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I recently read Dan Buettner, whose latest book, The Blue Zones, is a veritable treasure trove of tips for longevity and anti aging.

Buettner is an explorer whose work for National Geographic led to the book.

He investigated four parts of the world where there are more healthy centenarians than anywhere else - Sardinia, Italy; Loma Linda, CA; Okinawa, Japan; and Costa Rica’s Nicoya Peninsula.

The following 5 tips comes from the people who’ve achieved “anti aging” better than anyone else alive.

1. MOVE. Longevity’s living legends engage in regular, low-intensity physical activity, whether it be hiking, shepherding, gardening, walking, yoga, or something else.

The data suggest that moderate, even easy, activity done on a daily basis will extend your life.

2. “Hara hachi bu.” This Okinawan saying means “Stop eating when your stomach is 80% full.” Clear enough?

Reducing calories by a mere 20% will extend your life and ensure a better quality of life..

3. Eat lots of fresh fruit and vegetables. While readers of ETR know that higher-protein diets can be really healthy, that doesn’t rule out a diet that’s also loaded with vegetables.

All of the long-lived peoples investigated by Buettner ate a plant-based diet with almost no processed foods.

4. Drink some alcohol. In Sardinia, it’s wine. In Okinawa, it’s sake. Whatever you prefer, alcohol in moderation seems to reduce both stress and inflammation.

5. Have a purpose, a reason for living. Okinawans call it ikigai. Nicoyans call it plan de vida.

In both cultures, the phrase translates to “why I wake up in the morning.” Develop a strong sense of purpose, connection to others, and community.

It’s the best anti aging and longevity advice you can find anywhere.

These people are living it!

Live the dream!

Your health

Libido and Health

P.S. In the Western World we waste millions of dollars seeking the answer to longevity, whilst we are blinded by this search the answer is simple and many people else where in the world are living it daily.

P.P.S. The more I research and learn the more I realize the answer is simple and lies with our lifestyles.

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With studies claiming the you have a 50% chance of developing Alzheimer’s the older you get, coupled with the fact that we are actually experiencing higher levels of longevity, it is wise to know the odds, isn’t it?

Familiarize yourself with these risk factors (some rather controversial), tomorrow we’ll feature 8 possible protective factors:

** head injury
** hypothyroidism
** advanced maternal age
** low educational attainment
** vascular risk factors (hypertension, raised LDL cholesterol, etc.)
** history of depression
** zinc deficiency or exposure
** stress
** solvent exposure (especially exposure in industry)
** HSV -1 exposure (herpes simplex 1 virus can cause brain damage)
** aluminum exposure
** elevated plasma homocystiene
** thiamine deficiency

When you have a look at these risk factors associated with Alzheimer’s you cannot help but notice how many are somehow related to our lifestyles. Specifically nutrition!

Your health

Libido and Health

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Supplementing with vitamin D has many extremely important health benefits e.g. anti aging qualities, a combination of vitamin C and vitamin D is a very effective barrier against viral infections, vitamin D helps in the prevention of auto immune diseases, etc.

Recently, researchers found a link between inadequate vitamin D in large populations and sudden mass outbreaks of influenza and other viral diseases.5 They pointed out that adequate vitamin D “dramatically stimulates the expression of potent anti-microbial peptides, which exist in neutrophils, monocytes, natural killer cells and epithelial cells lining the respiratory tract, where they play a major role in protecting the lung from infection.”

It’s my opinion that avoiding sugar and refined carbohydrates, while taking in adequate vitamin D (from sunshine and supplements), ascorbic acid and whole foods will ultimately be found much more effective than vaccinations in preventing the flu.

If you’re a serious anti-aging enthusiast, 3,000 to 4,000IU of vitamin D daily should be just a starting point for finding out your individual optimum level. After using that amount for a few months, work with a physician skilled and knowledgeable in nutrition and natural medicine to have your serum calcium and 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels checked.

Tropical levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D (60 to 100 nanograms per millilitre) are considered both safe and optimal for the best of health, anti-aging and longevity. Serum calcium is a double-check on vitamin D safety, since taking too much vitamin D will cause your serum calcium to elevate.

If this happens, you should stop supplementing with vitamin D temporarily and use a lower level when you start taking it again even if the 25-hydroxyvitamin D level is at the optimal tropical level.

Vitamin D helps prevent auto immune diseases such as lupus, multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis. It also promotes healthy bones in children and adults, helps prevent and (if necessary) treat osteoporosis, effectively treats psoriasis (with topical vitamin D) and down-regulates a metabolic pathway that is directly involved in many cases of hypertension.

Research has also demonstrated an 80% reduction in new cases of childhood diabetes.

The benefits are incalculable because supplementing with vitamin D and vitamin C can add many healthy years to your life and give your children a healthy head start in life.

Another fact I’ve come to realize about diet is that is not so much what we eat that is the problem as it is what we don’t eat that has serious health repercussions.

So don’t be naughty take your vitamin D.

Your health

Libido and Health

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