Oh Nuduke...Everything that I have discovered, and dug deeper into and experienced over the last, umm, 15 years has made sense. Each, I took with a grain of salt, until something began to change my opinion. There certainly are trends and most "diets" fall to the wayside, but some things have proven true for, say cancers and diabetes, then when the same medicine, or intake begins to help other maladies. That's a trend.
People who get most of the old age stuff have spent years getting to it. I can see them around. I can also experience how different my chosen changes have made me feel and my reactions. Many options are difficult to maintain, much of the options are being repressed by the pill and surgery industries. These industries are headed by ruthless people, corrupt and in control. It is all about making a buck for the investors by a CEO. Ethics are simply not relevant to the bottomline, which makes the pirate ethic CEO rich and transfering every few years to the next fiduciary responsibility. The old story of the tobacco industry is just the tip of the iceberg, a now, bigger than ever, more entrenched iceberg. Reading what you wrote just reminds me of the propaganda lines and common perspectives that are fed to the medical establishment, like our local well meaning doctors. Ask yourself, where does your doctor get his/her information, who do they trust, and how deeply do they dig and refute it, when they say, "here, take this pill." A doctor gets just a couple of hours on nutrition.
I look at what is common among pockets of people who live longer and healthier. I look, for example, at the results of curing diabetes, with a diet that happens to be showing to be a cure for other maladies like Parkinson's and dementia, with research now not just pointing to, but showing dramatic results. But then, I don't strictly follow the diet guru. All evidence and common sense helps my opinion. I feel that I am getting younger. My health is dramatically different from when I lived a more common diet and lifestyle. There are attitudes, or personalities common among groups of people with various diseases. When I know that 85 year old people commonly run 25 miles to town, and wonder how, it can only be that no one ever told them that they couldn't and that has been the lifestyle. I've studied the psychology of belief from all over the world and now I'm seeing my findings becoming more mainstream, heck even National Geographic had an article about this month. Belief actually changes genetic material. Then there is the issue of cooking nutrients out and fresh quality.
I don't know what you are getting where you live, but here we are given pretty veggies, from tired nearly dead soil, propped up by an very simplified nutrient system. It is completely different food from Joe Supermarket to organic proper soil. Most people are eating processed garbage. When I go to the airport and wait for DF, it is astonishing to see the majority as unhealthy people and know exactly why they are that way. These things are being caused, obviously, by diet and exercise, lifestyle, stress. The American diet is a testament to the body's adaptive ability to get by malnourished and survive.
I see poor logic in that many "diets" have had X results and therefore any diet is not only suspect, but likely BS.
As for cancer, there is much more to it than the medical establishment lets us know. There is particular statistical evidence. There are numerous alternatives, and preventions. You took a certain path to deal with it and it could disrupt that for me to punch a hole in the dam. I won't comment on it. Healthy people get cancer you say. I have to ask you to define healthy.
"I think several generations will have gone by before we understand the sort of diet and the forms of exercise that will reliably, repeatably make things like dementia, arthritis and perhaps even cancer a thing of the past but I am reasonably confident that in 100-200 years time our successors will look back and see where we have come in preventative 'medicine' for longevity in the same way as we look back and see the progress in understanding the treatment and avoidance of infection, ensuring good public health and the ability to fix disease through operations and drugs." I feel like I am that person who you refer, but I'm alive right now. I don't expect anyone here to believe me from this writing, but I'll bet I get to say, "told ya so." I have a vision of these future people looking at us and seeing how we use operations and drugs like we see medieval leeches.
AS FOR THE SMOKEY SWEAT!!!!!
The smoke goes up the shoot. There is no smoke, but if there was, then I would be more concerned about being more immediately having my longevity cut short from the carbon-monoxide. We could just go to sleep and die. The sauna has been a health aide and spiritual and social event in an area where there is great health generally. The pores open, the body reacts to hot and cold, like a good aerobic stint will help it. No pain, no gain, without so much pain. There is much science about the effects on health and the body. There is a great deal also from the industry. We tend to drink water during the sweat process. It is just part of the deal. Loss of moisture (did I spell that correctly?
) is akin to running, or climbing hills on a warm day, you just drink water. We are supposed to be able to do things like that to hunt game, to scramble from enemies.
People figured it out eons ago. The traditional Native American sweat is a particularly ritualized occasion. The rocks are heated outside in fire, then forked into the enclosure where water is poured on them for heat and steam. No poisons. It is very good for illness. It helps fever and performs like fever.
Bacteria die in the heat. You start to feel light headed, or nauseous, you get out, you've had too much for the moment. Usually 15 minutes three or four times, sometimes longer. It depends on the heat and how you feel. The body regenerates after a cleanse. When it get too uncomfortable, people tend to take a break, naturally. It reinforces the notion of naked body health. Doing sauna with clothing on makes no common sense.
If the corporations and theologist get out of the way, I too, have no doubt that they will look back and see us as nutjobs in clothing. I'm banking on sooner. I'm looking for and working toward that, to see that by the time I reach my ripe old age...correction, BEFORE my ripe old age. My reasoning is that nude obviously is more healthy, it just makes sense. We will have a time when it is no big deal to see, or be seen, naked for any purpose. Then, it needs to become fashionable...swimming gear goes first....
Jbee
