The Digest | New Jersey Magazine
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Healthy Mindset Keeping your mind active and creating a happy, positive mindset helps extend our time on Earth. The human brain may not be a muscle, but it acts like one in the sense that if you don't exercise it and challenge your mind, it will grow weaker. Stimulating your brain through reading, doing puzzles, playing cards, listening to music, and even learning a new skill, will help keep your brain engaged and allow it to function on a higher level. Engaging your brain reduces your risk of diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. Getting enough sleep is crucial when it comes to mental health and overall happiness. Lack of sleep can lead to memory loss and cognitive function issues. This can affect our decision-making skills and our drive and will to do our daily activities. Enough sleep leads to higher energy levels and better overall health, which in turn can help you look younger. A healthy mindset is essential to living a longer life. Depression and anxiety are extremely common and become more intense as a person ages. Reaching fulfillment in life and continuing to set and work towards goals leads to a healthy mindset and happier life. Reducing stress by talking about how you feel, going on daily walks outdoors, and limiting environments that are triggering, are fundamental parts to slowing down aging. Spending time with friends and family, getting out of the house, and surrounding yourself with young people and fresh ideas, will help keep your mind active and healthy, propelling the quality of life. Aging is absolutely inevitable. It is a part of our journey as humans, and something we all must face. If you take today as your first day of promoting your health and taking the steps towards slowing down the aging process, you are already on the right track. As you go through your daily routine, be mindful of your choices and remember that your body is your home and you only get one, so treat it right, nourish it, and listen to it. A healthy mindset is essential to living a longer life. Muscle Recovery Agents While staying active and exercising our bodies is important, making sure our muscles get the correct recovery is essential in slowing down the aging process. The better recovered and stretched the muscles are, the more they are able to do. PRODUCTS WE LOVE: Nature Made Fish Oil Ora Organic Plant-Based Protein Powder Sunscreen Continuously applying an SPF sunscreen of 30 or higher on both the face and body, daily, protects the skin f rom harmful UV rays, ultimately slowing the process of skin aging. PRODUCTS WE LOVE: Supergoop! Glow Screen Shiseido Ultimate Sun Protector Lotion Digestive Enzymes & Probiotics Maintaining gut health is an important part of aging and as we age, we may need a little extra help with digesting. Digestive Enzymes and Probiotics help the body absorb nutrients and efficiently break down food, leading to a healthier gut and physical state. PRODUCTS WE LOVE: Seed DS-01™ Daily Synbiotic Onnit Total GUT HEALTH™ Pure Encapsulations Digestive Enzymes