Seven Ps of health and longevity

The first P is Perspective.  To start, you need to have a perspective that a very long and healthy life is possible, that you want it and that you are willing to take whatever actions as are necessary to have it. 

The second P is Participation.  Participate actively in managing your health and creating your longevity.  This involves being knowledgeable about your own conditions and the options available to you and seeking out and taking advantage of resources needed for your wellbeing and longevity.  These could include securing good foods, companionship, intellectual challenges, exercise, dietary supplements and knowledgeable medical assistance, to start the list. 

The third P is Proactivity.  Simply put, go out there and create your own health and longevity.  And keep creating it. It won’t happen automatically. 

The fourth P is Prevention.  There are multiple ways to avoid diseases and slow or stop aging processes outlined in my Anti-Aging Firewalls treatise.  Take advantage of them while you are healthy.  Once you have a cancer, a serious cardiovascular problem, diabetes or senile dementia, your options will be much narrower and not necessarily very good ones. 

The fifth P is Perplexity.  Yes, perplexity!  The processes required for health and longevity are very complex and many are still poorly understood.  You have to do a lot of things to keep healthy and make it to a very old age.   The roadmaps are relatively poor and frequently change.  There are many options and blind alleys, phony nostrums and cures that can take you off course.  Be prepared to be perplexed and confused along the way.  If you take on your longevity as a serious problem to be solved and grapple with it, this will just by itself enhance your neurogenesis and help you keep going longer.  (See the previous blog entry Tough learning and neuron survivability). 

The sixth P is Personalization.  Your health and possible longevity is a highly personalized matter, different than anyone else’s.  This means you need to get to know and monitor your own body’s health parameters.  To start, get regular lipid and and C-reactive protein profiles.  Monitor your heart rate and blood pressure if appropriate.  If you have a blood glucose level issue, you can monitor that daily too.   And take appropriate actions.   If your CRP is off-scale and indicative of inflammation you can increase your use of anti-inflammatory supplements, for example.  And pay special attention for incipient disease conditions like mild arthritis, trigger finger or carpal tunnel syndrome.  These too indicate inflammatory conditions.  If you are getting frequent colds or suffering from minor infections, these could indicate a weakened immune condition.  You might need more rest or to take immune system strengthening supplements.  If you are gaining weight or feeling lethargic you might want to exercise more, etc. And as the availability of gene-chip profiling for susceptibility to disease conditions increases, be prepared to take advantage of this technology for knowing yourself too. 

The seventh P is perserverence.  You need to persevere with your good eating habits, avoiding junk or bad food, non-smoking, daily exercise and taking your supplements, paying attention to all the factors impacting on your health and lonngevity.  Otherwise you might not live long or healthily enough to take advantage of new longevity breakthroughs from molecular biology or nanomedicine as they come along.

 

About Vince Giuliano

Being a follower, connoisseur, and interpreter of longevity research is my latest career, since 2007. I believe I am unique among the researchers and writers in the aging sciences community in one critical respect. That is, I personally practice the anti-aging interventions that I preach and that has kept me healthy, young, active and highly involved at my age, now 93. I am as productive as I was at age 45. I don’t know of anybody else active in that community in my age bracket. In particular, I have focused on the importance of controlling chronic inflammation for healthy aging, and have written a number of articles on that subject in this blog. In 2014, I created a dietary supplement to further this objective. In 2019, two family colleagues and I started up Synergy Bioherbals, a dietary supplement company that is now selling this product. In earlier reincarnations of my career. I was Founding Dean of a graduate school and a full University Professor at the State University of New York, a senior consultant working in a variety of fields at Arthur D. Little, Inc., Chief Scientist and C00 of Mirror Systems, a software company, and an international Internet consultant. I got off the ground with one of the earliest PhD's from Harvard in a field later to become known as computer science. Because there was no academic field of computer science at the time, to get through I had to qualify myself in hard sciences, so my studies focused heavily on quantum physics. In various ways I contributed to the Computer Revolution starting in the 1950s and the Internet Revolution starting in the late 1980s. I am now engaged in doing the same for The Longevity Revolution. I have published something like 200 books and papers as well as over 430 substantive.entries in this blog, and have enjoyed various periods of notoriety. If you do a Google search on Vincent E. Giuliano, most if not all of the entries on the first few pages that come up will be ones relating to me. I have a general writings site at www.vincegiuliano.com and an extensive site of my art at www.giulianoart.com. Please note that I have recently changed my mailbox to vegiuliano@agingsciences.com.
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