Famous medical experts talk about the new concept of health and longevity
-the heartfelt words of an old Chinese doctor who has been a doctor for 40 years
1. Health does not mean longevity.
Health can only show that he is in good health, while longevity shows the durability and continuity of his body. These are two completely different concepts. Once upon a time, there was a healthy old man, one of the top ten in Beijing, who was really in good health. His fitness experience is often reported on TV. However, one day, I suddenly found that there were two kinds of cancers in my body, one was small cell lung cancer and the other was poorly differentiated esophageal cancer. Both cancers are highly malignant. As a result, his condition developed rapidly, and he died soon after failing to cure him. Therefore, healthy people have a better quality of life, while people who live longer have stronger vitality.
Life sometimes lies in exercise, but sometimes it also lies in rest.
People who exercise regularly will be healthier, but people who don't exercise regularly are not necessarily.
Healthy. Healthy people have strong ability to cope with diseases, while unhealthy people have poor ability to cope with diseases, but if the infection is not serious, they can still live for a long time. You see those who are sickly and never leave their feet, living day after day and year after year, and "surviving" with those so-called strong people. As the saying goes, a broken crock can't live, so be careful to sail for thousands of years. In life, people who are too strong often say that if they die, they will die. There is no room for discussion. Just as athletes don't live longer than the average person. In my opinion, sports competition is a stupid thing done by human beings, which is caused by human instinct to compete for strength and competitiveness, so this kind of competition should be cancelled. Excessive overload and extreme exercise will only damage the human body and shorten the life span. It looks healthy and won't live long. You can perform some moderate sports performances, but don't type them out. It is absurd and undesirable to measure the health level of a country by how many gold medals it has won. This misunderstanding is too big! I advocate middle-aged and elderly people to take a walk, just one hour a day. Ma Yinchu, the old president of Peking University, was paralyzed in bed. How much exercise can he have? But he also lived to be ninety-nine. Lei Jieqiong, one of the founders of Democratic Progressive Party, suffered from orthostatic hypotension in his nineties and could not stand and walk. I felt full of kidney qi when I felt her pulse, and finally she lived for more than one hundred years! Excessive exercise will damage the body, accelerate the loss of people, accelerate metabolism, and not necessarily live longer. Turtles don't run as fast as rabbits, but their metabolism is slow and their life span is much longer than rabbits. Chronic people tend to live longer than acute people, which may be related to slow metabolism. The so-called hurry to come and go is a perfect description of impatience.
A simple, calm and serene life and a relaxed and happy mood are the basis of longevity.
If a person is anxious, fidgety, afraid and worried all day, he will not have a good quality of life. If he lives in a sad and depressed mood for a long time, he will soon age and his immune function will decline, prompting him to die as soon as possible. Therefore, the elderly must enjoy themselves, communicate with others often, and don't take their troubles to heart. "Only if you are heartless, you will not be tired." Master Xu Yun lived to the age of 120 because he escaped into an empty net and got rid of his troubles. Zhang Xueliang was placed under house arrest by Chiang Kai-shek, but he was carefree and carefree, and he was able to prolong his life for more than a hundred years. If you are as worried and exhausted as Chiang Kai-shek, you won't live that long.
The relationship between longevity and diet is complicated.
CCTV Sunset Red column often interviews some centenarians, some eat porridge and pickles every day, and some eat 70% full. And a centenarian couple. Old ladies often eat meat, while old people are vegetarian all their lives. The master of Chinese studies always eats casually, regardless of high salt and fat. He is 103 years old this year, and I still see him radiant and full of vitality. Mr. Wang Zhongquan, Lieutenant General of the Kuomintang in Taiwan Province Province, 1 10 is over years old and doesn't pay attention to diet. He looks like he is only 80 years old, and he is not tired of standing there talking for more than an hour. It seems that there are a hundred people of all kinds, that's right. I think the key is what kind of constitution you are. For example, some people will have diarrhea when drinking milk, because there is a lack of galactosidase in the body, and some people will itch when eating seafood. Because they are allergic to seafood, there are great differences between people and they have their own adaptability. Just like the centenarian couple mentioned above, if they change their diet, they may not live to that age. Man evolved from apes and was originally a vegetarian. But in the process of evolution, some people have changed their eating habits, such as people in Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang and Tibet. They don't eat much vegetarian food, so what do they eat without meat? It has been handed down from generation to generation and adapted. People who don't inherit the meat-eating gene can't digest and metabolize if they eat too much meat. Just like some people who took leadership positions from the countryside, some entrepreneurs, whose ancestors were farmers who didn't have enough to eat, rarely ate big fish and big meat. Now every day, the sorghum smells strong, and the body can't adapt at all. It is strange that arteriosclerosis, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, cardiovascular diseases and osteoporosis do not appear! This kind of person only has a mouth that eats meat, but has no blessing to eat meat. Open your mouth and look at your canine teeth. If you are developed, you are the kind of person who can eat meat, because dogs are carnivores. Otherwise, you won't come to a good end if you eat too much meat.
5. The relationship between longevity and sleep is worth discussing.
Some people say that sleep must be full, so some old people go to bed at eight or nine o'clock after dinner, but some people go to bed late every day and never talk about sleeping at noon. Pan Ming, an oncologist, slept only four hours a day for decades, but he also lived to be in his eighties. There are some strange people in the world who don't sleep all their lives and are not short-lived ghosts. Westerners don't have the habit of taking a lunch break, so they naturally don't sleep. People in China slept when they were children, but at this moment, Americans work during the day. It is impossible for a China person to go to the United States to sleep at noon. People already have "owl type" and "lark type", and we can't say which type is good and which type is not. So I think, everyone has different habits of work and rest, as long as they work and rest according to their own rules, naturally, no more, no less, no more, no less, they all feel comfortable.
6. The problem of medication is very troublesome.
Another reason why many people can't keep alive now is to eat Chinese and western medicines casually. Eating traditional Chinese medicine indiscriminately lies in not knowing how to use medicine according to syndrome differentiation, only knowing what medicine to use for what disease, and not knowing what medicine to use for what syndrome, mainly because it is impossible to distinguish between deficiency and excess, cold and heat. For example, colds can be divided into wind-cold and wind-heat. It is advisable to use pungent drugs to relieve exterior syndrome for wind-cold colds and pungent drugs to relieve exterior syndrome for wind-heat colds. If you eat it backwards, the cold cold is colder, and the wind-heat cold is hotter, which will not only make you sick, but also aggravate your illness and turn into a sub-health state, which will make your physique worse and shorten your life. The result of abusing western medicine is even more terrible. As we know, the vast majority of western medicines are chemically synthesized, things that did not exist on the earth originally, and things that the human body does not need or accept. We talk about food pollution every day, which means that a lot of hormones remain in the animals we eat, and fertilizers and pesticides remain in the plants. But when we eat these foods, they have already metabolized them, which is only secondary pollution. And the large amount of western medicine we eat is a real one-time pollution! The damage of these chemicals to human health is long-term, persistent and multi-organ, which directly affects people's health and life span. The vast majority of Chinese herbal medicines grow in the ground and are a source of grain, fruits and vegetables, which is much safer than western medicine. So I advise you to use Chinese medicine as far as possible to prevent and treat diseases, and use less or no western medicine.
7. Fever infection in the elderly is the main cause of premature death.
I participated in rescuing successful patients with high fever in some big hospitals. Some of them are not only unconscious, but even have no spontaneous breathing. I found that most of them are patients with yang deficiency and fever. The most difficult thing for people to understand, and the easiest thing to ignore, is yang deficiency and fever, which is not a concept in western medicine. What is yang deficiency fever? An inappropriate example is the phenomenon that ice cream smokes in summer, which we mistakenly think is hot food. Fever due to yang deficiency is actually extremely cold and fever, which is extremely cold and fever in the body and is a virtual image. At this time, if a large number of cold antibiotics or antipyretics are used, it is very dangerous to control infection, which can easily lead to the death of patients! Many old people I met, including some old leaders, passed away quietly in this way. They could have lived longer, but they didn't live to the limit of natural life, because they didn't find a good Chinese medicine to treat them with "warming and clearing heat", so they ended their lives hastily. ? (This article is slightly abridged on the basis of the original text)?
? Guangming Daily
Take a good look at this article, because it looks at the problem correctly! It seems that health care and medication really need dialectical views.