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"This
year, I plan to take ten years off
my physiological
age."
This article will help you jump-start this resolution. The
objective here is to engage your spouse or significant other
and create a buddy system. Having common goals and working
toward them together strengthens the bond of your relationship
regardless of the goal, and can help keep you motivated and on
track.
It’s not always easy staying disciplined to eat healthy,
exercise, practice stress reduction techniques, and so on when
we feel well. Without a consistent healthy lifestyle, we are
unnecessarily accelerating the aging process and slowly
degenerating. It happens so gradually that we aren’t even
aware that our bodies are prematurely aging.
Most of us do not think much about our age or our health until
the onset of a life-threatening medical condition or a chronic
problem such as arthritis, cancer, diabetes, heart disease, or
obesity forces us to pay closer attention. By taking an active
role in creating optimum health and vitality before serious
health problems occur, you can prevent premature aging and
premature death, while maintaining a higher quality of life
throughout your years.
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Many people suffer during the last decade or more of their
life—the result of poor nutrition and lifestyle choices. It
has been scientifically documented that your genetic
programming is but a small part of your experience of health
or illness. This research concludes that after the age of forty, 75% of your health is
due to what you have done to and with your genes based on
lifestyle and nutrition, not the genes themselves.
By incorporating the ten key factors discussed the book
I wrote with Michael J. Grossman, M.D,
The Vitality Connection, you can attain optimum levels of
health, happiness, and vitality. The book offers time-tested
and proven concepts you need to know to reverse the aging
process. This article focuses on one of the ten key factors
detailed in the book: Anti-Aging.
The
following are ten practical ways to minimize aging-related
diseases and slow down, or even reverse, the aging process.
Follow these recommendations and you could be setting a course
for feeling, looking, and being ten or even twenty years
younger (physiologically). To determine your need for an
anti-aging program, click to take the
Premature
Aging Assessment.
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Ten Practical
Ways to Reverse the Aging Process
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Identify and visit an
experienced anti-aging health practitioner to help you
develop and track your anti-aging program based on your
specific health conditions and health goals.
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Score your biological age
versus chronological age to assess and track the
variance in your “actual age” based on your heart age, body
fat age, strength age, body shape age and muscle age.
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Evaluate your risk for
cardiovascular disease by identifying arterial stiffness
and blockage through various medical tests.
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Optimize your nutrition by
eating at least five small balanced nutritious meals every
day; eliminate anti-nutrients such as refined sugar,
fried foods, caffeine, hydrogenated fats, excessive alcohol,
tobacco, among others, and eat a variety of fresh fruits,
fresh vegetables, whole grains, legumes, and drink at least
two quarts of filtered water each day.
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Exercise for strength and
endurance; balance your workout routine with
cardiovascular and strength training at least three times a
week for forty-five minutes.
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Enhance your diet with quality
nutritional supplements; at a minimum, take a
balanced pharmaceutical-grade multivitamin high in
antioxidants and chelated minerals.
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Reduce your stress through
various effective stress management techniques: creative
reinterpretation, meditation, yoga, massage therapy,
exercise, and various creative outlets such as writing,
dance, painting and singing.
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Detoxify your body naturally
and safely to rid your body of toxic waste build-up created
by environmental toxins, alcohol, medications, smoke,
pollution, chemicals and mercury.
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Receive natural hormone
therapy; with age, both men and women have lower levels
of testosterone, growth hormone, and DHEA—all necessary
hormones for longevity and remaining youthful.
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Apply nutritional skin therapy;
the same factors that accelerate the aging process
throughout your internal systems and organs produce similar
effects in your body’s largest organ, the skin. Stress,
inadequate sleep, free-radical damage, environmental toxins
and poor nutritional habits all take a toll on your skin.
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By adopting the ten practical ways to reverse the aging
process outlined above, you could realize significant health
benefits while setting a course for the prevention a host of
degenerative diseases. Medical science now offers convincing
evidence that by following these concepts, you can feel more
vital, more energetic, and slow down or even reverse the aging
process. Wouldn’t you like to feel, look and be ten years
younger?
Declare your New Year’s Resolution today. See for yourself
that it is possible to turn back the clock and take years off
your age!
Jodi Jones is co-author of The Vitality Connection:
Ten Practical Ways to Optimize Your Health and Reverse
the Aging Process, a certified sports
nutritionist, and founder of
Wellness Alliance
Network, Inc.
You may
purchase the Entire Chapter on Anti-aging in e-book
format: Reduce the Aging Process for $4.95 (62 pages). Or you
can purchase
the entire book: The Vitality Connection for $18.95 + S/H. |
