10 Habits to Slow Down Aging and Look Better than 99% of People

Alexandru Lazar
ILLUMINATION
Published in
7 min readApr 11, 2024

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How to combat aging effects to look and feel better than your peers

Photo by Rod Long on Unsplash

Among the natural phenomena that we as a society accepted as fate, aging seemed the most daunting of all. Spiritually, knowing we slowly age and get closer to the end will be a motivator to live better and to the fullest.

I see no issue with aging in life! The problem isn’t in adding one more candle to the cake, but rather in the concept that aging equals less mental and physical capacity! I personally don’t believe that should be the case.

The studies show that aging comes with muscle loss and grey matter loss, and some confirmed our bodies are very slowly decaying. However, a lot of studies also showed how any age can increase muscle mass, how learning keeps our grey matter in place, and how certain activities, vitamins, and minerals promote cellular regeneration.

The real reason we lose abilities with age

The real reason we lose so much of our abilities with age is that we don’t pay attention and care about our bodies along the way:

  • During our teens or 20s, we don’t care because we are young and everything functions at full speed. So we do detrimental activities to our body and mind, while we work hard on our…

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