Make a Plan to Boost your Health and Longevity

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Right now there are no sure things when it comes to slowing the aging process. There is a lot of hype, a lot of hope and many things that seem promising. Let's start by assuming that there are things which can slow the aging process and improve health. It’s quite likely that there are many things but until we have more research nothing is certain.

The first thing to do is take the positive step of believing that you can slow aging and that improve and maintain your health for a long and healthy life.

If you aren’t ready to make this commitment then goodbye and good luck.

If you are, then lets get started.

Make an assessment

First sit down with a notepad and think about your health. If you are over 40 there are certainly things that don’t work as well as they did when you were 20, 30 or even last week.

What has your Doctor told you about your health? Too heavy? Cholesterol too high? High blood pressure? Are you taking medication for anything? Write them down.. Let the assessment sit for a few days and look at it again. What did you miss? What needs clarification?

When you get that done, this is your baseline.

What are your priorities for maintaining or improving your health and living longer?

Take your assessment and prioritize all the issues. If any issue overwhelms the others for example if you are chronically obese and it is seriously impacting your life or you have diabetes, you need to be consulting with your physician and making sure that whatever you do works for you. You can also check with other web resources that provide information about diabetes like diabetesandrelatedhealthissues.com.

If you are like me, only moderately overweight, with cholesterol only slightly higher than desired, then you can prioritize the list to focus on the things that are most important to you. Maybe you want to focus on one issue. Maybe you want to create a overall program to support healthy aging. You can check out the categories for nutrition and exercise to find things that you can add to your current program

or maybe you don’t have a program yet.

How about your family commitments. Maybe you have kids still at home. Maybe you have parents that are becoming more dependent on you. When you are dealing with aging parents everything gets moe complex. Boomers-with-elderly-parents can help you here.

Create a program

What are you doing now? Do you take vitamins, supplements, special foods? Do you have an exercise plan? If you are doing something now, that’s great because you have already established the discipline and commitment that will carry you on towards a healthy and long life.

If not, then start something. Take a multi-vitamin. Walk on a regular basis. Improve your diet. At this point it doesn’t matter what but once you start, commit to doing it for at least one month. When you complete the month, then commit for another. You can change the program as you learn more but stick with it, changed or unchanged, for a long enough period that you can assess how it has affected your health. Just as a start, make a six month commitment to give you enough time to evaluate the effectiveness of what you are doing. Some things will be easy to assess – exercise will probably be one of them. Others will require testing to determine any improvement and still others you may have to take on faith.

Baby Steps are fine

You don’t need to make a big commitment to get started. Don’t decide to become a marathon runner unless you have already run a marathon. Don’t go out and purchase hundreds of dollars worth of vitamins and supplements or a home gym. Don’t go on some odd-ball diet. At least not your first week – or even your first month.

Healthy longevity is a process and a commitment

Pick yourself a simple plan that you know that you can follow. And then follow it. Keep up your research and when you find something that looks like it should be part of your program, add it. You may replace one thing with another. You may add new things. You are in charge. It’s your life. The sooner you stop being a passive victim of circumstances, the sooner you will improve your life.

How to use this site

Right now, Healthy longevity is organized for you to look up nutrition information and help you evaluate what vitamins, foods and supplements you need. In progress is an evaluation of different forms of exercise. Also in the works is a page which will link conditions to substances or exercise that might improve or remediate those conditions.