The Vitalitas Info Sheets: Essential information for healthy ageing by Dr Nick Siddle
You are aware of the curse of dementia [mainly as Alzheimer’s Disease – AD] either as a risk of ageing or more powerfully because of personal experience of a sufferer.
There IS an inherited ie genetic component related principally to the APOE e4 gene. But lots of people who have the gene don’t get AD. The important information is not whether you have the gene [so don’t rush to get a test] but whether the gene is switched on - this is called gene expression.
Some more detailed examination of the benefits
of curcumin and the problems with formulation.
There are lots of necessary
supplements for the over 50’s [protein, ‘Vitamin’ D, vitamins B12 and B9
[Folate], Magnesium, Zinc …] At this point if you have followed my recommendations, you are
rattling and considering the expense.
So when it comes to other additional agents,
they must be really beneficial.
Curcumin [one of the active ingredients in
dietary turmeric -that golden spice that stains your kitchen yellow when you
have a curry] should definitely be on your list.
But … eating more Curry is not the answer.
How the bugs in your mouth affect your health [and what to do about it]
Bad mouth bugs [oral dysbiosis] can cause major problems: and it is a ‘fixable’ issue.
Yes, if you have this your breath may be bad and you may be un-kissable but there are more serious issues at stake!
Although my usual nutritional message is “optimum diet, no need for additives or multivitamin preparations” and nobody needs extra vitamin C if they eat fruit and vegetables… as far as anti-ageing is concerned, to get potent anti inflammaging activity you need a supplement.
For example, to reach the recommended daily intake of 800-1000mg of quercetin takes more onions, coffee, dill etc than any of us want to consume. Similarly, curcumin (the potent anti-inflammatory agent in turmeric) is very poorly absorbed from food and only a supplement will make any impact [and avoid a very yellow mess in your kitchen].
Some of us have been mislead into thinking that dietary fat intake increases cholesterol. In fact most of our cholesterol is manufactured in the liver not eaten and eating good fats is beneficial. Abnormal blood lipids are a sign, mainly, of disordered carbohydrate metabolism and the dietary requirement is limiting sugar and refined carbohydrate intake.
It sounds like simple arithmetic, but your body is like a motor car, it isn’t the year it was made that matters … but how many miles it has done, how hard it has been driven and if it has been serviced and well maintained! Wear and tear is the critically issue. Let’s call this wear and tear your biological age in distinction to your chronological age – the years since you were born. Ideally your biological age is lower than your age at last birthday i.e. your body’s working parts are well maintained.
Not in the sense being rich materially, but rich in good 'quality of life' years. So your HealthSpan is the good years, your LifeSpan the total including those bad end-of-life years you have seen others have.
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