How we approach aging well as a primary question. What are some of the best ways to preserve health and youth as we age? it is easier to stay well than to get well. He will spend pennies today compared to dollars tomorrow by taking steps now towards a better nights sleep fitness mental health stress regulation proper nutrition and additional supplementation support. Here is your healthy aging checklist:
+ Have strong social connections
+ Practice spirituality religion or meditation
+ Eat mostly a plant based low glycemic index diet
+ Move daily and improve your mind and body connection
+ Avoid/eliminate environment toxins
Social connections:
Strong relationships are vital. Individuals with abundant social connections to family friends groups outside of home in competitive sports have a 50% greater likelihood of longevity when compared to those who don’t. An interesting finding in that research was that age and Socioeconomic groups didn’t matter, strong relationships prove to help!
Spiritual practice:
Being engaged in activities that improve faith in something larger than yourself is extremely necessary. Participation in religious organizations or meditative practices both publicly and privately increased overall survival of participants by 29% and it was linked to healthy weight as well.
Dietary Lifestyle:
Don’t diet. Live longer. Well it is not necessary to illuminate all saturated fat or carbohydrates from your diet taking a personal inventory of packaged foods baked goods and dairy is a good start cut them out whenever you can. Eat meat from local farms and evaluate adding more fish to your diet one of the more effective ways to age well well limiting information is to increase the amount of omega-3‘s you’re taking on a weekly basis. We cannot make them so diet and supplementation consumption is essential.
Motion is lotion:
The human body is built to been lived in twist. We are by pedal so that we could locomote more efficiently. As such modern conveniences actually reduce lifespan like life at a desk were in a driver seat. Exercise is critical to the balance of hormones release of stress production of growth factors and perspiration of toxins. One very interesting hormone is BDNF or brain derived neurotrophic factor. BDNF can improve brain signals in activate genes that increase memory and brain cell production/connection. Exercise is the single most important stimulus for BDNF in the human body.
Avoid Toxins:
Your skin is a fantastic barometer of your internal health and toxicity while seeking a youthful glow you may not realize how much things like lotion deodorant dishwasher soap and laundry have an effect on that. In addition a low inflammatory diet is crucial in just 24 hours we can see the impact that alcohol and fried foods and having skin quality your body uses the nutrients it intakes through absorption inhalation and digestion to make its next set of cells and our skin cells replicate more often than any other in the body. In summary our bodies and minds are burdened by exposure to the damaging fix of environmental toxins by the impact of a healthy dietary fats and simple carbohydrates free radicals and other inflammatory molecules we consume. So make sure to review this checklist and take it seriously as a ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Stay Young. Stay Fit. Stay Limitless.
Dillan Foss | Founder