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14. Occasionally, Quora justifies its existence

… and today, there are two. First one below is:

Why do the old tire so easily (by Mark Sillitto MD retired)

”So many but not all elderly people tire easily. There is a lot of confusion among the public about the cause(s). However, I worked for 40 years as a medical doctor and much is related to a person’s cellular mitochondria levels.

What is that you might say. Inside all human living cells these tiny organelles called mitochondria convert our energy sources like blood glucose into electricel and chemical energy to ‘power up’ each and every living cell in our body.

Now, Why do elderly folks have fewer of these than children, adolescents or young adults? The answer is genetically our bodies are ‘programmed’ to behave ‘economically’.

What is that you may ask? Once the human body has finished puberty and we reach our early adult years genetic switching swings into action automatically and reduces the number of mitochondria to match the lower level of ‘energy’ all cells need for growing.

The DNA coding kind of says, by some logic; ‘hey let’s not waste the effort to produce and refresh mitochondria the body maybe able to get by with fewer’, so it reabsorbs and replaces some of them in each and every cell across time.

So, how do some older folks trick the body to register that each cell needs to keep up the number of mitochodria?

The answer is cardiovascular level activity. That’s why older folks who regularly do activities that increase their heart rate have much more energy: going to a gym, join a dance class 3 nights a week, go for runs three times a week, use a stationary exercise bike while using a heart rate watch measuring their heart rate three time per week, work at a part time job that is vigorous enough to raise their heart rate enough more than twice a week. (Remember those accounts you heard of very active people in their 90’s).

Why three times a week and how much to raise your heart rate you might say? Well, Google “age adjusted” ‘heart rate zone training’ to find out it is much less difficult than you think for most everyone.

Why three times per week? Sufficient regular activity is needed to ‘trigger’ your metabolism to recognise it needs to make more mitochondiria inside the cells. (There is a huge amount of research/ university published peer reviewed journal articles still relevant. Much of the research from the studies of ‘what is fitness” from the 1960’s.

Plus, our bodies haven’t changed: after all elderly people have been feeling tired since the dawn of time; with examples of those elderly who kept active).”

JH: He then advises you to consult your MD (GP). I’d dispute just the last sentence … globopsycho have indeed changed people’s bodies … whether permanently or as long as the evil muvvers do their thing … well I for one don’t know.

13. And here it is again and again …

… over and over … this hobbyhorse about strong, good men plus women, not separately … each playing to their strengths … men building and defending:

… while gals defend the national conscience, keep things in order that way:

… across the world too … interlinked, not unlike a doing-right church in a way, but without burning and mutilating our subscribers.

12. Not sure that on All Saints Day …

… I should be running Ladies at Lunchtime on the blog … am holding it over till Monday.

However, this insulting of the ladies of the right (in the right too, by the way) by this Mark Cuban eejit has had a beneficial effect for the boys … the ladies have come out of the woodwork en masse on X and X is now flooded with self-posted photos of “strong, intelligent” women … well I for one am in seventh heaven:

The gals of the right have it all … strength, intelligence, drop-dead gorgeousness, fab to hold close and then we get to the crucial bit … I just like how they operate. Not leftist demi-wimmin like Rayner, Clinton, Griseold … with ordure for brains … but formerly standard “real women” who have good and bad traits, just as our species does. We just take the iffy with the good.

And that comes out in this exchange below:

Yep … we as men on this side, don’t feel we have to follow each and every request there and then but by the same token, the gals never miss a trick on our side … in my book, it’s a happy mix of both … naturally, normally, as it should be. I enjoy the company of my mates … and luv our gals … and what?