Age 50 Anti-Aging Supplements
General Detoxification and Immune Support Nutrients
You may not want to hear this but at age 50, a physiologic time bomb is set off that affects our immune and detoxification systems. This is a bad thing. Our bodies at this point in aging work with our detoxification and immune systems to protect us against cancer. Studies show that unless we become proactive, this protection declines with age, largely as a result of involution of the thymus gland and decrease ability for the liver to protect us as before.
With a decrease in our liver enzymes and the livers ability as the bodies filter to clear cancer-causing agents and other impurities from our bloodstream, our risk of cancer escalates. The immune system when weakens makes us much more prone to infections which may be life threatening.
Antioxidant supplements can boost your immune system back to a more youthful functioning. After age 50, taking a combo of supplements containing four natural agents (in addition to a high potency multiple vitamin and mineral) is essential in disease prevention and anti-aging. The stellar supplements are the following:
1. Reishi Mushroom extract
2. Astragalus
3. Indole-3 Carbinol (from cruciferous vegetables)
4. Milk Thistle (standardized to 80 percent silymarin flavonoid content)
After age 40, the body’s aging clock stages a number of metabolic changes that increase our risk for many degenerative and potentially deadly initiatives that can be impacted if properly targeted nutritional supplements are introduced at critical times. We have all heard our patients pronounce that at this particular point in time, their body just started to give out.
It is never too early to make the changes needed to promote optimal expression of health throughout our lifetime.
Age 50 and Beyond Female Support Nutrients
Women now live 30 percent of their lived in postmenopausal years and the ingestion of natural female support nutrients can help to preserve a more youthful appearance and bodily functions as well as address quality-of-life issues as they age.
Bioidentical hormones may offer women a new alternative treatment to the general hormone replacement therapies that increase the risk of breast cancer, heart disease and stroke. As a natural alternative, herbs and certain supplements can safely manage menopausal symptoms including hot flashes, insomnia, irritability, vaginal dryness and other bothersome effects in up to 80% of postmenopausal women.
Supplements that women should be taking include:
1. Black Cohosh
2. Soy Extract
3. Gamma-Oryzanol (a natural agent from rice bran oil used in Japan as a prescription drug to manage menopausal symptoms)
General effects from these three natural agents have been shown to minimize menopausal symptoms, help support bone density, maintain natural vaginal secretions, improve feelings of well-being and provide key anti-aging effect in women age 50 years or older.
Mid-50’s memory Support Nutrients
Acetylcholine – a key memory chemical in the brain is decrease in amounts as the brain ages. More acetylcholine means more memory and greater function. We need to boost the ability for the brain to produce this chemical and much of the anti-aging research has shown great strides in the use of the following nutrients which also improve memory in patients suffering from compromised memory and/or other mental performance difficulties:
1. CDP-choline
2. Phosphatidyl-serine
3. Bacoopa monnieri
4. Huperzine A
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