Mikko Alatalo, 74, a concert of entertainment and politics, was in full swing when he was diagnosed with Finnish “folk disease”. Now he tells about a change of life that legended 15 pounds and balanced his health.
Known as a smiley boy in Finland Mikko Alatalo74, remembers the moment when a life change knocked on the door without asking seven years ago.
He then lived a busy Member of Parliament’s everyday life on Arkadianmäki, commuting, and litting coffee at meetings. Then the occupational physician was awakened by the treadmill.
– The doctor said at the reception that you should go straight to the power to drop. The sugar levels had risen to twenty, Mikko Alatalo recalls to Iltalehti.
Alatalo was diagnosed with “folk disease” familiar to Finns, or type 2 diabetes. He likes his previous lifestyle, in the everyday life of a musician, hemps, some wine and stress as components to develop the disease.
– That political work sucked in such a way that I did not care for myself. I didn’t notice that exhaustion. I was overwhelming and overconscious. The provinces were always asked for all kinds of cat crosses to come here to talk. I should have said no.
According to him, the illness was symptomatic that after eating always struck unconscious fatigue. After eating, I always had to rest.
“It’s when the pancreas doesn’t work properly,” he explains.
After leaving politics in 2019, Alatalo has returned to his passion for music. Life is now with constant blood glucose throwing art. He says he last attended the examination of the interview day.
– Blood sugar is less than a dozen, he is pleased.
– Still, the pills are no longer enough. Last winter came insulin injections. The wife puts me a certain amount in the evenings. Some of my friends have to insert insulin with every meal. See if this goes to it, he apricots.
Pace
Nowadays, Alatalo looks more closely at what it is in his mouth. As a result of life change, he has been 15 pounds. For all of its stripes, this Iskelmäentti tiger has not been able to give up either.
“The pace of work is still high,” he admits.
The work does not stress him, but the Patriarch of the family says he is from time to time to take care of his offspring so that he has to remind himself of letting go of his sleep.
Mikko Alatalo recording That’s it rocking… and symphony album with the Oulu and Kuopio City Orchestras, and gigs on a rural boy on their 50th anniversary tour. At this age, rest has to be taken at this age, he recalls. It affects performance.
– Must have a sound and breathing technique. The studio must not be tired, but must be tired.
– my son Kalle I often drive my gig and rest in it. If we are in Southern Finland, we will come home for the night. A good night’s sleep is important.
After the corona time, gigs may start instead of midnight and concerts at the evening, which is a delightful change in the profession.
Mikko Alatalo is currently making a symphony album and is touring a country boy at 50 years. Inka Soveri
Times and habits have also been refreshingly changed in the entertainment industry, and now a former friend of Jägermeister and Jalovina is looking at things clearly behind his blue eyeglasses.
– My wife is a wine enthusiast, and that’s why we go on a journey. For me, it always remains in a few glasses of wine or beer. High alcohol consumption is no longer possible, otherwise I will be really sore, he says.
Before his gig, he may sometimes take a little whip carp to get blood circulating, but in everyday life today tastes more alcoholic beers, which he has found his own favorites.
During the summer, Mikko Alatalo plays tennis and the loops with the Ringo dog in Pispala’s Tampere Pispala hills are part of his everyday routines. In the winter, he is downhill, and reportedly quite well.
-When I was at the top of the Levi Black slope last winter, I found myself the oldest person there. What I lose in the technology I win, he threatens to twinkle in the eye.
Maintaining a fit is important to her: there are warning examples in your immediate circle of what happens if diabetes goes too far without treatment.
– Friends have left their toes as the peripheral blood flow deteriorates. Some alcoholic friends have been cut off since the knee. I wouldn’t want to let myself go to that point. I will try to move as much as possible.
From a wife secretly
Seija-The watchmaker’s watchful eye, the delicacies do not get lost very often in Mikko Alatalo’s mouth. She eats healthy and regularly small doses, berries and vegetables.
– He is a tight Ostrobothnian. From there, there is always a dude to keep it in order. It is good that he is a caring person, Alatalo giggles with satisfaction.
– Yes, many gigs have calmed down when the wife has come to determine. I also know artists who have put a gigantic band on the ramp when the lady has said that now that kindergarten ends. Without mentioning the names, he split.
The folk points out that a few days ago, the couple was 30 years old together. They married in 1995.
– Then we ate cake coffees.
Mikko Alatalo has been married to his wife Seija for 30 years. The couple has two children in common and Alatalo has two children from their previous marriage. Jenni Gästgivar / IL
Alatalo says that there are Viivi and Wagner cartoons in the Pispala home fridge door. They may describe the business yedynamics, or not. At least the artist does not directly admit that he has pork -like features.
He both admits that he has sometimes smuggled candy home.
– I immediately got caught. The wife just looked in my direction and asked what you were chewing there. And then offered blueberries to eat.
– It’s been terribly difficult to limit sweet when I love cakes and ice cream. The doctor gave me permission to eat one wine a day. I do eating soups even though I love pasta.
Alatalo appreciates the care of his spouse because he knows this is to have a lot of years ahead of them.
– Not to be widowed, he explains.
– It’s a wonderful, selfish goal when you want you to have it dear yet. Likewise, I also feel worry about Seija.
She says her husband is on a partial retirement and working in the school world three days a week.
– So he gets two days more to determine me, Alatalo laughs.
Lover still
A couple of weeks ago, the couple returned from Tuscany of Italy at the Puccini Festival. There he says he has noticed that he can no longer pull the big multi -course dinners.
The entertainment artist speaks of years with warmth and humor.
“It could also be a 30-year war,” he points out.
– Our corners are rounded, we no longer have so much quarrel!
Mikko Alatalo has one message about adult love: even if age comes, that does not mean that eroticism is completely fuck.
– We made it Harri Rinne with the song Lover stillAlatalo explains.
– Somehow young people think that the old ones can no longer have anything. However, it is not true. Must go to such places where erotica wakes up!
He says that even in his 30-year relationship, the passion is “quite moderately”.
“After all, that weekday takes juices from people in general, but then you have to make a minimum trip that you have the opportunity to be alone without distractions,” he advises.