Longevity - “Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.”

I’ve heard folks say that what we do about poor health and quality of life in old age is something society has not come to terms with and is going to be a real problem. ?

?ITS NEVER TOO LATE

“Medical science can keep your body going, it can keep your heart ticking away and all your systems functioning really well, but what it can’t do is give you quality of life that goes on forever,” said Bill Bryson.

While that’s true, innovators in the longevity space are taking that challenge on. If you want to live a healthier and longer life at a personal level, what you do from hereon in matters and starts now!

SEISMIC CHANGE!

The world is experiencing a seismic demographic shift—and no country is immune to the consequences.

While increasing life expectancy and declining birth rates are considered major achievements in modern science and healthcare, they will have a significant impact on future generations – creating workforce shortages but also economic slowdowns in nations with aging populations, and those remaining in the workforce to pay more taxes amongst a host of changes.

We therefore have a responsibility to ourselves, because in later years increasingly as we look around the world – more of the burden of that COST is increasingly having to be financed from our own pockets!

Cast your mind back to the impact of Covid and the social changes that brought about in our communities and the new health needs that developed as a result of it.? It wasn’t the first of civilization diseases and it certainly won’t be the last, think about allergies, migraines, obesity ?– respiratory diseases caused by a variety of reasons not least environmental pollution, disorders such as sleep deficiencies, stress and anxiety - ?brought on by changes of a dietary , cultural, or societal nature and over use of antibiotics over the years.

The hectic lives many lead and the increasingly cerebral jobs people take on? are making increasing demands on peoples lives well into their later years, so we need to be alert, flexible and creative in how we manage that.

Some of those who have already made it into the centenarian years – would claim order, tranquility, connections with family and friends, contact with natural world, emotional stability, no worries, no regrets, lots of positivity and staying away from toxic people Is the answer!?

RECOGNISED POTENTIAL

Either way longevity is a burgeoning area and already a 64B$ global market, drawing interest and money from the great and the good. In 1995 there were around 100,000 centenarians by 2100 the UN estimates that will rise to a staggering 20 million! For those reasons, "Billionaires and institutional investors ?are already bankrolling the industry, several standout players have launched pioneering research into how we just might amend the aging process. Whether ambitious startups from Silicon Valley and other Valley equivalents globally , biotech, and pharma, blazing divergent roadmaps, some that want to prolong our youth, others to expand lifespans, and others immortality." So while some are building businesses that are focusing on the diagnostics of the aging process others have realized that the sensible switch in the therapeutic area will be built first and foremost in the development of next generation supplements pre pro and other biotics as well as invasive and non- invasive procedures and RX drugs if we want to liver healthier lives longer and prosper ! ??

ADD LIFE TO YOUR YEARS NOW

To add life to your years and not years to your life, that journey can start immediately, advances in microbiome research and understanding will help that. The gut microbiome plays a pivotal role in the health of other systems, be it immune, digestive, cardiovascular, musculoskeletal, or nervous systems – and as we age so does our microbiome based on studies of microbiota composition and diversity across all life stages. So when young and healthy you will tend to have more of the good microbiota and less of the bad, but with wear and tear over the years depending on how you have looked after yourself, you will naturally have less of the good and more of the bad – and therefore less able to ward off disease.

So why wait? One day you’ll wake up and there won’t be any time left to do what you want.

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