The body is a remarkable miracle. We have more than a hundred trillion cells. Our body builds more than one hundred billion cells per day. Our blood cells are replaced every three months, our platelets every ten days, our bones every two years, and our taste buds every day. On a molecular level man renews himself every eleven months. By adopting the following anti-aging strategies, you can help your body repair itself and celebrate every year a birthday in which you are getting younger instead of getting older. You can be sixty year young or sixty year old. The choice is yours.

A- Five quick and easy anti-aging habits to adopt.

1. Floss and brush your teeth at least before going to bed (twice a day is even better). Gum disease increases the C-reactive protein which ruins your arteries and increases heart attacks. It also weakens your immune system. This simple step makes you six years younger.
   
2. Eat one piece of garlic every day: It is now clear that using Aspirin to prevent heart attacks does more harm than good. Aspirin does not lower the incidence of hear attacks and has serious side effects such as gastric bleeding and inducing cataract. An alternative is to eat one piece of fresh garlic per day. Garlic thins the blood and prevents clots. Wine can also do that, but in the process you destroy your brain cells, your liver and you gain weight.
   
   
3. Wear a seat belt and a helmet if you ride a bike: most car accidents happen within ten kilometres from where you live. Be a defensive driver. Drive a bigger size car as you have a much better chance of getting hurt in an accident.
   
   
4. Get immunized against hepatitis: hepatitis is the easiest way to prevent hepatitis, the number one cause for liver failure after alcohol abuse.
   
   
5. Patrol your health: Check your blood pressure every two years starting at age twenty then yearly at age forty, also check your blood sugar and cholesterol regularly. Half the people with these problems are not aware they have a problem. That is why they are called silent killers. Women should perform regular PAP smears, self breast exams and mammograms and everyone above fifty should get regular colonoscopies for early colon cancer detection.
   
   

1. Get a good night sleep regularly: men need seven hours and women need eight. During sleep melatonin and growth hormones are secreted and the brain repairs itself. To sleep better avoid late heavy dinners and exercise regularly. Driving without proper rest can be as risky as driving drunk. (click here to read article on “Beauty sleep”).
   
   
2. Cut down on caffeine: caffeine raises your blood pressure, speeds up your heart, increases your stress and interferes with deep and sound sleep. You cannot stop caffeine abruptly as you get a rebound headache and you feel too tired. Cut down gradually.
   
   
3. Eat better by cutting down on eating out, drinking more water and eating less fat and less refined sugar and more fruits and vegetables.
   
   
4. Read more, watch less TV, and build social networks. Reading help you become a more aware person. Knowledge and awareness changes behaviour. Knowledge empowers us.
   
   
5. Make exercise part of your daily routine (click here to read article on exercise made easy). Exercise reduces stress, anxiety, fears, depression and Alzheimer. Exercise boosts your immune system thereby preventing chronic diseases and cancer. Building muscle prevents osteoporosis and increases your sexual performance.
   
   

1. Quit smoking: there is no point in thinking about anti-aging if you smoke. Smoking is the number one preventable cause of death and sickness. Success rate in quitting is tenfold higher when you get professional help (visit smoke cessation clinic for more information)
   
   
2. Reduce your weight and maintain an ideal weight and an ideal muscle mass (click here to read article on why all diets fail). Obesity is the number one cause for diabetes and second after smoking in being the leading cause for preventable illnesses. It will soon overtake smoking as number one public enemy.
   
   
3. Reduce your blood pressure: Keeping your blood pressure at 115/76 Hg or less makes you nine years younger than if your blood pressure were 130/86. It also makes you 25 years younger than someone with a blood pressure of 160/90. Reducing your weight decreases your blood pressure. Exercise reduces your blood pressure even if your weight does not change. Cut down on salt (click here to read article on salt: the white poison )
   
   
4. Reduce stress: Despite its bad reputation, stress is one of our bodies’ best defence systems. When we sense danger – such as a car coming at us – our bodies release adrenaline and other chemicals that make us more alert, raise out blood pressure and increase our strength, speed and reaction time. Unfortunately, our bodies don’t recognize the difference between physical threats and mental ones. And if we do not burn off these chemicals through physical exertion, they can linger in the bloodstream and start causing problems. To beat stress, you have to learn to prioritize. At the start of each day pick the most important five things to do then focus on doing the first one. Type A’s personality are more stressed out and suffer 50% more heart attacks than mellower type B’s. Set realistic goals and be less of a type A by putting yourself in the other person’s shoes. Get your finances in better shape by living below your means (Read the classic bestseller: the millionaire next door.) Incorporate some spirituality or religion into your life. Live closer to work even if it is in a smaller space. Commuting wastes time and fries nerves. Avoid the most stressful substances: caffeine, refined sugars, saturated fat and smoking. Eat more fruits, vegetables and nuts. Quit thinking that your neighbour's wife is better or that their lawn is greener. No one is perfect. The longer your relationship, the more our brain focuses on the negatives and the more it takes the positives for granted. If you are single get married. Sure you lose some freedom. But you gain stability and support and true love. Happily married couples live better and longer!
   
   
5. Avoid poisoning your body: passive smoking of 4800 different chemicals is bad for you or for your kids. Expecting a smoke free section in a restaurant is like searching for a chlorine free section of a swimming pool. Restaurants that allow smoking can have six times the pollution of a busy highway. Alcohol is neurotoxin. You kill a few brain cells with every drink rendering you less and less intelligent. The liver is your waste disposal factory getting rid of all the medications you take and the poisons and pesticides that we get with food. Do not ruin your liver with alcohol. Women have a smaller size liver and are more susceptible than men to alcohol. Avoid polluted air and polluted water. (click here to read surviving in a poisoned planet)