Diet – yes, back to diet again. Food has been shown to be an important part of how people age. Quality and quantity both affect it. Eating a diet of real, whole food feeds our body both the macronutrients and micronutrients it needs to function and perform well. Removing completely refined and processed (CRAP) foods from your diet will help your biological age move in the right direction.

Exercise or physical activity – everyone can benefit from moving more. There are four areas of exercise that can be incorporated into your daily movements. These include balance, strength, endurance, and stretching. Each area will improve your overall physical health. Exercise can help maintain a healthy weight and shape.

Stress – can take HUGE toll on your age and health. It can be acute, chronic stress, and even just perceived stress. It can accelerate premature aging. Sources can include demanding work situation, high conflict personal relationships, time spent on social media, time spent consuming news media, and caring for a loved one with a physical or mental illness or injury. Learning stress-relieving techniques is imperative for your health. You can check out Stress Awareness, Symptoms, and Strategies and Stress-Relieving Foods for more information.

Sleep – yes, wonderful sleep. When we sleep, it is the time our body repairs and rejuvenates. If we are trying to function on less than required sleep, our health will DEFINITELY suffer. There have been many studies on how much sleep we need; the minimum for most people is 6 to 7 hours of quality sleep. Some will need more.

Toxins – these are found everywhere, our water, our air, cleaning products, beauty products, clothing, and amalgam fillings to name just a few. Eliminating or at least reducing is an investment in your health. The Environmental Working Group can provide healthier options to cleaning products and beauty products. You can also check out a post I did on water here.

There are several questionnaires online that can give you an idea of your biological age. I found one that is pretty basic and does the calculations for you. You can check it out here. What I liked about this one is that you can change answers to determine how it changes your age. Let’s take sleep for example, maybe you sleep between 4 to 6 hours a day but if you change your answer to over 6, you can see how it affects your biological age. You can then work on getting more sleep to improve your health. Cool, right? I think this can be helpful to see different areas that we can make changes and effect our biological age. Maybe for you, drinking more water could be a place to start.

I encourage you to fill out the biological age calculator, but remember that this is for information purposes only. Let me know how you scored, whether older or younger than your chronological age. What steps can you take to improve your biological age?? If you would like weekly inspiration for investing in your health, you can subscribe to the blog and not miss out on great weekly posts.

Be blessed and be a blessing,

Heather

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