While “anti-aging” is impossible, aging with skin care well depends entirely on you!
Nicci Robertson founder of the Re-Invent Company, clinical nutritionist, master practitioner of Neuro Linguistic Programming and Psycho-Neuro Immunology, shares some interesting insights regarding the role of nutrition in aging:
1.Avoid saturated fat, while ensuring that your diet contains adequate EPA DHA essential fatty acids, critically important for cell membrane integrity and hormone regulation.
2. Processed foods are out if you want to age well. Minimize your consumption sugar and yeast containing products such as breads, muffins, biscuits and cakes. As well as ice cream, sweets and chocolates.
3. If at all possible, avoid alcohol. Even moderate consumption of alcohol leads accelerates aging.
4. Ensure that you eat enough protein. Amino acids are the very building blocks of the cellular structure and vitally important in assisting the liver to get rid of toxins.
5. Drink just the right amount of water – 30ml per kilogram of total body weight. 40ml if you exercise more than an hour a day six times per week.
6. Get seven to eight hours of quality sleep each night, no more, no less.
7. Partake in resistance training exercise at least three times per week. The anti-aging benefits of weight training are profound.
8. If stress is one of the biggest contributors to skin care aging, then meditation and yoga is the antidote. Known to restore harmony and balance to the mind and body.
“Every living organism on earth contains cells which have a natural life cycle. Every couple of months our cells replicate and die off. It is the very nutrients that we feed our bodies which provide the building blocks for these cells and determine whether or not they will be healthy. The science of Epigenetics has proven that it is not so much out genetic inheritance that determines the health and longevity of the cell, but more the fact that the cell responds to the environment to which it is exposed. In other words our immediate environment, our stress levels, the amount of water we drink, the amount of exercise in which we partake and the quality of our nutrition directly determines whether we age well or not” says Nicci Robertson from Re-Invent.