Showing posts with label longevity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label longevity. Show all posts

Monday, September 15, 2008

R U Serious About Aging Gracefully and Antioxidant Supplements

All nutritional health supplements tackle the free radical component of aging through the use of antioxidants.

One of the most potent antioxidants on the market today is L-Glutathione. However, this is not a cure all ingredient. It needs to be backed up by a wide range of other powerful antioxidants. The synergy created as these age defying nutrients interact together at the molecular level create far more potent results in neutralizing more free radicals and bringing their production back more acceptable levels.

Here’s a list of the most potent antioxidants which you need backing up L-Glutathione in your supplement: N-Acetyl, L-Cysteine, Lutein, L-Carnosine, Green Tea Extract, Ginkgo Biloba, alpha lipoic acid, lutein, bilberry and grape extract.

Keep in mind that free radicals are ONLY ONE of the four primary causes of aging so there is a lot more that a supplement has to tackle to truly address the anti aging issue and protect you from degenerative disease. The others are Glycation, Methylation, and Inflammation.

Thursday, September 11, 2008

Anti Aging and Supplements

That word ‘anti aging’ has been used in all kinds of media for years now. Lately it seems that it has become just another marketing buzz word. Everywhere I look there is another commercial promoting some form of ‘anti aging’ product.

From a business marketing point of view the term ‘anti aging’ simply means looking and feeling younger in some way or to some degree and ‘anti aging’ has basically become nothing more than a valuable brand through which businesses can increase sales.

With nutritional science constantly evolving and promising ‘better and better’ results, people are spending increasing amounts of their disposable income in the hunt for stronger anti aging properties.

What do we mean by ‘anti-aging’? The term ‘Anti Aging’ has evolved to represent a number of different common meanings depending upon whether you’re dealing with the medical, scientific or business communities.

While we cannot reverse the aging process, we can get it to be more normal. When it comes to the word ‘reverse’ (certain) supplements can undo (to varying degrees) the effects of degenerative and age-related disease and technically speaking, make some people feel and look younger.

The market’s best nutritional health and vitamin supplements are also believed to be able to improve damaged DNA. This goes far beyond their abilities to simply limit oxidative damage to DNA with antioxidants. This actually repairs damage that has already occurred.

This is an area that leading industry experts are focusing on today. Find a way to clinically prove that supplements actually do repair damaged DNA. Presently science can slow down and normalize your aging process, and bring it back more natural.

We also need to remember that anti aging is relative to the times we live in and the way in which we are now aging. In other words it is linked to current environmental, emotional and dietary/nutritional stressors which are impacting our aging processes.

The bottom line here is that the daily effects of these stressors has resulted in a speeding up or pre mature aging process for an overwhelming majority of the population.

We read the ever increasing statistics for degenerative disease like diabetes, cancer, arthritis, Alzheimer’s, heart disease, stroke etc. and know that these diseases are happening at earlier ages.From the point of view of nutritional health, vitamin supplements CAN create significant anti aging benefits for the user.

Overall your supplements must be capable of using Antioxidants to reduce and control your free radical production, preventing Glycation which leads to Aging, balancing Methylation for Healthy DNA, and reducing Chronic Inflammation which contributes to degeneration.

The tricky part is that these components are all interdependent on each other. So it’s all about balancing the effects of all of these aging agents.