AboutDavid Dickeson, A.S. Expertise At age 33, I began to worry about "turning 40." I decided to do something - anything! - before I was 'over the hill' in life and health. I figured that once you turn "age 40," life was 'over,' and you spend the next 40 years rapidly aging and "falling apart." If you were lucky, the 'blessing' of death would come before it was too late!!
I am now 56 (May, 08!) and I am enjoying life more than I ever had. How wrong - mentally - I was! When I became STRONGER - physically - everything got better for me.
"Growing old" is NOT a 'natural process.' It is a terrible disease you have to FIGHT each day.
Experience Proper exercise is the answer to "aging well." I have been exercising for 23 years and I have 'first-hand' experience at to what works, and what does not. Especially for older people like myself. Good health does NOT come from sitting in a stuffed chair, 'weightlifting' by lifting soup cans and watching "Murder She Wrote..." This was advised to me by a federal agency for aging seniors! GIVE me a BREAK!!
You can also find me on Allexperts under weightlifting and "how to get what you want in life."
Question My wife is 25 yrs old and a very bright girl. She recently graduated college with a 4.0 GPA and has a great memory (a little too good sometimes if you know what I mean). The problem is that her memory is horrible when it comes to small physical activities. There isn't a day that goes by when she doesn't loose her keys or leave something burning in the oven. Forgetting small tasks is so prevalent in our daily life that I'm starting to think of it less as a little quirk and more as a physical problem. I know that everyone forgets the small things especially as we age but is this normal or am I overreacting?
Answer Hello Tim
Very bright people have a very narrow field of focus. They are very well with what they do, for example; your wife's high GPA. What is directly in FRONT of them is what they are thinking about, and almost NOTHING else. And, they establish what they are presently doing as TOP PRIORITY. Other things, like car keys, is a distance secondary thought.
The problem with this is that even problems that can be dangerous, again; for example, food burning in the oven, are not acknowledged. Driving and being so focused on what ever task you are working on, while not focusing on the traffic around you, is another example of such real and possible dangers!
Fortunately in our society today, there are simple psychiatric testing and interviews that can determine IF there is actually a problem that can be harmful to the person it affects, or no problems at all! Just lack of focus... Many times such lapses of memory are easily and quickly resolved with a prescription of a mild supplement. Many such memory losses are due to lack of certain chemicals in the brain. All our emotions and memories are chemicals.
My 16-year-old son had trouble with focusing in school. After a psychiatric test and a 1/2 hour interview, it was quickly determined that he had a mild case of ADD. The doctor gave us a prescription that, to our amazement, in less than 3 days, regained all his focus and is doing amazingly well in school. She said his problem was due to low levels of a specific chemical that the brain makes to remember words.
Bottom line, for your wife, I strongly suggest that she have the test and the interview, just to be sure. It is no different than a medical physical. Life is not to be lived having forgetfulness. It is just too complicated. For all of us.
