As we get older, our bodies get stiffer, and we gradually lose the natural flexibility we once possessed as children. Why does this happen? Flexibility comes not just from stretching, but from possessing adequate current flow in your body.

While babies are born very flexible, if you were to feed a child a diet of free-radical inducing foods – such as fried foods – that child would lose flexibility very quickly. This is because free radicals rob electrons from the body, which then leads to abnormal tissue oxidation. This in turn causes the collagenous and elastic connective tissues located around your muscles to ‘stick’ to each other (called cross-linking), which is a leading cause of stiffness.

When people say they want to lose weight, they’re usually talking about losing excess fat.

If you want to lose fat, then it’s important to know under what conditions fat cells multiply, grow ‘fatter’ or shrink. Yes, fat cells can get fatter also. They are the cells responsible for storing the unused calories you consume, so the more calories and less exercise, the larger they will get. What’s more, when a fat cell grows fat enough (3 to 6 times its original size), it multiplies. These new cells, in turn, can get fatter.

A little older, a little wiser. But what if we could keep our wisdom and recapture our youthful energy? Growing older does not have to mean dealing with age-related diseases, and our physical age needn’t

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Our health comes down to the health of our cells. They literally make up our entire bodies, so it makes sense that if they’re in good working condition, so are we. When our cells can’t do their job properly complications arise, and we experience the so-called side-effects of aging. The formula for aging, from this perspective, is mistakes over time – small mistakes your cells make that compound and snowball out of control. One such mistake is electron loss over time, but taking anti-oxidant supplements isn’t enough to fix this because of an associated problem – cellular ‘current’ loss. Let’s look at why this is the case and what we can do about it:

Our body’s energy is produced through a process known as cellular respiration: this is where your cells use the nutrients you’ve ingested through food, along with the air you breathe, and transform them into adenosine triphosphate (ATP) – the fuel for cellular energy. For a cell to ‘breathe’ at optimal levels, there are two systems that need to balance each other: oxidative and reductive.

What is aging? The simple answer is getting older. But why do our bodies break down over time? Though we assume that the side effects of aging such as hearing loss, energy loss, and Alzheimers are a normal part of the process, they are not inevitable – not all elderly people are afflicted with these illnesses. Two people can be of the same age, yet their bodies and minds can be in extremely different states of health.