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How To Look Younger, For Longer
"The overall deterioration of the body that comes
with growing old is not inevitable...
"We now know that some aspects of it can be
prevented or reversed."
- Daniel Rudman, M.D.
New England Journal of Medicine
Dreading your 40th, 50th, 60th?
There it is. Oh no, it can't be. What am I going to
do!!
Yep, it's the dreaded first WRINKLE. This is it, isn't
it. All down hill from here.
Do we have to deteriorate into pain and disease as
we approach our middle years?
People say, " It's your age, what do you expect?"
So what do we expect? That a slow sickening death
is inevitable? Surely, it isn't.
Research shows that most people have sufficient
calories, proteins and fats in their diet but are
lacking in other vital nutrients. These include
vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, enzymes and
essential fatty acids. These nutrients have been
shown to have an anti-ageing effect and to help
prevent many illnesses that we have come to
associate with middle age and old age.
You may have read recently, in the national press,
the story of Britain's oldest man, David Henderson,
who still farmed in Aberdeenshire at the age of 109.
He died only recently. Back in the 1930's when he
was having difficulty getting his cattle to put on
weight, the vet advised that they were short of
minerals.
"They fairly licked them up...", said Mr Henderson.
" I started to lick the minerals myself..."
He then experimented by dissolving them in
various liquids and he settled in Gin. Taking the
concoction every day with his porridge, he swore
it was the key to his longevity, fending off
rheumatism and it won him an entry in the
Guinness Book of Records as the oldest man in
Britain. Great endorsement for gin at breakfast.
GETTING OLDER!
Do we become more susceptible to free radical
damage as we get older?
Yes, there is truth in that. Generally the level of
enzymes in our body, for example digestive enzymes,
do decrease with age.
Also antioxidant enzymes decrease. It's believed that
the level of antioxidant enzymes in a person of 50
years of age are about 50 % of those in a child. So
clearly your antioxidant capacity decreases with age
and your capacity to fight the free radicals is
drastically reduced.
There is, however, something you can do about it!
Naturally, during our lifetimes, free radicals tend to
win the battle waged by our own anti-oxidants,
hence we get older and more ill.
Basically what the body is trying to do is trying to
prevent itself going rancid from the inside and that
is, unfortunately, a battle it often loses. What ageing
really is, is not quite meeting the antioxidant levels
required to overcome oxidative stress.
To name a few of the signs of free radical damage
- wrinkles, frequent infections, easy bruising,
- fatigue, generally feeling groggy and a
- reduced ability to detoxify the body.
Our body produces toxins, and our liver detoxifies
them, but free radical damage actually produces
more toxins, puts more load on the liver and that,
in turn, leads to more oxidated radicals, so it's a
cycle, if you like. To try to break that cycle in some
way, we have to increase the antioxidant capacity
of the body.
For more information about maintaining Optimum
Nutrition, Health and Well-being, go to
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and live the life you deserve!
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