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11/01/2023

How to Keep Your Brain Sharp and Young as You Get Older
There are many not-so-fun side effects of getting older and many reasons not to look forward to the inevitable march of time. While many of the down sides we tend to focus on though are to do with our bodies failing us, perhaps even worse is when our mind starts to give in and we find ourselves becoming more forgetful and much slower in our thinking. Even if we don't necessarily suffer from any specific condition such as dementia, we can still find ourselves getting slower in our thoughts and struggling to keep up with everyone else which can be immensely upsetting and isolating. It doesn't have to be that way though and if you are willing to put in the time and the effort, your brain can be strengthened and kept young just like a muscle. Here we will look at how you can keep your brain sharper and prevent some of that age related cognitive decline.
Exercise
Exercising is an important way to keep your body strong and healthy as you get older but it has other benefits besides the obvious. One of the most useful of these is the way it can help to strengthen your brain - and if you've ever struggled with short-term memory loss as you've gotten older, it may interest you to know that memory improvement is one of the main effects of starting a new exercise regime and particularly one involving lots of cardio.
Use
The saying 'use it or lose it' is definitely one that applies here and using our brain regularly in creative ways is one of the very best ways you can avoid letting it start to deteriorate. The best uses are ones that involve forward planning and holding numbers, so if games like chess or even computer games are ideal. These work the ‘fluid intelligence’ by training working memory. Learning new tasks is also important, as this helps to encourage ‘brain plasticity’ to keep the brain limber and ensure you can teach old dogs new tricks. That said though, anything will help - even just reading occasionally.
Diet
The right diet can do wonders for looking after your brain and helping to prevent the onset of various neurological diseases or general deterioration. Particularly useful are fatty acids such as omega 3 which you can get from fish and supplements, vitamins such as B9 (also known as folic acid) which can be found in fruits and veg and amino acids (proteins) which you can get from meat or from supplementation.
Lifestyle
Similarly, your lifestyle can also have an impact on your mental health. Things like your sleep regime and fresh air can affect your brain, while alcohol consumption can also have a big impact. Live in a manner that is conducive to good brain health and you will get more benefit from the better diet and other changes.
Staying Active
Old age shouldn't look like a training program filled with brain tasks, gym sessions and supplements though, better is to just lead a lifestyle that will keep you active and engaged. For instance you can benefit from staying at work or from starting new hobbies. As long as you keep challenging yourself and pushing yourself, your brain won't start to go to waste.

11/01/2023

Effective and Ineffective Ways to Look Younger
Unless you are literally still a child, everyone wants to look younger. As we get older we unfortunately are dealt the double blow of both visibly aging and losing our looks, as well as gradually running out of time to complete the things we want to do and live the life we always dreamed of living.
This can all be quite painful, and unfortunately there is no way to actually ‘stop’ the hands of time from ticking. However, what you can do is to ensure that you don’t age so obviously, and minimize the visible physical effects of aging. Of course, as in the story of Faust, none of these is perfect and each has its own drawbacks. Here we will look at a few of the different methods and what you can expect…
How to Look Younger – Pros and Cons
Skin Creams: Skin creams are worshiped by many hopefuls as a potential elixir of youth that can help them to prevent wrinkles, sun spots and other unfortunate skin damage that comes with age. It’s none-invasive and it’s not a method anyone is likely to feel bad or self-conscious about. The downsides however are that a) it’s quite expensive over a period of time, and b) it’s not going to make a huge amount of difference. Many skin creams and anti-ageing creams are sadly complete scams, but even the very best ones have only been found to be around 10% effective.
Botox: Botox involves an injection that can paralyze the muscles in the face thereby resulting in a fixed expression. This then prevents the skin from rolling and wrinkling when you smile or pull any other more contorted expression which of course prevents lines. Because it’s temporary you won’t be stuck with anything that you don’t turn out to like either. But the downside is unfortunately that it can sometimes look a little odd if it isn’t done well due to the loss of ability to smile as broadly.
Makeup: There’s a lot you can do with makeup. Of course, you can fill in deep lines with foundation, but make sure that it is a sheer foundation and not powdery – or it can end up building up in the cracks and making you look older. Even just adding a little tan to the skin can help, or drawing the eye to other features with lipstick or eye shadow. As you age, your cheekbones can actually look more defined and this is also good to draw attention to. Just note that you may risk looking like you’re trying too hard to look young if you aren’t subtle with it.
Supplements and Diet: There are various supplements that claim to prevent and fight aging. Of course, if you’re trying to look younger then you want the latter specifically – antioxidants might help prevent you getting extra wrinkles but they won’t get rid of the ones you have. What might have more of a positive effect is to eat your protein, to get lots of vitamins and minerals, and to try resveratrol. Though don’t expect a miracle transformation unless your diet is currently in tatters and responsible for your skin problems. Likewise, be very wary of products that seem to offer a miracle. Remember the old adage: if it sounds too good to be true, it probably isn’t!
Plastic Surgery: Plastic surgery is the most invasive choice for turning back the clock, but it is also the strategy most likely to have permanent and very definite results. If you want to be sure that you will look different tomorrow, then there are various different surgical techniques available from laser treatments to lifts. These vary in results as well as in invasiveness and discomfort. Consider carefully if you want to go ahead and the various options available to you, and make sure to see a consultant as well before making any final decisions.

Anti-Aging Skin Care Explained: Your Easy GuideOur skin is one of the most obvious indicators of our age, and if you ask...
31/12/2022

Anti-Aging Skin Care Explained: Your Easy Guide

Our skin is one of the most obvious indicators of our age, and if you ask someone to predict how old you are it’s your skin that they’ll look to to make their estimate. For this reason, anti-aging skin care is one of the surest ways to look younger and healthier to make sure that there are no awkward moments when someone mistakes your sister for your daughter or your granddad for your brother...
Using the correct techniques, it’s possible to cut up to 25 years off your appearance, maybe more, and not only look better but feel better too.

Read on and let’s enlighten you…

Diet
The first facet of anti-aging skin care is our diet, and the more healthily we eat, the smoother and healthier our skin will be. This stands to reason, when you consider that it’s our food that provides our body with the building blocks required to make look after our skin and every other tissue and muscle in the body. You literally are what you eat, and if you want healthy skin you need a healthy diet.
When thinking specifically about anti-aging skin care, there are three main things we need in our diet – antioxidants, vitamins and moisture. First of all, the anti-oxidants, found in foods such as citrus fruits and fish, will help protect our skin cells (and every other cell) from oxidization and attack from free radicals. This will mean that the skin cells come under less fire and so appear healthier. At the same time this will help protect the skin and other cells against cancer by lowering the chance of the DNA behind the cell walls being damaged or mutated.
Vitamins meanwhile, particularly vitamin A and E, are used in rebuilding the skin and are a great way to encourage the body to heal both scars and wrinkles.
Essential fatty acids meanwhile will provide your skin with oil to keep it subtle and prevent it becoming dry and flaky. Omega 3 fatty acid will act as both as an anti-inflammatory agent and a source of antioxidants, while a multivitamin tablet will provide the rest.

Lifestyle
Anti-aging skin care is also about lifestyle, and how we treat our bodies will be reflected in the appearance of our skin. While soaking up the sun will help us to look bronzed and healthy in the short run, over time it will lead to damaged skin cells which will create more wrinkles in our old age. Similarly, it’s important that we make sure we get lots of sleep.
One of the reasons for this is that our sleep is when our body repairs damage done to our bodies throughout the day and so can rejuvenate our skin that way. One of the ways in which this works is through the release of growth hormone, or HGH, which is a hormone that encourages anabolism in the body making it repair wounds, rebuild muscle, replace damaged cells and encourage growth in the muscles and bones (though the bones stop growing after puberty when the ‘growth plates’ will seal off). As well as sleep, another way to encourage the natural production of growth hormone (synthetic growth hormone is used a lot by bodybuilders and celebrities, but is unfortunately illegal in most states and countries and very expensive in those that it is not) is to exercise and to take hot showers, both of which will trigger an anabolic cycle.

Skin Care Products
Then the most obvious aspect of anti-aging skin care – the use of anti-aging cream and products. These will work in multiple ways, both protecting your skin from outside attack from UV rays and environmental factors, and providing your skin with important nutrients.
You should make sure that you follow a routine and apply your face creams in the morning and in the night before bed. This routine should begin with an exfoliating cream or face wash which will remove dead skin cells (that can otherwise interfere with the mechanisms of the moisturizing creams and nutrients). This also makes you look younger by evening out your skin tone.
After this you should then use a protective cream such as Protect and Perfect from No 7, which will protect your skin from UV rays. Finally, a rejuvenating moisturizer should be applied which should contain vitamins A and E – both of which we have already seen are vital in skin

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