Aging: What Happens As We Age?

When it comes to aging, your experience will be unique. It's true that there are general tendencies, but each of us will have a different mix of these factors. To reverse or avoid these symptoms it helps if you learn their causes.

Since your experience will be at least somewhat different that other people's, we've listed these issues by how your symptoms show up. We think this is the easiest way to quickly get the information you're looking for.

You may have more than one set of symptoms. If so, read the information for both. You'll probably find connections between them.

Here's the list:

Feeling aches and pains? There can be several factors leading to this, many that you can control.

One of the most common causes of pain is inflammation. The real question is what causes the inflammation? Discover the deeper cause, and more importantly, what you can do do eliminate it.

Another cause is related to a type of 'stickiness' in between your cells and tissues. This stickiness, called Advanced Glycation End Products (AGEs) is like gooey caramel between your cells and creates all kinds of health problems. This is associated with diabetes and the pre-diabetes condition called Metabolic Syndrome. Find out where this comes from and what to do about it.

Having trouble with memory? Mental focus and memory are crucial for your quality of life. Here you'll discover some of the contributing factors to decreased brain power. We'll also talk about ways to avoid this problem.

Learn about the effect of oxidation on aging and the importance of anti-oxidants in keeping your brain healthy.

Also discover how brain chemistry imbalances in aging can affect memory and focus.

You may be surprised to learn that exercising your brain can make a huge difference in your ability to focus and recall.

Feeling physically weaker with aging? This is often related to muscle loss.

If you can't do all the things you used to, take heart. This is usually one of the easiest things to correct and only requires some commitment to improve.

Exercise is one way to rebuild strength and to prevent weakness in the first place.

Of course, there are times when exercise is difficult or impossible. In these moments there are still things you can do to help your body maintain strength. Among the most useful are mental visualization and taking supplements for strength.

Finally, an important aspect of the aging process is loss of the ability to recover easily from injury or illness. Immune weakness, digestive weakness and cognitive decline are a part of this.

Recent research shows that there is a link between loss of these important functions and loss of the ability to regenerate new cells in the body. And, the most important contributing factor for regenerating new cells is the strength of your body's natural supply of stem cells.

An Important Concept

Most of the above problems can be managed once you understand a simple, but very important concept, use it or lose it.

Additional factors that affect the aging process include stress and hormone imbalances.

A case in point for the latter issue is menopause. Because of this, women have additional different problems as they age.

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