As a famous hair coloring company said, “aging…I’m going to fight it every step of the way.”
In the magnificent best-seller “Younger Next Year,” Dr. Henry Lodge presents a cutting-edge concept of aging, claiming that we really don’t know what healthy aging is!
Prior to this generation, 60 years old was considered ‘ancient.’ The common belief at the time was that we should ‘slow down’ to live longer. Now with the availability of healthier diets and better methods of exercise, many of the things considered part of aging have been disproven.
I had the good fortune of taking a ski trip out West with some good friends a few weeks back. Everyone in the group was an excellent skier and we all love to ski black diamond bumps. We spent six days, seven hours a day, skiing bumps. If you told even me 30 years ago at the age of 60 I would be skiing black diamond bumps for six days straight with a group all over 50, I would’ve told you that you were crazy.
I’ll let you in on a little secret - the key to these changes is a change in attitude. There are now many examples of people in the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s and even 90’s performing amazing physical feats.
For those of us who are optimists this changes what we believe we can do. So we stop thinking, “I’m getting old” and start thinking, “I’m as strong as I was when I was thirty why shouldn’t I be able to do the things I did then?” Scientists on the forefront of aging believe we’re just scratching the surface. With the advantages of better diet and better forms of exercise they have no idea how high or how long people can perform as they age.
At Mike Arteaga’s, we don’t get “older,” we just get ‘better’ because we know the secret to aging successfully.
To your health! Mike
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