Your REAL AGE #5

FROM  THE  BOOK  "REAL  AGE"  by  DR.  ROIZEN

The Difference Between RealAge

Maximums and RealAge Interactions:

The Impact on You

As you read this book and review the choices that will help you reduce your RealAge, remember that the RealAge numbers presented in these chapters are the maximum possible effects. They presume only that a single behavior is affecting age reduction and do not take into account the interactions between the effects of several behaviors. Therefore, the numbers are not cumulative. This method has the benefit of allowing you to compare the relative value of health choices, but has the drawback of not accounting for multiple interactions.

Let's consider an example. The chapter on'vitamins states that taking vitamins C and E (in food or supplements) can make you six years younger. The impact is astounding. Is it true? Yes. Is it true for you? Not necessarily. Although a person who does nothing else to protect himself or herself from aging may well have a RealAge benefit of as much as six years simply by taking these two vitamins, most of us make many other health decisions as well. The vitamin choice is mediated by other choices, such as exercising, smoking, and eating a vegetable- and fruit-laden diet.

Indeed, none of us has only one factor affecting his or her rate of aging. We all have multiple factors. You cannot simply add up all the years of benefits that certain behaviors provide and subtract those from your calendar age. Let's say you floss your teeth regularly (6.4 years younger), have low blood pressure (12 years younger), own a dog (1 year younger), exercise (9 years younger), and have a low weight (8 years younger). You cannot simply total these years and subtract them, to say you are 36.4 years younger than your calendar age. The RealAge concept would be meaningless as you worked your way back into childhood, even into negative years! Rather, the beauty of the RealAge calculation process on the Web, and to a lesser extent from Chart 2.1 in Chapter 2, is that it is able to consider the interrelationship, between the range of behaviors and determine the impact of these interactions for you.

When you calculate your RealAge, the effect of any one behavior will. depend on the other health behaviors and choices you follow. These involve , complex equations and complex mathematics, which is why modern computers are required. But these complex calculations are now possible and can inform you of the relative and absolute value of your choices. This is what makes RealAge so revolutionary: It gives us the ability to calculate the effect of Developing an Age Reduction Plan complex and multiple behaviors on aging all at once. It places a value on the effects that different behaviors will have on you, providing the information you need to make informed choices about the way in which you are going to age.

RealAge Means Informed Choices

Read the rest of the book to find out why and how behaviors as diverse as taking vitamin E and enrolling in a continuing education class can help you make your RealAge younger. I will go over the studies and discuss impact of forty-four health and behavior choices. I will show you which ones help keep you young longer and provide suggestions and strategies for incorporating these changes into your life. I begin with the big three: aging of the arteries) aging of the immune system, and environmental aging, showing how each one contributes to the overall aging equation. In subsequent chapters, I explain how specific factors, such as taking the right vitamins in the proper doses, diet and weight management, physical activity and exercise, healthy everyday habits, proper medical management, and stress reduction can help you become and stay younger.

By keeping your RealAge young, you help to keep your calendar age from making you feel "old." What could be better than making, it all the way_to ninety with the youth and vigor of someone twenty-five years younger? This book gives you the value system for understanding your health choices, teaching you how to live more high-quality years with as little aging of your mind or body as possible. I give you the information you need. You make the choices about how you want to grow old. Or stay young.

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