Yes, You Can Slow Down Aging
This is good news! You do have control over how quickly your body ages with simple lifestyle choices you make every day.
This means that you can not only stay healthier longer, but you can repair some or even a lot of the damage that has already been done within your cells and to your body. So you will not only feel better, you will also look better.
So, Exactly How Can You Slow Down The Aging Process?
Here is a short list with actions you can take to slow down aging:
Reduce inflammation in your body: Chemicals from white blood cells are released in your blood and some leak into tissues causing uncomfortable swelling which is both visible (puffy) and painful. Reduce inflammation by adding more fruits, vegetables, nuts, whole grains, fish, and healthy oils to your diet.- Reduce oxidative stress: Help crush free radicals that run rampant and damage healthy cells in your body. How? By adding more antioxidants to your diet, like blueberries or strawberries, and consider upping your antioxidant intake with supplements.
- Cut out processed foods: Processed foods contain ingredients that break down and damage healthy cells. Stop damaging your cells by eating foods with high fructose corn syrup, palm oil, MSG, sodium nitrate and sodium nitrite.
- Cleanse & detoxify your organs, especially your liver and kidneys: Your liver and kidneys acts as filters to keep your body clean, so by keeping them clean and unclogged, they will keep your body cleaner.
Do regular cleanses for your organs by incorporating supplements and elimination diets or juice fasts. Another great cleanse for your liver includes olive oil and lemon. - Cleanse your colon and gut: Remove toxic waste and eliminate it before it recycles back through your body systems. Constipation leads to re-toxification (putrid waste recirculates back into blood stream). Eat lots of vegetables that are high in fiber to keep things moving. You can also add psyllium fiber, taken with lots of water, to your diet, to help cleanse your colon and get toxins out of your system.
- Take probiotics: Build good flora to aid proper digestion and elimination. If your gut is unhealthy, your entire system will be out of balance and your healthy cells can weaken. There are a number of excellent probiotics available in supplement form. Or, you can increase your intake of yogurt, fermented foods or beverages like kombucha or kefir.
- Support your adrenals: Reduce foods high in caffeine and soy to keep your endocrine system efficient and reduce or prevent brain fog.
- Reduce stress and cortisol: Stress leads to age related issues like chronic fatigue and heart disease. Cortisol damages your circulatory system and causes weight gain. Do not literally burn your candle at both ends – you only have one body! Reduce stress with meditation, reducing your work load, or by spending more quality time alone, or with friends and family.
- Increase exercise and build muscles: Improve circulation to help your blood flow and deliver nutrients all throughout your body. Build muscles to improve metabolism, mental clarity and physical appearance. Better muscle tone makes you look and feel younger!
- Practice deep breathing and meditation: Deep breathing delivers oxygen throughout your body.
Meditation is proven by science to lower stress and improve overall mental and physical health. The key is to stop thinking about the past and future! Relax. Breathe. Be in the now.
TIPS FOR REVERSING AGING
Meditate: Long-term meditation is scientifically proven to increase the grey matter in your brain, which means that your cognitive functions and memory can actually improve with time and practice.
Exercise More: Exercise delivers oxygen to your skin, and can help it regenerate.
Get More Than 6 Hours of Sleep: Studies show that only getting 5 hours of sleep is the cognitive equivalent of aging two years. Sleep more!
Use Melatonin: Studies show melatonin can combat mitochondrial dysfunction, and mitochondrial decline can lead to age-related diseases like neurodegenerative diseases and diabetes. Melatonin also provides a number of additional help benefits related to mitochondrial support, including protecting your heart and brain cells, improving sleep, and alleviating fatty liver disease.
