There are four "aging modes" for people. Which one are you in? If you want to delay aging, the methods are...

How do people age differently? Some people may still have a strong heart in their 60s, but their kidneys may have started to fail; others may have the kidneys of a 30-year-old, but often suffer from diseases related to low immunity.

Different parts of the body age at different rates. Which one do you belong to?
In 2020, a study published in Nature Medicine, a Nature subsidiary, found that aging, like many diseases, can be divided into four different "aging patterns" at the genetic and molecular levels.

1. Immune system aging 2. Metabolic aging 3. Liver aging 4. Kidney aging

Each type corresponds to a different way of aging and an increased risk of related diseases. For example, people with metabolic aging have more obvious signs of increased blood sugar levels as they age, which means they may have a higher risk of developing diabetes.

People with immune aging may have higher levels of inflammatory markers or be more susceptible to immune-related diseases as they age. With aging typing, precise intervention can be carried out.

01

Immune system aging

1. Eat more whole grains

Whole grains are rich in nutrients and retain more dietary fiber, B vitamins and minerals in grains. They are beneficial in preventing diseases such as colon cancer, constipation, diabetes, heart disease, hyperlipidemia, and improving immunity.
There are many types of coarse grains. Oats, millet, corn, black rice and various beans can all be cooked together to make porridge.

2. Eat some animal blood

Iron deficiency can lead to a decrease in the number of immune cells and affect antibody production.

The iron in animal foods such as red meat, liver, and blood is heme iron, which is not only high in content but also well absorbed. You can eat a little red meat every day, with an adult eating up to 500 grams a week; eat animal liver 2 to 3 times a month, about half a tael each time.

3. Eat more mushrooms

In addition to being rich in zinc, mushroom foods also contain bioactive substances - fungal polysaccharides, which also help improve immunity. Mushroom foods, such as porcini, shiitake mushrooms, button mushrooms, and button mushrooms, can be eaten every day.

4. Laugh often

Smiling triggers a series of reactions in the body. It promotes the balance of the nervous system and endocrine system, increases white blood cells, and increases the secretion of immunoglobulins in the body, thus enhancing immunity.

5. Take a walk every day

If you exercise for 30 to 45 minutes a day, 5 days a week, for 12 weeks, the number of immune cells in the human body will increase and the body's resistance will be relatively enhanced. Exercise only requires a slight sweat and a faster heartbeat.

02

Metabolic aging

1. Control your weight and waistline

Body mass index = weight / height squared, is one of the indicators to measure obesity. We all know that obesity can lead to a variety of metabolic-related diseases. Generally speaking, a body mass index of 18.5 to 23.9 is normal.

In particular, abdominal obesity leads to body deformation, such as apple shape or pear shape, which greatly increases the risk of metabolic syndrome.

2. Maintain a healthy diet

The main causes of metabolic syndrome are due to ten bad eating habits:

These include eating fast, skipping breakfast, having a makeshift lunch, having a large dinner, consuming large amounts of high-fat and high-cholesterol foods, drinking too much, smoking after meals, over-processed and refined food, eating fruit as the staple food, and not drinking enough water, etc.

3. Control the three high indicators

If lifestyle changes are ineffective, medications can be added for auxiliary treatment, including some lipid-lowering drugs, as well as drugs for controlling blood sugar and blood pressure.

4. Go to bed early and on time

People who often stay up late cannot get a good rest, which causes sympathetic nerve excitement and hyperactivity of the adrenal cortex and medulla, which in turn leads to metabolic and immune problems, affects hormone levels in the body, disrupts endocrine rhythms, affects insulin function, and easily leads to type 2 diabetes or other metabolic diseases.

5. Drink enough water

Drinking more boiled water, especially warm boiled water, is the best way to maintain normal metabolism and water balance. The "Dietary Guidelines for Chinese Residents 2022" clearly states that adult women should consume 1500 ml of water per day and men 1700 ml. Don't wait until you are thirsty to drink a lot of water.

03

Hepatic aging

To protect your liver, always do these three things in your life.

1. Try not to drink alcohol

Take these four words about "drinking to protect your liver":

The first is not to drink if you can avoid it; the second is not to drink excessively if you must; the third is to check liver function regularly; the fourth is to keep the four "no"s in mind: do not drink on an empty stomach, do not drink quickly, do not drink in large quantities, and patients with hepatitis B and C should not drink.

2. Take medication as directed by your doctor

Take medications according to your doctor's instructions or instructions, and do not use them at will.
The liver is the largest and most important chemical factory in the human body, and almost all drugs are metabolized by the liver. Therefore, the concentration of drugs and their metabolites in the liver is much higher than in other organs.

3. Keep a positive mood

Nowadays, people's livers are already burdened due to excessive drinking, lack of sleep, etc. If they are also irritable, it will be "adding fuel to the fire" for the liver.

04

Renal aging

To protect your kidneys, you must avoid the following lifestyle habits.

1. Don’t hold your urine

Frequent holding of urine will cause urine to remain in the bladder for a long time, which can easily breed bacteria and cause the bacteria to move back and cause kidney infection, especially in elderly women, patients with kidney stones and diabetes.

Frequent holding of urine can easily cause and aggravate urinary tract infections , while long-term kidney infections can easily lead to decreased kidney function or even uremia.

2. Lighter taste

A high-fat, high-protein, and heavy-taste diet will affect the kidneys in multiple dimensions and increase the kidney's excretion burden.

For example, eating too much meat will produce too much metabolic waste, which will inevitably increase the burden on the kidneys. Some metabolic products such as uric acid, oxalic acid and calcium will directly damage the renal interstitium and form kidney stones, thereby indirectly affecting the function of the kidneys.

Eating too sweet or too salty food can easily lead to a series of metabolic disorders such as diabetes, high blood pressure and obesity, which can further affect kidney function.

3. Quit smoking in time

A paper published in the "Chinese Journal of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Nephrology" in 2006 pointed out that smoking has obvious nephrotoxic effects, which can affect renal hemodynamics and histological structure, cause an increase in urinary protein excretion rate, and further damage renal function and increase the risk of end-stage renal disease.

4. Drink less "old-fashioned soup"

Excessive pursuit of "old-fashioned soup" or drinking too much soup will be related to kidney disease, which people in Guangdong should pay special attention to.

If the stewing time is too long, the purine content in the soup will be very high. High purine intake can easily lead to hyperuricemia. The increase of blood uric acid or the sudden rise and fall of uric acid levels can not only cause acute gout attacks, but also cause kidney and cardiovascular damage.

Review | Li Nannan Director of Hunan Science Writers Association, Deputy Director of Research and Publicity Department of Hunan Science and Technology Association, Second-level Researcher, Chinese Science Writer (Medical Field)

Source: Health Times