Forever Young Club Pilot Study Introduction to Physical Health

“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” Beverly Sills

Introduction

Welcome to the launch of the Pat Falvey Forever Young Club Pilot Study. Because this is a Pilot Study, it is totally FREE to join and when you sign up through this special LinkedIn Link we'll immediately email you a copy of our FREE eBook called "Start Your Forever Young Journey Today"; thats the cover opposite!

If you're interested, the Forever Young Club Pilot Study website is now open for you to explore.

Introduction To Mindset

This is the forth Forever Young Club core article called “Introduction To Physical Health”. There is a link to a short video below which covers the same content, so you have a choice of reading the article or watching the video, or both.

While we’re living longer today than ever before, we still have many major health concerns including heart disease, stroke, cancer, obesity, diabetes and coming down the track very quickly, dementia/Alzheimers which is expected to triple within 30 years.

These chronic problems aren’t the root cause of premature death, they’re the proximal causes. The root causes are the decisions and actions you take on a daily basis, like what you eat and drink, the quality of your sleep and how active or inactive you are.

No Guarantees

We all know there are no guarantees in life; you simply don’t know what’s around that corner or how long you're going to live. So while you can’t control the ultimate outcome, you can control the ongoing process by the decisions and actions you take, along the way, every day.

One of my favourite quotes, attributed to the late Jim Rohn, is “take care of your body, it’s the only place you have to live”. The only thing your body cares about is that you survive for as long as possible. Remember you’re the boss; you’re the driver and the leader of your health.

Your Life Expectancy

If you Google life expectancy you’ll find “life expectancy from birth”. For example, men in Ireland can expect to live to 78 and women to 83. However, if you think about it, life expectancy from birth is actually not very relevant when you’re aged 50 and over. What you really need to know is your life expectancy today. Unfortunately, that number is not readily available. The closest you’ll get is life expectancy at 65, which using Ireland as our example is 18 years for men and 21 years for women.

So when you reach 65, men can expect to live another 18 years and women 21 years. Of course remember these are average statistics. There’s another statistic which most people are not aware of called “healthy life years” and this shows how many years of good health from 65 you can typically expect. In Ireland this is 11 years for men and 12 years for women. This also means that men at 65 can expect to have 7 “unhealthy” years [18 – 11] while women have 9, [21 – 12] but again remember these are also average statistics and you don’t have to be an average statistic.

Your Biological Age

I’m sure you’ve been to a school or college reunion. Did you notice that many of your old pals look their age, while some look quite young and others quite old? Yet everyone is the same chronological age. So if you think about it, your chronological age doesn’t really matter because you can’t control it, but your biological age does because you can.

Put very simply, your life expectancy is not just a throw of the dice! You can, if you want to, increase your life expectancy but more importantly, you can significantly improve the quality of your life, for the rest of your life. It’s never too late to get started and so why not draw a line in the sand and start your Forever Young Journey today.

Your Comments/Questions

We’d love to hear what you think of this core article on Physical Health. Please leave your comments below and let us know if you have any questions. If you prefer, please feel free to email me at at [email protected].

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Jim Kirwan

Forever Young Club Pilot Study

Email: jimkirwan@ynlm,ie

Mobile:086.456.9502