Aging is an inevitable law of nature, and no life can live forever. The Book of Changes also tells us that the essence of health preservation is to conform to the laws of nature, not to violate them. Therefore, if we can understand the laws of nature and apply them to our health care, we can prolong our life and delay the arrival of aging.
According to the law of Yin and Yang in Tai Chi, our life is a process of the ups and downs of Yin and Yang. Because "the anode is yin", the aging of our life begins from the anode period, that is, when our life reaches the anode period, it is the beginning of our aging. According to the principle of Tai Chi's law of Yin and Yang, our anode is at the age of 80, so it will gradually age from the age of 80. Modern people tend to get old around the age of 50, and even a considerable number of people show signs of aging in their thirties, which is why they are not well preserved.
Since our aging starts from the anode period, we can delay aging well by delaying the arrival of the anode period. Therefore, before the arrival of the anode period, we should be prepared for anti-aging, and the middle age of our lives is such a period. According to Tai Chi's law of Yin and Yang, our aging begins in middle age, that is to say, when Yang is at its peak, our body's Yin will begin to grow. Although our yin has begun to grow at this time, we can take some measures to protect our yang, so that the growth of yin is at a relatively slow level, thus achieving the purpose of anti-aging.
In our life, an important stage of maintaining yang is middle age. Because, at this stage, we will bear great pressure from work and family, which is a very heavy burden on our physiology and psychology. Therefore, when people reach middle age, they must protect their yang and not consume too much.
The first key to anti-aging in middle age is to nourish the heart, here it is mainly to nourish the heart. Because generally speaking, the pillars of a family are middle-aged, for middle-aged people, the physiological burden is very heavy, and heavy workload will also increase their heart load. It is precisely because of their inner double pressure that we often hear the news of sudden death of middle-aged people. Then, how should middle-aged people adjust their stress and how to effectively adjust it? I will talk about this in "Seven Emotions for Health", so I won't elaborate here.
After talking about middle-aged people, let's take a look at the health care points of the elderly. For the elderly, the focus of their health care is to pay attention to their health. So, what is a form? It should be noted here that this body is not what many people think now, but our internal organs, skin, muscles and bones. When we get old, these organs will gradually decline. When we are old, we will inadvertently feel that our knees are failing, and sometimes even feel that our bones can't support our bodies. A little movement is like falling apart; I can't walk, others can't hear clearly, I can't see clearly, and the function of internal organs is no longer the same as before. If I don't pay attention to them, I will go on strike and my skin will wrinkle badly. It is precisely because of these phenomena that we are required to pay more attention to our body shape when we are old.
However, some old people have no effective methods to maintain their health, which makes their maintenance fail to achieve the expected purpose, and some old people even make their health worse. For example, some retired people have no time to exercise because they are busy with work when they are young, so they exercise all day when they rest at home all day. Go out for a walk after getting up in the morning, go downstairs after lunch at noon, and go for a walk in the park after dinner at night. As a result, my knee joint not only failed to maintain health, but also suffered too much burden and my internal organs became more tired. Why is this happening? This is because the body of the elderly has been in the stage of degradation, and various physical functions have obviously declined. So at this time, you should exercise moderately and protect your five internal organs, instead of adding extra burden to them. Therefore, when the elderly exercise, they must keep scientific and moderate exercise, and don't blindly do too much exercise.
Bones are the bones that support our whole body. Once our bones have problems, our muscles and skin will not be able to support them, so we need to pay special attention to the maintenance of our bones.
Sunbathing is the best way to maintain bones. Besides, we can also maintain our bones by eating some calcium-supplemented foods. Among many foods for calcium supplementation, bean products are the best, and soybean milk and tofu have good calcium supplementation effects. In addition, milk and eggs also have a good calcium supplement effect, and some nuts such as kelp, shrimp skin, shellfish and chestnuts can supplement our calcium.
In addition, many connective tissues and collagen tissues of the elderly are prone to some diseases. Collagen tissue and connective tissue are closely related to our ligaments, and many people get sick between muscles and bones. Once these tendons get sick and can't support our bodies, there will be pain, from walking difficulties to bedridden. A very effective way to prevent these diseases is to eat more foods rich in collagen and connective tissue. In other words, when we eat meat, we should not just eat some lean meat, but eat more miscellaneous foods and eat more tendons and brittle bones, so as to maintain all parts of the body.