Do you want to live forever?
Or are you afraid to because you think growing old just means suffering?
It doesn't have to be that way.
And I'm going to tell you a few thing you can do today so that you can get more life
out of your years.
Hey I'm Dr Sten Ekberg with Wellness For Life and by subscribing and following these videos
you will learn everything that you need to know to get healthy and stay healthy.
Everybody wants to live for a really long time, but no body wants to get older.
And the way that we are living today the evidence that we are observing.
We are seeing people get older and they spend many more years being sick and we think that
that is something that has to be.
People used to die very early because they got eaten by lions, and bears and so forth.
And we think now that we live longer and therefor have to succumb to degenerative disease, but
that is a fallacy.
People talk about how we are living longer and longer and that is why we get these diseases
and that we are living better and longer than ever.
That is not true.
We are getting... actually we have more degenerative disease and we have gotten so far where the
generation that is young now is the first generation ever that is not excepted to live
longer than their parents.
So while we have gotten an increase in age because we don't starve and we have conquered
several diseases we have now gotten to the point where life expectancy is not increasing.
We have so much degeneration and so much diabetes, Alzheimer, heart disease, and other degenerative
diseases that we are not expecting to live longer any more.
What we want to do is we want to live longer we don't want to die longer.
And with more people over 65 on more medications we have 50% of the population over 65 is pre-diabetic
these are life style diseases and they can be changed.
So lets change our thinking away from just living more years to adding life to your years...
adding quality life to your years.
Because this is not a mystery.
There is no doubt whats so ever anymore about what is causing the decrease in quality of
life.
I don't know what the upper limit of aging or age is.
I do believe that we can easily live to somewhere between 100 and 120 years old without significant
degeneration.
So how do we do that?
Well first we have to understand what the major detractors... what are the major things
that cause us to degenerate?
And there is plenty of evidence today that the number one thing is sugar.
One of the most important organs to keep people alive is the brain.
And there is a direct inverse relationship between sugar consumption and brain health.
So the more sugar we have the higher our A1C is the quicker our brain is shrinking.
There is a direct linear relationship sugar is not a good idea.
When they have done studies on humans and lab rats and all sorts of things they find
that by starving them just a little bit they live much much longer.
But the mechanism of starvation is that they are not getting as many carbohydrates.
Insulin is triggered by carbohydrates.
Insulin is a storage hormone and it's a turn over hormone.
It makes your cells turn over faster.
So the number one thing you can do to extend the life of your cells and to extend your
life and reduce degeneration is to cut back on sugar.
Get stable blood sugar get away from insulin resistance.
If you are looking for one marker to measure it is A1C.
The limit for pre-diabetic is in the 5.7- to 6.
something.
That is not a healthy A1C.
You want to be close to 5.
If you are looking for a marker to measure.
The other thing is stress.
They have done numerous studies based on Hans Selye, the father of stress studies, they
found that the more stress you have the shorter you live.
You can have a mouse or a rat live half as long by having them stress a whole lot.
Your body has two portions two branches to your autonomic nervous system one is called
fight flight one is called feed breed.
When you stress you shut off your feed breed.
You shut off your repair and healing.
You speed up the turn over you speed up the inflation you speed up everything that makes
you age faster.
But we have to change our mind set.
You don't have to be old just because you live a lot of years.
That is a fallacy it is a myth it is a misconception.
Some people think of the body as a machine or as a car.
And they just think that well if the parts wear out then you die and if we can slow down
the parts then we can live longer.
Well we have to stop thinking about the body as a machine.
Biology is not a machine.
Biology do not operate on the same rules as machines or mechanical devices.
Biology is information based.
Biology is energy based.
It's based on quality of food and air and environment.
So biological age is not an absolute.
You can be a lot younger biologically than your chronicle age.
At some point we maybe able to turn the rules around and but for right now you probably
can't be seventy and turn around and be twenty.
But you can do is you can be fifty and you can be biologically younger in 10 years than
you were 10 years ago.
Those are those things are totally possible we see it in our clinic every day.
People turning their life around people feeling better people having symptoms go away.
People increasing energy.
Those are simple principles of following the law of nature and the laws of health.
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live life to the fullest because it is all based on health.
You can't have a quality of life if your not healthy and feeling good.
I;'m Dr. Sten Ekberg thank you for your time.