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Since ancient times, health and longevity have always been the goals pursued by humanity. With the advancement of civilization and the decoding of human genes, many new technologies have indeed been able to extend human life and bring about healthier living.
Many scientists believe that in the near future, human lifespan could be extended to 100 or even 120 years. Current research in anti-aging and preventive medicine has also found that human lifespan has indeed been extended compared to before. However, most modern people die from illness rather than natural termination of life. In fact, many chronic degenerative diseases, including aging, are treatable and even preventable.
Inflammation is the root of most chronic diseases.
In fact, diseases or symptoms are a way for the body to communicate with us, letting us understand what our body likes or dislikes. However, in the process of medical education, doctors are mostly taught how to suppress the signs of diseases, without considering the causes of the diseases, what the body needs, or what it lacks. Recent studies have pointed out that long-term inflammation may be the root of most chronic degenerative diseases. For example, the world-renowned medical journal "Stroke" published a paper in 2001 stating that the inflammatory marker C-reactive protein (CRP) has been used to assess the risk of cardiovascular disease. In 2001, the renowned scientific journal "British Journal of Cancer" (BJC) and in 2002, "Nature" respectively pointed out that chronic inflammation is significantly associated with the occurrence and progression of cancer. Other conditions such as joint diseases, vision degeneration, hypertension, cardiovascular diseases, dementia, neurodegeneration, and Parkinson's disease have also been confirmed to be related to inflammation.
Any part of the human body can become inflamed and produce various symptoms. For example, inflammation in the nose can cause nasal congestion and sinusitis; in the ear, it can cause otitis media and middle ear effusion; in the joints, it can cause arthritis and joint pain; in the muscles, it can cause muscle inflammation and soreness; in the skin, it can cause skin allergies and rashes; in the intestines, it can cause intestinal colic, intestinal inflammation, and polyps. For infants and young children, it may also cause hyperactivity, autism, learning inattention, sleep disorders, or bedwetting.
The symptoms of inflammation are warnings issued by the immune system, indicating that the body has been damaged. If there is long-term chronic inflammation that does not heal, not only will the inflamed tissues be damaged, but the immune system may also start to develop many chronic degenerative diseases due to the long-term burden. Instead, many medicines only improve the symptoms of inflammation but cannot truly solve the problem of inflammation. Although symptoms can be suppressed by drugs, unless the cause of inflammation can be identified and eliminated, the body will still gradually develop chronic diseases.
Stress in life, exposure to toxins, and infections by bacteria and viruses can all burden the immune system and cause inflammation. Therefore, to prevent diseases, the influence of these factors must be eliminated. However, influenced by modern medical concepts, most people believe that their health can be entirely maintained by doctors and drugs. Current medical education only trains doctors to diagnose diseases from symptoms and then treat them with drugs, surgery, and high-tech instruments, with little understanding of how food, nutrition, and lifestyle affect health.Illness arises from problems in life.
Years of experience in anti-aging medicine and preventive healthcare have deeply convinced me that illness is not a state of lacking medication. People do not fall ill because they lack drugs, but because there are issues in their lifestyle that gradually accumulate into disease. Therefore, to restore health, in addition to professional medical care, the patient's lifestyle is also crucial. This includes what they eat, whether they exercise and what types of exercise they do, their interpersonal relationships, family interactions, work patterns, attitudes towards life, and the quality of their living environment. All these factors affect the body's immune function and self-healing capabilities, and have a significant impact on health, potentially even more so than medical care. Thus, everyone should learn how to live, how to coexist with their body, and possess knowledge about health.
Many people may never realize how much their chosen lifestyle affects their health, and that the key to truly restoring health lies within themselves. In fact, recent years have seen numerous studies exploring how psychological, nutritional, dietary, sleep patterns, exercise, and lifestyle changes can improve health status. Taking nutrition as an example, past concepts of nutrition focused only on avoiding diseases caused by nutrient deficiencies, such as the Recommended Daily Nutrient Allowance (RDNA) adopted by various countries, which only suggested the amount of nutrients needed to maintain basic bodily functions. However, with the development of biochemistry and molecular medicine, the medical community has gradually discovered the roles many nutrients play in physiological functions and begun to consider how to enhance certain physiological functions through nutritional supplementation, even requiring individualized differences based on personal conditions. Therefore, the concept of nutritional supplementation has shifted from "meeting the minimum requirements" to "supplementing appropriate amounts," thereby maximizing the efficacy of nutrients to improve health. For instance, the antioxidant function of Vitamin C and the role of omega-3 essential fatty acids in combating inflammation and enhancing neural intelligence have been scientifically proven. Similarly, many Eastern and Western herbs or medicinal plants, as well as bioactive ingredients extracted from natural plants or foods, such as soy isoflavones, have been shown to have physiological benefits through numerous studies.
Food choices are equally important. Most toxins that cause inflammation in the body actually enter through food. For example, certain foods can cause allergies and trigger severe inflammatory reactions. Without knowing which foods they are allergic to, many people unknowingly continue to consume allergenic foods, leading to ongoing inflammation and various symptoms and diseases. Additionally, improper cooking methods can also produce many toxins in food. For instance, high-temperature frying or baking of starchy foods can produce acrylamide, a carcinogen; fats can transform into trans fats and generate free radicals at high temperatures; and sugars and proteins can produce melanoidins, which are carcinogenic, after high-temperature processing. These toxins are the culprits that cause inflammation and increase immune burden. Consuming these improperly cooked foods daily can easily lead to various chronic degenerative diseases.
Psychological state also affects health.
On the other hand, the impact of psychological state on health has been a focus of medical research in recent years.Numerous cases indicate that long-term stress and unhappiness in life place a significant burden on the immune system. Conversely, changes in mood and stress relief often lead to substantial improvements in many diseases. The development of psychoneuroimmunology in recent years has been exploring the connections between psychological and physiological states and immune function. Studies have shown that laughter, emotional relaxation, and sensory enjoyment can all enhance immune function, giving the body a chance to recover health. This aligns with human nature, as people naturally enjoy good food, pleasant music, delightful scents, beautiful scenery, and leisurely living. In other words, happiness is essential for health. If one is under constant stress, feels unfulfilled at work, or trapped in an unchangeable life situation, the body cannot remain healthy. Coupled with poor diet and inadequate nutrition, various diseases are likely to arise.
Therefore, medical education should include the impacts of nutrition, diet, and lifestyle on health. Hospitals of the future should be the happiest places. Every patient entering a hospital should feel relaxed, receive friendly service, and have reasons to laugh often. By making patients feel happy and hopeful, their immune function and the body's self-healing capabilities can be enhanced, potentially improving their conditions. What doctors need to do is to recommend changes in nutrition, hormones, diet, and lifestyle to improve patients' health, using medication only when necessary.
Healthcare should not be divided into mainstream or alternative; it should be based on what truly helps people recover health and prevent diseases. Modern technology still understands too little about the mysteries of the human body. Relying solely on medicine sometimes cannot fully cure diseases, nor can it prevent them. As long as a method is judged by a professional doctor to be harmless and potentially beneficial to the patient, it should be tried with an open mind. In recent years, both Eastern and Western traditional medicines have gradually regained attention. It is believed that with more scientific research, this trend will bring a new wave of revolution to modern medicine.
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You Don't Have to Grow Old / Wang Guiliang
Many scientists believe that in the near future, human lifespan could be extended to 100 or even 120 years. Current research in anti-aging and preventive medicine has also found that human lifespan has indeed been extended compared to before. However, most modern people die from illness rather than natural termination of life. In fact, many chronic degenerative diseases, including aging, are treatable and even preventable.
Inflammation is the root of most chronic diseases.
In fact, diseases or symptoms are a way for the body to communicate with us, letting us understand what our body likes or dislikes. However, in the process of medical education, doctors are mostly taught how to suppress the signs of diseases, without considering the causes of the diseases, what the body needs, or what it lacks. Recent studies have pointed out that long-term inflammation may be the root of most chronic degenerative diseases. For example, the world-renowned medical journal "Stroke" published a paper in 2001 stating that the inflammatory marker C-reactive protein (CRP) has been used to assess the risk of cardiovascular disease. In 2001, the renowned scientific journal "British Journal of Cancer" (BJC) and in 2002, "Nature" respectively pointed out that chronic inflammation is significantly associated with the occurrence and progression of cancer. Other conditions such as joint diseases, vision degeneration, hypertension, cardiovascular diseases, dementia, neurodegeneration, and Parkinson's disease have also been confirmed to be related to inflammation.
Any part of the human body can become inflamed and produce various symptoms. For example, inflammation in the nose can cause nasal congestion and sinusitis; in the ear, it can cause otitis media and middle ear effusion; in the joints, it can cause arthritis and joint pain; in the muscles, it can cause muscle inflammation and soreness; in the skin, it can cause skin allergies and rashes; in the intestines, it can cause intestinal colic, intestinal inflammation, and polyps. For infants and young children, it may also cause hyperactivity, autism, learning inattention, sleep disorders, or bedwetting.
The symptoms of inflammation are warnings issued by the immune system, indicating that the body has been damaged. If there is long-term chronic inflammation that does not heal, not only will the inflamed tissues be damaged, but the immune system may also start to develop many chronic degenerative diseases due to the long-term burden. Instead, many medicines only improve the symptoms of inflammation but cannot truly solve the problem of inflammation. Although symptoms can be suppressed by drugs, unless the cause of inflammation can be identified and eliminated, the body will still gradually develop chronic diseases.
Stress in life, exposure to toxins, and infections by bacteria and viruses can all burden the immune system and cause inflammation. Therefore, to prevent diseases, the influence of these factors must be eliminated. However, influenced by modern medical concepts, most people believe that their health can be entirely maintained by doctors and drugs. Current medical education only trains doctors to diagnose diseases from symptoms and then treat them with drugs, surgery, and high-tech instruments, with little understanding of how food, nutrition, and lifestyle affect health.Illness arises from problems in life.
Years of experience in anti-aging medicine and preventive healthcare have deeply convinced me that illness is not a state of lacking medication. People do not fall ill because they lack drugs, but because there are issues in their lifestyle that gradually accumulate into disease. Therefore, to restore health, in addition to professional medical care, the patient's lifestyle is also crucial. This includes what they eat, whether they exercise and what types of exercise they do, their interpersonal relationships, family interactions, work patterns, attitudes towards life, and the quality of their living environment. All these factors affect the body's immune function and self-healing capabilities, and have a significant impact on health, potentially even more so than medical care. Thus, everyone should learn how to live, how to coexist with their body, and possess knowledge about health.
Many people may never realize how much their chosen lifestyle affects their health, and that the key to truly restoring health lies within themselves. In fact, recent years have seen numerous studies exploring how psychological, nutritional, dietary, sleep patterns, exercise, and lifestyle changes can improve health status. Taking nutrition as an example, past concepts of nutrition focused only on avoiding diseases caused by nutrient deficiencies, such as the Recommended Daily Nutrient Allowance (RDNA) adopted by various countries, which only suggested the amount of nutrients needed to maintain basic bodily functions. However, with the development of biochemistry and molecular medicine, the medical community has gradually discovered the roles many nutrients play in physiological functions and begun to consider how to enhance certain physiological functions through nutritional supplementation, even requiring individualized differences based on personal conditions. Therefore, the concept of nutritional supplementation has shifted from "meeting the minimum requirements" to "supplementing appropriate amounts," thereby maximizing the efficacy of nutrients to improve health. For instance, the antioxidant function of Vitamin C and the role of omega-3 essential fatty acids in combating inflammation and enhancing neural intelligence have been scientifically proven. Similarly, many Eastern and Western herbs or medicinal plants, as well as bioactive ingredients extracted from natural plants or foods, such as soy isoflavones, have been shown to have physiological benefits through numerous studies.
Food choices are equally important. Most toxins that cause inflammation in the body actually enter through food. For example, certain foods can cause allergies and trigger severe inflammatory reactions. Without knowing which foods they are allergic to, many people unknowingly continue to consume allergenic foods, leading to ongoing inflammation and various symptoms and diseases. Additionally, improper cooking methods can also produce many toxins in food. For instance, high-temperature frying or baking of starchy foods can produce acrylamide, a carcinogen; fats can transform into trans fats and generate free radicals at high temperatures; and sugars and proteins can produce melanoidins, which are carcinogenic, after high-temperature processing. These toxins are the culprits that cause inflammation and increase immune burden. Consuming these improperly cooked foods daily can easily lead to various chronic degenerative diseases.
Psychological state also affects health.
On the other hand, the impact of psychological state on health has been a focus of medical research in recent years.Numerous cases indicate that long-term stress and unhappiness in life place a significant burden on the immune system. Conversely, changes in mood and stress relief often lead to substantial improvements in many diseases. The development of psychoneuroimmunology in recent years has been exploring the connections between psychological and physiological states and immune function. Studies have shown that laughter, emotional relaxation, and sensory enjoyment can all enhance immune function, giving the body a chance to recover health. This aligns with human nature, as people naturally enjoy good food, pleasant music, delightful scents, beautiful scenery, and leisurely living. In other words, happiness is essential for health. If one is under constant stress, feels unfulfilled at work, or trapped in an unchangeable life situation, the body cannot remain healthy. Coupled with poor diet and inadequate nutrition, various diseases are likely to arise.
Therefore, medical education should include the impacts of nutrition, diet, and lifestyle on health. Hospitals of the future should be the happiest places. Every patient entering a hospital should feel relaxed, receive friendly service, and have reasons to laugh often. By making patients feel happy and hopeful, their immune function and the body's self-healing capabilities can be enhanced, potentially improving their conditions. What doctors need to do is to recommend changes in nutrition, hormones, diet, and lifestyle to improve patients' health, using medication only when necessary.
Healthcare should not be divided into mainstream or alternative; it should be based on what truly helps people recover health and prevent diseases. Modern technology still understands too little about the mysteries of the human body. Relying solely on medicine sometimes cannot fully cure diseases, nor can it prevent them. As long as a method is judged by a professional doctor to be harmless and potentially beneficial to the patient, it should be tried with an open mind. In recent years, both Eastern and Western traditional medicines have gradually regained attention. It is believed that with more scientific research, this trend will bring a new wave of revolution to modern medicine.
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