As we get older, we obviously change: our musculature, our desires, and our energy. We tend to become lazier than when we were younger. Although I think this is a habit of society rather than a habit of age. Here are some tips for maintaining health and energy as we mature.
1) You lose muscle tone as you age, go back to weight training, if you have never done it before follow the advice and start slowly but build your muscle tone back. You can easily do weight training in your 70s and 80s. Keeps your body from literally falling over.
2) Lose weight. If you are overweight, be brutal with yourself, lose weight, lose weight, don’t carry that extra weight. When you were younger, your body could take more punishment; be graceful with your frame and body now. Allow him space. So eat lean. Allow your heart to work less, be kind to your veins and arteries. Eliminate physical stress from your organs. Take the weight off your bones and joints. Improve your muscle tone but avoid fat.
3) Control your blood pressure. Heart attacks are deadly and have no warning signs except blood pressure. You can die at 40 or 80 of a heart attack, and there’s no warning. Control your blood pressure, keep it within a healthy range. But unless it is critical, try to avoid drugs, use diet and exercise nutrition.
4) Eat less and eat healthier – your body and its systems don’t process food as well as it did in your twenties – give them leeway, treat them kindly. Moderation in all things. Cut out the obvious fat and sodium monsters.
5) Take vitamins. Vitamin and mineral tablets may not do much if you are skinny and thin and eat a healthy diet. But your body needs help to do a lot of things it didn’t have a problem with at twenty-five. Take a multivitamin, it won’t hurt. Ideally a premium one (which is one that works as food and is not just artificial vitamins in starch and sugar) One of the best is the Nutrilite brand
6) For health: think nutrition first before prescription drugs. Prescription drugs are always a problem. They are emergency treatments, not lifestyle treatments. Glucosomine for the joints, omega 3 for the immune system and a healthy heart. Garlic for cleansing and heart health. Ginseng for energy (be careful with a good ginseng, it is quite enhancing). Coenzyme Q10 for energy replenishment.
However, with all supplements, consult a knowledgeable health professional, who knows your lifestyle and body type.
7) It produces more joy than worry in your life. Make plans. Do you think you are old? Hey, you could be dead tomorrow, or you could have another 50 years (your life so far, again). Set a goal, get a wish, make plans. You are always happy on the way to a wish. It may be time to retire from work, but life is always rich and ever present – get involved in your life. It only comes once.
