10 Guaranteed Ways To (Permanently) Reduce The Costs Of Elder Care Within A Year

Retirement causes rapid physical deterioration. Which means you get old and weak fast. Those who never retire, don't get weak and don't need people taking care of them.

The food industry is built on the basis of "food addiction"... getting people addicted to eating foods that stimulate the brain cells... but which are actually extremely damaging (and aging) to the body. Once these foods are completely removed from the diet, you will find that people "age" but never grow old, and hardly ever get sick.

As a doctor, I can tell you from personal experience that there is a huge difference in health between patients eating a diet grown on clean, organic, nutrient-dense soil... and those who eat cheaply grown commercial produce that's basically half-dead, and needs a truck-load of pesticides just to maintain its existence.

The more micro-nutrients you get in your body, the slower and more gracefully you age. Actually, you will even start aging in reverse.

Clearly health is more important than money. Almost everyone knows how to get a job and make money. But almost no one these days understands the basic fundamental principles of good health and proper nutrition.

With the right knowledge, it's not that hard to "age in reverse". Actually, it's much easier than you think. I for one, can tell you honestly that I feel and look younger every year.

As I mentioned in a previous idea list, in a capitalistic society, the focus of medical industries is on keeping patients sick for as long as possible, while squeezing out as much money as possible. This is often done in collaboration with the food industry.

It is entirely possible to live your whole life without getting "old", weak, or sick... and while hardly ever needing anyone to even take care of you. I can attest to this, and have mentors who lived well into their hundreds who have done so.

However, such a lifestyle is at odds with pharmaceutical companies, who would prefer that this doesn't become the norm.

Living away from nature ages you much more quickly than you would imagine. And add that on top of all the pollution, stress, sedentary lifestyle, lower levels of sunlight, and unhealthy eating habits of city-dwellers.

Not that there aren't benefits of living in a city. There are several, like increase creativity. However, you don't have to spend the vast majority of your time living there to get them.

These days, the world is moving fast. Maybe a little too fast. It's stressful. Most often a little too stressful. Of course, all of these cause both aging to accelerate, and health to deteriorate. For the simple reason that... the more stressful your life is, the more micronutrients your body burns up... and you have to replace them, but most people don't know how.

In Japan, they call this "ikigai". Basically, you have a reason to wake up in the morning. And this fuels your life span, health span, and also... helps you make better decisions that lead you towards living a longer, fuller life. When you don't have this, you get weak and old really quick.

This is another reason why retirement can age you faster than many things else. Growing older doesn't mean you have to age faster.

In the old days, they didn't used to segregate kids into different classes by age. They just put all different kids of different ages all in one classroom, and let them interact with each other. The older kids took care of the younger kids and helped teach them, the younger kids gave older kids a sense of responsibility, and so on and so forth. And growing up in this environment, kids avoided developing a lot of psychological problems growing up that kids today have.

I believe that age segregation of people for being "elderly" also creates similar psychological and physiological problems. I don't understand why lots of people nowadays think they're old if they're over the ages of 60 or 70. And even if you don't think that way, grouping yourself together with others that do only means that you'll eventually start to think like they do.

In certain places in Japan, as long as you're under 100, you're still considered to be a kid. And I agree with that.

As Leonardo da Vinci once said:

"Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind."

Yet, I have no idea what people are thinking when they try to make life "easier" for the "elderly". Pretty soon, all "old" people will have to do is lie in bed and a robot will help you live your life.

The less you use your body and mind, the faster you grow "old" and "weak". On the contrary, the more you use your body and mind, the more nimble and flexible you stay and become.

Of course, this assumes you are taking ideas #2 and #3 into consideration...

Doing any type of work drains the body of it's reserve of micronutrients. And not restoring these lost resources means you are also draining your body of its "youthfulness". Yes, activity is important, but equally important is restoring what was lost during your activities...