How to treat your body as the years catch up with you

Don’t worry, you’re not alone. When we are young we feel invincible and then suddenly, we’re hit with an aging bang.

There are no hard and fast ways to prevent this, but you can treat your body a little better. Let’s jump into some actionable advice to help you.

Look out for your environment

For some people, this might involve downsizing. For others, it might even mean relocating (after all, some regions are meant to be more suitable to the elderly than others).

Either way, there’s a chance that the home that has treated you well for so many years perhaps isn’t as fit for purpose. Again, it might be the staircase, or it might be the fact that you are surrounded by a student area, which put simply, just isn’t really suitable for people in their advancing years. Granted, everyone is different, but calmer environments are going to treat your body better – whether it’s because of the reduced noise or lack of stress.

The new exercise requirements

It’s hardly a newsflash – we all need to exercise. Something that you might not realize is that the requirements change somewhat as you get older. At the moment, they suggest that you should be participating in somewhere in the region of 150 minutes per week. Or, if strenuous exercise if your thing, you might be able to cut this figure in half and turn to 75 minutes per week.

Of course, if you fall into the former category, this doesn’t mean two and a half hours’ worth of intensive gym sessions. It can mean just peaceful walks, if that’s more your thing.

Take your mental health seriously

One of the most interesting studies we have recently found has been about having a positive attitude about your age. It’s far too easy to give up the game, so to speak, and pretty much fail to accept your true age. If you do that, you apparently have less change of living longer.

In fact, mental health as a whole is something that you need to dedicate a lot of attention to. This is a topic which has exploded over recent years, so do everything you can to stay on top of it. It might be about spending more time with your loved ones, or it might be more related to first point we discussed. Regardless, don’t place all of your attention on your physical condition.

Continue to take care of your teeth

Well, the standard advice applies here – brush your teeth twice per day, and remember to floss.

The only difference is that the stakes are a little higher. As we all know, the older you are, the more susceptible you are to a lot of problems. What a lot of people don’t realize is that if you don’t brush your teeth frequently, you’re not only at risk from suffering from gum disease, but the risks expand to issues such as arthritis and heart disease.

As such, stay on top of your teeth, and keep having check-ups with the dentist.

The perils of vitamin deficiencies

All vitamins are important, but for the purpose of today we are going to hone in on vitamin D. This is the vitamin that tends to come from the sun and due to the nature of a lot of elderly people, they are severely lacking in it.

This is one of the reasons why it is crucial to get out and about and ultimately, allow vitamin D to flow into your body. If you can get enough of this, you’ll find the chances of suffering cardio and bone problems drops significantly.