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One of the most multi-billion dollar industries is beauty products. Those wonderful products that promise to preserve and prolong our beauty. And, of course and according to the wise advertisers, beauty is synonymous with youth.
We witness the spectacle of these people who cling to a youth not so long ago gone, and even young people who in the hope of stopping the passage of time get undergo to painful interventions in which foreign bodies are introduced in their bodies . We even see mature people who want to compete in youth with people 20 or 30 years younger. We see them running behind some surgical formula or invasive intervention on their faces or bodies, as well as spending fortunes on beauty treatments, courtesy of the big cosmetics houses.
I want to clarify that I am not against the products of skin care, hair, and so on. God forbid!
The problem is that these magic formulas will not give us an inch of youth if we do not make a profound change in our way of thinking, in our way of seeing the world.
Everything must start from a deep internal change. If we do a gastric bypass and do not modify our eating habits, what are we really getting?
I want to share with you a series of tips that are low cost or free whose implementation would really help prolong the youth.
1.- To try always to learn something new. It seems a cliché. But if we consider that Jeanne Calment, the French supercentenary who lived more than 122 years, began to learn fencing at the age of 80, we began to see it differently. It is demonstrated that to learn new skills and abilities that are not related to the activities that ordinarily we make active connections between neurons (synapse) in our brain long time disconnected, thanks to the recently discovered cerebral plasticity.
Source: https://www.cognifit.com/es/plasticidad-cerebral
2.- Frugality. Frugality is something we should adopt as a philosophy of life. All excess, in eating, in exercise, in work, in pleasures, etc. is counterproductive and drains our vital energy. We do not need to dwell on the negative of excess caloric intake, but in the same way physical exercise in mature people should be moderate, because a prolonged and intense training cycle demands many internal resources of the body that could be covered easily by people in their 20s but harder by people in their 40s. The same with the night outings, the job ... Even the pleasures, the diversions, the social consumption of alcohol. Good, if few, twice good.
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3.- Protection against solar radiation. Someone described that ultra violet radiation attacked the cells in the same way that the cannons did in pieces of wood. The very high energy of UV rays damages the DNA of cells. This results in premature aging of the skin and even increased risk of certain kind of skin cancers. It's not a trendy fashion, it's a warning from dermatologists. The use of sunscreen lotions or gels should be a must, such as the use of deodorant, as well as sunglasses.
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4.- Good humor. In a study of long-lived people over 100 years carried out in China, no correlation was found between urban or rural lifestyles or vegetarian versus carnivorous diet. Neither at the level of instruction and there were even some smokers among the centenarians. The only thing that all those studied people had in common was a positive vision of life and an unwavering sense of humor.
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5.- Meditation. Several studies support the fact that people who meditate, who quiet their perception and concentrate either on their own breathing or on some higher being if it is their belief, tend to maintain lower stress levels, to be happier and to improve quality of life, all this in turn produces a maximization of joy and desire to live.
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Well, for now this is what I wanted to share with you. Let me know if you have any comments or, perhaps, what you are doing to stay young.
Thank you for reading!