Neuro-spiritual perspective, Prof. Acad. Dr. Leon DANĂILĂ
Although the brain has a great esoteric complexity, it also presents many ways to improve its function and morphology.
Neuroplasticity, based on the formation of new brain circuits, dendritic trees, synapses and neurogenesis, leads to self-regulation, healing of a large number of diseases and longevity. Longevity aims not only at prolonging the period of life, but also at ensuring a higher quality of it, by reducing dependence and diminishing suffering. Longevity therefore means postponing the pathological aging process and improving the quality of life at older ages. Therefore, longevity is healthy aging.
Life has an irreversible tendency to conserve itself. On the evolutionary scale, the body and brain have been shown to adapt to each other through continuous two-way communication. The great anatomical, physiological and spiritual systems work ceaselessly to adapt to and neutralize unfavorable changes in the internal and external (physical and social) environment.
Reason and wit have replaced instincts.
Neuroscientists have discovered that a large number of skills call on more widely distributed neural networks than previously thought. When one part of the brain is damaged or absent, other regions manage to take over the mental functions processed by that area.
The activating and sympathetic systems are responsible for processes that require high energy consumption, while rest, digestion and recovery are taken care of by the inhibitory and parasympathetic systems.
The brain’s inhibitory system, working together with the parasympathetic, promotes development, improves sleep, conserves energy and recharges mitochondria, essential factors for healing. During sleep, glial cells open special channels that allow the waste and toxins produced by the brain to escape, including some proteins whose accumulation favors the onset of dementia. Waste is eliminated through the CSF. That channel system is ten times more active in the sleeping brain. This explains why insomnia leads to the deterioration of brain functionality and its poisoning.
Cardiology Perspective, SL, MD PhD, Dr. Andrei RADU
The cord is (not coincidentally) a central organ that distributes non-stop energy (oxygen, nutrients, via blood flow) to the rest of the body throughout the entire existence of the living being. From this point of view, the cardiovascular pathology (CV) is impossible to be without resonance on the whole body. Heart failure, as a common way of final evolution of any CV pathology, impacts the quality of functionality of the individual as a whole.
It is thus essential to preserve an optimal functionality of the central motor in the circulatory tree, studies such as Framingham early indicating a dramatic decrease in survival in the context of reduced cardiac output.
The doctor’s nagging recommendations, sometimes repeated with an obsessive tendency (control of blood pressure, body weight, elimination/treatment of insulin resistance, quitting smoking, control of cholesterol levels, etc.) should not be taken lightly. The medical treatment of this royal disease (in a negative sense) reduces the CV mortality index promoter, atherosclerosis, the rest of the causes being less likely to end the individual’s life before the theoretical limit of chromosomal telomeres (programmed life). Apart from weight (a medical concept with amazing value), physical and intellectual activity, active involvement in life, in the environment, in the stimulus, either physically or mentally/spiritually, is of colossal importance. This is easy to transcribe from knowledge that belongs to a medical student since the first year – the concept “the function creates (and maintains I would add) the organ.
As the academician emphasized, not only quantity is included in longevity. But also the quality of life. Its harmony through functionality and non-dependence (of family, medical services). As a medical personality of the last century bitterly stated “people generally spend the first half of their lives trying to make the second half as complicated as possible”.
Thus, good CV health determines a long and undisturbed life, with a clear, functional and strong mind, and it is our duty as individuals to ourselves and as respect for life itself to honor this gift as it should through conduct responsible.
Source: Proud To Be Romanian