Hormones claim to disrupt the endocrine system, thus causing the disease

It is difficult to find a country experiencing rapid aging in Korea. If the percentage of people aged 65 and over in the total population exceeds 7%, 14% and 20%, they are respectively designated as aged society, aged society and very old society. Our society has already reached an aging society in 2000 and an aging society in 2018. By 2025, people over 65 will enter the old-fashioned society with more than 20% of the total population. In 18 years, we have overcome the changes that have taken more than a century to move from an aging society to an aging society in the West.

But it is not always good to live long. It is important to age in good health without suffering from degenerative diseases such as cancer, hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular cerebral diseases, osteoporosis, etc. Seniors are exposed to a variety of illnesses and the cost of medical treatment for each senior is 3,987,000 won in 2018, 4.6% more than the previous year.

Much of our body is regulated by hormones. Recently, exposure to chemicals that mimic hormones has increased, resulting in an increasing number of diseases, including cancer, cardiovascular disease and osteoporosis. Endocrine disruptors, the name of the carrier is called the environmental hormone This is similar to biological hormones in the chemical structure of the body, as if it is a natural hormone often acts.

This imitation is called imitation, which is a real hormone that combines with the body's cellular material, resulting in abnormal physiological function. There are even cases where this parasitic hormone completely takes the role that a real hormone can play (blocking-blocking). Side effects caused by environmental hormones include abnormal reproductive function, destruction of badual balance, unbalanced hormonal secretion, inhibition of immune function and increased prostate cancer.

Our environmental hormones are exposed to environmental hormones through various processes such as washing, cosmetics, packaging and food containers such as plastic, widely used in everyday life. It is very likely that it causes various chronic diseases such as. It is known that exposure to processed foods increases exposure to dangerous chemicals such as environmental hormones.

It is important to prevent diseases such as cancer in the elderly, hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular cerebral diseases and osteoporosis. If you lose enough muscle in your old age and your age decreases, your muscles will weaken and the loss of calcium and bone will increase and you will become more fragile. At this point, if you fall, you can easily develop a wrist fracture or a broken hip.

Nutritionally vulnerable groups who generally do not eat well often lead to osteoporosis, hip fractures and necrosis. In addition to exercise, it is very important to be able to absorb the influences. appropriate in the elderly. Elderly people exposed to multiple hormones in the environment increase the risk of cancer, hypertension, diabetes, cerebrovascular disease and osteoporosis, especially in cases of hormonal disorders.

It is also important to have adequate protein intake for old age, which is an important source of vegetable protein in our diet. The isoflavone is a type of polyphenol contained in soy. Soy has a lot of these isoflavones. It contains 1000 isoflavones in the botanical field and plays a major role in the prevention of hormone-dependent diseases such as menopausal syndrome, cancer, cardiovascular disease and osteoporosis.

The fact that we have a diet rich in soy protein in our previous diet, which does not consume a lot of animal protein, is the wisdom of our ancestors who wanted to increase the protein intake necessary for our body.

Early menopause is a period of rapid bone loss. Since the risk of osteoporosis increases dramatically, the usual intake of soy protein and isoflavones can slow down bone loss. Recent studies on the relationship between soy protein intake and mineral density and bone content have also shown that the mineral density of the femur bone was closely related to the intake of soy protein in late menopausal women with computerized tomography.

It is likely that frail elderly people who can not exercise properly, suffer from diseases such as cancer, cardiovascular complications, diabetes, fractures due to osteoporosis, etc. Early interception of environmental risk exposure, adequate nutrition and physical exercise protect the health of the elderly. I encourage you to consult your doctor for detailed instructions on your health for the elderly.

Professor, Department of the Professional Environment, Inha University Hospital