As a
combination of the diet and exercise regimens of the Baby Boomer, it is also
important to take into consideration supplementation and your body’s hormones,
both of which are critical at preserving the body’s health and longevity.
You may ask why
you need to add supplements to your diet when you have just started on a
healthy diet that’s been described here.
The reason for this is really unfortunate for most.
Even with a
healthy diet that is filled with just the nutrients from healthy food, you are
still not getting all of the nutrients that you need to maintain optimal
health. This is due to several key
things including the way that your food is grown. For example, the way that
your food is farmed has allowed for the soil to be depleted for many of the
nutrients that you need. Many of these
nutrients can actually help you to improve the longevity of your life.
Supplementation
is needed for other reasons as well. Here
are some examples of why you need to add the right nutrients to your diet now.
·
Pesticides and
herbicides are commonly used to help keep bugs off of the foods that are
grown. While you think that this is a
good thing, it still causes problems for the production of nutrients in the
soil.
·
The soil itself
is often not even authentic soil! Some
of the most modern farms are using synthetic types of soil which allow for
faster and longer growing seasons that produce more products that’s also good
looking.
·
With genetic
mutation, scientists of have developed fruits and vegetables (not to mention
virtually any other type of food that you eat) products that are genetically
altered enough to produce the perfect specimen every time. The nutrients get left out.
As you can see,
there are many reasons that the foods you eat don’t have the nutrients that are
needed to increase the longevity and health of your life. Still, you should also realize that even when
you do get the right foods, you still have so many other factors that play a
role in the way your body uses them. The
sugars that you eat, the fats, and the high amounts of sodium cause the real
nutrients to get lost in the mix. Your body
doesn’t get a chance to bring them in.
When you don’t
get the right types and amounts of nutrients, your body will break down faster
with the onset of degenerative diseases.
In fact, some studies have shown that with the proper nutrients you can
die early. As you know, we are working
on keeping you healthy, longer and supplementation can take us there.
What Do You Need In Supplements?
As we
mentioned, it is quite important to insure that you are eating a healthy diet,
like the Baby Boomer diet that we’ve described.
But, in addition to that, supplementing your diet with the right
vitamins and minerals will also be important.
Here are some
things to remember about supplements in regards to what you should be
consuming.
Select
supplements that are right for your body.
This should take into consideration your age, sex and your current
health situation. Remember, you need to
insure that the supplements you take will help improve the rate at which you
are aging.
Antioxidants
are an important part of the supplement that you take. Find one that offers a high amount of antioxidants
which help to remove free radicals from your body. They help to deter diseases
like heart disease and cancer. In
addition, they help each of your organs to work better. Antioxidants also help to stimulate natural
growth hormones to be released throughout your body.
You also want
the supplement that you select to provide you with the necessary nutrients to
help keep your organs running at the highest level. You want a product that will keep problems
like heart disease at bay as well as Alzheimer’s disease.
Mood benefiting
products are also important. You want a
product that will help to relieve stress and improving your general state of
well being.
The supplement
that you take should also promote a healthy sex drive in both men and
women. Not only is that something that
you will want to have working optimually, but it also helps to secrete hormones
that are necessary for health in the long term.
Look for a
supplement that provides cellular rejuvenation.
This means that the product will help in the restructure and repair of
the cells of your body. You want the
supplement to be able to promote this well being in each of the cells of your
body.
Your hair,
nails and skin should also be aided by the supplement hat you take. You want a product that will promote healthy
skin cells and healthy, young looking nails and skin.
You should also
look for the supplement to be a time released product as these generally are
able to enter the body slowly and therefore are absorbed better into the
body. Other products that are water
soluble simply get washed away.
Finally, take
the time to find out what’s in the supplement.
You want to find a supplement that is as natural in composition as
possible. You should check to see if it
has the Food and Drug Administration’s seal of approval, but that is not always
available.
Take the time
you need to compare the products that are on the market. Instead of trying to find many supplements,
each offering its own unique benefit, look for a supplement that features many
of those that you need. A good place to
start is to take your list of needs to your local nutrionalist or to the health
food store (you can shop for them online, too, of course!) Have them help you to find the perfect
supplement for your anti aging, health promotion.
Finally, when
you get to the point of saying, “why am I doing this, again?” Consider this.
In the standard
American diet, it would be necessary for you to consume a 5000 calorie diet in
order to get the nutrients that you need for optimum health and even then some
of them would be left out! Since the
recommended diet is that of just 2000 calories (on the high side) you can see
how this would be counter productive to your efforts. Supplementation then, is a must.
A combination
of healthy products is what you need to look for. That means vitamins and minerals but also
herbal products. You’ll find that the
more natural the product is, the more benefits it can provide to your overall
health and well being.
Hormone Soup
The hormones
that your body releases are very important to your well being. As a Baby Boomer, you are likely already
facing the depletion of the most important hormone in your body: growth hormone.
Growth hormone
is important for a number of reasons.
For one, it helps your body to grow and develop. But, it also helps to rejuvenate and repair
the damage to your cells. In many ways,
this growth hormone is responsible for the decline in your body over the
years. It is, in short, what makes you
look aged.
Now, if you could
increase the amount of growth hormone in your body, you could potentially slow
the aging process. In fact, those people
that have the ability to live a life that has been riddled with all of the “bad
stuff” and still somehow live to be 100 are tell tale signs of this.
You see, in most people, the growth hormone that is so important to our
longevity begins to taper off at the age of just 25! Each decade of your life, it will decrease
yet another ten to fifteen percent leaving you with next to nothing. But, those that do live to see 100 are often
a part of a small group of people that have a gene that keeps the growth
hormone working optimally in their body for long after the point were most turn
off, so to speak.
But, just
because you don’t have the ability to alter your genes doesn’t mean that you
can’t help to keep growth hormone production happening in your body. No, we don’t mean through artificial
supplementation or any type of injections.
You can do this through natural and non side effect riddled ways.
If you did try
to use an artificial type of supplementation of growth hormone, you would have
to visit your doctor to get it. In
addition, the wrong about can actually cause very severe side effects,
including the possibility of death.
Therefore, this is not the best way to get the growth hormone that is
necessary for longevity.
You can, on the
other hand, encourage your own glands to continue producing it. By stimulating the pituitary gland, you can
actually allow it to begin providing your body with the necessary release of
this hormone again. The type of product
that you would use to make this happen is called secretagogues. These are all natural products which mean
that they are generally safe to use, with few to no side effects.
Taking these
supplements will help to provide you with some amazing benefits. You’ll see improvements in you skin and in
your hair first. You may even begin to
have a sex drive again. By increasing
your body’s excretions of other hormones such as DHEA, progesterone and
testosterone, it can also help improve the health and well being of many
aspects of your life.
Since your body
requires hormones to help make things happen in your body, getting them to be
balanced and secreted as they can be a wonderful thing for the rest of your
body. For example, just increasing the
right hormones in women after menopause can delay or even avoid osteoporosis,
heart disease and even help to fend off cancers and other health concerns that
you may have.
As you can see,
with the help of secretagogues, you can find the benefits of health and well
being that you are seeking. To find
these products, you can talk to your local health store or you can look for
them available on the web. Whatever you
do, don’t forget to include them in your diet and exercise regimen.
As you can see,
the need for supplementation and for hormone stimulation is vitally important
when it comes to maintaining your health for a longer period of time.
Although you
may often be told that the things you do are what drive your age and how long
you’ll be healthy. But, there are
factors that you can’t control such as the growth hormone and the foods that
you eat not having enough of the nutrients your body needs.
But, you can also see how you can repair these elements by simply including
supplements into your diet. You’ll also
find that it is easy to tackle these problems once you have the right products
to take.
Yes,
supplements may seem like a nuisance when you have to take them daily. But, adding a pill a day, so to speak, can
really help to keep your organs working correction, keep your skin from looking
aged and it can give you the nutrients you need to live a long and happy
life. You definitely want that!
