We Listen to Our Body

We accumulate many memories in our body, just like the memories we accumulate when life flows fast. We get so busy with everyday life that we can't look back and see how old we are, how our bodies are giving us disease signals. Until one day when we look at an old photograph or examine ourselves in the mirror, we see the wrinkles on our skin, the spots in our hair, the sagging in our muscles. In fact, all these changes are memories that our body accumulates over time.

Youth, the life energy that youth gives, the feeling of being able to make any movement you want with comfort, being able to eat everything without fear, is so beautiful that it is very difficult to accept that time passes and that as a result of changes in our body we need to make some changes in our life. Forty years is indeed a turning point. Our metabolism begins to change, our body gives signals that youth is gradually falling behind. Now is the time to stop and listen to our body.

We may have decreased energy, we may no longer be able to climb stairs as comfortably as before, we may be gasping for breath too quickly, our heart rate may be accelerating even with very little stress, shoes that we have been wearing comfortably for years, clothes may no longer seem big or small to our body, we may be experiencing pain that manifests itself in our bodies that we cannot make sense of.. Our hair can fall out, our toilet habits change, we can have constipation or diarrhea when we stop and stop, annoying pains in our joints can occur with a sudden movement. We may experience forgetfulness in ways that we cannot make sense of, perhaps waking up most mornings with a cheesy headache. Those at home may now complain that we snore every night, it may be difficult to tie our shoes with our huge belly. There may have been frequent awakenings at night for no reason, turning left and right in bed all night. Maybe we could have lost weight quickly. Our skin may have faded or even yellowed, and our veins under our skin have become easily visible. We realize all this sometimes only with the words of an outsider. Or we start to wonder if I'm getting older.

Everyone in my family lived so long, there will surely be those who say why I grew old so quickly. Or it won't happen to me, there will be those who call me more young people to get sick. Unfortunately, there is no definite age and time of onset of diseases. We can't go on worrying about whether I'm going to get sick all the time, or if I'm going to have blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease, cancer like my mom and dad.

Forty is a starting age at the same time. The age at which we reach mental maturity, when we really begin to enjoy life. What is it like to be sick when you say it's good to live. It is the age to start regular health screenings for a healthy, peaceful, and enjoyable life.

I say get a health scan and the section you turn to should be the check-up section if you don't know where to start. The person who will most accurately direct you is your check-up doctor. Your health information from birth to this time will tell you which tests to have based on your family's health information and your current health problems, and will follow you regularly during the best years of your life after that, call you for check-ups and help you live a healthy life.

Although there are no heart-related diseases in your family, even if you do not have any heart-related complaints, you should always have a regular heart examination every year after the age of forty. It is necessary to measure blood pressure at regular intervals and to be able to understand the conditions that will prepare us for heart disease, such as cholesterol and sugar, to look at sugar, insulin, cholesterol levels. It is necessary to take an electrocardiogram (ECG), to look at the contractile functions and valves of the heart with echocardiography, which we can define as ultrasound of the heart, to look at the risk of blockage in your heart vessels by measuring your heart rhythm and blood pressure when you walk on a treadmill with an exercise test.

If you complain that you do not have old energy, it is necessary to look at parameters such as CRP and sedimentation rate, if there are pains in our body, if there are pains in our body, it is necessary to look at parameters such as CRP and sedimentation rate, which will indicate inflammatory conditions and rheumatic diseases. It is necessary to evaluate the functions of the rare secretion gland thyroid gland, which allows our body to work in a balanced and certain rhythm, to look at the levels of thyroid hormones in the blood, that is, the levels of T3-T4-TSH, and to assess disorders in its structure with thyroid ultrasound.

Considering that smoking is very common in the world and in our country and is a means for socializing for most people; since cigarettes and tobacco products cause many cancers such as cancer of the large intestine, stomach, larynx, intraoral, bladder cancer, as it is necessary to evaluate the lung every year by X-ray or tomography.

We spend most of our lives eating, drinking and going to the toilet. We may not be able to digest what we eat well enough, pains in the stomach can be burns. Or we may not have a regular toilet habit, we may think that we cannot relax enough even if we go to the toilet. The form of our urine and feces may have changed, its color may have changed. Instead of waiting for it to pass by boiling and drinking mint lemon, saying that I have a cold, it is necessary to contact a doctor who is a specialist in this field, a gastroenterologist. A simple urine and stool sample test is required. After evaluating you, your doctor may order an ultrasound, MRI, or tomography to more clearly assess the internal organs of the abdominal area according to your condition. It is imperative that every person by the age of fifty has to undergo a detailed examination of the stomach and intestines with an endoscopic procedure. With endoscopy and colonoscopy, one of the most feared methods is to see and evaluate the inside of the stomach and intestinal system with the help of a tiny camera, one of the most accurate results.

Measurement of bone density to assess the risk of osteoporosis if joint pain has started to show headache, sitting and standing up holding, if movement restrictions have begun, bone density is measured to assess the risk of osteoporosis, a detailed physical therapy and orthopedic examination, evaluation of muscle strength, and a detailed examination of our muscles that enable us to move and stand in a balanced way as we age It is necessary.

Performing a smear test, which is a simple swab test for the examination of the reproductive organs in women and early diagnosis of cervical cancer, which is one of the most common cancers, a gynecological examination must necessarily be performed every year to evaluate the ovaries and uterus with ultrasonography. It is very important to evaluate the disorders that can occur in the breast with the methods of examination, ultrasound and mammography, which have a very important place for women's life, comparing with previous years of examination, ultrasound and mammography, every year.

In men, like the same women, it is necessary to evaluate the reproductive organs after the age of forty, for benign growths and cancers of the prostate gland, which are common in men and begin especially after forty, regular urological examination, ultrasonographic examination and PSA antigens, which are indicators of prostate cancer in the blood, should be looked at every year.

If forgetfulness, sleep disorders, memory impairments occurred, tinnitus, headaches, trembling hands, balance disorders, or if we have relatives in our family who have diseases with these symptoms, it is necessary to be examined by a neurologist.

An endocrinology and metabolism doctor examination is necessary to assess the metabolic state due to fast life, stressful work life, fast food diet that is quickly and easily accessible, irregular diet, metabolic disorders that are inevitable as a result of not finding time for sports from work intensity, and obesity.

To live healthy, of course, healthy eating is also very important. Consultation with a dietitian for healthy eating, correcting mistakes in nutrition before it is too late will prevent many diseases, especially diabetes, which can occur at a later age.

Health screenings that we will do in a year by dedicating only a few days to ourselves are the most beautiful gift we can give ourselves to live healthy and have a long life. Forty is the most special age of our lives; realisation, awakening, is actually the starting point of our new life. Since we have many years to spend with health, lots of movement, enjoyment, it's time to make peace with our body and listen to it, to listen to our body in order to be happy every minute... Forty years, welcome.