Dr. Ghaffar tells us adopting a healthy lifestyle and incorporating daily exercise and the right nutrition from an early stage can help benefit your spine health in the long term.
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Really good question. Just from an observational point of view, you will see people in the streets and sitting on buses or desks and you can notice those people who seem to have a certain aura about them in terms of their physical health. You know, I've met some elderly patients well into their late 80s and early 90s who look absolutely incredible. And when you see them, you can tell that their posture is correct, that they tend to be very, very active, whether that's daily walking or gardening. And you can tell that this isn't something that they've just recently learned on the internet or watched a video on. This is part of their general lifestyle that they've had for many, many years. So what we'd suggest is that from early on, from school days and from teens onwards, it's really important to adopt all the aspects available for healthy living, whether that's nutrition, whether that's daily exercise, just keeping active. And you've only got one spine and you can't really replace your spine. So what are you going to do to look after it? And it's all to do with things like don't gain excessive weight, make sure that your posture's correct and you know keep active and look after nutrition and it all boils down to your general lifestyle and if you get that right early on it's got fantastic health benefits for when you get into graceful old age.
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