Joann Bally CSCS
What is anti-aging? Is it being against aging? Maybe we should think about the alternative before deciding if we’re against it.
I saw an ad for a product that said it was the greatest anti-aging breakthrough since botox. Now, botox doesn’t make you younger. It may make your wrinkles go away, but the clock keeps running. It doesn’t make you become younger or stop getting older.
Part of the anti-aging movement seems to be to make your skin, hair, and teeth look better. No problem with that. You should take care of your skin, teeth, and hair, and if it makes you look younger, that’s great. But it won’t keep you out of the nursing home.
Then we have anti-aging medicine and anti-aging doctors who use something called bioidentical hormones. I don’t know much about this, but my personal feeling is I’m not sure you should have the same hormones when you’re 60 as you did when you were 40. It’s hard to fool Mother Nature.
I wouldn’t care about all this except I’m concerned that the new anti-aging breakthroughs will divert people from the proven anti-aging miracle—exercise. Exercise doesn’t really turn back the clock, but it can give you the blood pressure, insulin sensitivity, body composition, and other physiological attributes most often seem in younger people. It can give you the strength and aerobic capacity typical of someone much younger.
What good is all that botox if you enter your “golden years” wrinkle-free but unable to walk a quarter mile or lift a 10 lb weight off the floor?
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