Youngevity. I'm really crazy about that term. It's actually a great new word for anti-aging, which I always thought was kind of a dumb term because anti-aging makes it sound like you're "against" aging, and let's face it, you really can't fight aging. You can't make the clock not happen. But what you can do quite effectively is fight unhealthy aging. You know how you sometimes look at someone and say, 'gee, they haven't really aged well?" Well, we really do have the power to prevent that- we can do an awful lot to prevent that kind of "negative" aging, and conversely, we can really increase what I call optimal ageing…
I'll give you an example. I just bought a car recently and one of the reasons I put off buying the new car for so long is I've had this great little Japanese Mazda Miata which is14 years old and never breaks. Literally. Nothing ever goes wrong with the darn thing, it just keeps chugging along, looks great, runs great. And sure, it's had a couple of repairs over the years, but they're really minor, and ultimately, all I ever really have to do is get the oil changed every 3,000 miles. And if the mechanic says it needs some small thing like a filter or something, I just do it. I never put it off. I just keep the basic maintenance up and the car just has this wonderful life.
Now, compare that car with a junker that you kind of run on the lease for the first couple of years, you never get the oil changed, you never do anything with it and a couple years later it's ready for the junk heap. Very different situation, right? Well it's kind of the same thing with our bodies and our lives. As long as we keep "changing the oil" you really have a lot of flexibility as far as maintaining your body which in turn has a lot to do with how long- and how well - we actually live. And sure, maybe with our bodies it's a little more than just "changing the oil", but when you think about it, if we just take care of seven basic areas of our life, we can extend our time on this planet, and not only our time, but the quality of time we spend here. No kidding. And that's exactly what I'm this program, "The 7 Pillars of Youngevity".
Many people in the United States say we have the longest lifespan, which isn't exactly true. Japan and a couple of the Caribbean islands are at the top of the lifespan heap with an 80 to an 82 year lifespan, but we're pretty up there- the average lifespan in the US is 78. But that lifespan number is very misleading. The way we got our lifespan up there is by doing two things. One is we kind of "fixed" the problem of infant mortality. We don't lose a lot of babies in childbirth like we did at the turn of the 20 th century. And at the other end of the spectrum we've gotten really good at keeping people breathing. Our old folks go into assisted living, we hook them up to machines, so yes, we can keep them alive longer, but those last three to five or more years is not necessarily the kind of life you and I want or that you and I could really have if we did everything right. The end of life for many people is a pretty dismal three to five years. We don't want that.
Youngevity. I'm really crazy about that term. It's actually a great new word for anti-aging, which I always thought was kind of a dumb term because anti-aging makes it sound like you're "against" aging, and let's face it, you really can't fight aging. You can't make the clock not happen. But what you can do quite effectively is fight unhealthy aging. You know how you sometimes look at someone and say, 'gee, they haven't really aged well?" Well, we really do have the power to prevent that- we can do an awful lot to prevent that kind of "negative" aging, and conversely, we can really increase what I call optimal ageing…
I'll give you an example. I just bought a car recently and one of the reasons I put off buying the new car for so long is I've had this great little Japanese Mazda Miata which is14 years old and never breaks. Literally. Nothing ever goes wrong with the darn thing, it just keeps chugging along, looks great, runs great. And sure, it's had a couple of repairs over the years, but they're really minor, and ultimately, all I ever really have to do is get the oil changed every 3,000 miles. And if the mechanic says it needs some small thing like a filter or something, I just do it. I never put it off. I just keep the basic maintenance up and the car just has this wonderful life.
Now, compare that car with a junker that you kind of run on the lease for the first couple of years, you never get the oil changed, you never do anything with it and a couple years later it's ready for the junk heap. Very different situation, right? Well it's kind of the same thing with our bodies and our lives. As long as we keep "changing the oil" you really have a lot of flexibility as far as maintaining your body which in turn has a lot to do with how long- and how well - we actually live. And sure, maybe with our bodies it's a little more than just "changing the oil", but when you think about it, if we just take care of seven basic areas of our life, we can extend our time on this planet, and not only our time, but the quality of time we spend here. No kidding. And that's exactly what I'm this program, "The 7 Pillars of Youngevity".
Many people in the United States say we have the longest lifespan, which isn't exactly true. Japan and a couple of the Caribbean islands are at the top of the lifespan heap with an 80 to an 82 year lifespan, but we're pretty up there- the average lifespan in the US is 78. But that lifespan number is very misleading. The way we got our lifespan up there is by doing two things. One is we kind of "fixed" the problem of infant mortality. We don't lose a lot of babies in childbirth like we did at the turn of the 20 th century. And at the other end of the spectrum we've gotten really good at keeping people breathing. Our old folks go into assisted living, we hook them up to machines, so yes, we can keep them alive longer, but those last three to five or more years is not necessarily the kind of life you and I want or that you and I could really have if we did everything right. The end of life for many people is a pretty dismal three to five years. We don't want that.
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