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Thanks, Misty.
Namaste`
Walt
Hi Deana,
My thought is improved sanitation, hygiene, nutrition, and living
conditions such as better heating, better insulation are largely
responsible for our increased lifespans.
Did you know the longest running treatment of Western medicine is
leaching? Leaching was practiced for over 2,500 years! How much do
we observe and how well do we use that information if it takes 2,500
years to realize leaching is not a good thing?
Likewise I think one day we will look back and consider many of the
suppressive treatments used today as barbaric. Imagine exposing our
most sick and ill people to one of the most feared and deadly forces
known today- radiation.
One day I think many more people will also realize the link between
suppressed acute illness and resulting chronic disease. By using
alternative medicine for acute illness the constitution is
strengthened through the exercise rather than being hampered and
weakened by suppressive medical treatments which may never fully
resolve the original disease but leave the person in a vulnerable
state for further complications.
Homeopathy has an absolutely glorious track record with acute
illness- in the Cholera epidemic if you saw a medical doctor your
chances were 1 out of 10 to live, whereas the homeopaths were saving
roughly 90% of the people they saw.
So my personal feeling is by using alternative medicine, especially
homeopathy, the life span will not only be longer but more enjoyable.
I hope that helps,
Misty
http://www.searching-alternatives.com
--- In searching-alternatives@yahoogroups.com, "Deana Smiel"
In Reply to: Why is lifespan increasing? (Archive in homeopathy.) posted by Walt Stoll on March 11, 2003 at 05:57:50:
Are they talking about average lifespan? I think it increases mostly due to decreasing birth deaths and better technology to save acutely ill people. Some people who might have died in the past now get organ transplants, organ part replacements, put on life support systems, etc.
I don't think nutrition has gotten better. Neither do I think that better heating or better insulation have much to do with increasing lifespan. Some actually claim that these are reasons for worsening of our indoor environments.
In Reply to: Re: Why is lifespan increasing? (Archive in homeopathy.) posted by R. on March 12, 2003 at 00:07:55:
Thanks, R.
Yes.
As the environmental stressors have become greater, the quality of the average person's diet has rapidly worsened. This can only result in the reserves we have for coping with anything getting less and less. "Burden greater, strength to carry that burden being eroded."
Walt
In Reply to: Re: Why is lifespan increasing? (Archive in homeopathy.) posted by R. on March 12, 2003 at 00:07:55:
my opinions, R.
increase in lifeSPAN wouldn't be attributed to higher survival at birth because surviving birth doesn't affect your odds of living longer once you reach adulthood. That would only impact the RATE of population growth.
Since the #3 cause of death in the U.S. is the result of routine (allopathic) doctor/medical/health care, there's no way that can be INCREASING our lifespans!
Organ transplants affect too few people for that to raise the averages for the whole population.
Quality of the food supply has deteriorated dramatically and is part of the reason for higher disease rates, which we know shortens life.
That leaves quality of living conditions, sanitation, access to drinking water, and at least the ability to avoid starvation, as reasons we don't die as young as our ancestors. Imagine how long we would be living if all the other things worked as they should!
Szent-Gyiorgi believed that the reason the vast majority of animals live 15 times their age at early adulthood was because they synthesize ascorbate within their bodies. Since the 1970s when Linus Pauling's books were published, the consumption of vitamin C has been increasing in the U.S., and at the same time, heart disease rates stopped climbing and leveled off. Lifespans have also increased significantly over the last 45 years.
In Reply to: Re: Why is lifespan increasing? (Archive in homeopathy.) posted by peterb on March 13, 2003 at 21:32:33:
I am curious as to why some animals don't live that
In Reply to: Re: Why is lifespan increasing? (Archive in homeopathy.) posted by Vince F on March 14, 2003 at 06:10:40:
actually, mice are grown at 12wks and live 2-3 yrs. So even mice are living up to 12x their age at adulthood, which would mean 215yrs for humans!
> What about the increase in our lifespan? Is it in spite of them?
Deana
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long, like dogs or cats. I know that humans and a
few others need to consume vit C. I can see if like
rodents that have a very high heart rate living a
short time.
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