6 Simple Steps To Improve Your Health & Extend Your Life

While much has been done to achieve a longer life span in the recent decades, and average life expectancy now being much higher than just a century ago, research has only just started to catch up on improving the quality of life in those years.

 

While age-related illness such as cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer’s, type 2 diabetes have become so common that they are almost accepted as a ‘normal’ part of ageing, research in the past years has shed light onto a new fascinating area, called ‘health span’ and anti-ageing. Health span research looks into how best to keep one healthy as we get older, as to enjoy a high quality of life, void of ill health, for as long as possible.

 

One of the leading researchers in that field, Professor David Sinclair from Harvard Medical School, has become known for his team’s discovery of the ‘9 Hallmarks of Ageing’ (1) describing what underlies age related decline, including mechanisms like ‘zombie cells’ (senescent cells) accumulating and more. In easier words, it is damage to our cells that accumulates, and our renewal capacity not being able to keep up with housekeeping and repair, that, once it builds up, contributes to our bodily decline.

 

But what does that all mean in practical terms? What is one to do to extend one’s health span, and prevent age related illness and decline?

 

I am summarising the top 6 most important strategies to prevent age related decline and to optimise health in this video. To read it, head to my latest blog post: https://functionalmedicine.me.uk/2023/07/07/simple-steps-to-improve-your-health-extend-your-life/