Aging and Anti Aging The Fact and Fiction...

You start aging from the minute you are born, your body endures many changes during it's early development towards full adulthood. As you reach young adolescence, however the body experiences a series of senescence, or abnormal body changes due to its aging.

These body changes or signs of aging have already started to reduce the efficiency of how your body functions. These changes will at this stage be almost undetectable but are the start of the aging process taking hold.

Your musculoskeletal system is the first part of your body to show signs of aging and is usually the first place to be effected by illness and disease usually associated with getting older. This is why after age 35 you should take precautions to reduce the risk of injury or disease as your bodies ability to repair lessens as it starts to age more rapidly.

This can be achieved by where possible preventing accidental damage, abuse such as drinking or taking drugs to excess and also smoking. Your health can be improved by increased levels of exercise, healthy eating adopting a positive outlook on life and hanging aound with positive people.

Visiting your doctor is essential to prevent disease and control the accelerating of the effects of aging as well. When you visit your doctor, he'll takes the time to study your physical status and look at your family health history. The doctor will consider any hereditary diseases and consider if required any cures or preventative measures are needed and if appropriate treatment to help you avoid disease and prevent premature aging.

As noted earlier, our body starts to deteriorate due to aging by age 35, also our sensory organs may also start to take a rain check. At this time, the eyes may become affected and you might find it difficult to focus on objects up close. In medical terms, this condition is known as presbyopia.

We should not be shocked at the number of people under 35 who need to wear aids for their vision either contact lenses (the choice of many) and glasses. By the time you get to age 40 there is around a one in five chance you will be wearing glasses or contact lenses. Currently around 90 million people over 40 suffer from presbyopia in the US today. A figure which is increasing year on year.

In addition to failing eyes sight you may start to experience a loss of hearing. It is certainly not unknown for you to start experiencing signs of hearing loss or even deafness after age 40. This is a condition refered to as presbycusis another sign of aging. An example of how this might effect you might be changes in musical taste from hard rock to more mellow music.

Or if you enjoyed rock concerts when you were younger, and now find that you do not enjoy concerts at all, it is because your hearing has significantly changed, which means the high-pitch of hearing has been affected, which has slowly reduced the lower hearing tone. When hearing becomes impaired, it often seems like those talking are inarticulate or you are missing words here and there.

Since the hearing is now weaker,you might experience speech changes. For instance, the use of K may sound distorted, which affects how you hear it. In other words, a older person with partial deafness may here the CH in a word, such as Chute Up, and think that someone is telling them to shut-up.

The CH sounds different. It is possible to help people with hearing problems or partial deafness in a number of ways by using hearing aids or other assistive listening devices. In addition it helps to face the person you are talking to and maybe use body language or hand gestures to assist in any explanation or conversation. Also speak clearly and more slowly.

These are all signs of natural healthy aging, yet in some aging signs are less natural. For instance, if you unfortunate enough to contract lung cancer because of a history of smoking, or being around second-hand smoke, then the cause is not what nature intended.

During maturity and the body starts aging it is common for weight changes to occur (this is more prevalent in families with history of obesity and being overweight). The body produces up to 30% more fat and converts food to energy less effectively at around the age of 40. In addition wrinkles and other signs of aging start to become more noticable.

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