Two Types of Aging
Two Types of Aging
There are two types of aging we all experience, one is chronological and the
other is physiological. Chronological aging is determined by the amount of
time a person has lived. Physiological aging is decided by how healthy you
are or by how one looks or feels. One type of aging is fixed, the other is not.
Unfortunately we can’t do anything about chronological aging. Chronological
aging is fixed or set. When the calendar says you are 40, 50, 60, or 70 years old,
you can’t roll the years back like an odometer on an automobile. This is an immutable
or unchangeable record of how many years you’ve been alive.
The good news: We can slow down and even reverse physiological aging
significantly. Physiological aging can vary 20 to 30 years between individuals.
One person can be 70 years old, but have the characteristics and body of a person
who is only 50. Yet another person who is only 40 may be shopworn from
a hard life and poor dietary habits, and have a body that functions like someone
in their 70s. This is called premature aging and it can be reversed.
Let me say the information I’m sharing with you isn’t a treatment modality
I’m offering for you to heal a disease. I am just a lay person, with no medical
credentials, simply sharing with you things I’ve learned in the course of my
life, that I’ve utilized to restore my health and to stop the ravages of premature
aging in my body. If you are sick and are suffering from a chronic or even a
terminal illness, please see a medical professional who can help you. I believe
there also are many alternative treatments and therapies available to you other
than conventional medicine, and we have listed those we know of and have
faith in the resources section of this book.
Human beings and domesticated pets are the only creatures on earth you
readily can tell their age. Animals that live in the wild do not show their age.
In her book “Green For Life,” raw foodist Victoria Boutenko wrote:
"One can hardly guess the age of a deer, zebra, eagle, or giraffe. Whether they are the age of two or fifteen years old they look the same. Wild animals only begin to slow down during the last weeks before they die."
My paternal grandfather, Will Pharr, was born in 1895. He lived in an era
where horses and mules were used for agriculture and transportation. I’ve heard
on many occasions my grandfather was a very good mule trader. If you didn’t
know what you were looking for, you could end up buying an old mule from
some unscrupulous person who tried to pass him off as a younger animal. My
understanding is you couldn’t tell how old even these domesticated animals
were by their appearance alone since they don’t show their age as humans do.
You actually had to look in their mouth and examine their teeth to tell their
age. The good news is once we change our diets and eat more living food than
dead food we can look younger just as those creatures in the animal kingdom.
We can restore our bodies to function as they did when we were young. “We
can run and not grow weary, we can walk and not faint,” (Isaiah 40:31) and,
yes, we can be youthful, attractive, slim and healthy throughout our lives. We
do not have to be sick and riddled with disease.
No matter what we do, we all are going to eventually die. But many people
are dying from the ravages of horrific diseases way too early in their lives. If
you look at life expectancy in nations throughout the world, you’ll learn that
in the last 20 years, the United States has sunk from No. 11 to No. 42 in
longevity. Our lifestyle, culture and standard of living are the envy of the
world. We have more time, money and tools to use than any other people group
on earth. We have the greatest health care system, the most resources, the
brightest minds in science and medicine, access to the best health food and
hospitals filled with doctors and nurses in nearly every city of America. Yet,
as a people, we are sick, and dying. Even our children’s hospitals are filled
with poor, helpless, children with terminal diseases. For the first time in history,
children are dying at an alarming rate before their parents. This is not natural,
and something is dreadfully wrong with a system that treats the symptoms
of illness instead of offering solutions to preventing disease. This does not have
to be. There are things we can do for our health and the health of those that we
love to prevent illness.
There is so much I want to do for my Lord, for my family and for my fellow
man before it’s my time to depart this life. In order to do that, I have the personal
responsibility of taking care of the body I’ve been given by my creator.
I also have the duty of sharing the life-giving information I’ve learned through
the years with others so that they can experience vibrant health, also. I’m concerned
about my health and have been passionate about sharing healthful information
with others since losing my wife to cancer. My hope and prayer is
that someone might utilize the information to not only prevent disease, but to
restore life to a tired, weakened and sick body.