What exactly does anti-aging mean to you? For some it means longevity anti-aging.

This phrase really encompasses a whole host of meanings:

• Living longer
• Looking younger
• Staying healthy into your later years
• Staying physically fit into your later years
• Staying mentally fit into your later years
• Not appearing to be your “biological” age
• Slowing down or reversing the process of aging
• Complete rejuvenation to a youthful condition

Perhaps longevity anti-aging should start with the internal then proceed to the external. If you aren’t looking after your nutritional intake it may be very difficult to control your external appearance, or your longevity factors, regardless of what anti aging cream you use or nip and tucks you participate in or how badly you want to live forever.

As we age, we find it harder and harder to fight the urge to pull out our wallets to purchase anti-aging products in relation to nutrition, physical fitness, skin care, hormone replacements, vitamins, supplements and herbs. These are lucrative global industries. We get so caught up in all the hype and different messages coming from so many sources that we end up very frustrated with all kinds of expensive skin care products, books, cosmetics and fad purchases.

Before you succumb to diet after diet, drawers full of cosmetics, surgery and the like start longevity anti-aging in your own kitchen. It doesn’t have to be complicated:

1. Stop buying packaged and processed foods as much as possible. I used to love canned soup and ate it almost every day. Now, I could care less if I ever open a can again. It’s not on my shopping list anymore.
2. Stop focusing on unhealthy foods that you shouldn’t eat anymore and try re-focusing on healthy foods that you can eat. Sure, I don’t want to eat a bunch of salt so I stopped buying salted nuts and now buy unsalted nuts. I still get to eat and enjoy the nuts! I don’t buy yogurt with sugars. I buy non-sweetened and add a little stevia or frozen blueberries.
3. Stop drinking coffee all day long. Sure, have a cup in the morning. Find something else that’s healthy and that you really like and drink that for the rest of the day. Herbal teas, coconut milk, decaf soy beverages. The list is long.
4. Stop using sugar and try stevia.
5. Stop eating luncheon meats, sausages and cured meats. Find alternatives. Cook a chicken breast for your sandwich instead. Cook a roast and use it during the week for sandwiches.
6. Stop eating commercial breakfast cereals loaded with sugars. Find alternatives that you can eat. Try scottish oatmeal (try Bob’s Red Mill oatmeal cereals) with frozen blueberries or raisins mixed in.
7. Stop eating fried fast foods. Take a bit of time for yourself and plan properly so you don’t get pushed into the fast food zone.
8. Stop buying products with food additives such as MSG, aspartame.

The above are only a few examples of looking after your nutritional intake in order to get on the road to longevity anti-aging.  For better health get your mind off what you can’t have and get it focused on what you can have.  You’ll be pleasantly surprised how well this works.

What are you doing now that you believe is helping with longevity anti-aging? Do you think the fountain of youth could be as simple as a healthy diet? I want to hear your thoughts on longevity anti-aging.

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Do you like the sight and feel of freshly exfoliated skin – the glow, the smoothness of your skin, being rid of rough skin? In addition to glowing looking skin, you also felt more rejuvenated, released more toxins from your body, and had better blood circulation?

Dry Brushing is an exfoliation routine that does all that – and then some! It requires just a single tool and only a couple minutes of your time, but the benefits are amazing and invaluable. Interested?

The only tool required is a bristle body brush with natural bristles or a loofah. Just a few dollars at your local department store or health and beauty store and that’s it! When you are looking for your brush or loofah be sure you test out how it feels on your skin; every one may like something different, and you want to be positive you’re helping your skin, and not irritating it. Also be aware of how comfortable it feels in your hand and decide whether you want a handle or not and make your decision accordingly. Once you have your brush you’re ready to reap Dry Brushing’s many benefits.

The Dry Brushing system is easy and can take a little as a few minutes, but its rewards last much longer. The key to the Dry Brushing technique is to use a dry body brush or loofa on your body. The technique goes as follows: work towards your heart, moving the brush on your skin in small circles starting at your feet. From your feet move up the leg, and then your hands and up your arms, then your stomach, backside, back and finally ending with your torso, making sure that you end your circle in an upstroke.

But what more can I look forward to besides glowing looking skin? Why should you spend a few bucks and a few minutes using the Dry Brushing system?

Benefits –

The benefits to Dry Brushing are numerous; ones you not only see, but ones that you feel. Whether you’re going for that healthy skin glow, or you need that awake feeling, Dry Brushing can help you.

• Healthier skin that is smooth and free of dead skin cells, open pores allowing your skin to “breathe” and absorb nutrients easier.
• Increased immune system and increased blood circulation to aid in your body’s ability to detoxify.
• Stress relief! The increase in blood flow reduces stress and stimulates your nerves and your nervous system.
• The increase of blood circulation helps your body to break down and dispose of the toxins that cause embarrassing cellulite through your legs and hips.
• Rejuvenated and “awake” feeling minus caffeine and other energy stimulants.

Dry Brushing Tips –

• Make sure you test out the bristles of the brush or loofah to make sure it isn’t too rough or irritating for your skin. If it is painful, you won’t do it and you won’t get its benefits.
• Try Dry Brushing in the shower with the water off. There will be skin sloughed off so keeping it in the shower might be helpful.
• Don’t try Dry Brushing in the evening or before bed. Since it increases blood flow and circulation it gives you that awake sensation – which isn’t very favorable before bed.
• Don’t use this technique on your face as it is too rough for the sensitive skin of your face.

It is that simple: one brush and only a few minutes. They’re the only things standing between you and healthier skin and a healthier body.

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