Anti-Aging and Disease Prevention
By Knut Last
The aging process is for the greater part no mystery
anymore. It consists for a great part of daily damages done on the
macroscopic, tissue, cellular and genetic levels. These add up as
the years are passing.
These damages have specific causes like oxidating
agents, sun beams, mechanical wear and tear, psychological stress,
lack of some nutritional components and too much of others, like fat.
Another component of aging is the reduction of the
telomere chains at the chromosome ends, as each cell division occurs.
When these are shortended enough, cells stop dividing.
However, the body has means to repair these ends again,
with an enzyme called telomerase. The rapidity of the aging process
depends on lack of efficiency in this repair process. The above mention
aging causes also slow down this repair process.
The factors causing aging, also cause other diseases
like cancer and coronary heart disease. Both aging and these diseases
can in great extend be prevented with the knowledge possessed today,
and the damages can in great extend be reversed. The components to
achieve this are:
-Adequate dayly food containing whole cereals, peas,
beans, vegetables, fruit, fish, mushroms, fouls and seafood, and with
just a moderate amount of red meat.
-Just a moderate amount of fat.
-Ideally most fat one eats, should be of the type
mono-unsaturated. One also needs some poly-usaturated fat of the types
omega-3, and omega 6, but not too much of omega-6. The consumption
of saturated fat should be very little.
- In order to achieve right fat balance, most of the
fat supply should come from sources like olive, peanuts, canola, fish,
nuts, sun-flower, etc. Then you will get a good balance between mono-unsaturated
fat (olive, canola, peanuts), poly-unsaturated fat of the omaga-3-type
(fish) and poly-unsaturated fat of the omega-6-type (sunflower).
-Just a very moderate amount of butter, soya oil,
margarine, corn oil and palm oil. A high consumption of these fat
sources gives you too much saturated fat and poly-unsaturated omega-6-fat.
-Just a very moderate amount of sugar, refined flour
or refined cereals.
-Just a moderate consumption of tranquilizers/stimulants
as Alchohol and coffeine, but in moderate amounts these contribute
to slow down the aging process.
-No smoking or tobacho usage.
-Supplements of specific nutritional components like
vitamins, minerals, lecitin and some essential fatty acids.
-Adequate training, that both gives both a muscular
load, work up your condition and stretches out your body. To stretch
out, yoga-exercizes are ideal.
-Adequate rest and stress-reduction. Daily meditation
is a method of achieving this. Natural relaxing agents or spesific
tools for meditation or relaxation may also be useful.
-Supplements of specific anti-aging agents like anti-oxidants
or human growth hormone.
-Use of spesific anti-aging agents to apply upon the
skin surface.
-To protect the skin against excessive sun exposure.
The amount one needs of nutritional supplements, like
vitamins and minerals, differs very much according to a person`s health
condition, work load and exposure to environmental stress.
A person having a poor digestion, doing high performance
sport or being exposed to a high amount of environmental stressors,
may need more than a person in an average situation.
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Best regards Knut Holt http://www.panteraconsulting.com/salg2.htm
