After 40, try to slow down your body aging

Generally speaking, the health of a normal person reaches its peak at around the age of 25, after which the human body slowly enters the aging stage, and health begins to decline. After the age of 40, aging accelerates, and the functions of various parts of the body begin to decline. In addition to our own reasons, there are many external factors that cause our bodies to age faster. Here are some external factors. I hope everyone can pay more attention to them in their daily lives and try to delay the aging of their bodies.

| Trans fats accelerate heart aging

The survey found that every 2% increase in trans fat in the total daily dietary calories will increase the risk of coronary heart disease by 25%. In addition, a large intake of trans fats will also increase the risk of diseases such as diabetes, colon cancer, prostate cancer, breast cancer and gallstones.

The sources of trans fatty acids can be divided into two types: natural and synthetic. The ones we need to control are mainly synthetic ones. Common foods containing trans fatty acids include cream cakes, chocolate pies, puff pastries, wafer biscuits, sandwich cakes, egg yolk pies, cocoa butter substitute chocolate products, ice cream, French fries, etc.

When buying food, you can focus on checking the ingredient list. Any product labeled with artificial fat, margarine, vegetable butter, creamer, cocoa butter substitute, refined vegetable oil, shortening, artificial shortening, non-dairy creamer, etc. may contain trans fatty acids, so try to choose as little as possible.

Ways to take care of your heart

1. Press and rub Neiguan acupoint

Stretch out your arm, palm up, make a fist and lift your wrist. You can see two tendons in the middle of your arm. The Neiguan acupoint is located between the two tendons two finger widths away from the wrist. Pressing and kneading the Neiguan acupoint helps to circulate blood and qi. Press vertically downward with your thumb for about 3 minutes each time until you feel soreness and numbness in the area.

2. Pat your arms

Patting the inside of the arms stimulates the meridians, which is equivalent to giving the heart a benign stimulation and helps increase the heart's blood supply function.

| Alcohol and drugs accelerate liver aging

There are two common substances that accelerate liver aging: alcohol and drugs.

Studies have found that 58% of liver cancer is related to alcohol. Getting drunk once can cause hepatitis; drinking three glasses of beer regularly every day can become an independent risk factor for liver cancer; every additional 10g of alcohol per day increases the risk of liver cancer by 4%.

All medicines are toxic to some extent, and the liver, as the largest detoxification organ in the human body, is responsible for breaking down toxic substances absorbed by the body. Improper use of medicines or excessive intake may increase the burden on the liver and damage liver function.

Ways to take care of your liver

1. Pay attention to your diet

Daily intake of 90g of high-quality protein can repair liver cells and promote liver cell regeneration; vitamin C can reduce the damage of free radicals to liver cells, and you can appropriately increase the intake of green peppers, kale, broccoli, etc.; you can eat more mushrooms, quail eggs, sesame, malt and other foods.

2. The safest amount of alcohol is 0

It is healthy to not drink a drop of alcohol. If adults have to drink alcohol, they should strictly limit the amount of alcohol they drink. The recommended daily drinking limit is: 1 can of beer (350 ml) or 150 ml of red wine or 25-50 ml of white wine.

3. Stretch

The liver governs emotions and is mainly responsible for smooth flow. Working for a long time or maintaining one action can easily lead to liver qi stagnation. Stretching can make people feel relaxed and achieve the effect of regulating emotions, widening the chest and regulating qi.

| Laziness accelerates spleen aging

Lack of exercise is almost a common problem for modern people. The spleen controls the limbs and muscles. If your limbs and muscles are rarely active, how can your spleen and stomach be strong? In addition, eating too much greasy food will also damage the spleen; spicy food will consume qi and hurt body fluids; cold and chilled food will damage the yang of the spleen and stomach; and eating too much sweets will produce phlegm and dampness.

Ways to nourish the spleen

1. Live a regular life and exercise regularly. Don’t skip meals just to avoid trouble. This will damage your stomach qi and cause spleen and stomach weakness.

2. Rub your belly

Half an hour after a meal, place the palm or base of one hand on your abdomen, and press the back of your hand with the other hand, rotating in a clockwise direction. If you persist in this way for a long time, it can increase gastrointestinal motility and enhance the function of the spleen and stomach.

| Smoke and dust accelerate lung aging

The lungs love fresh air very much. Going out to nature is a good way to nourish the lungs. However, there are many foul air in life that are harmful to the lungs, which are often ignored by us. These include cigarettes and oil smoke. There are hundreds of harmful substances in tobacco, and 69 of them are confirmed carcinogens, which increase the risk of lung cancer, nasopharyngeal cancer, esophageal cancer, gastric cancer, etc.

In addition to the well-known harms of cigarettes, the stench in the bathroom, the fumes in the kitchen, the dust when cleaning, the musty smell in the empty room, and the odor when rummaging through old things can all cause damage to the lungs.

How to take care of your lungs

1. Lung protection soup You can drink some lung protection soup in daily life:

Take 2 slices of ginger, 3 slices of white radish, and 3 stalks of coriander, remove the leaves and keep the stems. Put them into the pot together, add appropriate amount of water and rock sugar, cook for 15 minutes after the pot boils and it is ready to eat.

2. Take a deep breath

Taking deep breaths to inhale fresh air into the lungs can increase lung capacity and make our lungs healthier. Exercise can strengthen lung contraction, and when you feel phlegm, you can cough twice consciously to cough out the dirt on the lung lobes more easily.

3. Self-protection

In addition to opening windows for ventilation regularly every day, it is also very necessary to frequently dry old items to remove mold and wear a dust mask when cleaning.

| Heavy salt accelerates kidney aging

The recommended salt intake for adults with light physical activity is 5g/day, but the average daily intake of Chinese residents is about 12g, which is seriously exceeded! The kidneys are most afraid of eating too much salty food. When we eat too much salt, the excess sodium will be excreted from the kidneys, damaging the kidneys.

Ways to protect your kidneys

1. Be careful about high-salt foods

In addition to limiting salt when cooking, you should also pay attention to "invisible salt" - processed foods such as soy sauce, chicken essence, MSG, pickles, and cooked food all contain hidden salt and should also be taken seriously.

2. Stand on tiptoe

Standing on tiptoes can stimulate the foot Shaoyin kidney meridian, dredge the foot three yin meridians, and make the qi in the body flow upward, thereby warming the kidneys and stimulating the vital energy.

| Ultraviolet rays accelerate skin aging

Ultraviolet rays have a greater impact on skin aging than any other environmental factor. Sunlight contains a large amount of ultraviolet rays, which can thicken the stratum corneum of the epidermis and damage the elastic fibers of the dermis, causing photoaging of the skin, accelerating the aging process of the skin, accelerating the synthesis of melanin, and causing insufficient collagen production in the skin, which gradually leads to sagging, wrinkles, roughness, and darkening. No skin care product is as important as sunscreen.

How to care for your skin

1. Pay attention to sun protection

Do a good job of sun protection before going out in sunny seasons. Sunbathing can promote the body's calcium absorption, but not excessively.

2. Pay attention to your diet

In daily life, you can eat more foods rich in provitamin A and carotene, which can enhance skin resistance, improve skin condition, and help reduce the occurrence of spots. The top three foods rich in provitamin A and carotene in life are: mango, broccoli, and carrot.

| Small ways to delay aging

1. Good living habits

Although aging is a natural law, if we develop good living habits, we can delay aging. Don't stay up late, go to bed before 11 o'clock every night, so that the metabolism can function normally.

2. Avoid smoking and drinking

This is the only way to reduce the possibility of cardiovascular disease. Cardiovascular diseases such as hypertension and diabetes will damage the microvessels in the brain. In order to delay brain aging, control blood pressure, blood sugar and cholesterol, and maintain a healthy weight.

3. Eat "nutrients" regularly

In daily life, try to avoid some foods that are harmful to the body. Occasional exposure is not a big problem, but try not to eat them for a long time. Eat more foods that are good for the major organs, ensure balanced nutrition, enhance the resistance of various organs, and delay their aging.

4. Aerobic exercise

It is recommended that middle-aged people participate in aerobic exercise of moderate difficulty and easy to stick to, which can increase oxygen absorption by 8 times that of resting, including walking, running, cycling, swimming, aerobics, etc. Long-term exercise can increase hemoglobin content, enhance immunity, improve cardiopulmonary function, and prevent coronary heart disease and hypertension. (Picture from the Internet)