My man! Here’s a supplementary article to this one. I recently wrote about why we need to remain athletic — even into our 50s, 60s, and 70s — and it ties perfectly into what you’ve written here.
We can and should continue getting stronger as we age, even though modern society seems designed to steal our strength and vitality away from us.
Very timely piece. Here’s my article on aging and remaining athletic:
I stopped relying on the medical field for information, after I nearly lost my first child from the pediatrician's erroneous information and vaccines... My father raised five children without medicine. There was little money for food during the Great Depression. My first 12 years, I had little food, but lots of sunshine, fresh air and exercise. I had the chance to go to California in 1946...and I stayed with an aunt for a semester. At 12, I was 5' tall and weighed 90 pounds ...I grew 3" and put on 32 pounds, after my aunt started feeding me.. I remained 5' 3" for a lifetime... I am now 5' 2-1/2" at 92. I primarily eat fruit, vegetables; eggs from our own organically-raised chickens. No processed food, except coconut milk.. I take no drugs. I am physically active and do my 10,000 steps daily.
Great discussion on how the Big Pharma boys game medicine for bottom line profit year in and year out. Lilly got George Bush Senior to be their point man to get NIH to spend $30 million on the WHI which was pre designed to discredit estrogen. Harvard designed a $30 million VITAL study to do the same on vitamin D. Convincing physicians to attack cholesterol levels with statins is another brain numbing event.
Thank you! Sitting, and living in fear, for 25 years.... I can barely walk. No.... not an easy fix with hip surgery.
Living in "near fetal position" in fear for 20 years ( emotional fear/reality of rejection and abandonment) has one leg much shorter than the other and no hip rotation. My psoas is much shorter and tighter. I broke my ankle twice in the 18 months leading to my mom's death 20 years ago.
After a year of not working/sitting or walking too much, my hip is starting to rotate. My leg is getting longer again. My vision is to be able to squat and sit crosslegged again. Walk with grace and ease. I figure about 3-4 years to stretch, strengthen, dance, and find my rhythm.
After college, it took me 3 years of dance classes everyday to have a body that moved in all directions with grace and ease. Especially spinning ( turns) in ballet and dance give one's brain really valuable information.
Instead of getting a PhD in molecular biology, I decide learning how to move with grace and ease and to be able to do a "double turn" in dance was of paramount importance. Swimming and body surfing need agility and strength! Your knowledge that you share so generously is so soothing and always makes instant sense. Everything "clicks" as I have said before. Your mind is a gift to us.
You provide very valuable information here because any aging person (60 to 70 years old), like me, is directly affected by bone loss. Because he deems me "likely to have a stroke" according to my recent brain scan, despite completely normal blood pressure, blood sugar and cholesterol, my GP prescribes me for 30 months a drug to "thin the blood" AND a drug that "reduces the production of acid in the stomach", to "protect" the stomach from the damage caused by the blood thinner. BUT he never informed me of this serious side effect for an elderly person!
Every day I receive more proof that I cannot trust the medical profession (nor Big Pharma).
Very well, this reinforces me in my current position: they do not deserve my trust and I have to do my own research in all cases. Empowerment!
Fantastic article as usual. I am in my sixties and still do a lot of physical work. I agree that basic exercises such as squats help and also body alignment. When my knees hurt I pull my shoulders back, remember to flex from the hips and I can eliminate the knee pain immediately just by changing my posture.
Half the battle is avoiding all vaccines, drugs and supplements. None of this stuff is natural to the body nor do any of them contain the same substances that food does. In my mid 70's, I can still move fairly well and suffer from no pains. The hardest thing to do is the squats. Inflexibility sort of creeps up on you.
Indeed it is a constant battle with the good doctors to stay drug-free! And it seems the more you age the more you need to fight! They are very agressive. So it is better to stay away from them as much as possible.
Thank you. I am approaching 70 and not lost any height despite being told I have oesteopenia/osteoporosis. I haven't broken anything even with a bad fall. This article makes so much sense. I was an active mom playing on the floor with the kids. I still sit on the floor at times and am an avid gardener who is contantly squatting, reaching lifting. It seems that this has prevented any shrinkage!
Another great article! Muscular changes as well as fascial(glue) adaptations can compound these mechanical alterations and cause "other" related issues in abnormal structural holding patterns. The musculoskeletal system is the king of the bodily hill in most every way and is the most used for life.
Yes, the brain makes the decisions, but if you cant escape the tiger, what good did it do?
This article belongs somewhere in the MahaMovie.com series! So much wisdom and research here, thank you so much on behalf of all women and my husband who sits wayyyy too long at his computer every day and not enough time doing Essentrics (stretching, strengthening and lymphatic and fascia clearing without weights) and walking! I've never had a bone density test because frankly, I've intuited they were probably not accurate anyway and so what if I have "Ostopenia"? I won't take their drugs and will continue with what I am already doing. Same thing with all of the testing my insurance company constantly harasses me about. At soon to be 75 I feel great, better than ever, even if the average life span is now said to be SEVENTY THREE! yikes, that is scary but not to be believed by those of us who know better and do better.
What about sitting cross-legged or in the lotus position? It seems to be that bone structure may allow for sitting cross-legged easily but not for squatting easily and vise versa.
About squatting. Quite a few years ago, I saw a small group of about 5 women who looked like VietNamese, squatting in a circle, yakking away - smack in front of a down escalator, at the bottom end. We had to walk around them to get to where we wanted to go!
I wonder if kneeling is as good as squatting. I can't squat to do my garden & yard work. It is not ergonomic for various tasks.
I have a book Let's Get Well by Adelle Davis. Published in 1965. She says,
"I once heard a doctor, lecturing on nutrition, state that the hydrochloric acid of the stomach was so valuable that the sale of every antiacid preparation should be prohibited by law. Too little hydrochloric acid impairs protein digestion and Vitamin C absorption, allows the B vitamins to be destroyed, and prevents minerals from reaching the blood to the extent that anemia can develop and bones crumble."
And there's quite a bit more on stomach acid relating to the digestive system and overall health (and sickness). Yes, Adelle pushed vitamin supplementation big time but there is still much valuable info in her books. She did refer to hydrochloric acid and enzyme supplements as temporary but necessary "crutches", explaining that without such supplementation, the nutrients in your food can't manufacture the stomach acid and enzymes in the first place, i.e., a catch 22 situation.
My man! Here’s a supplementary article to this one. I recently wrote about why we need to remain athletic — even into our 50s, 60s, and 70s — and it ties perfectly into what you’ve written here.
We can and should continue getting stronger as we age, even though modern society seems designed to steal our strength and vitality away from us.
Very timely piece. Here’s my article on aging and remaining athletic:
https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/why-you-should-be-athletic-at-any
I stopped relying on the medical field for information, after I nearly lost my first child from the pediatrician's erroneous information and vaccines... My father raised five children without medicine. There was little money for food during the Great Depression. My first 12 years, I had little food, but lots of sunshine, fresh air and exercise. I had the chance to go to California in 1946...and I stayed with an aunt for a semester. At 12, I was 5' tall and weighed 90 pounds ...I grew 3" and put on 32 pounds, after my aunt started feeding me.. I remained 5' 3" for a lifetime... I am now 5' 2-1/2" at 92. I primarily eat fruit, vegetables; eggs from our own organically-raised chickens. No processed food, except coconut milk.. I take no drugs. I am physically active and do my 10,000 steps daily.
Congrats!
Great discussion on how the Big Pharma boys game medicine for bottom line profit year in and year out. Lilly got George Bush Senior to be their point man to get NIH to spend $30 million on the WHI which was pre designed to discredit estrogen. Harvard designed a $30 million VITAL study to do the same on vitamin D. Convincing physicians to attack cholesterol levels with statins is another brain numbing event.
Thank you! Sitting, and living in fear, for 25 years.... I can barely walk. No.... not an easy fix with hip surgery.
Living in "near fetal position" in fear for 20 years ( emotional fear/reality of rejection and abandonment) has one leg much shorter than the other and no hip rotation. My psoas is much shorter and tighter. I broke my ankle twice in the 18 months leading to my mom's death 20 years ago.
After a year of not working/sitting or walking too much, my hip is starting to rotate. My leg is getting longer again. My vision is to be able to squat and sit crosslegged again. Walk with grace and ease. I figure about 3-4 years to stretch, strengthen, dance, and find my rhythm.
After college, it took me 3 years of dance classes everyday to have a body that moved in all directions with grace and ease. Especially spinning ( turns) in ballet and dance give one's brain really valuable information.
Instead of getting a PhD in molecular biology, I decide learning how to move with grace and ease and to be able to do a "double turn" in dance was of paramount importance. Swimming and body surfing need agility and strength! Your knowledge that you share so generously is so soothing and always makes instant sense. Everything "clicks" as I have said before. Your mind is a gift to us.
Astronauts/Actornauts only float in people's imaginations;-)
AstroNOTs. 😁
You provide very valuable information here because any aging person (60 to 70 years old), like me, is directly affected by bone loss. Because he deems me "likely to have a stroke" according to my recent brain scan, despite completely normal blood pressure, blood sugar and cholesterol, my GP prescribes me for 30 months a drug to "thin the blood" AND a drug that "reduces the production of acid in the stomach", to "protect" the stomach from the damage caused by the blood thinner. BUT he never informed me of this serious side effect for an elderly person!
Every day I receive more proof that I cannot trust the medical profession (nor Big Pharma).
Very well, this reinforces me in my current position: they do not deserve my trust and I have to do my own research in all cases. Empowerment!
Thank you Unbekoming.
Very interesting, many thanks. It makes me wonder how much seeing a psychiatrist, a shrink, affects height. :<)
Fantastic article as usual. I am in my sixties and still do a lot of physical work. I agree that basic exercises such as squats help and also body alignment. When my knees hurt I pull my shoulders back, remember to flex from the hips and I can eliminate the knee pain immediately just by changing my posture.
Half the battle is avoiding all vaccines, drugs and supplements. None of this stuff is natural to the body nor do any of them contain the same substances that food does. In my mid 70's, I can still move fairly well and suffer from no pains. The hardest thing to do is the squats. Inflexibility sort of creeps up on you.
Indeed it is a constant battle with the good doctors to stay drug-free! And it seems the more you age the more you need to fight! They are very agressive. So it is better to stay away from them as much as possible.
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Thank you. I am approaching 70 and not lost any height despite being told I have oesteopenia/osteoporosis. I haven't broken anything even with a bad fall. This article makes so much sense. I was an active mom playing on the floor with the kids. I still sit on the floor at times and am an avid gardener who is contantly squatting, reaching lifting. It seems that this has prevented any shrinkage!
Ah the De a scan. I fell for that to. BTW gravity is another myth. Steven A. Young explains this elequently here on Substack.
Another great article! Muscular changes as well as fascial(glue) adaptations can compound these mechanical alterations and cause "other" related issues in abnormal structural holding patterns. The musculoskeletal system is the king of the bodily hill in most every way and is the most used for life.
Yes, the brain makes the decisions, but if you cant escape the tiger, what good did it do?
Mc
Is NASA astronauts growing 2inches in 6months on the, ahem, International Space Station, a citation really worthy of consideration?
This article belongs somewhere in the MahaMovie.com series! So much wisdom and research here, thank you so much on behalf of all women and my husband who sits wayyyy too long at his computer every day and not enough time doing Essentrics (stretching, strengthening and lymphatic and fascia clearing without weights) and walking! I've never had a bone density test because frankly, I've intuited they were probably not accurate anyway and so what if I have "Ostopenia"? I won't take their drugs and will continue with what I am already doing. Same thing with all of the testing my insurance company constantly harasses me about. At soon to be 75 I feel great, better than ever, even if the average life span is now said to be SEVENTY THREE! yikes, that is scary but not to be believed by those of us who know better and do better.
What about sitting cross-legged or in the lotus position? It seems to be that bone structure may allow for sitting cross-legged easily but not for squatting easily and vise versa.
About squatting. Quite a few years ago, I saw a small group of about 5 women who looked like VietNamese, squatting in a circle, yakking away - smack in front of a down escalator, at the bottom end. We had to walk around them to get to where we wanted to go!
I wonder if kneeling is as good as squatting. I can't squat to do my garden & yard work. It is not ergonomic for various tasks.
Re stomach acid.
I have a book Let's Get Well by Adelle Davis. Published in 1965. She says,
"I once heard a doctor, lecturing on nutrition, state that the hydrochloric acid of the stomach was so valuable that the sale of every antiacid preparation should be prohibited by law. Too little hydrochloric acid impairs protein digestion and Vitamin C absorption, allows the B vitamins to be destroyed, and prevents minerals from reaching the blood to the extent that anemia can develop and bones crumble."
And there's quite a bit more on stomach acid relating to the digestive system and overall health (and sickness). Yes, Adelle pushed vitamin supplementation big time but there is still much valuable info in her books. She did refer to hydrochloric acid and enzyme supplements as temporary but necessary "crutches", explaining that without such supplementation, the nutrients in your food can't manufacture the stomach acid and enzymes in the first place, i.e., a catch 22 situation.