Is "aging" an illness? are we doing something wrong?

I have been thinking about this and reading a lot about aging, and would like to know your views, please kindly take your time to reply on your deep thoughts to this.

They say, as you age, you get weaker (due to certain things in the body declining) and prone to illnesses. Does this mean, aging is a type of illness?

Could it be, that aging (when i say aging, i mean declining of the human body through time) be something we can cure?

What i mean to ask is, not that we could live forever, i mean is, are we doing something wrong here, that we wrinkle up, and hair turns white and skin becomes very pale from aging?

Maybe something wrong in our nutrition? our working methods? our thinking methods? (like positive thinkiing or negative thinking) ?? since they have said we only use a very small percentage of our minds, is there something undiscovered over here?

Example: i have seen weight trainers look 25 when they are really nearing 40 or 50!

Is "aging" an illness? are we doing something wrong?

We are doing a lot of things wrong in our youth, but not believing it until we start seeing problems.

Lets seperate two things from the beginning. First, growing old and the aging process. The second thing is doing things wrong.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with the aging process. We are living longer and healthier now than ever before.

Are we doing things wrong. YES. Where do you want to start. When your mom said "eat your vegatables, and you had a fit". When you went out to get a tan. When you had your first drink. When you had your first smoke. When you had drugs. When you had unprotected sex. When you stayed out too late. When you didn't listen to your parents. When you drove too fast. When you didn't study. When you used too much make up.

Maybe you have something here. What can be done to get our youth to see the wrongs in their ways and be able to get them to change. The only thing we have done so far is to let them grow up, hoping they don't kill themselves and eventually start asking some of the questions you are asking here. Which brings us back full circle to growing up, or the aging process, or growing old.

Is "aging" an illness? are we doing something wrong?

Good environment, regular exercise, proper diet, and stress management slows man's aging process. These are the secrets of healthy people.

Is "aging" an illness? are we doing something wrong?

no... i don't think aging is an illness

it's the facts and this is how beautiful god makes this world

can you think, if everybody really takes cake of their health

and never sick of getting older don't ur think that maybe we have to pray to the god to make the second or the third or the fourth earth for human and all sorts of living and non-life things.

it will be full of living things in this world as we increase and make more and more children.as for that of course things like machine n other thing will increase to help the amount of people take keep increasing.

for the Example: i have seen weight trainers look 25 when they are really nearing 40 or 50!.............this is because the way they live their life. THE WAY OF LIFE.

Is "aging" an illness? are we doing something wrong?

You're not alone and it happens to all of us, some have different

metabolisms just like the Chinese age well, I aged well, and sure

it's the type of lifestyle you lead. Let's say a pot-head, heroin add

ict, or crack, sure they'll look older because they've been abusing

their body for so long. As for the normal of people adding some

are in the jeans from your parents or grand we just age the best

we can, have to colour my hair, use more moisturizer, etc. etc.

But the most important part of it all: You're as young as you feel!

Summer

Is "aging" an illness? are we doing something wrong?

Aging, as you well define it, the decline of the body through time (to death), is not an illness. It is simply part of the life cycle, whether it is for a 1 day mayfly or a 4,000 year Joshua tree. While our bodies continue to grow from birth on, It is only because of the limits of female physiology. For a natural birth, it helps to have incompletely knitted skull plates for ease of passage. The remaining skeletal structure takes years to complete growth, but it will stop and turn into a process of maintenance and the eventual decline.

Since we are helpless at birth and for years thereafter, a family unit, into which other children can be born, becomes the center of our life. Much of the success of our initial growing stages, physically and mentally, is determined by these early years and may hasten or slow how we decline in later years. In the best of circumstances, parents are healthy at our birth and train us in the best ways to grow in mind and body until we can fend for ourselves. We may not even have all our teeth by the time we set our path for the future!

With what we learn from family, study, and others; and what pharmaceutical wonders are discovered; and what medicine is able to cure or control, we have extended the aging process well into the 70s and beyond. We have not broken an age barrier nor defeated an "aging illness." We have artificially extended it--cheated, if you will. Picture an automobile that is treated carefully, kept lubricated, tuned, and adjusted. It may easily remain functional for 250,000 miles or more, but in time, a major part will fail and there is no replacement. It is the fate of cars and people.

I understand cells divide and reproduce on and on and on, but not brain cells.* When a brain cell dies in it's appointed time, it is not replaced. The brain is the computer of the body, and as a cell dies, it's function is diverted to other cells. Since we use perhaps only 5% of what is available to us, we never miss the loss, but shift memories and functions elsewhere. Perhaps this is the ultimate limit: we can't outlive our brain.

Much of what you say is well thought through: the external factors we can and cannot control are often the determining factors in not just the length, but the quality of this life. We do right things and wrong things to our bodies from nutrition, good and bad, to mental stimulation, good and bad.

I disagree with your idea that being prone to illness IS an illness and can be reversed. Being prone to illness means we are alive and maintaining. We may eat, drink, breathe, and ingest things that are harmful. Any healthy, living thing is prone to forces it cannot manage, and external and internal influences can do us harm we cannot stop with our natural defenses.

Yes, a lot is wrong with our nutrition (and perhaps the food itself), and the power of the mind and spirit over the body is incontrovertible, but these factors at their best cannot halt or reverse the aging process. The thread of life is so complex, a speeding cosmic ray can damage DNA causing cancer, and other mortality risks.^

Your example of good health is well taken, and by using our minds--and even more, our wills--we can very likely postpone the point at which the body cannot heal. I met an amazing gentleman in a retirement home (not a nursing facility) who looked no more than in his 60s. His eyes were clear and bright, his handshake strong, and his skin was amazingly soft and supple. His secret was swimming. He rarely missed a day at this muscle toning activity which also hydrates the skin and tissues and requires strong heart and lungs. There was no bend in his back or sag to his physique. This man was 94.

So my answer is aging is not an illness, but the end stage process following growth and maintenance.