Why do people easily find various diseases when they are old?
1. Age reasons
When you get older, your body's functions will slowly decline. This is a natural law that cannot be stopped even if you maintain it. The body's metabolism, organs, and digestive functions will all be affected by aging, and this impact will spread to every tissue in the body.
This way the body becomes very fragile and is very susceptible to attacks by viruses and bacteria. Even the pathogenic factors that were previously hidden in the body and were in peace with you will take the opportunity to resurrect, and organic lesions produced by the body themselves are also very likely to occur.
2, immunity decreases
As we age, the body's immunity will also decrease. immune cells are specifically policemen in the body, and they are responsible for supervising and cleaning up the invasion of harmful bacteria and mutations of cells in the body.
When the body ages, its immunity will become worse and the regulatory capacity of immune cells will be weakened, which will give mutated cells and bacteria an opportunity to take advantage of.
plus, as the body grows old, the body's gastrointestinal function decreases, digestive function becomes worse, and the food you eat is not absorbed sufficiently, which will cause nutritional deficiency in the body, and malnutrition will affect immunity, leading to increased diseases.
3. The impact of bad habits
When many people were young, they had bad habits such as smoking, drinking, staying up late, overeating, obesity, not loving exercise, taking medicine indiscriminately, and often exposed to harmful substances. If they do not correct them in time when they get older, then health problems will arise and they will become plagued by illness when they get older.
When you get old, you must stay healthy and do three things well in life:
1. Regular physical examinations and control chronic diseases
The elderly have become high-risk people due to the aging of their body organs and their immunity has decreased, so they must pay attention to physical examinations and perform regular physical examinations in order to detect physical problems in a timely manner and prevent diseases.
If you have been diagnosed with chronic diseases, you must control it well to avoid the development of the disease. As the saying goes, "It is not too late to make up for the loss of the sheep." Only by detecting and treating the disease early can you control it early.
2. Pay attention to improving bone
The elderly will have fewer osteoblasts than osteoclasts. Coupled with calcium loss, it is easy to cause bone quality to decline and suffer from osteoporosis , which will cause fractures due to falls, collisions, etc.
Therefore, middle-aged and elderly people should pay attention to improving bone quality and prevent damage to the cervical, lumbar and joints.
3. Moderate exercise
The elderly should also insist on moderate exercise, which can improve physical fitness, increase physical flexibility, and prevent the emergence of sarcopenia.
Elderly people can choose to walk, walk slowly, practice Tai Chi , swimming and other gentle exercises according to their physical condition. You can maintain 20 to 30 minutes of exercise time every day to achieve the exercise effect.
In short, when people get old, they must pay attention to taking care of their bodies, develop a healthy lifestyle, do regular physical examinations, control the development of chronic diseases, and have a good attitude so that they can live a healthy and long life.
