Human life is actually inseparable from birth, aging, illness and death. After a person reaches a certain age, the body's aging rate will accelerate, and the functions of various organs will also deteriorate.
However, people cannot predict when they will die. In fact, research by an authoritative organization has found that 10 years before death, the body has given us early warning signals.
How can we know our physical condition, prevent it early, and delay aging?
Did the body send signals 10 years before death?
A study published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) shows that from around 65 years old, the body's motor function will gradually decline, and the risk of death will also increase.
These signs of decline can appear as early as 10 years before death, such as difficulty getting up from a chair or changing one's clothes. Experts believe that detecting the deterioration of motor function early can prevent the progression of aging in advance.
Research results show that walking speed, sitting and standing ability, and poor grip strength will increase the risk of death by 22%, 14%, and 15% respectively, and difficulty in daily activities will increase the risk of death by 30%. Moreover, these differences showed a steady increase before death, especially 4 to 10 years before death.
People with short life spans usually have poor health in these four indicators.
After this study, scientists have concluded that people with poor health in these four indicators may have a shorter life span, relatively speaking.
1. Walking speed slows down
When walking, you need the support of the heart and lungs, so the speed of walking can fully explain the strength of the cardiopulmonary function. People with poor cardiopulmonary function are more likely to develop life-threatening diseases.
Middle-aged and elderly people can self-test their walking speed once a year, record it, and then compare it with the data of the previous year. If you find that your pace has slowed down significantly after one year, you need to be alert to cardiopulmonary problems and get checked in time.
2. The ability to sit and stand has deteriorated
The ability to sit and stand can reflect the health of a person's lower limb joints, ligaments, and lumbar spine. If the ligaments of a person's lower limbs are more flexible and the knee joints and lumbar vertebrae can move well, the risk of lower limb dysfunction will be reduced, which is conducive to health and longevity.
The elderly can self-test their sitting and standing abilities in this way: stand in front of a chair, cross your hands on your chest, and stand and sit down repeatedly. If you can sit and stand 25 times or more within 30 seconds, it means that the joints, bones, and muscles of the lower limbs are still functional. good .
3. Grip strength is obviously reduced.
There is a problem with the heart. The blood output is reduced compared with before, which cannot meet the energy needs of various organs. The strength of the whole body will also become smaller, and the reduction of grip strength is one of the typical symptoms. Grip strength and body mass index = grip strength ÷ weight × 100. Normal grip strength index should be greater than 50.
4. Difficulty in daily activities
The ability to perform daily activities reflects the elderly’s ability to take care of themselves. For example, if activities such as dressing, washing, and going to the toilet are restricted, it indicates that aging is intensifying and muscles are decreasing. We must be especially wary of Alzheimer’s disease and sarcopenia.
If you want to live longer, try this simple and effective action.
Taking a deep breath is a very simple action, but it can help you live longer.
Deep breathing can expand the chest, inhale more oxygen, promote metabolism, improve organ function, and is beneficial to health.
1. Increase lung capacity, prevent and relieve respiratory diseases
Long-term deep breathing exercises can effectively improve the contraction ability of respiratory muscles and restore their elasticity. The expansion force of the chest and lung capacity will also be greatly increased, which can effectively prevent and relieve breathing. Systemic disease.
2. Assisted blood pressure reduction
During deep breathing, most of the alveoli can fully participate in exercise.
The alveoli produce prostaglandins when they work. When you take a deep breath, prostaglandins can increase significantly. When they enter the blood vessels, they will dilate the blood vessels and naturally lower the blood pressure.
3. Deep breathing exercises the diaphragm, which is beneficial to longevity.
The diaphragm is a muscle located between the chest and abdominal cavity. It connects important organs such as the heart, lungs, stomach, liver, and lumbar spine. Frequent deep breathing is beneficial to maintaining the diaphragm and helping to live a healthy and long life.
