Healthy Lifestyle (HLS)

Heart – This eternal worker, as he metaphorically called the “motor of life”, is a neuro-muscular sac size of a fist person and does a great job, supplying all the organs and blood system, which receives the necessary nutrients for normal living organism.

Within a day of rest in the heart pumps about 10 thousand liters of blood per year – 3.5 million liters, while the physical work load of the heart increases several times. To explain this performance of the heart may be the fact that the period of his work (decrease) compared with rest period.

The heart of an aging man →

With advancing age, functional and morphological (cell) changes in the lungs. The elasticity of the lung bubbles decreases, loses its elasticity, making it difficult to release from the alveolar air during exhalation. All this leads to the fact that in an aging body decreases pulmonary ventilation capacity, ie the number of air flow capacity through the lungs per unit time, for example, for 1 minute. In well-trained athlete pulmonary ventilation capacity reaches 200 l / min, while the older she barely makes 70 – 100 l / min.

Light in the elderly →

Old age creeps up gradually, imperceptibly. The man, full of physical and spiritual strength, he suddenly begins to notice that he was faster than before, tired, appears unfounded sleepiness, increased weight. Women are particularly concerned about the appearance of the face, often in the corners of the eyes, wrinkles, receding like rays in hand. Wrinkles become particularly noticeable at a smile and laugh. No wonder they say that the skin – mirror the well-being and health.

How to start old age →

The first signs of advancing age the nervous system occur progressively. An elderly man remarked that he felt bad memory, especially on current events, the names and surnames, there is fatigue, especially during mental work, handwriting changes, with a letter in the words of the letters are ignored, not appended word endings. Of elderly forgetfulness and absent-mindedness: put points, but does not remember where, but they are in the pocket of pajamas or shifted from his nose to his forehead. Elderly can not sit in a stuffy rooms, especially where tobacco smoke, they quickly reached anoxia of the brain. All these symptoms are well known to the elderly, but they belong to them without much anxiety: age, multiple sclerosis, where getting around it, often we hear a doctor from patients. The psyche of elderly people also suffer changes: they are easily offended, tearful, irritable.

The nervous system and aging →

Older people are often observed functional disorders of the gastrointestinal tract – decreases the activity of the secretory apparatus, peristalsis of the stomach and intestines, digestive gland atrophy. In old age are often observed reduction in the tone of the intestine and constipation. The latter is a lot of trouble, violate the normal state of the gastrointestinal tract, and even contribute to the emergence of the general neurosis. The main causes of habitual constipation are: poor mobility, lack of fiber in the foods eaten, low fluid intake. Constipation and should be addressed. For this mode of the day should be a morning gymnastics, walks (up to 7 km per day, is about 1,5 hours away in a quiet pace). Must daily consume foods rich in fiber. It contains all the vegetables and fruits, especially cabbage, carrots, beets, turnips, apples, peaches, pears, apricots, plums. In addition to soups, stewed fruits for food should drink per day for about 1-2 glasses of plain water, one in the morning on an empty stomach, the other evening, before bedtime.