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This reassuring film examines normal, healthy aging, showing that it is part of a gradual biological process that begins at birth. We are aging long before we reach old age. Our hearing becomes less acute after age ten, we lose height after 25, and our immune system declines in our 30s. And yet our body adapts and we hardly notice these changes. It is interesting to not that we are the only species to age beyond the reproductive years. In fact, most animals in the wild do not live up to their genetic potential, faced with natural predators.
Experts such as John Rowe, M.D. of Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York City tells us that
This reassuring film examines normal, healthy aging, showing that it is part of a gradual biological process that begins at birth. We are aging long before we reach old age. Our hearing becomes less acute after age ten, we lose height after 25, and our immune system declines in our 30s. And yet our body adapts and we hardly notice these changes. It is interesting to not that we are the only species to age beyond the reproductive years. In fact, most animals in the wild do not live up to their genetic potential, faced with natural predators.
Experts such as John Rowe, M.D. of Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York City tells us that most older people are quite fit, and able to live independently. Studies conducted at the National Institute on Aging in Baltimore, and at the University of Western Ontario show that with proper exercise and diet, the heart of a fit seventy-year-old can be as strong as the heart of a sedentary thirty-year-old.
The way a person ages is influenced by a complex interplay of genetic, environmental and social factors. We meet people in their nineties who have the key ingredients to a happy old age - their independence. The film concludes with a prescription for leading productive lives after retirement.
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