How come the Windsors have such great health?
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Anonymous
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They live long and healthy lives until the end.
What gives? Good genes? |
Anonymous
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LOL Good genes. No.
Try the best health care and on-call physicians money can buy from birth. Their problems are solved before it becomes an issue. The former King got a lung transplant in 1951 before regular America even knew that was a possibility. Personal trainers. Nutritionists. Chefs who work with the nutritionists. It all adds together for excellent physical aging. |
Anonymous
This. They also get to recover adequately from any health problems. This in and of itself is huge. And as PP mentioned they are largely immune from lifestyle diseases because they are raised with a staff to ensure they have excellent nutrition and physical fitness. (For the most part this is no different than how the 1% live anywhere in the world. Except, the royals have even more built in supports.) |
Anonymous
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Obviously they have good genes, because in their 80s, 90s and beyond, they do not suffer from dementia and other age-related diseases.
My family simply does not live that long. Some families do, other families don't. |
Anonymous
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Yes, they have great health care, but they also have a lot of good genetics going for them. Look how long Queen Victoria lived, before much of today's health care was available and when the average life span was much shorter than today.
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Anonymous
What makes you think they don't have access to preventative treatmetns for dementia? Again the Windsors have and have always had healthcare access to medical treatments that didn't hit the popular market until a decade or two decades later. Queen Victoria was one of the first women to give birth using chloroform for pain...in 1853. It didn't become standard hospital practice (alongside ether) until the 1870s through the 1920s. We very well could be seeing an injectable treatment to stave off dementia release to the public in the 2040s...once it gets through all the red tape and FDA regulations. |
Anonymous
Queen Victoria's health care was far above even the base standard of some of the LCs in developed countries today. |
Anonymous
They may and just keep it very private. |
Anonymous
| Read the book Ask Sir James. It's about Queen Victoria's personal doctor who was on call 24/7. She was extremely careful about her health. |
Anonymous
| What anti dementia treatments are there? |
Anonymous
Perhaps they don't marry people with a family history of dementia/Alzheimer's, and take preventive measures like following the MIND diet? |
Anonymous
| Not to mention, they are all physically very active - even in their older years. The queen walks a lot, and was still riding not that long ago. It's a huge contributing factor to staying healthy and fit. |
Anonymous
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Good genes. Queen Mary, Queen mother and the Queen all prove this. Prince Philip is still hacking around. This means the four kids are genetically predisposed to live long lives. What really affected the family in the past was lung cancer/smoking but no one seems to smoke out of the current crop as even Harry seems to have quit.
Good diet and physically active. The queen watches what she eats and has a fairly simple and plain diet most of the time, she avoids carbs. |
Anonymous
| Money. You really need to ask. |
Anonymous
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Victoria was a carrier of hemophilia. Two of her daughters and four of her granddaughters were carriers of the disease. A son, three grandsons, and four great-grandsons were all sufferers, most of whom bled to death.
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