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A Balanced Lifestyle Can Be Beneficial For Your Good Health and LongevityJust the other day I saw an article on sciencedaily.com detailing a study carried out on aged mice induced to develop symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease and the benefits of caffeine in reversing memory loss. The article began with the tease that “Coffee drinkers may have another reason to pour that extra cup.” It went on to discuss a sequence of studies published online July 6 in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease that showed that caffeine significantly decreased abnormal levels of the protein linked to Alzheimer’s disease, both in the brains and in the blood of mice exhibiting symptoms of the disease. However, before you make a decision to add an extra cuppa to your daily routine, let me, Dr. Jamie Phillips warn you that under “Related Stories” on the website were at least two articles about studies that showed the negative effects of caffeine, “Morning Jolt of Caffeine May Mask Serious Sleep Problems,” and “Coffee Consumption Linked To Increased Risk Of Heart Attack For Persons With Certain Gene Variation.” Nearly every angle of thought, it seems to me, especially when it comes to health and longevity, can be affirmed, or at least given credence, by a number of specific studies. The “yin-yang” of caffeine benefits-deficits certainly aren’t, of course, the only ones. Even so, it did get me to pondering about the probability that there will never be just “one thing” that will incontrovertibly assist we, humans, in living longer, healthier lives. Humans are dynamic, biological beings. We aren’t raised in a cage! We are free to participate in life. And, moreover, though Alzheimer’s disease may be on the rise, obviously no one has been “bred to develop symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease,” therefore caffeine isn’t absolutely the “one thing” that will reverse or prevent it. Our body is an elegant, complex system that is designed to function homeostasis (balance). It is likely, then, that good health is cultivated by a healthy, balanced attitude towards living, instead of our jumping on the bandwagon of the latest health study and “doing” or “overdoing” one specific thing fooling ourselves into believing that it will reverse all of the other excessive and unhealthy things we do to our bodies. I believe, as a chiropractor in Santa Barbara, that every single day we have an opportunity to make healthy choices for our body, to decide what will assist us to live longer, healthier lives. We know what genuinely “feels” life enriching and what doesn’t when it comes to what is good for us. So, I just wanted to pass along a little something for you to keep in mind the next time you reach for that extra cup of coffee or second glass of red wine. There is no “one thing” that will do “everything” for your good health.
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