They will tell you prostate cancer is inevitable if you live long enough, but is it? There are populations in the world with very high rates of prostate cancer, but there are also populations where the rates are negligible.
Sarcopenia
Trying to do something about muscle loss in old age. But I’m very late to the game. Now I learn that muscle loss in old age begins in earnest at age 50, and from that point on, one loses 3% of muscle if you do nothing about it. That was 26 years ago without any weight training/resistance training at all — just aerobics, which doesn’t really do much for muscle loss. You have to really stress the muscle to preserve it.
So I’ve joined a gym and am now doing weight training/resistance training every other day — 30 minutes a session, and 10 minutes in their sauna. Discovered early on that you don’t want to do 2 days in a row because you have to give the muscles at least 48 hours to recovery. Will be sore the next day, but that goes down a bit to a tolerable level.
No way I can make up for those lost 26 years of muscle loss, but I don’t want to lose any more and turn into jelly — a feeble and accident-prone old man.
They tell me that weight training/resistance training is also very important for maintaining bone health — plus taking a calcium supplement with Vitamin D before bedtime.
Old age is turning out to be a challenge. You are either up to it or not — your choice.
Happy
Pleasant to come across someone who is obviously a very happy person. Not that common. When this does happen, one can feel a kind of wave of joy passing from that person through you. Like the person is able to impart pure delight, if only for a brief moment in the encounter.
How To Improve
Learn from your mistakes.
Weight Control
Trying to reduce my average calorie intake each day from around 2150 to 1900 is easier said than done.
Orange Juice
Probiotic Pill
Take a probiotic pill with water on an empty stomach because the stomach will then have the least amount of acid. You want to have the bacteria survive passage through the stomach.
Oatmeal
Two hacks. Add fiber and vegetable powder to oatmeal to reduce the insulin spike. Add steel cut oats to the mix to moderate insulin spike.
Memorial Day
Praise for those Americans who sacrificed their lives in war, but distain for a US government that has initiated so many ill-conceived and foolish wars.
Sniffer
I’ve noticed I’ve become a sniffer in old age. Have taken the time to slow down and sniff the local flowers in May. They all seem to have a distinct scent but low key and subtle. You have to be prepared to accept the delicacy of the scent to appreciate it, to even detect it.
But I’m a sniffer of my Brute aftershave bottle as well. Even take the time after the morning shower to sniff from the bottle — without splashing it on my face. Just sniffing it.
Yesterday, I found a Supernova Christmas tree on the ground that was strongly perfumed. Now it is on my computer desktop where I can sniff it every day.
Life is better as a sniffer. Be a sniffer. Use that other sense. Dogs do. Why not you?
By all means, take the time to be a sniffer, and not just with your nose.
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