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Healthy Aging
Maria Puntí, author of the book "La pirámid", is the owner of many health clinics. She is also an excellent author and specialist in aging. She has written many books based on what she has learned and worked on throughout her life. These books cover body, mind, and nature.
Often due to excess information or because the information is not very precise, unreliable or overly complicated, we get lost and don't know how to properly take care of ourselves. Maria shows how to achieve healthy aging and how essential it is to clearly understand the hierarchy of self-care priorities.
She says: "The main goal of knowledge about the microbiota is to help people learn how to take care of their body and mind so they can live longer in the best possible conditions.
Giving readers information to make consistent decisions about their health. In my patients, I often observe that faced with an excess of often contradictory and poorly verified information, they don't know where to start or what to prioritize when making health decisions."
What are the main concepts we should consider to achieve healthy aging?
When we talk about healthy longevity, we strive for actions that will ensure our cells maintain a strong, fluid cell membrane, enabling proper molecular exchange, and above all protecting DNA stability at all costs, because we don't want genes that should remain silent to be expressed. To achieve this, we need to control chronic inflammation and oxidative stress.
How do both factors - chronic inflammation and stress - affect the aging process and how can they be controlled?
Inflammation in the body means our brain will suffer as a result. This is not beneficial for preventing neurodegenerative diseases. To control chronic inflammation, we need to consider certain factors such as chronic stress and a pro-inflammatory diet.
What would be the best diet for healthy aging?
The message is that there is no universal diet, let alone a "primordial" diet. People adapted to what was available in their area and are very versatile beings, easily adapting to their surrounding environment.
And how to achieve this, what guidelines should be followed?
Let's start with more dietitians, psychologists and sports and physical activity specialists in public healthcare.
What would be your main recommendations for readers who want to improve their quality of life and promote longevity and healthy aging?
Let them start by giving more love to themselves and others. Start by replacing processed food with clean, natural, organic food straight from Mother Nature.
Some of the longest-living regions in the world are Okinawa, Loma Linda, Ikaria, Sardinia, and the Nicoya Peninsula. The common feature of all these places is the importance of social bonds.
Interestingly, they don't follow any specific diet. Of course, avoiding highly processed food.
Currently there are two types of people: those who have no knowledge of nutrition and eat as if their body were a trash can, and those who are obsessive about calories.
