Posted on 02/17/2024 2:50:49 PM PST by Red Badger
Ping!.................
My grandmother—who I write about often...
lived a life in excellent health—until she died at age 106.
She smoked one cigarette every night after dinner.
She loved giving the “experts” the middle finger.
Needless to say she outlived all her doctors who told her to stop smoking.
Lol.
Great article, Red. Thanks for posting it.
Before the advent of mechanized agriculture, gasoline-driven tractors, and fast food, what she describes is how Americans lived. Lots of hard work and outdoors all your life, strong community values, no fast food. But Americans didn’t approach anywhere near 100 life span.
I’ll bet you it’s the Yak Milk!
I wonder if there’s anything to the colloidal quartz theory. That’s a new one. At least colloidal quartz doesn’t turn you blue like colloidal silver.
I bought some of the wine for the Blue Zone longevity. I am not a wine drinker but thought I would give it a try. Had to drive to a big liquor store to find one from Sardinia.
Limiting processed foods has to be a good thing. I did one strict diet to determine what was causing me problems..Whole 30 diet.....and it was hard to find stuff that I could eat.
Did lose weight. Did feel a lot better. Inflammation was reduced. Did see the things that made me feel worse. But back to all the old bad stuff. I need to retry it again in a modified way./
As far as I know, quartz is mostly inert.............
More on my grandmother’s secret.
She never worked a day in her life.
Her parents took care of her financial needs and then my grandfather married her young and took care of her financial needs.
Her “trick” was she mastered the art of being grateful for what she had.
She knew she was fortunate—never forgot it.
“I had a doctor..........but he died.” - George Burns, age 99
i dont think I would want to give birth at 60
https://lyma.life/journal/how-to-increase-longevity-hunza-tribe-secrets/
Stress mitigation is important. Not working would certainly help with stress.
Modern America has truly strayed from the traditional way.
One cigarette isn’t SMOKING.
1 or 2 or 3 ppd is SMOKING.
thanx red
heads up LJ
Her positive attitude was amazing.
She had so many traits that are very difficult for most folks to emulate:
—No agenda. She had nothing to prove to anybody.
—Not really materialistic. She lived well and had nice things but those things didn’t own her, were not that important to her and she never bragged about it or held it against people who were less fortunate.
—A true independent thinker—never believed anything the “experts” said about anything. She did her own research and took her time drawing conclusions.
—Truly pleasant to be around—lightened up anyone’s day.
She had a way of being comfortable in her own skin that very few people could match.
It is a skill they don’t teach you anywhere—you have to learn it yourself.
The Wakhan Corridor of Afghanistan: One of the most isolated spots on earth.
Tell that to the Karens—one puff of second-hand smoke and they act like somebody just dropped a nuclear bomb on them.
Here is one hilarious story that showed how she was...
She was in her mid nineties and refused to move to an assisted living facility. My grandfather had died and she lived by herself in a large house—though a maid did come and clean now and then.
My parents decided it was time to make the “hard sell”.
My father talked her into taking a tour of the nearby upscale assisted living facility. He drove her there and when they arrived the tour began.
She smiled at everybody, looked them in the eye, shook their hand, told them how much she appreciated their help.
This went on for an hour or so.
My father is thinking that this is going well.
They leave the building and he says “so are you ready to sign the papers and move in with these nice folks”.
Grandma smiled sweetly and said softly (so none of the facility staff could hear):
“Over my dead body.”
Sounds like my Mom. When she was 97 my oldest brother took her to the assisted living facility for the tour. When it was done she turned to my brother and said “I came, I saw, now take me back home”. She lived in her house until her last month when she died at 102.
Yeah—that is one of the keys to living to a ripe old age.
You have to have strong personal identity and integrity—and refused to get pushed around by anybody.
This nonsense again? I remember it from 50 years ago when over 100 age elderly were found from Peru to Russian Caucasus to Nepal.
Then it was found many of the men had lied about their age when there was a possibility of a military draft, claiming to be born earlier than they actually were.
Interesting, thanks!
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