Reply With QuoteSee being poor is the key to my longevity! I don't exercise, I smoke, and if someone is buying, I'll drink to excess, or anything that comes up.
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http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/03/health...ent/index.html
Increased development leads to higher cancer rates? I have wondered about this for a long time.
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Who me?
See being poor is the key to my longevity! I don't exercise, I smoke, and if someone is buying, I'll drink to excess, or anything that comes up.
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They key to longevity is genes.......you can add a few years by being "good", but for the most part, the day you're born, you're coded to when you will die.Originally Posted by kygorski
My aunt Minnie lived to a ripe old age of 105.......she smoked nearly half a pack a day till the day she died......and she drank at least 2-3 warm beers a day.....And if she had a cold, a couple shots of jack in her tea did the trick.
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Partially true. Genes help but pollution can trump genes
If you get too many chemicals in your body and or get a high DOSE of the wrong chemicals it can still make you sick or kill you even if you have the best genes that money can buy or that GOD gives to you.
If you drink a gallon of sulfuric acid or get exposed to too much nerve gas it's going to do you in.
The key to a long life is not only good Genes but to eat healthy food that's free of excessive pesticides and other chemicals etc.
My mother for example genetically is 90 and 1/2 years old but her phenotype makes her appear to be only 70 years old. She just looks 20 years younger than she is. My father is the same way. I look 10 years younger than I am or did at one time before I gained so much weight and my beard turned gray. That's genetic and there is nothing I can do about that. But I'm lucky that I still look young.
If you work out in the sun all day long for 40 years it's going to take a toll on your skin. UV light damages human skin >>>PERIOD... It don't matter how good your genetic is or are. The UV light will destroy human tissue and your skin given too much exposure or low exposures for long periods of time. Either way the dose of radiation you get determines how much damage is done.
We are all being exposed to chemical from the time we are conceived or maybe even before that. Ever heard of bad sperm or sperm that can't swim? Those sperm can be damaged by chemicals and males can become sterile due to excessive exposure to certain chemicals. We are all aware of the most toxic of chemicals that can kill you with just a tiny amount. A Cobra can inject you with venom and you can die in a matter of minutes or hours. That poison is very toxic and highly venomous. But some people can inject micro amounts of the same venom again and again over long periods of time and their body can build up antibodies against the cobra venom and then they can survive a cobra bite. Other's would die if they got too much cobra venom and didn't have an immunity built up for the venom.
Some people get asthma while other's don't. Those that get asthma may not have the right genes and are not as weak as people with better genes. But then again it may not be the genetic material that determines who's get asthma. Instead if may be that those with asthma have been exposed to more air pollution where they live. Smoke or air pollution can travel from the smoke stack in many different directions depending on the atmospheric stability and the wind speed and direction. So those that live down wind of a major source of pollution ( coal burning power plant for example) may be exposed to more mercury, sulfur dioxide, Nitrogen Dioxide, Hydrocarbons, and Carbon Monoxide than someone who lives UP wind of the smoke stack. And a lot depends on how much exposure (DOSAGE) one gets from these air pollutants over time. There are so many variable to consider. But we can make general statements to fit the situation to a degree. The more pollution you are being exposed to the worse it will be on your heath. And I agree we can't control them all or avoid them all. So most people just shrug their shoulder and continue on living life the best way they can.
Me. I tend to drink a lot more knowing all that I know. I know I can't control it so why try. But at least I can pass on some of my knowledge about pollution and how it effects the body before I go. Bartender, I'll have another shot of Wild Turkey Please.!!!
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Your aunt Minnie was a lucky woman to live to 105. God bless her. But remember that for the first half century of her life we didn't have the modern automobiles, jets and other devices putting pollution into the air we all breath.
The world has changed a lot since she was born. The world changed a whole lot after the industrial revolution as well as after WWII. And there are chemicals that are being made today that we didn't even dream of when you aunt was a child.
We know so much more about modern medicine these days too. Many people in the past just died of sepsis but today with modern antibiotics and new ways of finding disease inside the human body without operating on them we can extend human life by another 20 years in some cases and even longer in other cases. But remember that we are just a few steps ahead of the bacteria when it comes to treating them with antibiotics. Those antibiotics that worked ten years ago don't work any more. Bacteria mutate and change and become resistant to our antibiotics as fast as we can develop new one. It's a never ending battle. The same battle goes on in the soil around us as bacteria and fungi fight a never ending CHEMICAL battle for survival. Remember that penicillin ( a fungus) was one of the first antibiotics that we discovered in a old petri dish that we noticed killing bacteria. But penicillin is not as effective today on a lot of bacteria as it was when first discovered.
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