Health and Anti-Aging


Some words about anti-aging and disease prevention
The aging process is for the greater part no mystery anymore. It contributes to the daily damages done on a macroscopic level to tissue, cellular and your genes. These add  up as the years are passing. These damages have specific causes like oxidative effects, sun damage, mechanical wear and tear, psychological stress, lack of some nutritional components and too much of others, such as fat storage.
Another component of aging is the reduction of the telomere chains at the chromosome ends, as each cell division occurs. However, the body has means to repair these ends again, with an enzyme called telomerase. The rapidity of the aging process depends on lack of efficiency in this repair process. The above mention aging causes also slow down this repair process.
The factors causing aging, also causes other diseases like cancer and  coronary heart disease. Both aging and these diseases can to a great extent be prevented with the knowledge possessed today, and the damages can in great part be reversed. The components to achieve this are:
 Adequate daily foods such as seasonal fruits, vegetables, meats, fish, mushrooms, fowl  and seafood.
 Just a moderate amount of fat and most of the fat supply coming from sources like olive, fish, nuts, sun-flower, avocado etc. Then you will get a good balance between mono unsaturated fat (olive), poly-unsaturated fat of the omega 3 type (fish) and poly-unsaturated fat of the omega 6 type.
 Just a very moderate amount of butter. Avoid safflower and corn oil. A high consumption of these fat sources gives you too much saturated fat and poly-unsaturated omega-6-fat.
 Make every effort to limit consumption of sugar, refined flour or refined cereals as these contribute to high insulin production.
 Supplements of specific nutritional components like vitamins, minerals, lecithin and some essential fatty acids.
 Adequate training, that gives both your muscles a weight bearing load, and stretches out your body. To stretch out, yoga exercises are ideal.
 Adequate rest and stress reduction. Daily meditation is a method of achieving this. Natural relaxing agents or specific tools for meditation or relaxation may also be useful.
 Supplements of specific anti-aging agents like antioxidants or human growth hormone.
 Use of specific anti aging agents to apply upon the skin surface.
 To protect the skin against excessive sun exposure.
The amount one needs of nutritional supplements, like vitamins and minerals, differs very much according to a person's health condition, work load and exposure to environmental stress. A person having a poor digestion, doing high performance sport or being exposed to a high amount of environmental stressors, may need more than an person in an average situation.


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