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The Parish Pump in an Age of Algorithms By Paracelsus Asia
coverage that equals the best anywhere. By this I mean, no IfPlanning not Immortality what about The 120 Club? for the End of Your Life age increases, no exclusions or loadings for pre-existing
I’m a War Baby as opposed to a Baby Boomer, which I hope will not invalidate anything I have to contribute to a column entitled Boomer Corner. Such generational Who will end up withand your books your tchotskes, categories are helpful fun, if notand demographically My good friend Alexander Everett in you 2005 aged gadgets and your garden when change oryour geographically exact. As a tools Wardied Baby (1939-45), 85 on his ranch in Oregon. It wasn’t really a ranch, your cosmic at the end of your life?my elder vintage 1944, address I was born in Britain, as was more like ancase Ark. in Alexander liked tocousin, hang out brother. In his 1940. Myjust American if I with animals, certainly not eat them. Hewas an had had one, born in the same year as my brother, It’s probably the easiest and least onerous part of your educationalist and an English eccentric much would not have been a War Baby at all. He would have estate planning to make a list of all your possessions and influenced by Rudolf Steiner and Huxley’s Perennial todecide have been called something else,accumulated as the US did not who will get the stuff you have all these Philosophy, decamped to the Oregon the 1960s enter WW2 untilwho 1941. My wife on otherinhand, born years. Will Junior get your porno movie collection? Your in becoming 1946, was a veryleading much in the first of Baby figure in wave the personal daughter might like jewellery heirlooms; Boomerdom, ormovement whatsome laterthat came toorbefamily described as development became popular at that maybe your best friend would appreciate your gadgets the “Me generation” don’t ask me why. time. As a young man he had been crippled by polioor garden tools. You have made Last Will Testament? but claimed to have curedyour himself. Heand was, he told Good. That takes care of lasted your estate, possessions The Baby Boomer 18allyears until 1964 andand if me a member ofcohort the 120 Club, ofyour whom committed popular music is a large part of what defi nes a generation, financial accounts and settles your preferences. Or does it? themselves to live to be over 120 years old. Alas, asAlexander I believe it didn’t does, itmake was the War Babies and the Baby it. He died 35 years short Boomers who, through the 1950s, 60s and 70s, brought Estate Planning aged 85, which is respectable. us the rock music and radical social change of the era. And later, alas – it must be owned, the neo-liberal and Somewhere around the age of 18 or 19 ourofbodies ceaseis Planning for the dissolution and distribution your estate conservative claw-back that took place as they aged, developing and frombut that moment on thea various body not that cumbersome you need to take few things into prospered and put on weight. The Gen X’ers (1965-76) clocks that comprise what is us,property start their remoseless account, especially if you have or a foot in two and the Millennials (1977-95) are the ones who created countdown to our eventual demise. How countries. Besides the bequests and provisions your last and brought us into an online world and... to the brink of long wetestament last from that point depends on and should appoint an executor who will take a will post-human future. With allon that under the belt, where good luck, our (1996 genes,onward) our lifestyle and us... how the Centennials will lead we can onlyas care of administrative and financial matters such much weand have. The future process wait andmoney see.bank Whatever that is doesn’t - War your Babypension throughor liquidating investment accounts, usually start to manifest visibly until our Centennial it is something retirement -accounts, ensuring we yourhave assetsallgobrung to the upon proper mid-30s or given good genes, ourselves... andso theand, restany of the planet. beneficiaries, paying debts or taxes. It could also psychologically we don’t usually start to include selling your home or terminating your lease. And feel old until our early 70s. If early retirement can be taken aged 50, often the case with foreign rights restricted Indonesia, be sure nowadays asproperty the middle-aged seekinnew occupations you don’t leave behind a can of worms your executor will more in keeping withall the they have become, then Here’s what we’re uppeople against: have to deal with. a 50-year old man or woman relocating to Bali today would haveInflammation been born in 1968, a soixante-huitard at birth Chronic and a gilet jaune at little his or you could say. And Even if you have in her the “re-birth”, way of assets or possessions, - you dare one hope, portent of more equitable days to should have a simple will because if you die intestate Aging people suffer an epidemic of outward come. the legal system in your location decide who gets your inflammatory diseases such aswillarthritis, but chronic inflammation also damages assets, no matter how massive or meager. Things are more Boomer Corner with the exception of myself, a male War brain cells, arterial walls, valves and complicated if you are theheart parent or guardian of a minor Baby, currently comprises four Boomer ladies who could other have structures in the body. Heart attack, child, an informally adopted or sponsored childBali and hardly be better qualified to explore and relay to the stroke, no heart valve failure, and Alzheimer’s there’s document stating what you want to bequeath Advertiser readership the ins and outs of forging an have orall been linked to the them who will care for them afterchronic your Wynn, demise.largely By the extended and pleasant stay in Bali. Ines inflammatory cascade. same token, you making some ably provisions for the your responsible for are birthing the concept, set out parameters; Ibu Kat, addressed the problem faithful staff who may tellingly lose their jobs and probably haveofno Glycosylation medical insurance, which weighs heavy retirement or financial cushion to fall backon on?so many of us; Susan Tereba movingly recounts her experience Diabetics age prematurely, but even non-diabetics suffer taking care of her husbandis to with Alzheimer’s in Bali; Another thing to consider make sure that your willand does from who this gave chemical reaction, protein molecules Shari, the best steerwhere possible on going grey not contradict the account beneficiaries named on your bind to courtesy glucose ofmolecules forming non-functioning gracefully, Canggu Max. retirement life insurance like. structures.accounts, Glycosylation is mostpolicies evidentand in the senile The person listed as the beneficiary on each of those Take Ibu Kat’s piece onofmedical insurance example. dementia, stiffening the arteries, and for degenerative policies get money even your willwe says Her reportwill isofquite chilling and the ifyounger takeotherwise. aboard diseases thethe eye. Make sure of your beneficiary designations to date and the realities how this industry operatesare theup better it will gosync for us down the pike.The message is, early - It with anyDeficit other legal provisions youchoose have made. Methylation and choose carefully, making sure there no horrors pays to review the beneficiaries on all youraaccounts. You embedded in the small print to swag you when you hit Our not cellular DNA requires constant action for may be ready to die and in fact enzymatic may yet have a long your 70’s. requires informed research andchange, don’t maintenance and repair. Aging cripples methylation bout of lifeThat ahead of you but remember that things forget portability. Then, having consulted a trusted metabolism that can manifest as people come causing and go inDNA yourdamage life and situations alter. Be sure professional (Kat mentioned several) get yourself and cancer, liver damage and brain cellwill. degeneration. these changes are updated in your your family aboard. Mitochondrial Energy Depletion Including will, make list ofcountry’s critical documents that the It’s wise to your check out youra own national health will’s executor need to settle estate likeone. your entitlements for will its expatriates too,your if they have The like cellular energy powerhouse, the mitochondria, Some, France withbank its CFE, provide overseas insurance policies, andwillinvestment account requirescoverage a complex series of chemicalswhich, to maintain essential very reasonable with tax a statements, creditat and debit cards,rates pension and critical functions such as transporting nutrients through small top up from the private sector, can give you documents and pertinent information like your Social
conditions, plus emergency evacuation. A major heart Security or National Insurance numbers and makewill surecost you operation costing over US$100,000 in Singapore the membrane and purging cell of toxic tell cell your family or carers where to find them. This debris. includes under Euro 40,000 in Germany orthe France. Mitochondrial lead to congestive heart failure, passwords sodepletion your online accounts can be accessed. Other muscle weakness, fatigue and neurological disease. If practical you are an Australian, it’s a no-brainer. Australia hastaxes one directives should address the paying of any ofdue, the utility best bills, public health payments services or there is (andAny what’s recurring donations. time Hormone Imbalance more, thechange service itself isininyour robust unlike a major occurs life,good makehealth, sure your will the and venerable NHSreflect in Britain last directives it. or the Bolshevik tendency that Trillions of French cells insystem the human body are synchronised to affl icts the ). function by chemical signals called hormones. Aging End-of-life preferences creates hormonal imbalance that can lead to depression, osteoporosis, coronary heart disease and loss of libido. Now that the estate portion of your bounty is settled, have you given a thought to the other end-of-life decisions you Excess Calcification need to make while still, as they say, of sound and competent mind? What about drawing up a Living Willofthat instruct Calcium ions are transported into and out cellswill through your nearest and dearest how you want to be cared calcium channels into the membrane. Aging disrupts thisfor when you longer in a position to in verbalise process andare theno result is excess calcium the cellscoherent of the thoughts? are very brain, heart Remember valves andthere arterial wallsimportant that caninstructions lead to arteriosclerosis andend Alzheimer’s. in regards to your of life preferences that simply do not belong in a Last Will and Testament since that document will not be read until after your death.
As noted, swank new hospitals do not a good health service make. There are good doctors here and there are times when the art of medicine combined with long experience can work as well, if not better than the science of it. But are there enough such doctors? How is it that we see the same doctors’ names appearing on the practitioner boards in soImbalance many different hospitals in Bali? Do they have Fatty Acid the modern diagnostic equipment needed and when they do, are the technicians available to operate and translate The body requires essential fatty acids to maintain cell the results effectively? energy output. Aging causes alterations in the enzymes convert dietary fats into specificsalivates fatty acids the Irequired doubt it.toMy wife’s pulmonary specialist visibly The requires. western way effect to doofthat is to imbalance draw up an Advance body The fatty acid manifests when he sees the standard and detail of X-rays she brings Directive, a legal and binding document thatlow outlines your as irregular heartbeat, joint18degeneration, energy, back from Singapore. And months ago, I don’t know wishes if you become incapacitated due to illness or injury. hyper-coagulation, dry skin host ofheart other monitor, conditions.a about now, there was onlyand onea holter It sets forth theused specific life- supporting prolonging wearable device to measure heart beatorover a 24measures you would on likethe applied not- like resuscitation hour period, available entire-or island. DNA Mutation or CPR, or whether to end all life-saving measures. Your For the should uninsured and those with limited resources wishes be written and the document given to Numerous synthetic anddown natural compounds mutate you can fi nd good treatment from an experienced doctor cellular DNAmost andlikely cause totime form. cells the people to cancer be closecells at the of Aging your demise. here who will, if he’s doing he’s job properly, tell you if he lose DNA and the result is Youtheir should notgene leaverepair thesemechanisms agonizing decisions to others. can treat youdamage successfully here orto ifproliferate you should go DNA genetic causes cells out of These instructions should include the type of care you wish elsewhere for diagnosis and treatment. In which case, control, turn into cancer cells. to have,i.e., the medical team and the you where want toyou end hospitals in Bangkok, Penang andhospital India are up in.to Iflook. you wish to be an organ donoronly, here the in Indonesia need For diagnostic purposes Raffles Immune you can register withisKomite Transplantasi National (the Centre inDysfunction Singapore hard to beat. Unless you are covered are very wealthy, do not admitted NationalorTransplant Committee) or get theyourself Eye Bank (Bank For a variety of the agingOnce immune loses in Singapore, if itreasons, can be avoided. you system are,that thein costs Mata Indonesia) ahead of time and stipulate your its ability to attack bacteria, viruses and cancer cells. In are eye-watering. directive.
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For all of us, insured or not, disease prevention is by far the best option. That means a healthy life style in terms of exercise and diet. Therapeutically, clinical nutrition is the Your scandal instructions should of also indicate your wishes great and shame modern medicine, in that itfor is aging humans, levelscremation of dangerous cytokines preferred rites, or you repatriation relegated tolast theexcessive closet.burial, Eating well will keep healthy are produced cause immune systemand to turn on its preferences, appoint athe funeral a chronic trusted and properly that applied can cure or service alleviate many host and create auto-immune diseases,, such as allergies, conditions. Real food by far to thetake bestcare option butthat. effective relative or friend whoisagrees of all Also lupus, and supplementation under expert direction can work don’t anemia, forget to rheumatoid leave behindheart a listdisease of family andarthritis. friends you wonders. want notified. ‘Next of kin’ may not be near if you have Non-Digestive Enzyme Imbalance family in another country. Indonesian Immigration and However there are snags. First you need to know that your consulate also need to be informed. what your taking is 1) any good, on andmultiple 2) if your taking it Internal cellular functions depend enzymatic in the right amountwith to precise do you timing. any good. lastly reactions occurring AgingAnd causes And now for the big and caveat: Remember that every country 3) supplementation most of the enzyme disturbances in the brain andalternative liver, whichtreatments result in has itsneurological ownbynorms and ed regulations it comes to prescribed a qualifi integrative MD may orbe severe diseases such aswhen Parkinson’s durable health careloss. and Impaired appointing a health care proxy.in If cost-effective but they are not liver cheap and often not persistent memory function results covered by insurance. you plan to die in Indonesia you are well advised to inform toxic damage to every cell in the body. yourself of the practices here. In fact, a quick survey The biggest is that it is that nextunfortunately, to impossiblethe to among a Enzyme fewsnag Bali here lawyers reveals Digestive Deficit purchase any of system the formulations can help you in Will. Bali. Indonesian law does not that recognise a Living As in most countries, in the past Indonesia allowed you to The aging pancreas digestive However, you canoften drawfails uptoasecrete privateenough statement letter import nutrititional supplements by post providing they enzymes, while the aging directives liver does and not secrete enough regarding your medical wishes on how were for personal consumption and in a reasonable bile acids. personnel The resultsshould are thetreat chronic digestive problems medical you in case of a lethal quantity, not for re-sale. A reasonable supply was many as they age. condition. This statement letter only indicates your tax wishes considered to be threeface months worth. The import was and does not have the strong enforcement capacity like a minimal. Excitotoxicity will. It behoves you to discuss these matters with your Regretably there was a ministerial land recently on private physician now and see where yougrab stand. The department aging brain atloses control ofof its behalf of customs the expense the releaseand of now neurotransmitters such as national postal service no nutritional In the end it doesn’t really matter - or doessupplements it to you? glutamate and dopamine, this results are allowed to enter the country and mustand be sent back to in devastating brain cell damage and place of origin. You can’t even ‘ransom’ them at any price. Statistics that nearlyas halfif of peoplepharmaceuticals age 55 and older, They are claim in fact treated they’re destruction. don’t means have a they will. cannot I bet the is even for which bepercentage imported until eachhigher individual not having a Living Will. Yet it is important to document ingredient in a formulation been approved by BPOM, Circulatoryhas Deficit yourregulatory end-of-lifebody. preferences communicate those to the This isand a lengthy and expensive process andand/or notMicrocapillary anthe option for individuals. It is a misapplied your family people that are likely to be near you flow of blood to the brain, restrictive practice that in theory is intended to protect at that crucial time. Putting a plan in place for things eye and skin is impaired as a part like ofus from the import of funeral unregulated pharmaceuticals. medical care and arrangements that normal aging. The result helps is thatensure disorders upon your death, youreye wishes out macular and that of the (suchareascarried cataract, Until a less corporate or a more user-friendly regime degeneration, No.1In family squabbles are avoidedglaucoma) over your are deadthe body. prevails, the only practical option is to bring in the age-related degenerative disease. Major terms of funeral arrangements, you can leave the supplements you need yourself, or to set up an informal and mini-strokes are common problems arrangements to a competent service like Antara Bangsa ring among friends and acquaintances so you can assist associated circulatory to very the Funeral Services. in Bali concur deficit they are each other when youExpats returnwith from overseas trips. brain. good and take care of the details. As Ines Wynn says when introducing the column, she Oxidative Stress hopes there be a affairs lively interaction andwhile exchange of Don’t wait tocan put your in order. Now, you are useful information developing and around Boomer still hale and healthy and stillin have control of your Free radicals are unstable molecules that have been Corner. belongings and the execution of your last wishes, is the implicated in most diseases associated with aging. best time to put some order in your end of life preferences. Antioxidants become supplements to In a world thathave is already heavilypopular influenced by manipulative Don’t wait until life’swe inevitable throw you atocurve and protect against free-radical-induced damage, but few algorithms, in ways are onlyloops now cell beginning perceive, beat you to it. the sharing an open-hearted BA readers as to their people take proper among combination of antioxidant knowledge experience of good. Bali is a one good way of supplementsand needed to do any fighting back. A lively exchange of information and views alongside this column and hopefully online would not only be an organic and valuable resource but a refreshing change. By Ines Wynn By Shari Shari ByBy Adrian The Boomer Corner is a column dedicated to people over The Boomer Corner is aa column dedicated to people over over The Boomer Corner to The Boomer Corner is a column column dedicated to people people over over 60 living in Bali. 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