How to Beat Age Effects and Look Younger

Do you want to look and feel younger than your age?

Trust me, you are not alone. Aging affects everyone of us. Most people begin experiencing age effects by the time they hit 30. Appearance of fine lines and wrinkles are one of the first signs of aging.

HGH or human growth hormone controls all growth processes in your body and its secretion begins declining after you reach adolescence. A drop in your growth hormone levels is the key reason that activates the aging process in your body.

However, it is possible to enhance HGH secretion in your body naturally and safely. By increasing HGH you can delay and even reverse age effects to a large extent.

Here are some simple ways to enhance growth hormone production in your body and delay aging:

1. Exercise Regularly

Exercise is one of the best and most effective ways to beat aging. People who workout regularly often look younger than their age. This is because exercise helps elevate HGH secretion in your body.

It's great for your blood circulation too. Exercise helps increase your stamina and energy levels also. So, if you want to look and feel younger, try to workout regularly. Strength training is excellent for enhancing HGH production in your body.

2. Do Not Compromise on Your Sleep

Lack of sleep can speed up aging. This is because growth hormone is released in pulses by the pituitary gland in the REM phase of deep sleep. Lack of sleep can disturb this cycle and reduce growth hormone production.

Thus, make sure than you get enough sleep every night.

Short naps of 20-30 during the day hours are also great for increasing GH in your body.

3. Increase Your Intake of L-arginine

L-arginine is an amino acid that helps enhance human growth hormone secretion in your body. Some of the best food sources of l-arginine include lean meat, fish, turkey, chicken, oats, oatmeal, granola, fruits and vegetables etc. You must include such foods in your diet.

4. Try a Natural HGH Supplement

Natural HGH supplements are made with a powerful combination of amino acids, herbal extracts, vitamins and nutrients that stimulate pituitary gland to increase its production of growth hormone.

Such supplements are safe since they do not contain any synthetic growth hormone. They do not have any side effects.

Such supplements can help boost your energy, increase stamina, enhance immunity, reduce wrinkles and fine lines, boost libido, improve sexual function, improve lung and heart function etc.

In simple words, such a supplement can ensure complete body makeover and can make you look and feel younger than your age.

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Who's Grandma?

My husband and I boarded a plane to Minneapolis today. Even though I had purchased the tickets a month ago, our seats weren't together. In the terminal, I stood in a long line to see if we could change them, a slim chance for a full flight. I struck up a conversation with the young woman (30's or 40's?) behind me in line and, after a few minutes she said, "Why don't you go sit down and you can get in line when I reach the desk. If anyone asks I'll tell them you're my grandma."

Grandma? I took her advice and sat down but I was in shock. I couldn't possibly be her grandma - could I? Her mother maybe - but her grandma? I had the urge to go immediately to the bathroom and study my face in the mirror. Was there a new wrinkle - or wrinkles? I was dressed in cargo pants, t-shirt and tennis shoes. Wasn't that youthful? My hair is dyed the auburn color of my youth. And I certainly don't feel old enough to be her grandma. Fifty maybe, but certainly not grandma age.

But, alas, I had to face the truth. I am old enough to be her grandma. In fact, I am a grandma only my granddaughter is much younger. How did this happen? Only yesterday I was raising children, then seeing them through adolescence and my own mother through old age. You think you're never going to get there until, suddenly, you are.

My friends are all grandmas and a few are even great- grandmas. Too often now we're having conversations about what we will do when ---- the "when" left open to surmise - a stroke, dementia, Parkinson's, cancer, any debilitating disease. In fact, my daughter-in-law is dealing with this at the moment; trying to help her parents make the change from their long-time home to assisted living.

We are all hyper-aware of limitless changes: how often am I forgetting words; did I leave the stove on again? Does this constant pain in my side mean cancer or a heart attack? How will I die? It's the next phase of our life and the hardest because we know, all of my contemporaries, that it's the last. Time is no longer limitless.

But knowing time is no longer limitless can also be a good thing. After all, does anybody at any age know how much time they have left? So instead of worrying about "the end", we can also think about this as a beginning. We know our time is limited so spend ten minutes on the "organ recital", as a friend calls our tendency to talk about physical ills, and then move on. Learn something new- kayaking, knitting, stain glass design, painting - or join a book group, attend lectures, study geometry (I hate geometry but someone may love it.) or start a blog! And that's my personal inoculation against old age. Keep writing and maybe, just maybe, I'll stay young forever.

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