A recent trip to physiotherapy to speed recovery from trauma showed me how much can be done to joints with prophylactic training. Similar exercises may well apply to say
+the venous system. How many old folk with swollen ankles ever held or even hold their feet up in the air before getting up in the mornings?)
+the brain, like a new trick a day as in a deep conversation with a random street contact.
+joints where the first thing an osteopath does is to stretch for ten seconds or so each joint in the whole skeleton.
+hearts where just imagining speaking into a media microphone can boost the heart beat.
+the gut, where a three day break from milk in coffee, or from caffeine itself, can revive peristalsis. Likewise a break from any of the pure, white and deadlies.
+the physical immune system, where a change of air really just sharpens the reactors.
+the mental immune system, where the most vicarious challenge engages the reflexes.
+physical decays that accompany Parkinson and Alzheimers, which may just be linked to the physical - ?and even mental? - nodules caused by some sweeteners.
And this is just a quick top of head list.
Suspect we will realise over a few decades that the rate and depth of aging, like the rate and depth of learning, is largely in our own attitudes and hands. Anecdotally, three oldsters I knew well died rich in years but still vital in every mental faculty the week the body stopped.
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