Sixty is said to be the new forty. I personally find it more and more difficult to determine people’s ages as I age. People are looking younger and younger. Or am I getting older and older?

There are many new discoveries today to look younger, feel good and have a steady stream of energy. I am extremely energetic, however after a very long hike I have been known to steal a quick ten minute power nap. It is a treat I allow myself, being basically retired. I actually do work; I am writing all the time, but I am at home, and I can work when I want. What a great life!

The one thing people fear most about aging is the possible loss of their memory and cognitive ability. There are many ways to insure brain health as we age. And since people are living longer today they are faced with these possibilities. There are three categories each providing support to brain health:

1. Food and supplements

2. Brain usage (puzzles, games, learning new things)

3. daily exercise

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It is possible to fight off aging with grape seed extract due largely to the antioxidant effect of the phytochemicals contained within the seed of the grape. The seed is rarely absorbed by your body because it is so difficult for your digestive juices to break down; significantly more difficult than the skin or the pulp. So what is specific about the seed that makes it so useful as a source of antioxidants? That shall be discuss shortly, but for now let’s discuss the causes of aging, and how antioxidants can help to keep them at bay.

To fight off aging you have to understand what causes it, and the take steps to avoid these causes. It is fairly obvious that all causes of aging cannot be circumvented, but there are things that can be done to keep some of them at bay. Here, we are specifically concerned with the aging of your skin, which is the most visible form of aging. The first aspect of aging to understand is that there are two types: intrinsic and extrinsic.

Intrinsic Aging

Intrinsic aging is natural aging, and is largely genetic. Starting when you are fairly young, normally in the early to mid 20s, intrinsic aging is typified by wrinkling, hair loss or graying of the hair, hollowing of cheeks and other areas where the fat underneath the skin that normally contributes to your physical appearance is lost, and also bone loss that causes your skin to sag due a gradual loss of the structure that sculpts your physical appearance.

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Today’s contaminated environment is doing little to keep us looking healthy and fit. The fast and busy lifestyle we have likewise add to the speed by which our body ages. Cosmetics companies have capitalized on this and have come up with various formulations and treatments that promise to slow down aging.

One of the first visible signs of aging are facial wrinkles. You wake up one morning, look at yourself in the mirror, and find yourself staring at a face marred with lines that have nothing to do with fabric marks. Wrinkles form on your skin, usually around the eyes, mouth and neck, as you age. As skin gets thinner, drier and less elastic from the breakdown of naturally occurring elastin and collagen, you are more likely to develop wrinkles in the form of deep crevices or furrows. How long before your skin shows any signs of aging depends on both environmental and biological factors. How early or late you develop wrinkles is largely dependent on how well you take care of your skin today while you are still young.

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Premature grey hair is often associated with excessive stress, unhealthy diet, vitamin B deficiency and smoking. The fact is, however, that the number one cause for premature greying hair is genetics. The pigment that determines the colour of your hair is produced by special cells at the root of your hair called melanocytes. It is the lifespan of melanocytes that determines the onset of the greying process. Once these cells die, the hair turns white.

There is no substantial difference between a premature and a normal age-related greying process. It is by virtue of nature that some people will experience their first grey in their teens and turn completely white in their thirties, while others will keep their original hair colour for many decades. If more than 50% of a person’s hair is white by the age of 40, it is considered premature.

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Each and every one of us loves not only to look younger but also feel young and energetic during our entire lifespan. While it may be possible mentally to feel young and energetic at heart, the same might not be the case physically. As every day passes, we get older by a day and the proces of aging hastens by a day.

The aging process is inevitable in everybody’s life. The demand or need for energy in our physical body tends to decline as one gets older. A number of bodily changes take place as we get older. Due to disuse, the mass of the muscles decreases over a period of time. At the same time, fatty tissues tend to grow more than required. In order to cope with these bodily changes, the intake of calories needs to be curbed and supplemented with nutrients, which will, in a way, help to postpone or slowdown the process of aging.

By reducing the calorie intake by as much as 10% as one goes past the age of 50, a person can slowdown the process of aging. For example, if a 50-year old person requires an average intake of 1,800 calories per day, the same person might need to consume 1,620 calories only when he or she reaches the age of 60, and only 1,440 calories per day when he or she approaches the age of 70. The reduction in intake of calories can be supplemented with the intake of nutrients such as calcium, potassium, zinc and vitamins, which will result in maintaining higher energy levels and thus help in postponing or slowing down the impact of aging.

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Desperate people do desperate things and surgery is one of those desperate things that aging Baby Boomers hope can “fix” their sagging faces.

This is exactly what the practitioners that dispense paralyzing and plumping injections along with surgeries of every kind hope you believe. Cha-Ching! Cha-Ching! Cha-Ching!

Recent reports disclose that many anti-aging modalities actually have the opposite affect; rather than slowing or stopping the aging process, some doctors now say that facial plastic surgery and injections may indeed speed up aging. Their reasoning is this: healthy skin that has been cut and sutured never really looks or acts healthy.

Faces that are injected and injected again and again may portray a freakish look that is not equated with youthfulness.

Once a face is either plumped up with fillers or paralyzed with Botulinum A that face may begin to appear distorted. It is difficult not to stare at a face that is distinctly different; the forehead does not move, the eyes have less expression and the overall facial prettiness has departed the scene.

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When it comes to plastic surgery
procedures in Colorado, Botox is by far the most popular. Thanks to its low cost, non-invasiveness and rapid recovery time, the drug has quickly become a mainstay at most Colorado dermatologist and plastic surgeon offices. Botox, also known as Botulinum Toxin Type A, was first used by ophthalmologists to treat muscles around the eye, but was then approved by the FDA in 2005 as an effective anti-wrinkle treatment.

For more information on Botox, the treatment process and plastic surgery in Colorado, read on.

How Botox Really Works

Essentially, your muscles need to make a chemical called acetylcholine to contract and make facial expressions. So, every time you frown, furrow your brow or purse your lips, your muscles are using acetylcholine to create that wrinkle-causing facial appearance.

Botox stops your muscles from producing and releasing acetylcholine, essentially paralyzing the treated area, preventing the contractions that deepen the appearance of existing wrinkles and preventing the formation of new ones.

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Anti aging? Anti means opposed to, we can’t oppose Aging it’s going to happen. Instead lets embrace it and understand how we can age in health. I don’t want my last years fighting what we can’t stop. I want to learn what to eat, think and do to make them the best. There is a big market for Anti-aging stuff, it sounds like a battle, Folks your going to lose, how about aging graceful, healthy. I’m surprised they haven’t come up with anti death vitamins.

I know you guys, you will still try to “anti the age” so lets look at some things that will help:

Proanthocyanidins and Vitamin C – deserve their stellar reputations as antioxidants that quench free radicals and potentiate other antioxidants. When working together the proantho increased the span vitamin C could stay in our system by 400 percent. Proanthocyanidins was discovered in 1936 by Professor Jacques Masquelier and called Vitamin P. Of course they dropped the Vitamin P and went with the longer word nobody could spell.

DHEA (dehydroepiandrosterone) is an adrenal hormone that is the precursor for steroid hormones such as testosterone and estrogen. DHEA declines precipitously with advancing age in both men and women. DHEA became credible to the medical establishment when the New York Academy of Sciences published a book entitled DHEA and Aging. This book provided scientific validation for the many life extending effects of DHEA.

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The best way to reduce wrinkles naturally is to research and understand the ingredients in the best anti wrinkle products? The larger cosmetic companies claim that their anti wrinkle skin care creams are the most effective and the safest, but “claims” are often all they can make.

Typically they have no clinical research to back them up. If they do quote clinical results, they are speaking about the effectiveness of a single compound in their product, which usually accounts for less than one percent of the total ingredients.

In the best anti wrinkle products on the market, 40-50% of the ingredients are active. They contain a variety of compounds, all with clinical research that proving their safety and effectiveness.

The major cosmetic companies are not concerned about your safety. The warning labels alone are enough to scare me. Would you buy an anti wrinkle skin care cream that says “test on a small inconspicuous area before using on your face”? Me neither, but other people do and, sometimes, the result is disastrous.

I read a review for a popular anti wrinkle skin care product recently. The woman followed the advice on the warning label and tested it on her arm for a full ten days. On the 11th day, she awoke with a terrible itchy red rash.

The best anti wrinkle products don’t have to be tested, because the ingredients are safe enough to eat. They’ve all been fully tested for adverse reactions and none have ever been reported. Yet, they are still very effective. Why use something that causes irritation, when other options are available?

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What’s the best skin firming face cream? First, let me tell you about some of the worst ingredients and then I’ll tell you about the best in the world.

Do you use L’Oreal, Boot’s, Burt’s Bees, Dove, Jergen’s or other popular products? Do you know what’s really in those bottles? Let me tell you about it as I think you will be surprised.

Botanicals that Irritate

Some companies claim to provide “botanical” creams and lotions. Yet, their lifting cream may contain known toxins and skin irritants, as well as artificial preservatives. Some botanical extracts are irritating and toxic.

Coumarin, for example, is a toxin found in many plants, such as mullein and bison grass. It is included in lotions and creams because of its fragrance. The chemical is toxic to the liver and kidneys. It also causes lung cancer.

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