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When we are born, we inherit an extremely impressive ‘human machine’ equipped with many regular functions that work like clockwork. To live as long as possible in optimum physical condition is an aspiration we can realise by respecting the demands of our machine.

The ‘terms and conditions’ of the contract with which we have bound our bodies usually guarantee some decades of loyal and untroubled service. All human beings are subject to the same rules, because we are all made according to the same model. However, note that the contract includes particular clauses that take into account the characteristics of each person and call upon us to improve the quality and duration of our lives by making the most of our individual abilities.

It goes without saying that we must be aware of the aforementioned terms and conditions of the contract, in order to know the intrinsic needs of the body, to aim to use it in the best possible way and ensure that this precious vehicle, in which we experience life from birth to death, is working properly.

Its operations are complex, its parts – cells, organs, hormones, fluids – extremely sophisticated. Without food, the body’s motor will cease to function. Without its immune system to combat external aggressions, life will remain precarious. And lastly, the body’s ageing process is progressive and unavoidable: the operations of the ‘body machine’ dwindle bit by bit until they cease to function and end up – although hopefully as late as possible – on the scrap heap. This is the law of all our sexual lives, for example, no matter how much we wish it weren’t.