We’re all doing it, let’s slow it down …. Your biological age can be quite different from your actual age, health can be contagious too! And if you haven’t already taken advantage of lockdown it still isn’t too late to start ….
Here’s how
- Be kind to yourself
- Exercise
- Eat well fresh and local
- Look after your skin it’s your largest organ
Being kind to yourself Meditation may slow the brains ageing according to a report in the journal Neurocase …. Scientists monitoring the brain of a Buddhist monk over 14 years showed that his brain appeared eight years younger than his physical age. Previous studies have suggested that meditation may slow the wearing down of telomeres. Telomeres are like the tips on shoelaces, they keep the ends of our chromosomes from unravelling.
See all the positives that you do a million times a day and banish negative thoughts. Optimists live longer, according to a study by Boston University last year. A study by University College London also found that having negative thoughts over a long period of time could be linked to the deposit of harmful proteins in the brain, linked with Alzheimer’s disease …. Another good reason to find the positives of lockdown.
Exercise health
To make that heart work and pump all those lovely nutrients and oxygen to every single cell in your body to let them dance. Every cell has its own energy that is never extinguished, just transferred, sometimes the energy dips, exercise will give it a boost. You don’t have to run a marathon …….walk, dance, play, swim, yoga, box, golf, you choose, be kind to yourself, choose one you enjoy
Eat well blue zone
Mix up the colours in your fruit and veg and have 6 portions a day. (a grape is not a portion!). Reduce your red meat and increase pulses and grain e.g. rice and seeded bread. Consuming high fat, high sugar processed food has a strong effect on accelerating ageing. Waist Hip Ratio WHR also seems important to our ageing speed, numerous studies show it gives an accurate gauge of visceral fat, fat that is stored within the abdominal cavity and is therefore stored around a number of important internal organs such as the liver, pancreas and intestines. Click on the link below to calculate yours:
https://www.diabetes.co.uk/waist-to-hip-ratio-calculator.html
Have a glass of wine
Look after your skin … Love your skin
It’s your largest organ and it really does reflect your inner health and mood. It takes approximately 28 days for a skin cell to move from the lower layer of the epidermis to the top layer, die and shed. It’s important to keep that cycle going, dead skin cells stuck to the surface will make skin look dull and lifeless.
Cleanse
Exfoliate twice a week but not super sensitive skin, with a gentle exfoliator, I recommend a Konjac Sponge it needs to lift skin cells off gently leaving a your skin slightly pink, not bright red irritated.
Tone After cleansing to give that fresh feeling. Do not use harsh toners especially if you have an oily skin, they will leave the skin irritated and dry. Myth toners do not close pores, pores have no surrounding muscle and do not open and close like eyes!! Excess oil production results in enlarged pores and they will gradually minimise as the oil production balances. Harsh toners drying out the skin will only encourage more oil production.
Oil and Moisturise From the décolleté upwards to replenish and protect.
Have a facial once a month. According to recent studies and anti ageing experts, facial appearance correlates to their biological ageing, if we are wrinkly on the outside we’re crinkly on the inside. Dr Belsky an assistant professor in epidemiology who led recent research explains “our skin and facial muscles are organs whose tissue integrity is maintained by the same processes that support our internal organs and the rest of our bodies” And using Botox and fillers is only cheating !!!!
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Happy easing, stay well,
Catherine