To everything there is a season well yeah you can see I can't I may not
present very well but I sing even worse. A time to be born a time to die a time
to heal. Yep that all came from there.
I'm gonna start off with what sounds to be a weird digression. I'm going to talk
about my Sunday school class. It's coming time for me to teach again
and I've shared with you before. I'm a teaching a Methodist Sunday school class.
I'm gonna be teaching about something that's one of my favorite topics. The
book of Ecclesiastes. Not a lot of people enjoy that book and here's why. It
starts off with what Viktor Frankl would call the "existential vacuum." What did I
mean by that? You may recognize this all is vanity. In other words
everything's just smoke. This is a this is quoted to authorship by King Solomon
and older King Solomon who's lived his life and said you know things are just
not that important, life is not that important. At least that's the way he
starts. Even if you're not Judeo-Christian or you don't know anything
about the Bible, you may recognize this it's a song by the birds what fifty
years ago a time there. It's called turn turn turn.
Everything there is a season well you can see I can't I may not present very
well but I sing even worse. A time to be born a time to die a time to heal. Yep
that all came from there. Now why oh this is a channel on prevention and lifespan
for folks that are everybody but also for a focus on people the baby boomers
what is this guy to do with the baby boomers. Well there have been two studies
just in 2019 alone in JAMA (the Journal of the American Medical Association)
which talked about having a purpose in life and it evidently appears to extend
your life. This first one is the one I'll cover in the next video. This is just a
brief summary of a series I'm going to do. This first first one is association
between life purpose and mortality among US adults older than 50. What they did
was they there's a survey that's been going on for I think about a
decade and it's a retirement and health survey. There's also a survey that's
available which shows your purpose, how deeply you feel a purpose in your life.
They gave the retiree study participants this survey and they saw if you have if
you score high on that test for having a purpose in your life you live longer.
There's another one it's an interesting one that came up just a couple of months
ago also in JAMA and they looked at Holocaust survivors. Here's the
interesting thing about Holocaust survivors and it was covered in a an
op-ed article on Bloomberg by Bloomberg opinion. Here's the here's the title and
the tagline "Holocaust Paradox: Long Lives for Those Who Survived." The byline: My
elementary school teacher taught that those who emerged from the horrors of the
camps would die young. Obviously a reasonable assumption but wrong. In other
words, what they did was they surveyed people that had survived the Holocaust
in Israel. They compared their lifespans to people who had not been involved in
the Holocaust. What they found surprised them. The Holocaust survivors tended to
live longer than your average Israeli. So what's going on here? Maybe it's a sense
of purpose creating a... creating an extended lifespan or survival. Now these
studies are not randomized clinical trials. How are you going to do a
randomized clinical trial on that? These are by definition observational studies
but in this miniseries I hope to cover those two studies and also cover a
little bit about Viktor Frankl. His book "Man's Search for Meaning" deals with this
specific issue. Actually Victor Frankl's history is a very interesting
one. His whole career was about and search for meaning and its impact on
survival. So if you've made it this far, thank you very much. Wanted to remind you
that if you'd like to get your CIMT, the first stop on the CIMT Access Tour is
in Anaheim in LA on September 28th. That's a half-day of David Meinz talking
about in person, how would we do these, what the advantages are, a little bit
more about lifestyle and its impact on health. Todd and I plan to come in
remotely but the big thing here is getting that CIMT. All of this is like I
think 245 yeah 245 bucks to get a half-day of this type of information but
more importantly your own CIMT done and read. To get there, you go to
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