Help Your Body Age Gracefully

“Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

Gold turns to Silver, Dark becomes Light… Time shapes us… Here are some tips on how to age gracefully.

Feed your Body Well

• Enjoy Your Food—what we tell our body becomes reality.
• Learn to love Produce. Colorful fruits and vegetables provide many phytonutrients including anti-oxidants that help your body decrease inflammation which ages it rapidly.
• Get adequate protein for your lean body mass. Protein is lost as you age. Amino acids are the building blocks for all life — your muscles, bones, and organs, hormones, neurotransmitters, and immune factors, and especially all the enzymes that catalyze every bodily function. And essential amino acids come from protein!
• Eat healthy fats. Especially omega 3 fatty fish. Olive oil, nut oils, coconut oil, flax, and hemp seed oils, avocados provide good fats for healthy cell function and adequate hormone production.
• Drink red wine. One of the most powerful antioxidants, this super anti-aging food is enjoyed by the Mediterranean people who have some of the best ratings of health and longevity in the world.
• Eat only whole grains — go sparingly on the refined grains and flours and especially processed foods which are stripped of nutrients.
• Cleanse your body with Veggies — Stop fasting and start fueling your metabolism.

Exercise your Body Joyfully

• Exercise at least 3-5 times per week. Aerobic exercise (activity that makes you breathe hard) can slow the aging process by stimulating mitochondrial growth and activity. At the cellular level, age is a process of declining energy production. And energy comes from abundant, healthy functioning mitochondria.
• Be active all day to avoid the “sitting disease”. Sitting more than a couple of hours a day is associated with diabetes, heart disease, poor sleep, and cognitive decline.
• Grow a Garden. Gardening is a physical activity that provides exercise, connection with the earth and homegrown produce!
• Walk everywhere you can. Depend less on motorized transportation and more on the perfect vehicle of your body.
• Carry your own stuff. Upper body strength can be built and maintained as you age by continuing your daily activities.

Take care of your Brain

• Play games. Cards and other memory games can increase memory and attention.
• Engage with other people. Regular social interaction, especially with people of different ages, stimulates your brain.
• Take a class. Learning a new skill increases attention, memory, and problem-solving abilities.
• Mind over Matter. If you believe you will age poorly, your body will manifest age-related decline.

Supplement Wisely

• Antioxidants to help your cells clean house.
• Omega 3’s to protect against inflammation.
• Digestive aides to help assimilate nutrients from the foods you eat.
• Probiotics to keep your gut healthy.
• Super greens to provide your body with extra phytonutrients.
• Amino acids to provide the building blocks for healthy brain function and rebuild tissues.
• Plant based vitamins and minerals that are activated and easily absorbed.

And to help you simplify your supplement regime, I created Genesis Gold which has all the anti-aging micronutrients to help you age more gracefully.

To your long healthy life!

Love and Light,

Deborah Maragopoulos MN FNP
Intuitive Integrative Health