Humans tend to be tough, long lasting creatures. current lifespan within the developed countries is now 76-80 years! As scientific and medical awareness grows, we have now recently come to understand that there are both short-run issues and also intermediate to long-term aspects that affect Our healthiness.
For example, there is a generally accepted minimum daily Vitamin C intake necessary to prevent scurvy. Once we thought that this minimum amount was all that anyone needed. Subsequent scientific studies showed us that increased Vitamin C intake had significant health and well-being benefits.
If you don’t get any Vitamin C, you will contract scurvy in a few months. There is a longer general health cycle in play, measured in years, which calls for much higher vitamin C intake levels.
There are other, longer-lasting cycles of effects of deprivations of nutrients, antioxidants, phytochemicals, probiotics and others that affect us. Long-term deprivations of these seem to lead to problems usually associated with aging, like diabetes, heart disease, senile dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.
On the dark side there are pollutants, toxins, carcinogens and other substances, both known and as-yet-unknown, that have cumulative life-shortening effects on people.
Knowing this encourages us to move away from commercial drugs in favor of natural cures whenever these are available.
This new perspective now helps us in uterine fibroid cysts, with choosing psoriasis creams and in dealing with symptoms of ovarian cysts..
Science marches on, bringing new understandings and suggesting new possibilities every day. As researchers continue to unravel the secrets of how our body chemistry really works, at the molecular level, our viewpoint and our capabilities to improve and prolong human life are constantly improving.
DISCLAIMER: I hope this helps, but please note that I am not a doctor so you should consult with your physician before taking any medical advice from the Internet.
– J.R.Watson