10 Easy Steps You Can Take to Fight Aging Now

It seems like a thousand different factors affect how we age. Diet, habits, products, lifestyle. It can be overwhelming. So even if you spend hundreds on fancy supplements and stock up on tons of skin care products, you’re probably missing out on some of the most important products and most effective practices for anti-aging.

Are you doing everything you can to look and feel younger? Read on to find out.

Healthy Eating

Of everything you can do to stay young and live longer, eating well has the most dramatic anti-aging effect. If you don’t eat well, it’s impossible to stay healthy. Make some of the following changes to your diet to look better, feel sexier, and live longer.

1. Eat Antioxidants: Eating five servings of antioxidants a day can prevent cancer, lower blood pressure, protect the heart, and keep skin young-looking for longer. Add some berries, tomatoes, broccoli, spinach, and garlic to your diet to up your antioxidant intake.

2. Drink Antioxidants: In Japan, they up their life expectancy with tons of green and white tea. In long-lived France in Spain, they guzzle antioxidant rich red wine. Drink 4 cups of green or white tea and one glass of red wine a day.

3. Add Fiber: Eat 25 grams of fiber a day from fruit, vegetables, beans, and whole grains to help prevent colon cancer and keep impurities from building up.

4. Add Healthy Fats: Good fat is good for you. Add plenty of Omega 3 fatty acids (found in walnuts, flax seeds, salmon, hemp, and spirolina algae) into you diet, along with 1 to 2 daily tablespoons of heart-healthy olive oil. Just be careful not to overheat olive oil, as you’ll erase some of its health benefits.

5. Take Vitamins: Most of us do not get enough vitamins in our diet. Keep your body healthier longer by eating or taking the recommended dosages of the following vitamins, minerals, and supplements:

• Calcium (600 mg twice daily)
• Magnesium (200 mg twice daily)
• Vitamin D (1,000 units daily)
• Multivitamin (half a tablet morning and night)
• DHA Omega 3 (600mg daily)
• Baby aspirin (162 mg daily)

Women who are pre-menopausal also need iron and 5,000 daily units of Vitamin A. Post-menopausal women (and men) need half that amount.

Healthy Body

In order to be healthy and stay young longer, exercise is key. To keep old age at bay (and look great, too), use this anti-aging exercise checklist.

6. Strengthen your Heart: Getting your heart rate up keeps your heart healthy. Find your target heart rate by subtracting your age from 220 and multiplying that number by 0.80. Get to that rate at least three times a week.

7. Strengthen your Muscles: Do at least 30 minutes of strength training each week to prevent muscle loss and keep bones strong.

Healthy Mind

Your mind and emotions truly do have an effect on you how you feel– and how you age. To keep your mind and body young, try:

8. Meditation: Set aside just five minutes a day for yoga, prayer, or general meditation. It sets the mind at ease and relaxes blood vessels by releasing nitric oxide.

9. Sleep: Get those seven to eight hours a day, even if you don’t think you have time.

10. Monogamous Sex: Get intimate with your partner 2 to 3 times a week to stay close, stay happy, and stay young.