Preventative Aging

What is preventative aging and how do you prepare for life ahead? Let’s take a deeper look at the aging process and why it’s important to set yourself up for success.

Our culture’s obsession with aging seems to span the beginning of time. Markets have emerged with great success from creams and supplements to botox and plastic surgery. There is no magic solution to aging but science now recognizes there are several lifestyle factors that impact the aging process, most notably starting in the third decade of life. These include biological, dietary, mental, social, and lifestyle determinants. Following a study by NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information) premature aging was common in women ages 30-40 years of age and factored education, diet, hobbies, tobacco use, and exercise among other ares. The study also found that insomnia, depression, tension, and anxious mood were observed. Collectively these types of determinants contribute to pre-mature aging and continue to impact each new decade of life. For these reasons biological age can precede chronological age.

Premature aging is strongly influenced by the effects of environmental, lifestyle, and disease states that, in turn, are related or change with aging but are not due to aging itself. This is accelerated aging due to many reasons, in which biological aging is more intense irrespective of chronological age (NCBI, 2011).

As dynamics in which we live continue to change it has become even more important to understand lifestyle and choices that define what the aging process looks like for each of us.