Lower your age

Things to Do

Lower your age

Michael Roizen, M.D., and cofounder of RealAge.com has done an exhaustive review of more than 35,000 medical and scientific studies about aging in humans. Here are his tips to help make a woman's real age younger in as little as 90 days.

Realage.com: 12 ways to age younger 1. An aspirin a day after age 40: Taking one 325 mg. tablet of aspirin per day can make your real age as much as 1.9 years younger.

Realage.com: 12 ways to age younger 2. Floss your teeth: Flossing and brushing daily can make your real age 6.4 years younger.

Realage.com: 12 ways to age younger 3. Know your blood pressure: A person with low blood pressure (115/75 mm Hg) is as much as 25 years younger than a person with high blood pressure (greater than 160/90 mm Hg).

Realage.com: 12 ways to age younger 4. Reduce stress: In highly stressful times, your real age can be as much as 32 years older than your calendar age. By building strong social networks and adopting stress-reduction strategies, you can erase 30 of those 32 years of aging caused by stress.

Realage.com: 12 ways to age younger5. Take your vitamins: Regularly taking vitamin C (1,200 mg/day), vitamin E (400 IU/day), calcium (1,000-1,200 mg/day), vitamin D (400-600 IU/day), folate (400 mcg/day), and vitamin B6 (6 mg/day) can make your real age 6 years younger.

Realage.com: 12 ways to age younger 6. Quit smoking and avoid passive smoke: Smoking makes your real age 8 years older.

Realage.com: 12 ways to age younger 7. Be active: Even a small amount of exercise, two 20-minute walks per day, can make your real age nearly 5 years younger.

Realage.com: 12 ways to age younger8. Wear your seat belt: Regularly wearing a seat belt and driving within 5 miles per hour of the speed limit can make your real age as much as 3.4 years younger.

Realage.com: 12 ways to age younger 9. Fill up on fiber: Getting 25 grams of fiber per day in your diet can make your real age 2.5 years younger than if you only included 12 grams of fiber per day in your diet.

Realage.com: 12 ways to age younger 10. Monitor your health: People who are proactive about seeking high-quality medical care and managing chronic conditions can have a real age as much as 12 years younger than their peers who do not.

Realage.com: 12 ways to age younger 11. Laugh: Laughter reduces stress, strengthens the immune system and can make your real age as much as 8 years younger.

Realage.com: 12 ways to age younger 12. Become a lifelong learner: People who remain intellectually involved throughout their lives have a real age as much as 2.5 years younger.

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Realage.com: 12 ways to age younger 1. An aspirin a day after age 40: Taking one 325 mg. tablet of aspirin per day can make your real age as much as 1.9 years younger.

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