The way to stay young, healthy, vibrant, smart and sexy

If you are looking for a way to stay young, healthy, vibrant, smart and sexy, you’re in the right place! We all know that there are an abundance of synthetic and cosmetic quick fixes out there that can make a real difference to our appearance right away. These can be effective, and certainly have their place, but if, like me, you want to create a truly effervescent life that just fizzes with energy and joy, you’ll need to harness the amazingly effective, easy-to-follow tips in website.
The recommendations in article aren’t just skin deep, but can quite literally reverse your biological age. Admittedly, the term “biological age” is a bit of a dry one, and I don’t think anyone has ever said, “I want to be biologically younger !” But given the hundreds of billions spent on anti-ageing products and services, it’s a fairly safe bet to assume that most of us do want to age well, and feel and look as youthful as possible. So, you’ll find the term “biological ageing” popping up a lot in a lot of websites and books. It takes into consideration the functioning of your body, your chemistry and physiology, your cognitive performance, your mental acuity and more. It differs from your chronological age, which is simply a measurement of your age in years. It is quite possible for your biological age to be very different from your chronological age, as you’ll learn in this series of article.

Mindset and Lifestyle Choices for Optimal Health

One of the most overlooked facts in our culture is that many of the chronic diseases that we associate with ageing are avoidable, and even reversible – and most of them are related to our mindset and lifestyle choices. The problem that we, as a society, face is that these diseases not only take a terrible toll on the individual and their loved ones, but on society too, as they are incredibly expensive conditions to treat. But all the research shows that if we know how to look after ourselves, cook wholefoods from scratch, exercise well and manage our stress response, the picture would be very different.

So, this is why I felt it necessary to share this series of articles : it is my hope that you’ll be inspired to make enjoyable, healthy changes for yourself and your loved ones and that you’ll also be able to help get the message out there on a wider level; that good health is our birthright, and that very simple steps can make a huge difference to us all – and to society. We have to act now, or it really will be too late.

Throughout this series of articles you’ll find a lot of references to scientific studies and research programmes, which make for fascinating reading.

Understanding Ageing and Reframing How You View It

We really do have so much more control over how well we age than we realize. And a lot of the science about this is so new that few people are actually aware of it. I have therefore distilled the key research for you  – in the hope that you emerge with an increased understanding of the ageing process and a stronger sense of empowerment about just how worthwhile it really is to start following the steps in this website to rewind your body clock naturally. As part of this we will look at :

•  The importance of viewing ourselves as holistic beings – with an allimportant body–mind connection – in order to get the best results.

•  The science behind the ways in which we age, including how developments in the field of epigenetics have now proven how much power we have to alter the course of our own health outcomes.

•  The destructive power of inflammation and how, if we can get this under control, we can slow down the biological ageing process.

•  The amazing plasticity and adaptability of our brain, including the power of practising both gratitude and compassion to reset our base levels of happiness.

•  The incredible power of our mind to affect our body, particularly when it comes to how we deal with stress in our lives and how this affects our capacity to age well.

Ageing : New Paradigms of Health

One of the reasons we need to look to new paradigms to understand ageing is that the existing conventional medical model divides people up into discrete parts. So, if you are suffering concurrently with eczema, type 2 diabetes and arthritis, the conventional model sees these as separate issues, and your GP will refer you to three different specialists: a dermatologist, an endocrinologist and a rheumatologist. This method has much to offer, but it doesn’t provide any chance of a permanent solution or cure to chronic health problems, and it definitely doesn’t address the premature ageing that chronic diseases cause. While conventional medicine is outstanding at providing life-saving solutions in emergency situations, we also have to acknowledge that looking to the current medical system for solutions to unhealthy ageing probably isn’t the wisest move, as the medical model doesn’t yet fully embrace the immense impact that every aspect of lifestyle has upon our health and wellbeing.

A Wellbeing Revolution

A good example of science being able to distil things down to just its most effective part, or parts, can be found in the work of Dr Herbert Benson, who runs the Benson-Henry Institute at Harvard Medical School and is considered to be the “father” of what is called Mind/Body Medicine – another new model of medicine that helps us to understand how we function as whole human beings.

Rewind Insight : You might well be wondering what the difference is between Lifestyle Medicine, Mind/Body Medicine and complementary medicine, so here is a quick overview for you:

•  Lifestyle Medicine is an approach that believes that we humans benefit from a holistic approach – so that what we eat, think, how we exercise, our social relationships, our spirituality and our connection to the world at large are all deemed to be important to our wellbeing.

•  Mind/Body Medicine can be viewed as an important part of Lifestyle Medicine as it is the study and practice of the way that our mind and body relate to each other, how one influences the other and vice versa.

•  And complementary medicine comprises all of the healthcare disciplines that are not a part of conventional medicine, such as nutrition, massage, acupuncture, hypnosis, homeopathy, herbal medicine and many more. The commonality is that these disciplines all aim to take the whole patient into consideration – mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually.

Dr Benson made enormous breakthroughs in wellbeing science, including an observation that there were huge health benefits for people who meditated regularly. Until that point in the 1960s, the meditators who had been studied the most were practising Transcendental Meditation (TM). In terms of science, the benefits of this type of meditation were proving to be undeniable. However, because TM is just one aspect of a whole, wider approach to life, it was difficult to ascertain exactly why TM worked so well.

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