Anti-Aging Medicine

A Preventive Anti-Aging Medicine

Anti-Aging Micronutrition

For optimal functioning, our body needs many micronutrients, these molecules that the body can not produce or manufacture in sufficient quantity. Some are familiar, such as minerals (calcium, phosphorus, magnesium and others), trace elements (iron, zinc, copper, selenium, iodine) or vitamins. Other less, as polyunsaturated fatty acids, amino acids or polyphenols, carotenoids or phytosterols. The causes of micronutrient deficiencies are largely due to our lifestyle and our diet. The methods of cultivation, storage or preparation, do also caused a depletion of micronutrients in our diet.

Micronutrition comes from many scientific investigations that have highlighted the health impact of micronutrient deficiencies on the one hand, and excess heavy metals, free radicals, saturated fat content in foods, on the other hand.

The main factor of aging is oxidative stress. Free radicals are produced during normal metabolism. It is the use of oxygen in the process of the creation of vital energy in our cells. This process produces waste called free radicals, which are useful to defend against infections, but may become harmful in high doses. What matters is having a good balance between production of free radicals in sufficient quantity for our health and production of enzymes with an anti-oxidant quality to control the level of free radicals and to prevent oxidative stress.

The anti-oxidants which our body needs to fight against the aggressions of the environment can be made in various ways: those naturally produced by our body. We produce them in large quantities when we are young, but their production declines with age. For many of them, supplementation is interesting from the thirties or forties. There are those provided by the diet and those made by medicinal plants. It may be necessary, following the biological assessment (determination of oxidative stress), to take supplements.

Micronutrients are often classified into 4 families: vitamins, minerals and trace elements, essential fatty acids and amino acids.

Vitamins are substances necessary to our bodies for the cellular renewal, fight against aging, elimination of toxins, but the body is not capable of making them, we must bring them through diet. Three vitamins act as powerful antioxidants: vitamin A (more its precursor), beta-carotene, vitamin E and vitamin C. Our diet should be rich in these vitamins to prevent deficiency. Supplements are needed only in cases of proved deficit because an excess of vitamins produced free radicals.

Some minerals (iron, magnesium, calcium, phosphorus, potassium ...) are necessary for all organs, including brain and necessary for the functioning of enzymes. But our body does not know how to make them. A possible ingestion of supplements may be necessary but followed medically.

Trace elements (zinc, selenium, copper, fluorine, chromium ...) can be synthesized by the body. It must extract them from food very regularly because reserves are limited. A good activity of enzymes and hormones is based on these trace elements.

The membranes of our cells are composed partly of essential fatty acids (omega 3), responsible for the fluidity and flexibility of the membranes. These fatty acids play an important role in preventing cardiovascular diseases, Alzheimer's, inflammation, and maintaining good immunity.

Amino acids are essential for our body to maintain and repair cells, produce enzymes and build new tissue. In the prevention of aging, amino acids are involved in the production of antioxidant molecules, like glutathione and alpha lipoid acid, which will regenerate all other antioxidants.



  
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