subject: Stop Your Biological Clock [print this page] We do not all age at the same time: some age much faster than others, and some hardly age at all. This is most evident in a class reunion after two or three decades, during which many have not seen one another for some while. To slow down aging, stop your biological clock.
Our chronological age is unalterable. Therefore, it has little significance on how you feel or experience. Chronological age is merely a number on one's lifespan. The only significance it has on the aging process is psychological: it is a subjective experience of how old you feel. For some people in their sixties, they report that they feel better than they did two decades ago; for others, they feel they are degenerating fast, as if they were in their seventies or eighties. Chronological age is merely your subjective experience of how old you feel.
Our biological age is a measurement of how old we are according to our physiological performance. Your biological age is a true indication of how old you feel and look. Cosmetics and plastic surgeries may mask the ravages of time, but they cannot disguise the malfunctioning of your physiological systems. Your biological age is based on the average population of people who have the same chronological age that you have. In other words, it is a direct comparison of how you look and feel in reference to an average individual of the same group.
How do you stop biological aging?
Your biological clock is solely responsible for how old you feel and look. If it ticks faster, then you age faster, and vice-versa. It is just that simple. Therefore, if you are concerned about your aging, stop or at least slow down your biological clock. To stop biological aging, you have to understand the physiological factors responsible for the ticking of your biological clock.
Here are some of the physiological factors of biological aging.
Watch your numbers indicating your blood pressure and cholesterol levels. They may significntly affect your heart health. A healthy heart efficiently pumps blood into your body organs and tissues, providing them with oxygen and nutrients, and therefore responsible for their overall wellness. In addition, a healthy heart means a healthy brain, which controls your thoughts and actions that influence your lifestyle and subsequently your health. A healthy heart and a healthy mind play a pivotal role in biological aging.
Control and manage your body weight. An ideal body weight contributes to an ideal body shape. A distorted body shape has an adverse psychological impact on aging: it makes you not only look but also feel old. If you are obese, you don't feel like moving, and that affects your aerobic capacity, reducing in rapid loss of muscle mass and muscle strength, and thus forming a vicious circle of accelerated ticking of the biological clock. Regular exercise not only increases bone density but also regulates blood sugar and body metabolism rate. They help defer the aging process by avoiding immobility due to bone fracture and preventing the early onset of age-related diabetes.
Eat a healthy diet to slow down biological aging. You are what you eat, and become what you eat. A healthy diet not only promotes a healthy heart and brain, but also enhances antioxidant levels and improves immune function. Remember, disease creates ravages of the body and the mind, and accelerates the aging process
Make yourself look younger. Take good care of your skin through nutrition, daily care, and facial massage. Most importantly, protect your skin from the sun, which produces damaging free radicals; a "tanned" look is not "healthy" look.
Protect your vision and your hearing, which inevitably deteriorate with age.
Lastly, cultivate flexibility and adaptability in your consciousness. Aging is all about changing and adaptnig to the deterioratiion of the body and the mind. The objective of anti-aging is to make yourself flexible and adaptable to the inevitable changes, thereby slowing down the ticking of the biological clock. Flexibility is the ability to let go of the past, and adaptability is the capability to face new challenges due to the changes in life.
To conclude, anti-aging is a holistic approach to health and wellness. Only total health and wellness will slow down biological aging.
