If after 70 years old, your body has the following six changes, don't panic, because this is a normal phenomenon caused by aging. As long as scientific aftercare treatment is carried out, you can still stay healthy.
The heart is an important central organ of human beings and shoulders the heavy responsibility of promoting blood circulation inside the human body. With the increase of age, the heart will inevitably enter a state of aging. Especially after the age of 70, even if the body does not have bad conditions such as high blood pressure, it is inevitable that there will be heart damage. Among heart diseases, the most serious is coronary heart disease.
Coronary heart disease (CHD) is a kind of coronary artery disease, which leads to vascular obstruction or stenosis, myocardial ischemia, endangering health, and even symptoms of hypoxia and necrosis of the heart in severe cases. This lesion can cause many serious diseases, such as angina pectoris, heart failure, myocardial infarction and sudden death.
There are many causes of coronary heart disease, ranging from three highs (hypertension, hyperlipidemia and hyperglycemia) to obesity, smoking, poor diet, excessive drinking and social and psychological factors. According to the survey data, the probability of coronary heart disease in the elderly over 75 years old is as high as 70%, accounting for 70% of the whole age group.
This terrible data shows that almost seven out of ten people suffer from coronary heart disease. The typical symptom of coronary heart disease is chest pain. If the elderly feel pain or colic in the precordial area due to excessive exercise or emotional excitement, they need to be alert quickly.
Of course, because the physical function of the elderly declines, the response speed to diseases is even worse. At this time, you must not wait until there are obvious symptoms to treat. It's best to have regular check-ups, early detection and early treatment.
If the old man's body is really diagnosed with coronary heart disease, there is no need to panic, because drug control and self-regulation can completely keep him healthy. Nowadays, with the improvement of medical level, there has been a major breakthrough in major heart diseases. Although coronary heart disease can't be completely cured, it is still controlled.
In addition to medication, daily diet control and daily adjustment are also important. After all, the physical function of the elderly is degraded by aging. Only by keeping a scientific diet can the treatment get twice the result with half the effort.
In addition to heart problems, the elderly after 70 will also face bone problems caused by aging. According to incomplete statistics, about14 of people over 70 years old suffer from osteoporosis, and the incidence rate of women is much higher than that of men.
Osteoporosis is the decline of bone density and bone quality caused by many reasons, which leads to the serious destruction of bone microstructure and the increase of bone brittleness, thus greatly increasing the probability of human fracture. Don't think that fracture is just a trivial matter. You know, there are many important bone protection organs in the human body. Once you break an important rib or lumbar spine, the whole person will be paralyzed or even die.
The elderly over 70 years old lose the balance of bone metabolism due to the deterioration of their physical function, and the rate of bone loss is faster than that of young adults. This makes it easy for the elderly to break their bones because of falls or impacts. Moreover, due to the slow metabolism and poor recovery ability of the elderly, this small "fracture" is likely to bring him unimaginable pain.
In addition, with the growth of the elderly, the muscle strength in the body will gradually decline, and the tendons of the body will gradually lose their softness and become stiff. These will greatly affect the mobility and flexibility of the elderly, and will also increase the chances of falls and injuries of the elderly, which is simply a nightmare cycle.
Of course, not every old man will encounter a serious fracture, and this kind of osteoporosis can be changed and adjusted through his own efforts. If the elderly over 70 years old want to improve their physique, insisting on exercise is the primary goal, and proper aerobic exercise and weight-bearing exercise are the best ways to alleviate osteoporosis.
Besides exercise, we need to work harder on food. Usually, we need to pay more attention to supplement protein, calcium and magnesium, and vitamin K. These nutrients have a significant effect on improving bones and increasing muscles in the elderly.
Human beings have a complete process of birth, aging, death and illness, and the development of childhood also corresponds to the decline of old age. After the age of 70, the brain will shrink irreversibly, and the signal transmission between brain regions will become extremely slow, which will lead to a certain degree of brain injury in the elderly.
And if the brain of the elderly is seriously degraded, it will lead to Alzheimer's disease. In the initial stage of Alzheimer's disease, the elderly just have some memory loss, and their ability to deal with things is weak, so it is difficult to think independently.
When the elderly enter the middle and late stages of the disease, there will be terrible situations in which they can't take care of themselves, their memories are all empty, or only some memories are left. Not only that, the elderly will eventually be affected by the physiology of the disease, leading to coma, or die of complications caused by infection.
Although this disease not only appears in the elderly, but the elderly are the most prone to get sick, because the body is aging, so this disease is also called Alzheimer's disease. There are many reasons for this disease, besides family inheritance and disease, there are also social factors and mental problems that can lead to this disease.
Alzheimer's disease belongs to the category of incurable disease in the world. At present, there is no effective treatment, which can only be alleviated by drug control, and there is basically no possibility of reversing the cure. Of course, we should not be afraid, as long as we make our own prevention and preparation, the chances of suffering from Alzheimer's disease will be reduced.
The most effective way to prevent Alzheimer's disease is to exercise your brain. Many people think that when the elderly are over 70 years old, their physical function will deteriorate, so they should stop worrying, rest more and use less brains.
However, this increases the incidence of Alzheimer's disease in the elderly. The correct way is for the elderly to use their brains more, use their brains diligently and keep their thinking active, so as to effectively prevent the occurrence of Alzheimer's disease. At the same time, the elderly should also pay attention to the intake of nutrients in their daily lives. Nutrients such as vitamin B9 and EPA have a good nutritional supplement to the brain.
Before talking about metabolism, let's first understand the concept of metabolism. Metabolism is a process in which organisms constantly replace old substances with new substances, including material metabolism and energy metabolism, and consists of two completely opposite and simultaneous processes: assimilation and alienation.
The development directions of assimilation and alienation are completely opposite, but they are closely related. If there is no assimilation, then the organism can't produce new protoplasm, so it can't store energy, and alienation can't be released.
Similarly, if there is no process of alienation, there will be no energy release in the body, and there will be no way to synthesize substances in natural organisms. It can be said that the two are complementary and opposite, and their working methods determine the existence and continuation of organisms.
Human metabolism is also such a cyclical process, and the degree of metabolism in the body is completely different at different ages. From childhood to adolescence, human beings need a lot of nutrition and energy to promote the growth of the body, so this period is dominated by assimilation.
When human beings are aging, their body functions begin to decline and their metabolism gradually slows down. At this time, alienation begins to dominate. At this time, the old people will appear in unison, eating less, losing weight, and the body's absorption ability is poor. You don't have to panic, these are all normal phenomena of human aging.
Of course, although the aging of metabolism is inevitable and irreversible, the old people still have to do a good job of conditioning their bodies. At this time, the elderly can't consume because of their slow metabolism, reduced muscle content and fat accumulation. They should try to eat less fried high-calorie food and eat more meat, eggs, milk and cereal bean products to supplement nutrition.
The immune system is an important system for the human body to perform functions such as immune pathogens, and it is composed of specialized immune cells, organs and molecules. The immune system has the functions of recognizing and eliminating antigenic foreign bodies, cooperating with other system organs in the human body, and maintaining the internal environment stability and physiological balance of the human body.
It can be said that the immune system is the protective shell of our survival. Once we lose this protective shell, we will be completely exposed to pathogens such as bacteria and viruses in the air, infected with various fatal diseases, and then die. People's immune system is born healthy, but it will change with the change of body function.
In childhood, because the immune system is not fully developed, the virus will easily invade the body, so it is difficult for children to heal themselves. The immune system is fully developed in young and middle-aged people, and the incidence of illness will also decrease. In old age, physical function will decline, immunity will also decline, and the chance of getting sick will gradually increase.
Take COVID-19 this time, the mortality rate of infection among the elderly over 70 years old is much higher than that among the young and middle-aged, and so are other viral or bacterial infections. Of course, although the immunity of the elderly over 70 years old declines with age, it also brings some good news, such as the possibility of severe allergies is reduced and immune diseases are not easy to develop.
In the face of decreased immunity, the elderly need not panic. Although there is no way to return to the completely healthy immune system when you were young, you can still greatly improve your immunity and reduce the chance of getting sick through your efforts.
If you want to improve your immunity, it is undoubtedly the best choice to vaccinate against various diseases that are easy to be infected, because it can effectively improve the defense efficiency of the immune system. Secondly, a healthy diet and regular work and rest also help to regulate the immune system in the body. Usually drink more hot water and eat more fresh fruits and vegetables. The vitamins inside can improve the function of the immune system.
Sleep is an important physiological function of the human body to maintain life operation. Only by keeping enough sleep can the human body be in a normal physiological state. Once you don't get enough sleep, the following situations may cause irreparable damage to your physical and mental health.
Sleep disorders are divided into two types: abnormal sleep volume and abnormal phenomena during sleep. Abnormal sleep volume is characterized by lethargy, lethargy, short-term sudden sleep, often accompanied by falls, sleep paralysis and sleep hallucinations. If such symptoms appear, it is likely that there is something wrong with the brain, and many brain diseases may lead to these phenomena.
In addition to the above, abnormal sleep volume is also manifested as insomnia, difficulty in falling asleep, shallow sleep, early awakening and so on. These phenomena do not represent serious diseases, but they can also have an impact on the body. The reasons for this situation are mostly environmental factors, physical factors, psychological factors and so on.
In addition, abnormal sleep behavior also represents sleep disorders, such as sleepwalking, talking in dreams, waking up suddenly, having nightmares, grinding teeth and so on. It is worth mentioning that nightmares are what we commonly call "ghost presses the bed", which means that the body is in an uncomfortable sleep state.
Because of the deterioration of physical function, the elderly over 70 years old will inevitably have some sleep disorders, and the abnormal sleep state can also reflect whether the body suffers from certain diseases. To change this unhealthy sleep quality, we need to make some sacrifices and changes.
The first is to develop good sleep habits. Because many elderly people can't sleep, they like to do something they like before going to bed, such as watching TV, watching mobile phones, drinking tea and playing chess. These behaviors are regarded by the elderly as interesting things to kill time before going to bed, but they distract attention and delay the sleep process.
Of course, there are also elderly people who have difficulty falling asleep because of physical illness. In order to change this situation, it is necessary for the elderly to maintain a peaceful mind and actively cooperate with the treatment. You should know that psychological factors have a great influence on physiology. Moreover, sleep is very practical and has a multiplier effect on the recovery of physical diseases.
To sum up, when a 70-year-old man enters his twilight years, the above six conditions will inevitably appear in his body, which is a normal phenomenon brought about by the aging of physical function, so there is no need to panic. As long as you exercise properly, eat healthily and adjust your daily routine, you can live a healthy, comfortable and even long life in your later years.