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Aging, in fact, is a word that accompanies us from the beginning of life.
Rebirth means that even as we grow up and become adults, the road ahead is also the road to death, and this change is quietly happening and is irresistible.
In our general perception, the older you get, the more obvious it is, this is the law of nature.
But from a scientific point of view, aging refers to the process by which our bodies begin to gradually decline from the peak of all indicators of the adult body.
Over time, this change is inevitable, starting with a small cell, moving on to various tissues and organs in the body, and then affecting our whole body.
However, it is worth noting that aging is not a process of uniform change, and the factors that affect aging are not only age, but also one of the most basic and irreversible factors.
It is important to note that some people of the same age look very young, while others seem to be much older than their peers.
Some people are still as energetic as ever after middle age, climbing, fitness, and running, while some people are gasping for breath when they climb a building.
So is your body really old? Age doesn't count, let's take a look at these characteristics that mean the body is getting older, do you have them?
1. In addition to age, what else will make us age quickly
It is said that middle-aged people are a huge watershed in our lives, and this statement is often the first to be noticed by middle-aged people in the workplace.
In addition to the economic and career gap with his peers, he also has to worry about whether he will be eliminated from society all the time.
More importantly, you will clearly feel that your physical strength and energy are not as good as when you were younger, and the warnings from the decline of your body will constantly remind you.
Aside from age, what is it that makes us age?
1. Pressure from the external environment
Now, we are in a fast-growing society, so whether you want to or not, you will be coerced by the high-speed "machine" of modern society and will unconsciously enter the state of rapid operation.
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Therefore, when you have been in a long-term fast-paced, tense and confusing work and competition, it will not only make you feel at a loss psychologically, but also a huge challenge to your body.
In the constant high-pressure state of anxiety, tension, and helplessness, our bodies are also undergoing various changes.
The cerebral cortex and the endocrine system throughout the body are dysfunctional due to stress, and when these tissues and systems are abnormal, our body will have health problems.
For example, the brain is an important command organ of the body, and abnormalities in the cerebral cortex can cause problems such as poor memory and inability to concentrate.
In addition, the body's detoxification function, cardiovascular function, sexual function, etc. will be affected.
2. Abnormal eating habits
To put it simply, aging is actually the fact that the tissues and organs in our body cannot be repaired to their original state after they have deteriorated.
But if it is some of our usual bad habits, such as unhealthy diet, it affects the health of the body.
And if the repair speed of the body cannot keep up with the speed of destruction, the physical state will get worse and worse, that is, we are talking about aging.
Now our diet can be said to be quite rich, we didn't have to eat before, we could only eat what we wanted.
Now that there are too many things to eat, it is natural to always choose what you like to eat.
However, according to our modern diet, excessive intake of high-fat and high-calorie foods such as delicacies from the mountains and seas not only increases the burden on the stomach and intestines, but also leads to excessive production of garbage and toxins in the body.
At the same time, the intake of fruits and vegetables is severely insufficient, so that the body lacks the necessary antioxidants to effectively fight free radical damage.
3. Insomnia or staying up late
Everyone may know that sleep is important for physical health, but they don't understand why it is so important.
In fact, sleep can be said to be the "repair worker" of our body.
After the busy day, the various machines in our body need to enter a state of rest, and sleep is the key process of body recovery and regeneration.
If you don't get enough sleep for a long time, your body has not recovered, and you will grow old faster.
Migrant workers often face the dilemma of not being able to sleep at night because they are too busy and stressed during the day.
Or if you want to have some time for yourself in the middle of the night, you can choose to stay up late.
However, at the moment, I may be enjoying the time I am alone, but my body has not been repaired.
In the long run, it will not only cause people to be sluggish, gray face, increase eye bags and wrinkles, but also significantly reduce their ability to react, seriously affecting their overall health and accelerating the aging process.
What needs to be more vigilant is that it is very common for the body to be unable to withstand sudden death due to long-term lack of sleep, which also makes the importance of sleep to physical health even more sudden.
4. I like to lie flat and don't like to exercise
Many people have the illusion that they don't like sports since they were young, but this is not the case.
If nothing else, girls are used to going shopping, and when they are young, they may have no problem shopping all day.
When you get older, you want to find a place to sit after a while.
Therefore, not liking exercise is actually a manifestation of our body slowly aging.
After this state lasts for a long time, the lack of exercise will affect the body's function and deteriorate even more.
The more you lack exercise, the less you want to exercise, and the more you don't want to exercise, the more your body can't be effectively improved.
This vicious cycle continues, and our bodies become more vulnerable to challenges.
2. Are you old? These five performances you don't mean that you are still very young!
Are you old? Many people will subconsciously think about how old they are, whether they have reached the age stage of middle age.
But in fact, age is not the only measure of whether we are old or not, and the more important thing is our physical state.
If you want to know if you are old, let's see if you have these five performances.
Perhaps we should pay more attention to our own physical condition, even if we are not old, if we drag an old body, it is not good.
1. Gaining weight has become "easy as a snap"
In fact, this problem must be experienced by many people after middle age.
Perhaps the weight that used to be well controlled is becoming more and more difficult to maintain at the ideal number, and gaining weight has become an "easy" thing.
Why is this happening? A 2019 journal study gave you the answer.
It is that as we get older, all the functions of our body will be less efficient.
Therefore, it is natural that the efficiency of fat cells, which control the transfer, storage and consumption of fat in the body, will also be reduced a lot.
In this way, even if we eat as much fat as when we were young, because the efficiency of conversion decreases, the fat will accumulate more, and the weight will naturally increase.
As you get older, you will obviously feel the same way of losing weight, and no matter how hard you try, you can't lose it as quickly as you did when you were younger.
It takes more effort to keep your weight within a reasonable range, and it's hard to keep your weight stable.
2. I have grown old and bald
This problem is even more obvious in men, who are not only wrinkles when they get old, but also the hair is also the hardest hit area of aging.
I don't know when you can see falling hair everywhere in your home, and middle-aged baldness brings not only hygiene problems, but more importantly, serious damage to personal image.
Some people ask: Why do you get bald when you get older?
That's because getting older isn't just about what we see in our performance, it's more about the deep changes within the body.
The cells in the body will also age in batches over time.
When the hair follicle stem cells on the top of our head are not as energetic as they were when we age, the ability to retain our hair is no longer available.
Coupled with some bad habits, these effects are exacerbated, so hair loss becomes more noticeable.
3. The taste is getting heavier
It is generally recognized that getting older is starting to grow wrinkles, but in fact, the change of aging may start from the fact that the food you like to eat becomes more and more flavorful.
Because the taste cells in the mouth are one of the first cells in our body to start aging.
As the number of taste cells decreases with age, the sensitivity to the sweet, sour, bitter, spicy and salty tastes gradually decreases, so the food eats become more and more flavorful.
In addition, after the age of 40, the structure of the teeth will also change.
Even if you don't lose your teeth, the bite force of your teeth will deteriorate, and the food you eat will become softer and softer, and you won't be able to chew food that is too hard.
4. It is easy to fracture
This is a consensus that everyone agrees that the legs and feet will inevitably become much slower when they get older.
This is especially true if one is not careful, and the elderly will always break their bones after falling.
That's because as we get older, the bone density inside the bones will decrease, and bone mass and bone strength will also be affected at the same time.
In this way, the bones of the elderly will be more brittle than those of the young, and the chance of fracture is greatly increased.
5. Can't remember, can't recognize, don't recognize
Aging is not just about how long we live, it's about the slow deterioration of all the body's functions.
And the internal organs of the body often degenerate faster than they appear to change on the outside.
In the case of our brains, research has shown that the brain begins its deterioration at the very beginning of its existence.
After 40, this rate will get faster and faster, and by the age of 60, the rate of brain atrophy has reached an astonishing 15% per year.
Therefore, when people get old, they will always be unable to remember things, and they will remember many things confusingly, and the speed of learning will not be as fast as before.
3. How can we age more slowly?
Although it is an unstoppable thing for people to get older, we can still make some changes to make our aging slower.
If you pay attention early, you'll probably look much younger than your peers.
First, quit smoking as early as possible.
Smoking is harmful to our body, and the serious impact of this is related to the health of the lungs.
Not only the person who smoked, but more importantly, the family and friends who were forced to smoke "second-hand", were innocently implicated.
According to research data, people who are forced to inhale second-hand smoke for a long time are 48% more likely to suffer from chronic pulmonary obstruction.
Therefore, we can get rid of smoking as soon as possible so that our body can benefit.
Secondly, use your brain often and don't let it rust.
In fact, our brain is an organ that becomes more flexible the more we use it, and if we use our brain regularly, we can make the blood vessels in the brain expand outward.
In this way, there is enough blood and nutrients to run to the brain, and naturally the brain will not age so easily.
Finally, stick to a certain amount of exercise every day.
Muscles, like the brain, exist in our bodies according to the principle that they will be destroyed or disappear without it, and prolonged inactivity will lead to the degeneration of our muscles.
In fact, don't think that getting old is so terrible, this is a natural law, and it is also a matter of course, and each of us will experience it.
Instead of worrying about getting old, it is better to maintain some life and rest that is good for your body from now on, so that your aging can become slower.
Bibliography:
Mace Medicine, 2024.07.07 "Heavy! The reason behind the "cliff-like aging" at these three ages has been found! Nature proposes a new core driver of biological aging》
Dietitian Zhenzhen, 2022.03.31 "After the age of 50, there are these 5 manifestations, indicating that the body has begun to age, and 3 ways to delay aging"
Popular Science China, 2024.05.09 "4 "Indicators" of Aging! If you don't, you're still young! 》