The Adventure Life Report
We Are Either Growing or We Are Dying
Running The Longevity Gauntlet
Running The Longevity Gauntlet
Micro-Adventure Primer
A Quick Intro to Micro-Adventures
A Quick Escape From The 9-5
5 Things You Can Do Right Now to Add Years to Your Life
5 Things You Can Do Right Now to Add Years to Your Life
and Life to Your Years
“And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years.”
There are quite a few things we can do to add quality years to our lives, unfortunately there is a lot of clutter that we have to wade through to find out just what we need to do to live longer. Some are extreme, some are completely mundane, and some involve plain luck (like the guy who lives to 105 while smoking and drinking daily). It’s not enough to just follow someone else's lead. We need to take the best science we can find and figure out how to apply it best to our lives. And then we need a little luck.
Cut The Sugar
Not only is obesity a major culprit in many of the diseases Americans are suffering from today, but it also accelerates the aging process itself, even more than smoking, according to the largest ever study of the telomeres (our “chromosomal timeclock”) in human cells.
When lifestyle factors were taken into account, however, dramatic differences emerged. The difference between being obese and being lean corresponds to 8.8 years of extra ageing. From New Scientist.
The consumption of sugar is the single-most contributor to weight-gain and eventual obesity in humans. Not only will cutting your sugar intake help with attaining and maintaining a healthy weight and body composition, but your skin will benefit as well.
80 Percent of All Deaths Are Lifestyle Related
80 Percent of All Deaths Are Lifestyle Related
This is the statistic that gets me up and going in the morning. Simply stated, we have a say in determining whether or not we are going to get one of the aforementioned diseases. All we have to do is live a healthier lifestyle than we have been living. And even a little bit helps. Just adding a regular walk to your daily routine will add several years (healthier years) to your life. Cut a little sugar, do a few push ups, it all adds up.
These are the major lifestyle factors that take healthy years off our lives:
- Smoking
- Obesity and Sedentarism
- Drinking Heavily
- Chronic Stress
The key is to make as many small changes as we can to get the greatest effect. Swapping marathons for couch time would be a definite improvement, but if we are still doing the other bad things, we really won’t get the results we are hoping for. In fact, being a chain-smoking ultra-marathoner might actually take years off our lives.
Self-Actualization
Self-Actualization
- Experiencing life fully, vividly, and selflessly.
- Making life choices that led to progression not regression (growth over fear).
- Listening to their inner voice and letting the self emerge.
- Taking responsibility for themselves.
- Having peak experiences.
- Self-examining, finding their defenses and then giving them up.