longevity

LONGEVITY
i  have written several times about what you can do to live
longer
eat right stop smoking drink moderately exercise sleep well
keep weight down control blood pressure control cholesterol
control diabetes be happy

now an insurance company has created a calculator
where you put in your age
answer questions about your health
then it makes adjustments on your longevity
ie that activity could make you live longer

here is the link to the longevity calculator. click on it
and
answer the questions and see how life style changes
can affect your life

so i went to the website
typed in my age and sex
78
doesnt leave me much time does it

typed in my ht and wt
bmi 26
ok so my pants have got a little tighter since i retired
oops lost 1 year
77

no history of heart disease before 55 in a family member
gained 2 years back
79

blood pressure under control with medicine
79
if i didnt have high blood pressure it would be 82

stress not a issue
gained a year
80

exercise every day
gained 2 years
82

eat 5 fruit and vegetables a day
gained 3 years
85

wear my seat belt
gained a year
86

driving record for accidents is clean
well in the last three years
gained a year
87

drink less than two drinks a day
gained another year
drink too much and you lose 4-7 years
88

dont smoke
gained two years
90

dont use recreational drugs
seems willie lost some on this one
gained a year
91

so if i do those healthy things that i recommend that you do
i can increase my longevity by 13 years
if i lose those love handles i could gain a year

so i recommend that you click on the longevity calculator game
and
calculate how you are doing
see what a life style change could do for your health

when i looked at this though
i thought
what if it asked are you at high risk for alzheimers disease
i would lose all those years and more
no way would i make it to 91
however
it would slow down the progress of the disease
and delay its onset

try the calculator
put your partners information in there
so
you have something to use to encourage them

the organicgreen doctor

my bracket

MY BRACKETS

each year i look forward to march madness
the ncaa mens basketball tournment
especially now that all the games are on tv

now we dont have to be watching a good game
then they switch over to some other game
so you dont get to see the end of the first game

that use to just tick me off
now if that happens its my fault since we can see all
of them
and since we have dvr so we can record games
if
we are gone or if we have two games on at the same
time we want to watch

we means mostly me but my wife she is a good sports fan
with two boys and a husband who love sports she sort of
didnt have too much choice

i sorta of put things off i need to do so i can see several games
as they are shown day and night

just like at peoples work my productivity drops off a lot
during this march madness

i printed out my bracket and filled it out
here is some of the results
i am putting it on the record for all to see so that i cant
be accused of cheating on my brackets

my final four teams are
florida
virginia
oklahoma state
louisville

finals
florida
louisville

i wanted to pick wichita state but i didnt because theres no way
anyone will go through the year undefeated
i predict they will get beat by louisville

oklahoma state has a good team that fell apart but seems to be
kicked in and have a lot to prove
if they can get past arizona they have a good chance to make it

iowa state the big 12 winner is playing as well as anyone but they
have to go through virginia
if im wrong ill be happy

the sleeper team i want to watch is
stephen f austin from texas
not because they are from texas but because they are good
too bad they would have to go through florida
they wont make it past this weekend

my texas team made it this year
they have played badly recently
i predict they will beat arizona state but wont make it past michigan
maybe next year as all their team will be back

kudos to the big 12 with its 7 teams that got in
what happened to the sec huh aggie fans
guess football just took over huh

so my wife she knows not to make any social commitments
during this time
if you happen to call me during the games expect the calls to go
to voicemail

ill call you back on april 8 when this is all over

oh yes i predict gator nation will be very happy again

the organicgreen doctor

stoking may help

STOKING MAY HELP

if you live in colorado or in washington state you can legally
buy marijuana to smoke
but
researchers cant go buy some to do research
especially if they get federal funds
they have to buy it from a special farm at the university of mississippi

it can cost $100,000 for this weed to use in a research project
a rat to study eg one that will get alzheimers can cost $250
the expenses can be great for a research project
then
the feds arent funding the research like they should
that is the research on using marijuana in patients with alzheimers

it has been noticed that those folks from the 60s who smoked pot
a lot but not the bad stoners
now that they are entering their 80s and 90s dont seem to get
alzheimers disease as much as they should

so there is something happening with the use of marijuana that slows
down the disease process

recently the federal government oked the use of pot in kids who
have uncontrollable seizures
it seems to help some
parents were just buying from the local weed dealer and giving
it to their kids
now
thanks to the change of heart they can get it legal now for
this apparently effective treatment for this difficult to manage
disease uncontrollable seizures in kids

bet its cheaper just to buy the local weed than get it legal though

researchers have found that marijuana decreases the beta amyloid
that sticky build up that occurs with alzheimers disease
which if the observation of decreased alzheimers disease
 in the 60s crowd as they get older is true
explains why

i was never a pot smoker
tried it when i was younger
unlike bill clinton i inhaled it
but never became a user

now as i am older
and am facing an uncertain future with the possibility of alzhiemers
disease in my future
i am willing to try anything that appears to help slow things down

so i was wondering if i smoked a joint at bedtime or ate a brownie
would it first help me overcome my problem with sleeping that i have
from taking my medication for possible alzheimers disease
called aricept (donepezil)
and
would it help slow down the disease

i have no doubt if i lived in colorado or in washington or in a state
where there are medical marijuana clinics that i would be stoking
at night

it is sad that there is a drug that is so readily available though not
legal here in texas
that may have the potential to help

cant we just do the damn research and find out for sure
surely this cant be worse than taking xanax or ambien or
oxycodone or so many other drugs

heck look how sharp willie is

it does appear that a low dose of marijuana is the best to use

cant you just see it now
at all the old folks homes and retirement places
all those grey headed folks toking one at bedtime

if it helps why not
could we just lift the stigma for this one cause please
you did it for those kids

the organicgreen doctor