{"id":30581,"date":"2022-03-28T08:29:31","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T15:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/?p=30581"},"modified":"2022-03-22T10:16:19","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T17:16:19","slug":"is-age-truly-a-number-or-is-it-something-different-entirely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/all-mfn\/is-age-truly-a-number-or-is-it-something-different-entirely\/","title":{"rendered":"Is age truly a number or is it something different entirely?\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is age truly a number or is it something different entirely?\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Having just turned 50 and totally feeling like I am in my 20s while looking, according to longevity face age technology, like I am in my 30s, I personally had to get to the bottom of this question.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I have interviewed over 100 different longevity experts, written the best-selling book, the Codes of Longevity<\/em><\/a>, and continue to pore through the research to realize that again and again one key answer keeps popping up.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What it really means to be an “age” isn’t about good genes, a specific diet, cutting edge therapies, lotions, peptides or supplements, although these all do slow down the aging process.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Age is experienced, understood, and expressed as a result of our <\/span>perception.<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A key finding in the largest study to date done by Michigan State University on aging assessed over 1\/2 a million people to discover that “our perception of age changes as we age”.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What you believe and how you perceive yourself, your health and your potential matters! It’s literally the feedback from your brain to your body that plays a key role in either speeding up or slowing down the aging process.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This is shown again and again in the literature from neuroscience and epigenetics to psychoneuroimmunology that the brain informs, impacts and influences the expression of the cells and your very DNA.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Have you ever stopped to consider what you perceive about age?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I remember as a kid seeing the elders in my Italian family at get-togethers as strong, jovial, playful, passionate, and vibrant people. I noticed their beautiful skin, how active they were and decided then and there I was going to age amazingly.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

On the flip side, when I was 35, my mother died of cancer at the young age of 54 and that shifted my belief about what aging might mean for me.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What do you believe? How do you feel about age, a number, pick a number and consider if there is a person or experience that you can recall that influenced your perception or created a belief inside of you?<\/span><\/p>\n

You may, like many, think of “youth” as an expression of mental and physical ability fueled by energy, focus, performance, and the capacity to take on whatever comes your way. What do you consider to be “middle-aged” perhaps you think of the body slowing down, weight increasing, energy decreasing, and a mild loss of desire setting in, because “that’s just what happens when we get older”. While “old age” can bring up thoughts of the inevitable breakdown of the body and mind that may one day confine us to a wheelchair or nursing home.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

While yes, there are plenty of examples of this occurring, it doesn’t have to.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In a study published in the <\/span>Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience,<\/em> it was found that <\/span>people who felt younger than their age scored higher on memory tests, rated themselves as healthy, had more grey matter in the brain and were less likely to have symptoms of depression.<\/span><\/p>\n

You can begin to shift your perception, reconnect to the youthful you, and actually support your brain and body to reverse age by feeling younger.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Here are a few ways to practice living life optimized at any age and any stage:\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Check your perception<\/b><\/h4>\n

What you perceive, you believe. What you believe drives your feelings, emotions, habits, and daily actions. If you really want to express enhanced youthful vitality, begin by checking your perception of age.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n