The Best Anti-Aging Therapy For You!
These days the anti-aging marketplace comprises of hypes and filth. Snake oil pedlars would tout some kind of therapy calling for you to buy gobs of minerals, vitamins, ointments, and lotions. The truth is some products will offer meaningful benefits. Just about all products are meant to empty your pocketbook instead, to help you spend more money. Therefore, it is of import to understand the nuts and bolts of an anti-aging therapy prior to using it.
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Keep your Homocysteine low.
High Homocysteine level is evidently associated with most chronic diseases of aging, particularly heart attacks and strokes. A simple blood test will be able to tell you how much Homocysteine you have. If the level is too high, you can take B-complex supplement to bring it down . Typically the recommendation is 500 mcg of B-2, 800 mcg of folic acid, 25 mg of B-, and 25 mg of B-2 (Riboflavin).
Keep every day food intake minimal wherever possible.
Calorie Restriction (CR) or under-nutrition without malnutrition can significantly extend life span of mammalian species. Additionally, CR also checks many age-related diseases and maintains most age-sensitive physiological functions at youthful levels.
Sources:
1. Weindruch, R. & Walford, R. L. (1988), The Retardation of Aging and Disease by Dietary Restriction (Thomas, Springfield, IL), pp. 7-215.
2. Masoro, E. J. (1989) in Dietary Restriction and Aging, ed. Snyder, D. L. (Liss, New York), p. 27.
3. Yu, B. P. (1990) in Review of Biological Research in Aging, ed. Rothstein, M. (Wiley-Liss, New York), Vol. 4, p. 349.
Consequently, make every meal count, and make sure it furnishes adequate nutrients especially protein. Ideally, you should cut back one-third of your daily calorie intake in order to see the effects. This will lower metabolic rate, which is the prerequisite to longevity.
Do short burst of strength-training exercise each day.
Strength-training exercise isn't about lifting weights. The aim is to maintain your functional strength and muscles.
Do not try to attain strength and muscle beyond your natural capability. What you are actually doing is to precondition your muscle to tense up, tear fibers, and create bloated hypertrophied muscle fibers. The benefit is that your body produced more Testosterones and increase hormones. However, this new muscle mass is dysfunctional. It is not connected to central nervous system. It creates instabilities and sets you up for injuries.
An ideal strength-training exercise should give you these benefits:
1. Lower resting blood pressure
2. Decrease unnecessary body fat
3. Decrease the symptoms associated with Type II diabetes: depression,
sleep disorders, osteoporosis and depression
4. Increase of muscle strength
5. Prevent muscle loss
6. Increase of bone mass and density
7. Increase of Testosterones and growth hormones
8. Alleviate lower back pain and increases lower back strength
9. Improves functional flexibility and strength
Take care of what you are putting into your mouth.
A diet rich in antioxidants will forestall free-radical damage. You can get these from berries. Do not forget to have enough Vitamin C - at least 1,000 mg twice a day. You should take supplement with CoQ10 because a high CoQ10 level and a low Homocysteine level can protect you against heart diseases.
Apply the ancient technique.
Qigong or Chi Gong is a 5000-year old wellness system in China. It step-ups the flow of energy, blood, oxygen and nutrients to all cells of the body. It also promotes the removal of waste from cells of the body.
Sources:
1.Sancier K M, Hu B. Medical Applications of Qigong and Emitted Qi on Humans, Animals, Cell Cultures, and Plants: Review of Selected Scientific Studies. Am J Acupuncture.1991:19 (4) 367-377.
2. Sancier, KM, Medical applications of qigong. Alternative Therapies in Health & Medicine. 1995; 2(1) in press.
3. Sancier KM, Chow EPY. Healing with qigong and quantitative effects of qigong. J. American College of Trad. Chinese Medicine. 1989: 7(3):13-19.
4. Sancier KM. The effect of qigong on therapeutic balancing measured by electroacupuncture according to Voll (EAV): a preliminary study. Acupuncture & Electro-Therapy Res Int J.:1995;19:119-127.
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