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Your Daily Choices Can Increase Or Decrease Your Health and Longevity
Recently I read an article on sciencedaily.com about a study carried out on aged mice induced to develop symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease and the benefits of caffeine in improving memory loss. The article lead with the suggestion that “Coffee drinkers may have another reason to pour that extra cup.” It continued by reporting on back-to-back studies published online July 6 in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease that showed that caffeine significantly 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.
But, before you decide to add another cuppa to your daily routine, let me, Dr. Jamie Phillips add that also on the website, under “Related Stories,” were a couple of articles reporting on studies that demonstrated the negative 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.”
Nearly every point of view, I’ve noticed, especially when it comes to health and longevity, can be affirmed, or at least bolstered, by other related studies. The “good/bad” studies related to caffeine naturally aren’t, by any means, the only ones. Even so, it did get me to thinking about the reasonableness that there will not ever 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 bred in a cage! And, moreover, though Alzheimer’s disease is likely on the rise, obviously no one has 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 an exquisite, complex system that is based on homeostasis (balance). It makes sense, then, that good health is about a healthy, balanced approach to living, as opposed to our being briefly convinced by 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 harmful 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. We know what genuinely “feels” right and what doesn’t when it comes to what is good for us. So, the next time you reach for that extra cup of coffee or that second glass of red wine, I hope that you’ll think about this. There is no “one thing” that will do “everything” for your good health.