We all have loved ones, radiant people, who we wish to hold onto for as long as we can in this life.
With scientific advancements in medicine and the concepts of anti-aging and biohacking gaining traction, it all seems possible, but is it too good to be true?
Dr. Sanjay Bhojraj, a US based interventional cardiologist seems to agree.
He emphatically states that extending life span without improving quality is a dangerous trend.
He makes us ponder the question we’d rather not ask: Isn’t the need to extend someone else’s lifespan or my own at the cost of well-being inherently selfish and meaningless?
Shouldn’t healthspan be more important than lifespan?
What are your thoughts on this?
Quality of life is more important. Living long without health is not going to be worth it, if you are on machines to be alive. Being human means to be able to move, feel and hurt.
With the theories and experiments around anti-aging and biohacking floating since the past few years, people have shown true vulnerability of their fears around growing weak and old.
I feel those anxieties of growing weak and old should be challenged in consulting them to begin strengthening rather than attempt to hack your biological processes to be old and strong.
I feel, with the stress rising highly these days, our innate power of acceptance and tolerance has gone drastically down. With regular stress and anxiety patterns, we are sacred today even if something small happens in our body or if our body doesn’t behave same like on other days and any small thing happens, we tend to google and now with that generalized information, we get more worried thinking that what if it’s something severe. Once we advance in our age, several issues happen and our lifestyle needs to be tweaked accordingly including what we eat, how we sleep, how our thought processes are, how much self-regulation we have, how we exercise and how often we do, and how much of self-acceptance ability we have. With age, issues will come and it’s same for everyone, the difference lies in what multifaceted approach one follows in moving beyond that. Living well is important and it is completely in our hands, but living long is actually a combined effort of both the habits and more of luck.
This is such a practical topic of discussion. Everyone is prioritizing life span over health span but health span is more important as living longer only matters if we are actually healthy, independent and have good quality of life.
Health span is important than life span because As healthcare professionals we have seen many members staying in hospital without any conscious and not able to do their work by themselves it is very hardest part in our life no one should experience it . There is a saying that Good health is not something we buy . Making loved ones staying with us is ok but we need to be ready to see them suffer as well . Health span is the thing needed in every human life.