Anti-aging Protocol

10 Weeks to A Younger You!

Increase your sleep by 10%. You know when you are getting enough rest when you wake up spontaneously without an alarm clock. Sleep deprivation is the number one and most the frequently overlook cause of premature aging. It is important to sleep in total darkness. Having enough sleep is an integral part of a comprehensive anti-aging program.

Increase your internal release of growth hormone 20% by strength training of your large muscle groups ( back, chest, and thigh) 3 times a week ,15 minutes each time and intensive aerobics exercise 30 minutes a day every day. You can break down your exercises into blocks of 10 minutes each. Addition benefits includes enhanced cardiovascular health , prevention of Osteoporosis and Osteoarthritis, delay onset of Alzheimher's Disease, wrinkles, menopause and andropause.

Cut down calorie intake by 30%. Eat a modified Mediterranean diet to 70% full with each meal, and take desserts only at lunch. Avoid low fat diets. Your body automatically readjust itself to a lower rate of metabolism and become more efficient in its use of energy as you eat less. You will find more energy after the adjustment period. In addition, growth hormone release is increased with calorie restriction.

Increase your green leafy vegetables intake by 40%. At least 10-15 servings a day .They are high in fibers, minerals, antioxidants and low in calories. They also boost the immune system and prevent cancer, the number one killer. Stay with vegetables that are grown above the ground such as Broccoli and tomato and avoid underground vegetables such as potatoes, carrots, and yams.

Reduce your stress by 50% . Stress kills. It elevates blood pressure, risk of heart attack , an cortisol, a pro-aging hormone. The risk of irregular heart beat also goes up substantially. Develop a personal stress release plan like meditation, deep breathing exercises, tai chi, yoga, music appreciation, shopping, or a warm bath.

Increase pure filtered water consumption by 60%. Most of us are dehydrated and not aware. Bottled water is the next best. Avoid tap water. Start the morning with 2 full glasses of warm water detoxify your body. Limit your anti-aging fluid to water and carry a water bottle around with you during the day. Many are not aware that one of the most common cause of high blood pressure and gastric pain is dehydration.

Reduce fruit juice by 70%. Fruit juice contains little to no fiber. Fructose from the juice increases sugar, triglyceride , and contribute to artheroscleroses, sugar intolerance( Syndrome X) , and diabetes . Avoid milk, coffee and tea as much as possible.

Reduce trans fat intake by 80%. Trans-fat is commonly found in shortening used to make French fries and commercially prepared fast foods and cookies. It is the number one cause of cardiovascular disease. Stay with monounsaturated fat such as olive oil . Butter is better than margarine. Moderate consumption of saturated fat (30% of diet) from meat or consuming 1 egg a day will not cause a marked increase blood cholesterol level, but taking trans-fat will.

Reduce refined sugar, rice, wheat, and corn products by 90%. These are all high glycemic index food. Sugar is a socially acceptable addiction and the number one cause of degenerative diseases associated with aging, including obesity, diabetes, cancer, and atherosclerosis

Foods you can Directly Apply on your Skin and Face

Enjoy the following tips.

Pure almond oil is an excellent source of natural moisturizing agents. In case, you suffer from dry and itchy skin, massage your face and other exposed arms and legs with pure almond oil. This oil nourishes your skin and removes scars and blemishes. This is an excellent all the year around tonic. Use it regularly to find a smooth clear blemish free skin.

This oil is also excellent for the cold weather, preventing dryness by providing moisture and essential nutrients. Look for commercial applications that contain almond oil, incase you look to buy skin nourishing creams or gels. Many modern cosmetics make use of this wonder food for better skin care.
Some common problems faced by many women and men is the emergence of pimples, black spots. black heads and itching on the facial skin and also on arms and legs exposed to the elements.

Some common foods that can be beneficial towards curing and treating these complaints, the natural way are available easily and cheap. Many commercial cosmetic applications also make use of these foods to be effective and safe.

Fresh juice of apricots applied on the face for ten to fifteen minutes is an effective solution to itching and sunburns. This natural remedy also helps in reducing various rashes and eczema. Apply daily for 7-10 days to find effective relief.
Apply a paste of ground drumstick pods and leaves mixed with fresh lime juice on the face. Rub gently and let it stay on for 10 - 15 minutes at a time.

Continue daily once in the morning for 7-10 days and you will find pimples and black heads and black spots slowly but surely vanish. You will be pleasantly surprised to find clear smooth beautiful skin that glows and makes you look years younger.

One quick solution to persistent pimples on the face is the application of raw garlic juice blended with fresh lime juice on them. This daily once a day application will remove and reduce the formation of face pimples rather quickly. However the application itself will sting and hurt a bit. So if you have the inclination and the motivation for a quick solution, do try this remedy for a quick fix.

A couple of common daily routines, that can be followed for maintaining a blemish free facial skin that shines with vitality and health are easily followed.

Apply papaya pulp on the skin. This pulp rubbed gently on the face and the skin polishes the area, clearing it of all impurities that cause pimples, black heads and spots. This gentle polishing, once every two to three days, reduces the formation of pimples/acne and cleans the skin thoroughly making it glow.

The application of grated potatoes as poultice to treat skin blemishes, wrinkles, boils, pimples, acne, black heads is very effective and time tested. Use it once a week to find clean clear skin over the long term.

One natural alternative to using soap on the face is a paste of Bengal gram flour with yogurt. Blend this Bengal Gram flour with yogurt to form a thick mixture in a cup. Rub lightly in the upwards direction while applying to the face. Wash after 10 minutes to find clean clear skin. Regular application of this mixture, will reduce the formation of pimples and acne and will help remove black heads the natural way.

ANTI- AGING FITNESS

“Feeling Tired, Miserable and Disgusted About Your Aging, Out of Shape Body?”

How many times have you looked in the mirror and seen your mother or father staring back at you? Scary, isn’t it? Who doesn’t want to go back 10 or 20 years to a time when looking good, having tons of energy and waking up daily with a zest for life was something you took for granted?What if there was a way you could drop 5 years, 10 years – even 20 years off your age, and get in your best shape ever?That’s the secret we’re going to share with you today. If you’ve been looking for a way to lose weight, jumpstart your energy Anti-Aging Fitness has the answer.

You’ve probably read hundreds of advertisements for products that claim to solve these problems.

But none of them are like the program we’re going to tell you about now. In fact, this revolutionary Anti-Aging Fitness Program combines the latest fitness techniques with the most innovative anti-aging breakthroughs to bring you the double whammy you need to get your body, your health and your enthusiasm back on track.

Studies show that fitness levels are a definite contributor to personal and professional success. The more fit you are, the better you feel.

That’s logical, right? But did you know that the more fit you are and the better you feel, the more others will recognize and relate to your vibe of confidence and good health, and the more people will be attracted to you? It’s true. Simply being fit and healthy can help you to:

become more successful
portray a more enthusiastic outlook
gain self-confidence
ooze self-esteem
exude well being
achieve higher social status
have more fun

People who feel well are less likely to experience:

Depression

Anxiety

Tension

Loneliness

Boredom

Sound good so far?

The problem is, after you turn 30, 35 and definitely 40, you’re doomed to suffer from “middle-age syndrome”, especially if you’ve done nothing special to keep up with daily fitness. Does this describe the way you are feeling right now?

You are embarrassed by flabbiness and uncomfortable with your body

You are accumulating fat despite a healthy diet and exercise
Your low self esteem has cut into your social life

You are tired. No…not just tired. You’re exhausted. In fact, getting up off the couch is too much effort. You blame work, your spouse, your kids.

You eat even when you’re not really hungry and drink coffee, coke, or energy drinks for a temporary energy rush.

You’re sick much more often.

When you look in the mirror, you look old. You don’t look like the ‘you’ you remember. In fact, you look more like your Mom or Dad!

Every day, it seems more wrinkles are appearing. You consider plastic surgery, but you don’t have the energy to go through that. Or the money.

Your posture and body language make you look older than you are.

You know your bad habits are exposing you to killer diseases like heart attack, cancer, diabetes, and stroke. But you can’t seem to stop.

Would you be surprised to know how many people feel exactly like you? They’ve tried diet and exercise to get on the right track, but despite their good intentions, they fail. WHY?

Your body resists any changes you apply.

You may not want to hear it. But it’s a fact.

Your body prefers the equilibrium of its current comfort zone. In other words, your body likes the comfortable routine of expecting to perform under the same conditions every day…conditions like non-nutritious food, lack of exercise, and stressful conditions.

Your body is an amazing machine that easily adapts to the habits you choose to teach it. And when it gets comfortable with the way things are, it’s not happy about changing.

Add to this the fact that the aging process itself enhances this natural resistance, and change becomes even more difficult.

Listen very closely.

You can spend a bundle on doctors, pills, injections, surgeries, slimming solutions, and fitness clubs…

You can try every fad diet…

You can exercise like crazy...

But it will do no good if you don’t know how to bypass your body’s limits, obstacles and barriers.

Hot Topic: What Is Anti-Aging?

Anti-aging can be a difficult topic to address. A war is currently being fought over the meaning of "anti-aging" (as research, medicine, brand, or simply adjective) and thus even mentioning the term is likely to prejudice many readers. We will try to put this all into context while being as neutral as possible.

Defining Anti-Aging

Like it or not, "anti-aging" now has a number of quite different common meanings and connotations. Each is championed by a particular group or loose coalition of interests, but advocates for these groups have a way of diving into the fray without defining their terms. This makes reading about anti-aging techniques, technologies, medicine, products, and debates very confusing for the newcomer.

For the scientific community, anti-aging research refers exclusively to slowing, preventing, or reversing the aging process. There is, as of 2007, no medical technology that allows this to be done - although the jury is still out on calorie restriction in humans. Nor is there any currently available method (short of waiting for people to die) to accurately measure the effects of an alleged anti-aging therapy.

In the medical and more reputable business community, anti-aging medicine means early detection, prevention, and reversal of age-related diseases. This is quite different from tackling the aging process itself, and a wide array of strategies and therapies are currently available. Calorie restriction, for example, is a demonstrated way to lower risk for a wide range of age-related degenerative conditions.

The wider business community - including a great many fraudulent and frivolous ventures - views "anti-aging" as a valuable brand and a demonstrated way to increase sales. At the worse end of the scale, this leads to snake oil salesmen, "anti-aging" cremes that may or may not make your skin look younger, and infomercials that tout the "anti-aging" benefits of exercise machines. Broadly, and very charitably, we can look at these varied definitions of anti-aging as meaning "to look and feel younger in some way" - which has no bearing on how long you live or how healthy you actually are.

The confusion of most interest is between the first two definitions. Many interventions lengthen life span for individuals by preventing or curing specific age-related diseases that would otherwise prove fatal. For example, ask yourself whether preventing heart disease or diabetes is anti-aging medicine. This would have no effect on the aging process, but it would help many people to live longer, healthier lives. Is this anti-aging research? Scientists say no, some medical and business groups say yes.

Why Can't They All Just Get Along?

The war over the meaning of "anti-aging" is being fought over money and the perception of legitimacy. It is this perception of legitimacy that determines funding for scientific research and revenues for businesses.

Scientists feel, quite rightly, that the noise and nonsense coming from the anti-aging marketplace is damaging the prospects for serious, scientific anti-aging research. If everyone knows that anti-aging means high-priced cream from Revlon marketed to the gullible and brand-aware, no scientist is going to get funding for a serious proposal in aging research that uses the word "anti-aging." Worse than that, people start to assume that real efforts to reverse aging must be impossible - and large scale science requires public support and understanding.

Businesses in the "anti-aging" marketplace make money from the aura of legitimacy whether or not their products perform as advertised, and so a lot of effort is expended to create and maintain this perception of legitimacy.

Those businesspeople with working, accurately marketed products carry out their own fight against opportunists, frauds and "marketeers" - businesses that are damaging the market and diluting the brand. Ironically, this is much the same argument used against the more legitimate businesses by scientists.

A common objection to the way in which some anti-aging businesses establish legitimacy is that they cherry pick supportive studies in areas in which the facts are still unsure and scientists are still working towards a conclusion. A few positive studies are not enough to settle any question or recommend any course of action in the complex world of medicine.
The vast amount of money spent on products that claim to turn back the clock demonstrates that people want real anti-aging medicines. The trouble is that these real anti-aging therapies simply don't exist. Or do they? It all depends on how you define "anti-aging."

ALL ABOUT ANTI AGING

Drinking water - do you need 8 glasses a day?

"Will drinking water keep my skin moist?" This was a recent question on the About.com website and the answer was so misleading - well just plain wrong - I feel compelled to put the record straight.

According to About.com Drinking water has absolutely no effect on skin moisture levels. Drink water if you want but only to keep your 'insides' healthy was the advice given.
This is a very surprising answer since just about every dermatologist out there tells us we should drink water for skin health and to hydrate the skin. I did a quick review and found that respected dermatologists like Daniel Maes (Head of Research for Estee Lauder), Nicholas Perricone, Dr Murad and countless others less famous but no less qualified all say drinking water is important to keep skin hydrated. And hydrated skin is younger looking skin as we all know.

The fact is skin - just like any other part of the body - is made up of cells. All the cells in our body are interconnected. You simply can't separate your 'insides' from your 'outsides' and say they are somehow different.

And skin cells like any other cell in the body are almost entirely made up of water. Without water the organs in the body - and the skin is the biggest - won't function properly.
Loss of hydration in the skin shows in all sorts of ways - dryness, tightness, flakiness. Dry skin has less resilience and is more prone to wrinkling. Water is essential to maintain skin moisture and is the vehicle for delivering essential nutrients to the skin cells. As water is lost in large quantities every day - it stands to reason you have to replace it somehow.
Taking water into the body by drinking sufficient during the day is important but most dermatologists will tell you that to maintain the skin's moisture levels you need to keep it there too.

You don't have to put up with age spots

You may think of age spots as an inevitable and very unattractive sign of skin aging.
For most of us those little brown patches that pop up on our hands, arms and chest are very unwelcome visitors from our thirties and forties onwards.
But did you know that age spots aren't really a result of aging? And if you've got them there are things you can do to get rid of them and stop them coming back

So if you've always hated those little brown marks - here's the most frequently asked questions about age spots to put you in the picture:

When do we get them?

For some of us age spots happen as early as thirty, others don’t see age spots appear until their later forties and into their fifties. As you increase the sun exposure to your skin over the years, you become more prone to age spots, so it may take a while for them to develop. Heavy sun exposure, more delicate or more susceptible skin will result in earlier age spots. What is fairly certain though is that somewhere along the line, you will see the results of sun exposure in your face and body - and it may not be pretty.

What causes age spots?

Contrary to popular belief, age spots just a result of living longer. They are the visible effects of sun damage - if you lived to be 100 years old and had never been exposed to the sun, you would not develop age spots.

So why are they worse for some people?

The more sun exposure you’ve had, the more likely it is for the age spots to emerge. Age spots can develop as you get older simply because you have lived longer and been exposed to the sun for longer. Genetics also matter – age spots seem to be more likely if you have parents that have had them.

Are they dangerous?

Most age spots are painless and harmless, so there’s no need to worry about them as a health risk. However, you might want to keep an eye on them with the help of your doctor because they can be easy to confuse with melanomas and certain types of skin cancer.

So should I just put up with them?

No - not if they worry you. Blemishes on the skin can cause you to feel less happy about your appearance and undermine your overall self-confidence and nothing adds more years than lack of confidence about how you look. Age spots or sun spots are naturally associated with age and you may be self-conscious about them because of that. Don't put up with them if you are unhappy - taking action to deal with something so apparently trivial as age spots can be a huge boost to your self-esteem.

How can I get rid of them?

To start with, you may want to consider a fade cream which is simply a topical anti aging skin treatment that contains a skin lightening agent. In America this is often hydroquinone but in Europe hydroquinone is not an approved ingredient and so natural alternatives like liquorice extract are often used. Other topical remedies are based on Retinol again at very high doses to help lessen the sun spot's appearance over time

How long will fade creams take?

The effect of a fade cream will be to lighten the age spots gradually so they become less noticeable. Fade creams are unlikely to fully remove your age spots and could take anywhere from 3-6 months to have any noticeable effect.

Is there anything quicker?

You could try a chemical peel - perhaps after an initial application of a good fade cream. Chemical peels use glycolic acid to remove the outer layers of skin and the age spots together. You may need repeated treatments depending on how bad your age spots are.

What about lasers?

Lasers offer a highly effective form of treatment for age spots. Laser resurfacing works in a simular way to a chemical peel by removing the outer layers of skin and the age spots. Laser resurfacing is also likely to be much more long term than a chemical peel but it will cost you.

How do I stop age spots coming back?

That's easy - use a broad spectrum sunscreen every day. By putting on anti-aging sun protection before heading outdoors - whatever the weather - you give your precious skin a barrier against any further damage as well as protection from the UV rays that can cause skin cancers. Look out for anti aging moisturizers and make up with as high an SPF as you can get.