This document discusses healthy aging and ways to minimize premature aging. It notes that lifestyle factors like smoking, drugs, sun exposure, poor diet and stress can accelerate the aging process. However, adopting healthier habits like a non-toxic lifestyle, adequate sleep, nutritious diet, exercise, dental hygiene and stress management can help embrace age rejuvenation. Naturopathic doctors can help guide lifestyle changes and treat health conditions using natural therapies to support healthy aging.

1. Healthy Ageing

2. What is premature ageing?
• Premature ageing is when we look, act
and feel much older than we are.
• Changes accumulate in our
bodies, especially in our organs, that
prevent them from functioning as well as
they could.

3. Think about this:
• In 1950, there were 2,300 U.S.
centenarians and by 2003, there were
more than 40,000.
• Is a longer life worthwhile if you’re too
unhealthy to enjoy it?

4. Does getting old mean getting sick?
• Jack LaLanne once said, “People don’t die
of old age, they die of neglect.”
• In April 2008, Harvard identified a number
of conditions often associated with aging
that they believe can be
reversed/managed with diet and lifestyle
changes.

5. No Pills For These Ills
• The April 2008 issue of the Harvard Health Letter states
that these conditions can be effectively cared for without
medication:
– Arthritis
– Cholesterol
– Cognitive decline
– Depression
– Diabetes
– High blood pressure
– Osteoporosis

6. How to minimize premature aging?
• Focus on these 2 things:
– Avoid age accelerators
– Embrace age rejuvenators

7. Avoid Age Accelerators
• Cigarrettes
• Drugs
• Water
• Excessive Sun Exposure
• Bad Diets
• Dry Skin

8. Avoid Age Accelerators
• Cigarettes Cigarette smoke
exposes you to
• Drugs damaging free
radicals that will
• Water accelerate the
• Excessive Sun Exposure aging process by
harming the
• Bad Diets microcapillaries
• Dry Skin in the skin.

9. Avoid Age Accelerators
• Cigarettes
• Drugs Alcohol, “recreat
ional drugs” and
• Water prescribed
medications tax
• Excessive Sun Exposure your body’s
• Bad Diets ability to heal
itself.
• Dry Skin

10. Avoid Age Accelerators
• Cigarettes
• Drugs
All water is not
• Water
created equal!
• Excessive Sun Exposure There are
concerns about
• Bad Diets mineral and
• Dry Skin distilled waters.

11. Avoid Age Accelerators
• Cigarettes Some sun
• Inadequate Sleep exposure is
good but too
• Water much
• Excessive Sun Exposure contributes
to
• Bad Diets sunburn, wri
nkling and
• Dry Skin other kinds
of damage.

12. Avoid Age Accelerators
• Cigarettes
• Drugs
• Water
• Excessive Sun Exposure
Dietary issues:
• Bad Diets •Yoyo weight loss
•Calories
• Dry Skin •Nutrient imbalances

13. Avoid Age Accelerators
• Cigarettes
• Drugs
• Water
• Excessive Sun Exposure
• Bad Diets
• Dry Skin Dry skin is weak
skin. It’s more
susceptible to
other forms of
damage.

14. How to minimize premature aging?
• Focus on these 2 things:
– Avoid age accelerators
– Embrace age rejuvenators

15. Embrace Age Rejuvenators
• Adopt a non-toxic lifestyle.
• Get adequate sleep.
• Eat right.
• Exercise.
• Floss.
• Manage stress.

16. Embrace Age Rejuvenators
• Adopt a non-toxic lifestyle.
• Get adequate sleep. A toxin is
anything that
• Eat right. creates
irritation or
• Exercise. harm for our
• Floss. bodies.
• Manage stress.

17. Embrace Age Rejuvenators
• Adopt a non-toxic lifestyle.
• Get adequate sleep. Insufficient sleep
can hinder
• Eat right. metabolism and
hormone
• Exercise. production in a
• Floss. way that is
similar to the
• Manage stress. effects of aging.

18. Embrace Age Rejuvenators
• Adopt a non-toxic lifestyle.
• Get adequate sleep.
Eat a vegetable-
• Eat right.
based diet that
• Exercise. is a appropriate
for your
• Floss. metabolism and
• Manage stress. state of health.

19. Embrace Age Rejuvenators
• Adopt a non-toxic lifestyle.
• Get adequate sleep.
• Eat right.
• Exercise. Even small
amounts of
• Floss. exercise can
shave nearly 5
• Manage stress. years off your
“body age”.

20. Embrace Age Rejuvenators
• Adopt a non-toxic lifestyle.
• Get adequate sleep.
• Eat right.
• Exercise. Tooth decay and
• Floss. gum disease are
associated with
• Manage stress. heart disease.

21. Embrace Age Rejuvenators
• Adopt a non-toxic lifestyle.
• Get adequate sleep.
• Eat right.
• Exercise. Chronic stress
increases the
• Floss. level of cortisol.
• Manage stress. Cortisol
increases blood
glucose and fat
deposition.

22. Other Age-Defiers
• Address emotional traumas to maintain
psychological health
• Become a lifelong learner to keep your
brain performing optimally
• Stay socially engaged – people who feel
connected to others handle the ups and
downs of life better

23. How can naturopathy help?
What is naturopathic medicine?
• Naturopathic medicine is a distinct system of primary health care
that addresses the root cause of illness and promotes health using
natural therapies.
• Naturopathic doctors are highly educated primary care providers
who integrate standard medical diagnostics with a broad range of
natural therapies.
• Naturopathic doctors work collaboratively with you to ensure your
needs are met by treating the whole person: mind, body and spirit.

24. How can naturopathy help?
NDs can:
• Guide and coach you as you establish your age-defying
lifestyle.
• Treat any health conditions you may have using
therapies that are natural, safe, gentle, and effective.