Natural Anti Aging

Happy New Year 2010 to all of our readers of our natural anti aging site, PureAgeless.

We hope you and your family have had a good holiday season and are looking forward to the year 2010 with optimism. Perhaps you have made some New Year’s resolutions. New Year’s resolutions such as losing weight, quitting smoking, exercising more, or finding a bioidentical doctor to help you through menopause or andropause.  There are many anti aging new years resolutions you can make to help yourself to live better in the New Year.

The problem with New Year’s resolutions is that they are often hard to stick with and usually by the end of January into the new year, we’ve left our resolutions behind and taken up with our old habits again.

However, we can make this a year that we stick to our resolutions. We can make a promise to ourselves that we will live a more healthy life. Living a healthy life is actually a lifestyle choice and step by step, we can adopt small lifestyle changes into our lives. Trying to do everything at once is an almost impossible task. We’ve tried that before and it’s made us stressed to the max, overwhelmed, exhausted and tired. How about little changes which will eventually add up to a big lifestyle change?

If you smoke, cut down a few cigarettes a day, stop smoking in certain locations and at certain times. Try to break the habit a little bit at a time. Speak to your doctor about quitting smoking. There are many stop smoking aids available on the market today. Think about the benefits that quitting smoking will bring to you. For instance, your chances of dying earlier than you should, is a big plus. Your chance of having a heart attack or stroke decreases, your blood circulation improves, your lungs clear out, you will feel less tired and that continuous coughing will disappear. You will be saving money, money that is usually enough to book a nice holiday somewhere or pay for some anti aging cosmetic surgery you might want.

Eat more healthily. Another good New Year’s resolution to make. Perhaps, you want to lose weight. You can do this by changing your eating habits which must change as we grow older. Eat more protein, less fat, more leafy green vegetables, more fruit and whole grains. Snack on raw vegetables and nuts. Cut out the sugar and the processed food. Occasionally enjoy a glass of red wine. Take your health supplements which we need more of as we age.

If you are suffering from the symptoms of menopause find a bioidentical doctor or a naturopath to help you with hormone balancing.

Make small changes in your life to improve your overall health and well being. You can’t do it all at once, but making these small changes in small steps is a possible task. Trying to change everything at once is, for most people, absolutely impossible. Stay tuned to PureAgeless.com to keep up to date with the latest advances in natural anti aging. You’ll be doing yourself a favor. This year, be kind to yourself. You deserve it.

LED and Green Tea for Wrinkles

The latest natural anti aging skin treatment research for getting rid of wrinkles has been done by German researchers using a lotion made of green tea extract and high intensity light exposure (also known as LEDs), something they believe could replace cosmetic surgery procedures such as Botox.

Their research found that wrinkles were found to be reduced when Andrei P. Sommer and Dan Zhu when they placed a potent antioxidant called epigallocatechin gallate – derived from green tea extract and exposed the skin to intense LED light.  The exposure to LED light activates the manufacture of increased levels of reactive oxygen species known to damage cells.  This was done on a daily basis for several months.  The result was that facial wrinkles decreased when exposed to the high intensity light-emitting diodes (LEDs).

Before receiving the LED anti aging skin treatment, the test subject had a lotion made of green tea extract smoothed on the face for 20 minutes.  It was found that this produced results 10 times more quickly than just receiving the LED light by itself.  The results show the skin showed “less pronounced wrinkle levels, shorter wrinkle valleys and a juvenile complexion.”  This sounds very promising and something most people would rather have than invasive cosmetic procedures such as Botox, etc.

The researcher Mr. Sommer said, “There is a flood of LED devices in the market.  A few operate in the range found by us to be effective.” He also said they used a device that was professionally designed for wound healing and pain alleviation by military personnel.

It is already known that green tea extract and LED treatments are regularly used as anti aging skin treatments, however, one of the problems with LED treatments is the inconvenience of having to go to an anti aging clinic or doctor’s office everyday.  To make things easier and more practical for patients, they should buy at home-use LED device.

If you would like to read more about the natural anti aging health benefits of green tea, please read our article entitled “Green Tea Health Benefits – (I Don’t Know Why You Don’t Drink Green Tea)”.  We also have many product reviews on natural organic products for your skin and hair that contain green tea extract.  Green tea is one of the most beneficial natural anti aging products available today.  Drink it regularly and use some of the wonderful organic green tea anti aging moisturizers available on the market on your skin to prevent the signs of aging.

We have found a new bioidentical doctor in the Toronto area for those women and men seeking bioidentical hormones to treat their menopause or andropause symptoms. The doctor’s name is Dr. Pugen.

If you are beginning to suffer from the many symptoms of menopause which include hot flashes, night sweats, weight gain especially around the waist area, feelings of moodiness or depression, lack of energy, disturbed sleep patterns, (for example, waking in the early morning hours and unable to get back to sleep) and are approaching your early 40s or 50s, perhaps it’s time to seek a solution to these problems. Discuss with your doctor the options available for you. If your symptoms are not severe, you may be able to treat your menopause with simple life style changes such as a change in diet, exercise, reducing your stress levels and simple nutritional supplements. PureAgeless explores all the natural anti aging options available to you. However, if you are suffering from severe symptoms which are making your life extremely difficult, you may need to balance your hormone levels with bioidentical hormones.

You can go to any doctor, including your regular general doctor and have them do a hormone panel on you. This is a simple blood test where they will assess what your hormone levels are, including estrogen (estradiol, estrone and estriol, progesterone, free testosterone and your thyroid levels. By testing the levels of your hormones in your blood, the doctor will be able to know whether you are premenopausal or actually in menopause. If your hormone tests show that you have hormones which are unbalanced and you are in menopause, you can speak to your doctor about treating your menopause with bioidentical hormones.

Men are also treating their “menopause” – known as “andropause,” these days with bioidentical hormones. The procedure is the same for men and women. Visit your doctor to have the hormone levels tested and, in this way discover which of your hormones need to be replaced. If your regular doctor is not able to prescribe bioidentical hormones, men will then have to find a bioidentical doctor in their area. Simply make an appointment and discuss the symptoms you are experiencing and the results of your hormone tests. The hormones most commonly in decline in men as they approach their late 40s to early 50s include progesterone and testosterone. After visiting the bioidentical hormone doctor, they will obtain a prescription for an individually compounded bioidentical hormone mixtures of the hormones they need to replace.

You will be able to find Dr. Pugen’s contact information on our Canadian doctors page. Dr. Pugen is located on Bathurst Street area in north Toronto. Many thanks goes to one of our readers for supplying this bioidentical doctors name for our other readers. In this way, we can help each other in our search for bioidentical hormone relief for menopause and andropause symptoms.