Old Age Myths Busted: 5 Myths to Disbelieve

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Old Age Myths Busted

5 Myths to Disbelieve

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With the rise of Fake News spreading like a Californian wildfire in the midst of a drought, we thought we would separate fact from factoid by debunking some of the most common myths surround old age.
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We all have preconceived ideas of what aging will be like, and we all believe certain things like aches and pains and grumpy outlooks are inevitable. But they aren’t.
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A lot of what we believe is guaranteed can, in fact, be prevented with little lifestyle tweaks.
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Old Age Myths Busted #1
An Aching Body With Creaky Joints is Due to Old Age
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There have been extensive studies in this area, but none more so than that performed by the Monash Medical School.
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They came to the conclusion that achy, creaky joints are actually caused by a lack of exercise. They studied many people between the age of 40 and 70.
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Their results indicated that those who exercised (even doing as little as twenty-minutes once a fortnight) had much more cartilage in their joints.
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This helped to make them much less susceptible to arthritis, or achy, squeaky joints. What’s more, there are many ways to prevent joint pains, meaning it isn’t just something you have to accept with age.
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Old Age Myths Busted #2
Retirement Homes Are Boring
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All too often, people think that retirement homes are, well, a place you go to and just wait. But this is not the case.
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Growing old is inevitable, yes, but growing up is one-hundred percent optional. That’s what makes a retirement/care home so much fun. There are people with that same young rebellious spirit.
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You are living in a community where you are immensely social, whether it be embracing the arts (and the performing arts) to playing around on lakes and just about doing anything you would at college.
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Old Age Myths Busted #3
Your Libido Fades Away And Dies when You Get Old
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Okay, this is an absolute fabrication of the truth.
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Sure, your libido and impotence are attributed to old age, but these are completely preventable conditions. They are typically caused by things like diabetes, high blood pressure, and heart disease.
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So stay in shape and you’ll keep your libido well past 75, which is when it tends to start fading.
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But up to that age, well, people are still people and a libido is completely natural. Take that myth.
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Old Age Myths Busted #4
How You Age Is Down To Genes
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What a load of old nonsense! Sure, it could help a bit, but even if you are born with the most impeccable, healthy and miraculous genes known to mankind, how you live your life is sure to have a huge impact.
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How you live will affect how you enjoy old age and how long you enjoy old age for.
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That means what you eat, how much you exercise, what activities you do and even the whereabouts you live.
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You are in control, not your ancestors!
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Old Age Myths Busted #5
Your Brain Gets Smaller And Smaller When You Are Old
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Many people believe this factoid to be fact simply because the hippocampus gets smaller with age.
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But this is so much to do with age as it is to do with stress. Yes. Stress is what is to blame for the memory bit of the brain.
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Recent studies have even shown that one in four 18 to 25-year-olds have the same size hippocampus as those aged 60-75.
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See, life is stressful as soon as you hit adulthood!
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