Balanced Choices Can Be Beneficial For Your Good Health and Longevity
ByLast week I saw an article on sciencedaily.com how caffeine improved memory loss in aged mice raised to develop symptoms of Alzheimer's disease. The article started with the angle that "Coffee drinkers may have another reason to pour that extra cup." It went on to report on coterminous studies published online July 6 in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease that showed that caffeine considerably decreased abnormal levels of the protein linked to Alzheimer's disease, both in the brains and in the blood of mice that had developed symptoms of the disease.
However, before you make a decision to add another cup of coffee to your morning ritual, let me, Dr. Jamie Phillips add that also on the website, under "Related Stories," were a couple of articles reporting on studies that professed to prove the non-beneficial effects of caffeine, "Morning Jolt of Caffeine May Mask Serious Sleep Problems," and "Coffee Consumption Linked To Increased Risk Of Heart Attack For Persons With Certain Gene Variation."
It seems to me that there are conceivably many studies that will affirm, or at least give credence to, nearly any view point, particularly when it is about health and longevity. The "good/bad" studies related to caffeine certainly aren't, by any means, the only ones. Even so, it did get me to considering about the reasonableness that there will never be just "one thing" that will with absolute certainty assist we, humans, in living longer, healthier lives. Humans are dynamic, biological creatures. We are free to participate in life. We're not confined to a cage! And, moreover, though Alzheimer's disease apparently is on the rise, obviously we, cage-free humans, have not been "singled out to develop symptoms of Alzheimer's disease," therefore caffeine isn't entirely the "one thing" that will prevent or reverse it.
Our body is a splendid, intricate system that is based on homeostasis, i.e, balance. It makes sense, then, that good health is cultivated by a healthy, balanced attitude towards living, instead of our jumping on the bandwagon of the latest health study and "doing" or "overdoing" one particular thing fooling ourselves into believing that it will reverse all of the other immoderate and unhealthy things we do to our bodies.
I believe, as a doctor of chiropractic in Santa Barbara, that every moment of the day we have an opportunity to make healthy choices for our body, to decide what will assist us to live longer, healthier lives. When it comes to what is good for our body, we know what genuinely "feels" right and what doesn't. So, I just wanted to pass along a little something for you to keep in mind the next time you consider having that extra cup of coffee or second glass of red wine. There is no "one thing" that will do "everything" for your age-related health issues.
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