Secrets to Not Looking or Feeling Old During Your
Lifetime
by Jay Chatterjee & Roshmi Raychaudhuri
The aging process starts in your mind. It matters little
whether your chronological age is 25 or 75! If you think old you ARE
old!
Start with an analysis of your youth quotient by honestly
answering the following questions:
Which would you rather do?
1. Admire the Tango dancers OR try out the steps yourself?
2. Run in the Boston marathon OR watch it?
3. Watch Tiger Woods on TV OR play a game of golf?
4. Dissect Pete Sampras' serve OR try out his technique?
5. Go hiking in the Rockies OR read about its beauty?
6. Try out a new fitness therapy OR write it off as garbage?
If you opted for the 'safe' (and sedentary) option, you are not
alone in the malaise of 'thinking old'.
The aging process starts in your mind. It matters little whether
your chronological age is 25 or 75! If you think old you ARE old!
Because we are so used to thinking along familiar grooves, we find
it easier not to challenge ourselves. Because our body systems work
smoothly in our earlier years, we tend to take them for granted. Because
so many muscle movements are involuntary, we do not fully appreciate
the importance of keeping the 650 muscles, that make up the human
muscular system, in top form.
However, as we age, all these areas need proper maintenance, and
adequate inputs from us. As time passes, changes become more obvious
in certain body functions, which could be regarded as bio-markers
of aging. For instance, we can actually SEE muscle sag. Our muscles
shrink and become more susceptible to tears and ruptures; they may
no longer be able to properly support the joints, especially those
of the hips, knees and lower back. Progressive deterioration of the
muscle and bone structure becomes the norm as the years roll by. Graying
or thinning hair is also pretty obvious, as is the bulge around the
midriff, and the decline of the senses. Eyes, ears, taste, all become
less sharp with age (although popular opinion attributes to age a
greater sharpness of tongue).
However, the 'go-slow' in internal body systems may not be as apparent.
Digestion, metabolism, reproduction, respiration, and hormone production,
are some of the vital systems which change gradually due to the process
of aging.
- Do you forget
where you kept your keys?
- Is everything
beginning to feel 'boring'?
- Feel colder
than you did before (despite global warming)?
- Do you lie
awake at nights?
Your brain too is affected by the passage of time, as is the all-important
immune system. When a problem strikes, we look for solutions. Would
it not be much better to think PREVENTION?
So how do we go about maintaining brain health, and body systems
health? Muscle health? To do so, factor in anti-aging principles into
your daily routine. Recognizing that you are 'thinking old' is in
itself the starting point.
Some simple everyday solutions to try:
- Brush your
teeth with the left hand if you're right handed (or vice Ideal Fitness)
- Take a 20 minute
walk everyday.
- Make room for
10 minutes 'quiet personal time' everyday.
- Walk up stairs
(wherever possible) instead of taking an elevator.
- Read the biography
of someone you admire.
- Count backwards
from 100, to slow down and relax.
- Take a different
route when you drive/walk to work.
- Adopt a low-calorie
diet packed with therapeutic foods.
- Take vitamin
supplements daily.
THINK YOUNG!
What else can you do to remain mentally and physically agile? The
answer seems to lie in maintaining the hormonal flow.
In recent times, experimental groups have ingested GH (growth hormone)
and DHEA and seen remarkable reIdeal Fitnessl in aging bio-markers. Unfortunately,
not enough time has lapsed for the side effects to be properly charted.
The very latest experiments are concerned with ingestion of 'releasers',
these being chemicals which induce the hormonal glands to release
their secretions. Such experiments are still at an early stage, and
not much is known about their side effects, if any.
In fact, this very principle was known to the Himalayan people in
ancient times and forms the basis of their anti-aging therapy. The
only difference is that they had the knowledge to cause the body to
produce its own natural releasers, rather than rely on synthetic ones.
As long as you know and realize that the choices are yours; that it
is up to you to keep yourself in shape rather than to give in to the
'inevitable', you will look, feel and be youthful always.
© Jay Chatterjee & Roshmi Raychaudhuri - All Rights Reserved.
Reprinted with permission
About the author: Jay Chatterjee, a Chartered
Accountant and ex-Corporate Banker, lives in Canada. Roshmi Raychaudhuri
is a business-woman residing in India. They have shared a longstanding
and keen interest in the effects of natural therapies. On a trip to
the Himalayan foothills, they came across an ancient anti-aging and
body rejuvenation system based on stimulation of the hormonal glands.
They have put this information on their website which you can visit
Young Again Forever info@youngagainforever.com.
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