Youth is not only physical, but also mental. Cultivating this vital energy is therefore essential to look after your health capital and enhance your longevity. Here are some habits that will keep you young and help you live longer and healthier.
Say goodbye to screens at night
A good night’s sleep is essential to maintain your brain power. Sleep is a time of rest and restoration for the brain. But smartphones encourage us to stay plugged in late, which puts the brain on overdrive. Turn off your phone or put it in flight mode at night.
A proper sleep routine
Choose an everyday routine that involves sleeping at set times, preferably before 11pm. In addition, avoid heavy meals in the evening, which often cause digestive problems, as well as stimulating drinks (coffee, tea, alcohol, or soft drinks). Ventilate your room to maintain a cool temperature to facilitate sleep and sleep like a baby!
Nutritional principles
- A healthy anti-aging diet can provide us with various antioxidants (berries, citrus fruits, colorful vegetables, and fruits, etc.).
- Our cells regularly divide to produce two new identical cells. This allows our tissues to constantly regenerate. Unfortunately, there comes a time when this cellular replication is not done well or hardly at all. The good news? Our bodies produce an enzyme that allows us to repair damaged chromosomes. How can we activate it? With certain foods such as garlic, onions, a reduced amount in the diet, etc.
- Avoid lack of nutrients. Science has identified about thirty “essential” nutrients that our body needs every day: 12 vitamins and minerals, 7 amino acids and unsaturated fatty acids such as omega 3.
- Eat less sugar to stay young. Excess sugar causes a kind of caramelization of the body known as “sweetening”. This is one of the most important elements of aging.
Make love, not war
Those who have sex more than twice a week have half the mortality rate of those who have sex less than once a week (corresponding to the number of orgasms).
Limit sunbathing
The sun may warm you up, but the more you sunbathe, the more you burn. Prolonged exposure is one of the major factors in skin aging. The skin becomes thinner and wrinkled, especially on the décolleté and face.
Choose a… beauty detox!
Five days a week, apply your makeup as usual before doing a beauty detox for the next two, ditching powders, mascara, and makeup. Not applying any makeup for two consecutive days a week allows the skin to rid itself of aggressors. As a result, the skin can breathe and after a month the skin looks younger. However, don’t forget that not wearing makeup doesn’t mean you can neglect your skin care routine: daily hydration and facial cleansing are still essential!
Ready? Set… Go!
A study by Copenhagen City Heart concluded that running increases life expectancy by 5.6 years (6.2 years for men). This is motivating! You don’t have to aim for a marathon, just schedule one to two and a half hours of running per week, ideally split into two or three sessions.
Manage your stress
The manifestations of anxiety are immediate and for some people result in a real nightmare that paralyses all actions. A faster heartbeat, increased frequency/depth of breathing and vasoconstriction of blood vessels are the main manifestations of stress. The body and skin equally retain its traces. Stress, which aggravates certain pathologies, can appear on the face. Indeed, the skin, which is a living organ that communicates particularly well with the nervous system, seems to reflect internal disturbances. Try to get in a Zen mode and say goodbye to the small eczemas that often reflect your nervousness or fatigue.
