The Codes of Youth is a book about how to eat, how to exercise and, generally, how to live in order to keep fit and healthy and look young or even turn back your biological clock.
Dr Marek Bardadyn is an expert on nutrition and the use of natural therapeutic substances in the prevention and treatment of civilisational diseases.
He is the author of numerous publications and medical books.
His medical advice columns in widely-read magazines such as Naj, Świat & Ludzie or Zwierciadło have for years been highly popular.
Dr Bardadyn works in a specialist medical practice in Warsaw and is a consultant for a large number of clinics based in and outside Poland, he provides advice to showbiz stars, well-known politicians and sportspeople.
The method for strengthening, regenerating and rejuvenating the body described in the book is the result of his many years experience as a medical practitioner, including the area of sports medicine, as well as research conducted in Germany and the United States.
The Codes of Youth is a must read for anyone who wants to live a healthy life, look young and enjoy life until old age.
How do we define a person’s actual age? We certainly oughtn’t to depend solely, in this case, on the birth certificate, as this doesn’t always state the truth.
When, somewhere about your fiftieth birthday, you find yourself at a school reunion, you’re in for a big surprise.
You’ll meet some people you remember perfectly and those who you simply won’t be able to recall... With the first ones it will be as if it was only yesterday you walked to school with them, or ran round the playground, you’ll remember their names immediately. But where did the rest of these people come from, who don’t figure at all in your memories...?
Your confusion will stem from the fact that in highly developed countries the difference between one’s age in years and one’s biological age can, after fifty years, amount to as much as 10 years or more.
This means that the different lifestyles and genetic predispositions of people in the modern world create a situation in which those who choose the wrong ways of maintaining their health, or who simply disregard it, are at risk of getting old a whole decade too soon.
Among those of your own age, therefore, you can meet biological forty-year-olds as well as sixty-year-olds.
Those whose biological clock ticks decidedly slower will be least numerous, at most one or two in ten. They attract as much attention as the friend who became a Member of Parliament – „How do you manage to stay the same?”
Five or six people will look their age. After a moment’s thought and a chat you’ll remember them, and locate characteristic glances, tones of voice and gestures in your memory...
However, at least thirty percent of your schoolmates you won’t even be able to connect with figures in old photos, even though for several years you saw them every day.
They look like they finished school many years earlier, or that time has been especially cruel to them...
If you read this book carefully, you’ll understand why this is, you’ll find out you’re your current state is, and if you decide to follow the relevant advice, you’ll be able to take part in future reunions without fear...
If you want to compare your age according to your date of birth with your biological age by yourself , you’re not likely to be a very impartial judge. You’ll get a more objective result by completing the test found at the end of this book. Because your evaluation will be coloured by a range of subjective emotions, as well as your point of view on your current situation.
If you are convinced that your health is fine and you’re happy with your appearance, then you’ll naturally give yourself a higher rating.
Any reservations you might have about yourself lower your evaluation.
But do all of them stem from actual problems concerning your health and appearance?
Everyone would like to have ideal test results and not feel any health problems, and even Miss World dreams of having a better figure.
The minuses you casually place in your self-image mean that you unfairly consider yourself as more worn out and older than you actually are.
At the same time, the point of view you have on your current state of health influences not just today’s opinion and your current mood. Your convictions about your current condition also influence what comes later... […]
Even if, to start with, you suspect you’re trying to cheat yourself, don’t worry. The range of personal histories presented in this book of people who won their battles with their weaknesses, illnesses and age could only have happened because they didn’t passively surrender to their fate, but found the will to do things that others thought impossible.
Living a long life is inextricably associated with undergoing ageing processes. Therefore it is better to understand the changes that come with age in particular organs and systems. Attempting to ignore particular symptoms of ageing will lead nowhere, and can eventually become the cause of serious problems. Forgetting to adapt your activities and lifestyle to your state of health and biological age, you not only put yourself at risk of a stroke, heart attack or broken bone, but by placing your body under too much strain you will also pay in terms of more rapid ageing.
This is all because ageing involves highly specific changes which, in time, the human organism undergoes. The way you are in terms of how you feel, look and your fitness, depend mostly on the parameters within which the ageing processes in cells and tissues are continuing. The changes that occur in them with age have several characteristic features:
Even these few points should be enough for you to realise that if matters are left to themselves, they won’t be headed in the right direction, and at a certain moment a crisis point will be reached. When it comes we will see clearly that our problems are not the result of tiredness, stress or illness, but of ageing.
It depends on you whether you notice this just after your fortieth birthday, or whether you live another fifteen or twenty years without really noticing it, which is precisely what observing the advice given in this book is all about.
Connective tissue, in accordance with its name, connects, bonds and gives form to organs.
It also fulfills a supporting, protective role, carrying nourishment to cells, and also has properties which help in restoring and regenerating components of the human body. It’s a real tissue of youth.
In order for it to carry out its many roles there are many different cells which vary only slightly, which in the case where… […]
Finally, the processes of renewal and regeneration don’t only take place as a consequence of past illnesses. Most of the components of the human body are on their own cycle of renewal. In individual organs these processes take place at an even tempo, but with the passing of the years, even in such structurally stable elements of the organism as the bones, the same components do not appear as used to be there.
Connective tissue plays an active role in this exchange of biological material. If, therefore, it’s biologically young, the organism can more effectively strengthen and defend itself against the negative effects of harmful elements in the environment.
If the vitality of the connective tissue deteriorates, then you will more and more strongly feel the effects of work, tiredness and illnesses. The amount of time you require for rest after a tiring day will increase, you’ll also require more time to return to health after illnesses you might suffer, and the chance that you might feel the effects of certain ailments to the end of your life will be ever greater.
In order to retain your youthfulness you must therefore have a biologically young connective tissue. Even if at the moment you’re not in the best of form, you can change that.
It’s enough if you take care that your tissue of youth receives that which is essential for strengthening its structure and correct functioning.
If you try to eat healthily, you’re sure to find nothing wrong in the terms -
easy to digest, delicate food, a light meal. If you favour that kind of cooking it means that, like a great many people, you are under a massive misapprehension, with dreadful consequences for your nourishment.
The habit of reaching for products which are easily digestible, but at the same time, processed, nutritionally deficient, because vital elements have been removed, has over a period of the last twenty years or so weakened us all individually and as an entire species to an ever greater degree. Deficient diet can also be blamed for the generally increasing number of civilisational diseases and the fact that, while on average we live longer, we get older sooner.
However, concerns about the effects of a diet of light foods should not be understood as an encouragement to eat a decidedly heavy diet, depending on eating mostly fat and meat.
This is a further mistake which, though not immediately, ultimately leads to a range of illnesses, unless we were considering Eskimos, who nevertheless live in fairly specific conditions.
Let’s return to those people who, convinced that they are choosing the healthiest form of nourishment, prefer light meals. It is precisely that conviction that they have made the right choice, which those in favour of a fatty diet won’t have, that requires a more precise explanation of the pitfalls of an easy to digest diet. […]
Why is it that on every list of factors slowing down the ageing process, among the first three points is found the information that to stay young, you have to move?
Obviously, under the influence of exercising, muscle tone improves, the heart’s efficiency improves, the transfer of oxygen in the lungs takes place more efficiently, but the organs will carry on working even if we do not implement a systematic training regime .
After all there are people who refuse to do any form of physical activity, and in spite of this live a long life and look good on it, too... […]
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