everything

Your Health Is Wealth

Health is Wealth’ is a famous saying that refers to the importance of health to us and reveals that health is wealth. If we are not healthy (do not feel in the state of physical, mental and social well being), wealth means nothing to us. So, our health is a real wealth; we should always try to be healthy.

Getting Older Isn’t Supposed to Hurt

It’s generally accepted that health declines as we age. At around 40 or 50, the wheels start coming off the bus as our doctors start prescribing medicine to control cholesterol, to lower our blood pressure or starts mentioning concerns about things like blood sugar and body weight.  We are told, by others who are also aging, “this is just how it is.” Just part of what it means to get older.

But what if it isn’t?  What if we step back and ask  what role our choices play in determining if or how our health will decline as we get older?  We have all met a 70 or 80 year old who inspired us, who made us say, “I want to be like her when I grow up.” But how many of us really take that to heart, give thought to how it might be possible and take steps to help ensure that outcome?  Is it possible that it’s not the luck of the draw and that person won the genetic lottery? The reality is that our choices and lifestyle are equally, if not more, important in determining whether we feel older than we are or younger.

Genetics vs Epigenetics in Aging

Aging is a complex process influenced by a combination of genetic, epigenetic, and environmental factors. ... Epigenetic modifications (i.e., DNA methylation and histone modifications) can affect the gene expression and genomic stability and thus underlie age-associate diseases.