XPlus said:Mr. Eno.
I congratulate you for your robust physiological state of health.
There a couple of Pakistani gentlemen I work with whom are around your age.
Despite the PUFA, vegetables, fast food, grains and legumes they eat, they're in good health for their age - except maybe for a bulging belly. One of them is 79, he has a grip of steel when he shakes my hand, he can literally shake my whole body. He also has a full head of hair and wears no glasses.
When I asked about where he was brought up, he told me that it's in the mountain region. He told me that his mother breastfed him until he was 4, and they had no doctors around. They used to eat lots of ghee, milk, and fruits.
Since for many of us around my age, who are in their 20s & 30s, we seem to suffer from many perplexing health issues. Obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, hairloss, gynocomestia, bad back and knee pains and digestion issues. Mind you, where I live is a modern urban area, with access to good medical facilities.
Many of our mothers were prescribed contraceptive pill when they're young, most of us have been delivered in the hospital, had all the compulsory vaccinations and our moms fed us formulas because it they found it more convenient.
Prenatal imprinting is a big piece of the perplexing puzzle. I remember Dr Peat once saying that no body knows the effect what something given to pregnant women might be because sometimes take a long time to show, later in life and sometimes even generations. Now the health problems our generation struggles with are very likely influenced by this earlier imprinting.
While your diet and lifestyle may not be ideal at a Peat scale, your capacity to handle stressors seems obviously much more that I can take at this point of my life.
Yep, I think you are right to toally suspect the things happening in previous generations. The later generations are now often born with a tougher route back to good health, even at a young age. My generation is also not as healthy as the one before, that would be 100 years old now.
Also, the Pakistani soil may have been better than American soil, even 60 years ago if they took care of it generation after generation!