Because with age comes all the trouble. Age is a relative thing. At what age do we start monitoring things?
And 40 years of age appears the most thought of in Western Societies. Mammograms are started and 45 years is a risk factor for men who then ae being monitor for cholesterol. The natural or true age is linked to genetic and environmental factors. Age is linked to the length of Telomeres and to Senescence. Telomeres are these youth protector molecules which keep being clipped and shortened at each cell cycle until the DNA is exposed to Endonucleases (if you get my drift!). Sometime we can fool it and make it a variable by exercising, and then it plays catch-up with you later. Some time, it is not so much of a variable, it is just there to be lived with...Suffice is to say, when you are young you feel invincible, protected. Being old, well, you have a "Risk factor" . Cancer does not like to be old, and works hard to preserve or elongate its Telomeres. This is an area of Target therapy.
2. Cholesterol, we spoke about yesterday-see WELLNESS PART I
3. WEIGHT MANAGEMENT WE WILL SPEAK ABOUT NEXT
4. BLOOD PRESSURE, Hb A1C FOR DIABETIC
5. THYROID FUNCTION (THYROID STIMULATING HORMONE LEVEL)
6. BNP
Brain natriuretic peptide - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Basic natriuretic peptide (BNP), now known as B-type natriuretic peptide (also BNP) or GC-B, is a 32 amino acid polypeptide secreted by the ventricles of the ...7.RENAL FUNCTION AND CREATININE
8. HEMOGLOBIN LEVEL
9. C-REACTIVE PROTEIN STATUS (AND ANTI NUCLEAR ANTIBODY STATUS)
10. FEV 1 (OR WHETHER YOU FEEL TIRED AND SHORT OF BREATH)
11. OXYGEN SATURATION OR SLEEP APNEA PRESENCE
12. ALBUMIN LEVEL (LOWER THAN 3.5g)
13. MENTAL STATUS / ANXIETY
14. PROTEINURIA
15. ADHESION TO PREVENTION AND IMMUNIZATION
(FLU-SHOT, PNEUMONIA AND NOW SHINGLE SHOT, ANNUAL OPHTHALMO VISIT,MAMMOGRAM,COLONOSCOPY,BONE DENSITY MONITOR, SMOKING CESSATION AND AVOIDANCE OF ALCOHOLI SM)
THESE 15 FACTORS SUM UP YOUR HEALTH. THIS IS THE REPORT CARD YOU SHOULD GET FROM YOUR DOCTOR WITH EVERY VISIT!
WE WILL DISCUSS THEM AS WE GO ALONG
