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Among the natural phenomena that we as a society accepted as fate, aging seemed the most daunting of all. Spiritually, knowing we slowly age and get closer to the end will be a motivator to live better and to the fullest.

I see no issue with aging in life! The problem isn’t in adding one more candle to the cake, but rather in the concept that aging equals less mental and physical capacity! I personally don’t believe that should be the case.

The studies show that aging comes with muscle loss and grey matter loss, and some confirmed our bodies are very slowly decaying. However, a lot of studies also showed how any age can increase muscle mass, how learning keeps our grey matter in place, and how certain activities, vitamins, and minerals promote cellular regeneration.

Read also: 5 Scientifically proven ways to improve your focus and concentration 

The real reason we lose abilities with age

The real reason we lose so much of our abilities with age is that we don’t pay attention and care about our bodies along the way:

During our teens or 20s, we don’t care because we are young and everything functions at full speed. So we do detrimental activities to our body and mind, while we work hard on our careers.

During our 30s and 40s, we are at the peak of our careers, we have families and businesses, but we are starting to feel our abilities decrease. That’s because we neglected the body for a while. This is when most people start caring about their bodies again.

During our 50s and 60s, we start paying for the mistakes and neglect we made to our bodies and minds. We usually live in delusion here, thinking it’s aging that causes me joint problems, not half a century of sitting down too much, exercising too little, and not taking collagen when we had to. Usually, at this point is nearly irreversible, but not impossible to get our health back.

As you see, like many things in life, we accepted a norm that is caused by choices we made, not by nature. Take people living in Blue Zones; They are 90 or 100 and still work, run, and do gardening. Actually, in Okinawa, Japan, if you are in your 80s, you are one of the youngest in the village.

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There are documentaries, books, and articles on the Blue Zones and what people in those areas do. After reading a lot of them, I have extracted some common advice:

#1 — Eat Mindfully

Eating mindfully is much more than just eating healthily. There are tons of studies on the detriments of eating animal products and the benefits of going vegan. However, there are also tons of studies showing how the carnivore or paleo diets achieve the same thing.

I say in terms of what you eat, diversity is better. Eat anything.

However, eating mindfully is also about when to eat, and how much. My rules here are these:

Practice time-restricted eating — intermittent fasting

Don’t eat 4 hours before bed

Eat until you are 80% full. It’s less work for your digestive system.

Eat slowly. (I am working on this… I am probably the fastest eater you ever saw, but working on it.)

#2 — Eat no processed foods

Out of all the studies I have read, and all the videos and podcasts I have watched, all agree on the detrimental effects of processed food.

People in Blue Zones all have in common a very natural diet:

Eating animals they raise, with no injected hormones and accelerated growth.

Eating plants from their gardens with no pesticides

Catching fish from the sea, river, or ocean, not farms

I would also add these rules:

Eat olive oil or avocado oil, no seed oils

Eat anything that comes as it is in nature or with minimal human processing. Anything that goes through more than 2 processes, or involves artificial processes, should be avoided

Alcohol is poison. But even blue zones enjoy a glass of red wine or an occasional sake shot

#3 — Supplement what you can’t get

Not much to be said here, apart from the fact that the body needs a lot of micronutrients on top of the macronutrients you ingest. Also, a lot of vitamins and minerals. Some are hard to ingest through your diet, so it’s never a bad idea to resort to natural supplements.

Here are some that I use and recommend:

Creatine (the most researched and validated supplement)

Omega 3 oil

Resveratrol (great for cancer and cellular regeneration)

NMNs (read into them!)

Tongkat Ali

Medicinal Mushrooms (Cordyceps, Reishi, Moringa, Shiitake, Lion’s Mane)

Essential Amino Acids

Ashwagandha

#4 — Exercise every day focusing on functional training

You probably heard it a lot and also are aware of the benefits of exercising and working out. However, a lot of people struggle to keep up with it.

Now, I won’t talk about workouts to lose fat, build muscle, and get shredded. You can read other articles of mine dedicated to that goal. This time, I am talking about what training is good to keep your abilities as you age.

Walking — the most important of all

A sport that uses as many muscles as possible: Tennis, Swimming, Basketball, Football, Padel, Squash, etc.

Yoga and Pilates — essential for mobility

Stretching regularly — you can do less of this if you do yoga or Pilates, but if you don’t, you must stretch.

Working out natural movements with weights: squatting, pulling ropes, pushing sleds, push-ups, burpees, pull-ups, pistol squats, goblet squats, throwing medicinal bowls around, and many more.

#5 — Practice Mindfulness

This is one common practice among high achievers, blue zone residents, presidents, and religious leaders alike. Don’t know what else needs to convince you to take it up.

Whether you are political, know your political leaders meditate

Whether you are into celebrities, know that your favorite celebrities and influencers do it

Whether you are religious, know that your religious leaders do it

Whether you are a hard-working corporate guy, know that the high achievers do it

Mindfulness is not only about meditation but about living in the present, controlling what affects you from the outside, and keeping the inside calm. If you want a more scientific approach, doing this will reduce cortisol and oxidative stress.

On this note, let me tell you that a lot of us have the cancer genes in our bodies. They might be dormant, but great oxidative stress, an unhealthy environment, and traumatic events might trigger their development.

#6 — Learn a new skill all the time

Our brains need constant stimulation. Have you seen all those apps that you get ads for with tests and puzzles to train your brain? It’s based on this principle:

If we use our brains as much as possible, we won’t see it fade away.

So my advice is this:

Keep learning new skills

Read every day

Learn foreign languages

Do puzzles

Engage in conversation

Keep up to date

Be open minded

#7 — Be part of a Community

This was noticed in blue zones around the world. People that live a lot, are not only focused on their families and are involved in their lives, but are also involved in the community.

They help neighbors, volunteer, and are part of organizations. They share their skills, are friendly, and lend a helping hand when needed. This way, we form bonds. Bonds give us a sense of belonging, which is a basic human need.

#8 — Find your Ikigai and have a purpose

It would be very weird wondering around the supermarket not knowing what you want, but just strolling the isles, right?

It would not be normal to get into your car and drive full speed without looking at the road or knowing where you are going, right?

Then why live your life, day by day, only catering to the near future, doing what you need to survive, without having a direction, something to work towards?

Having no purpose, no dreams, no aspirations, and just living by, will most likely work for a while, before sliding into a mental health crisis at some point.

#9 — Have time for yourself and your hobbies

As we age, and have families, careers, bills, and social obligations, we tend to cater to urgent matters while pushing our personal needs to the back of the list, on the excuse it’s not urgent.

The best thing you can do for yourself is to have hobbies. Something that you find great pleasure in, and can practice occasionally. Some might even turn it into a job and their way of making a living and that’s great. But even if it’s just losing you money and time, it’s contributing to great mental health, so don’t cross it out as a loss, but rather as a win.

Read also: 10 things we often wait too long to do for ourselves in life

#10 — Do one big thing every year, 4 adventures and 52 cooling-off days

I have seen some great advice this year, that is focused on having some challenging, very rewarding things to do each year, that will make you feel productive if you look back on it. For example, climbing Kilimanjaro is such a big thing, that if you do it in one week, even if you don’t do anything of note the rest of the year, it’s still a great year.

So the recipe for a great happy year goes like this:

Do one major thing to mark the year

Every 3 months have an adventure. Camping, Fishing, Sailing, Tournaments of games, new sport, holiday, trip, anything that seems like an adventure to you.

Have a cool-off day every week when you do nothing productive, no pressure, no stress, no phone, no emails, just fully disconnecting.

In conclusion, aging is impossible to stop, but it’s very possible to slow down. Nonetheless, aging does not equal losing abilities. Neglect of ourselves and our bodies does that. So pay attention to your body, listen to it and your needs, cater to yourself, and be smart early on so you don’t pay for it later on.

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Contributed by Alexandru Lazar

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