WHAT IS LONGEVITY?
Longevity has become an overkill topic: you see it when you go into bookstores, turn on the tv, listen to the radio, read the paper, etc.
Why is longevity so important? It shows us that more and more people are getting some idea of what longevity is.
When you are talking to someone about longevity, you need to understand the basics of what they are seeing when they look at the media surrounding them.
Longevity is not only a longer, but above all a healthier and more active life. It means how long a person will live and how healthy their later years will be.
There are physical and mental health aspects of longevity. Longevity is about improving our lifespan.
- Expanding the individual healthy life expectancy
- Controlling and potentially reversing the hallmarks of aging
- Extending the individual life expectancy
By increasing our quality of life and lifespan, we will automatically improve our life expectancy. But that is not the most important part. It is good news to see that life expectancy has been improving over the last few hundred years. However, the total life expectancy is much larger than the healthy life expectancy or lifespan (In the Americas, 21.4 total life expectancy versus the 16.2 years of those being healthy). Longevity seeks to close the bars. This gap has unfortunately been widening more and more.
Since the 60’s, we gained 10 years of life, but those years are not 100% effective in life. You may not enjoy life the way you want to and we wish you to live. We seek to close the gap between the total life expectancy and the health expectancy.
Our genes play a role. Our genes are 30% of what our health is determined by, but our lifestyle is 70%.
We want to support telomeres so that they are not reduced. There IS a series of cells we hope to die, but that has nothing to do with aging. For example, the walls of the skin, stomach, and intestines must be renewed. Not all death of cells is wrong, but we should be aware of what is increasing or strengthening telomeres because it could also have a negative impact. If the cells we want to die survive, it can harm our health.
A microcirculatory theory of aging
- “A person is as old as his vessels” (quote from Thomas Sydenham)
- Defined as an impaired function of
- Oxygen exchange
- Exchange of fluids
- Replacement of solutes
- Inflammation and leukocyte transmigration
- Reduced number of capillaries
- Decreased blood flow
Decreased microcirculation can increase the aging process.
We need a lifestyle change! What can we do ourselves? How can we integrate a healthy lifestyle into our daily lives? This is what it is all about!
We do not need to become super athletes, we just need to be healthy.
We cannot always do everything! We can do simple things to integrate HEALTHY aging into our lives.
What is life in balance?
The four pillars of longevity
- Nutrition
- Exercise
- rest/relaxation
- Community, and purpose (a very underestimated point! This is what unites people of all age groups. This plays a larger role than originally expected)
BEMER helps support our life changes, but it is not 100% of what keeps us healthy. You cannot drink and smoke and assume BEMER will take away the negative affects. You have to work in many areas within yourself and your lifestyle.
Chronic stress
- Exposure to chronic stress effects regulation of genes associated with the biological aging process
- Chronic psychosocial stress increases the risk of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases
- Cycle of chronic stress can have affect on our organs, cells, etc
If you are stressed short term, it could help push you forward. Chronic stress, however, affect us negatively. Things we take home from work or take into bed with us to make us sleepless cause our heads to spin and our bodies to be stressed and age.
Permanently we are in the mode to fight or flee when we are in chronic stress. This is not favorable for our health. You cannot fully switch it off unless you move into a lonesome island, but we can work to get out of the rat race in our head.
Sleep
- Sleep has been underestimated for many years. It is as important as nutrition and exercise. Sleep is the #1 place we regenerate.
- We must ensure we run through all phases of our sleep- light, deep, and REM.
- Helps us be energetic and relaxed
- We need at minimum 7-8 hours
- We must go through all sleep phases
- With enough sleep, the immune system works at full speed
- Hormones are released when we sleep
- Stress leads to sleep problems and sleep problems lead to more stress–a terrible cycle.
- Reduce chronic stress
- Mindfulness
- Rest your parasympathetic system
When we continuously sleep less than 7 hours, we suffer from major health issues such as cardiovascular diseases.
Microscirculation will be impacted when you sleep less!
Sleeping disorders
- Impacts microcirculation
- Weakens immune system
- Reduces regeneration
- Blood pressure and heart frequency stay elevated
- Reduced sleep duration is the main trigger for decreased microcirculation in women
BEMER & Longevity?
BEMER has been supporting longevity ever since it began without pointing it out as “longevity.” We are not talking about longevity because we are hopping on the trend, but because more and more people are interested in this. We have been trying to help give a long life and help prevent the failure of organs.
We can wrap our blood vessels twice around the globe. There is a big risk of constricting those blood vessels. This can happen due to cholesterol. The bigger the cholesterol gets, the harder it is for blood to flow. We see in the below graphic that once the blood vessel is blocked we can no longer have our blood cells flow. We have been rethinking this and concluded that the disease starts in the smallest blood vessels.
If something happens where these can no longer flow smoothly, something has blocked the vessel and they can no longer support the organs, causing big problems. The more obstructed they get, the bigger the problems for us.
What does BEMER do?
BEMER is a team player. It supports several processes within the body. It does not take the place of medicines. It is Pulsed electromagnetic fields that affect the body. Do not stop all things and don’t focus on the BEMER. Continue taking prescribed drugs, focus on movement and nutritious eating. BEMER can HELP people to overcome a disease quicker or it can also help prevent diseases. BEMER has never said that if you hurt yourself or something is no longer working, BEMER will fix it. BEMER has said for 26 years that it should be a part of the household because if you do not feel well, it will help you continue to feel better by supporting your blood flow.
A study from Singapore shows how what we do with BEMER (a different PEMF in study) that can support and be in parallel to sport. BEMER helps move your blood just as your heart helps move blood during exercise. Sport and exercise are being supported when using PEMF therapy
