Natural Anti Aging is an extremely easy process which doesn’t require too many sacrifices.  Some of the tips given below can be done immediately, while others require a long-term lifestyle change.  The key is to reduce your stress, increase your fitness and luckily some of the most effective ingredients for maintaining a healthy lifestyle are … natural!

Mental

How old do you feel?  Are you 80 and feel young and gorgeous, or are you 40 and feel like a worn out, used up and tired old person?  The first step is to change your attitude and have a mental picture of who you want to be.

Diet: Eating and Drinking

Try to eat meals with lots fruit and vegetables.  Meals should be freshly prepared and cooked and balanced with a good balance on the plate.  Choose foods which are high in anti-oxidants and have essential fatty acids.  Meals which are high in fat may increase the chance you will get wrinkles.  Our bodies are made up of 70% water so it is extremely important that you drink plenty of good quality water.

Skincare Products

One of the best things for skin care anti aging is to stay out of the sun.  Sun exposure can cause wrinkles and sun spots.  Using sunscreen is extremely important.  Make sure the sunscreen protects against both the UVA and UVB rays and is free of toxic chemicals.  Don’t just rely on sunscreen either.  In addition to sunscreen here are some more sun smart ideas:

• Limit your time in the sun by avoiding sun exposure in the middle part of the day when the sun’s rays are the most intense
• Wear protective clothing: long sleeved shirt, hat and sunglasses
• Try and stay in the shade if you are outside

If you want to use a Natural Anti Aging cream on your skin the good news is that the most effective ingredients in creams for skin care are already natural.  Choose creams that contain vitamins, minerals and botanical ingredients instead of the synthetic ones.  Anti-oxidants such as coenzyme Q10, green tea and vitamins C, E, and A are fantastic as they repair the damage caused by the sun and pollution.

Elastin and Collagen are also common ingredients in an anti aging cream and can help with those wrinkles around the eyes and other parts of our bodies which develop as our body’s age.  Exfoliate your skin regularly so that you remove the top, dead layer of skin to reveal the fresh and younger skin and to stimulate skin cell growth.

Fitness

An enjoyable and maintainable exercise program is very important so that you keep to it and want to do it.  What may be good for one person is not necessarily going to be good and enjoyed by you.

Lifestyle

Avoid smoking and being around people who smoke.  Smoking can accelerate the aging process of your skin and cause wrinkles.  In addition to the effects on your skin, the consequences to your internal health are widely documented.

Make sure that you get enough sleep every night so that your body has time to rejuvenate and produce hormones such as ‘human growth hormone” so that your skin stays thick and doesn’t wrinkle.  Cortisol (which is a hormone which breaks down skin cells) levels can increase if you don’t have enough sleep, also causing wrinkles.

Reduce Your Stress

Don’t feel guilty because you aren’t doing all of the above Natural Anti Aging points – guilt leads to stress.  People who meditate or who maintain a low-stress lifestyle do look younger than your years.  If you a prone to stress, a very good relaxation technique is to press your thumb into your solar plexus point (located just below the ball of your foot) and hold for one minute, then repeat on the other foot.

If you like the idea of not having to buy expensive cosmeceutical products and enjoy healthy living, then a Natural Anti Aging regime will be relatively easily to manage and incorporate into your lifestyle.

Natural Anti Aging: What About You?

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