You: Staying Young

You Are Only as Old (Biologically) as You Let Yourself Become

To keep feeling young and vital even into advanced old age, minimize your risk for disease by staying healthy at the all-important cellular level. Keeping your cells young and strong will keep your whole body (relatively) young and strong. How? As you age, your cells become less resilient. But by making wise lifestyle choices, you have the power to boost your cells’ resiliency substantially and, thus, increase your health and vitality. People who achieve this feat will be younger biologically than their age-mates who do not take care of themselves.

It is not too late to do something meaningful about your health. Starting now, you can begin to reverse the physical damage you may have done and turn back your body’s aging clock. You can combat the 14 “major agers” that work at the cellular level to make you decrepit and ill. First, you must understand what these agers do; then you can learn to counter their negative effects:

1. Genes – Do you believe that your genetic heritage is what inevitably makes you ill? Not true. Studies of twins show that health is based 25% on genes and 75% ...