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Best Ayurveda Diet And Lifestyle Tips For Anti-Aging
Celebrate just being young! Are you actually bothered about early signs of aging?
What Tells You Are Aging?
Early aging may include some signs like –
- early graying of hair,
- There is dry and wrinkled skin,
- dark circles below the eyes,
- Moreover, you tend to have flabby skin
- Weight gain comes easy.
Why You Age Soon?
- You can blame it on food adulteration,
- Moreover we are enjoying too much of modernized sedentary lifestyles.
- or even there could be environmental impinge.
The signs of aging have become obvious and deluding!
Stay Young with Ayurveda
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- The ongoing process of aging needs to be hampered or slowed down considerably.
- And this is when the signs of physical and mental deterioration seem to commence.
- At this time, Ayurveda stresses on following small lifestyle modifications of
- diet,
- exercise
- and normal sleep
These could add years to your life.
Ayurveda Diet and Lifestyle Tips for Anti-Aging
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The daily food intake should preferably be freshly cooked, appealing to taste and easily digestible. Intake of spicy, fried foods, cold drinks, caffeine rich foods and drinks and alcohol should be minimized.
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Try and include all the six tastes in your daily diet: sweet, salty, sour, pungent, bitter and astringent.
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You need to take care to include optimum exercises in your daily routine.
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All this helps to keep more active, flexible and away from progressing ailments.
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These exercises should be performed according to your own strength and tolerance power.
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Going in for a brisk walk early in the morning would be a good form of exercise.
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Sound sleep for seven to eight hours is the best form of rest.
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This helps the body and mind relax completely and also helps regain the daily loss of energy.
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Besides, this is also a necessary ingredient for retaining – as well as reviving – natural wellness, vigor and vitality, all of which are immensely important in defying aging naturally.
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Rasayana – Natural Rejuvenation Therapy
Ayurveda offers age-old rehabilitation therapy of Rasayana that imparts natural rejuvenation management.
- This therapy occupies a prime position in Ayurveda.
- The therapy of Rasayana abides as a distinctive branch that deals with maintaining and ameliorating the body functions.
- Also, it includes proper functioning of the brain.
- And all the more, timely use of Rasayanas could help in increasing resistance against disease.
- You could achieve enhancement of your health.
- Feel an increase in vigor as well as vitality.
- And the best benefit is, there is delaying of the debility of aging.
An herbal formulation of Chyavanprasha Rasayana has the adage of Sage Chyavan restoring youth while in old age with this Rasayana.
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Imbibing Natural Environment
- Other than the internal use of this therapy, the external environment works as prop-up aid.
- Living in comprehensive natural surroundings is an aptly supportive therapy.
- Herein, simply the general rules of living and natural regimen of seasons are to be followed.
- Moreover, this therapy works in accordance to the science of Naturopathy.
Herbal Remedies For Endorsement Of Youth
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Aloe vera
- Fresh juice or extract from this herb of Aloe vera could prove to be a boon for your skin.
- Aloe vera is slimy and mucoid by nature and is however cold in action.
- In other words, while it is bitter in taste, the herb of Aloe vera has a pungent aftertaste.
Having the property of blood purification, it is also beneficial in curing many skin ailments like –
- acne or pimples,
- Similarly there could be allergic rash on the skin,
- swellings
- and blemishes.
- Thus, it is believed to help subside the aggravated heat in the body.
- And at the same time retain moisture in the skin.
- Therefore it supports your skin care merits by keeping your skin soft and supple.
- About 10 to 20 ml of freshly extracted juice may be taken as supplement.
- You could apply it onto your skin.
- This is for the reason that a local application of the pulp or juice is also recommended.
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Neem
- According to Ayurveda, Neem is light in nature and cold in action.
- The taste is pungent and astringent,
- Whereas the aftertaste of Neem leaves is bitter.
- Therefore, as per Ayurvedic understanding, Neem also proves beneficial in decreasing the aggravated heat in the body system.
- All the more, it is believed to be a natural antiseptic and a natural skin healer.
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Turmeric
- Turmeric is another herb that has for always been associated with beauty.
- It acts as a wonderful beauty therapy as well as efficient cosmetic use.
- Moreover,Turmeric mixed with flour (besan) and sandalwood powder applied to the skin makes it soft and glowing.
- Besides, this helps to remove blemishes.
- You could easily apply this supplemented with a little oil or butter.
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Sandalwood
- Sandalwood is believed to be a holder of anti-toxic and also rejuvenating properties.
This particular herb proves highly meritorious in curing and as well keeping you away from heat-related skin problems like –
- itching on the skin,
- blemishes and dark circles under your eyes,
- Skin allergies
- and in case of roughness of the skin.
- Therefore, so as to do away with the progression of signs of aging, you could apply some sandalwood oil mixed into coconut oil and massage into withering skin texture.
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Rose
- Rose is believed to be light, slimy and cold in action.
- While, it is also rich in vitamin C, at the same time, Rose is virtuous for the skin.
- As for enhancing the health of your skin, you can apply the Rose water externally to the skin.
- So, this provides better results.
- And therefore you can get a fairer complexion.
- You could also take two teaspoons of Rose syrup mixed in a glassful of water on an empty stomach once or twice a day.
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Amla
- The fruit of Amla is a natural source of wellness and bestows anti-aging virtues.
- Although, there are special properties of rejuvenation and revitalizing of the entire body systems in the fruit of Amla.
- Amla or Emlica officinalis is sour in taste, cold and heavy in nature and has a sweet aftertaste.
- Chemically, the fruit of Amla is full of citric acid.
- Therefore, it is said to contain the best and the largest amount of vitamin C extracted from the nature.
- It also contains a good amount of Calcium and also minerals, like iron and phosphorous, in nominal amounts.
- Some other important ingredients are albumin, cellulose, fiber, carbohydrate, sugar and water are also present in the fruit.
- Besides, Ayurveda believes that the fruit of Aamla helps to reduce all the tridoshas or the three body humors viz. Vata, Pitta and Kapha, or the air, fire and phlegm.
- Mainly because when these doshas are aggravated in your system, above their normal limits, this causes disease.
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Yoga And Meditation Helps
- Yoga poses and deep-breathing techniques of Pranayama are virtual gain for all those who find themselves growing conscious about the progressing years.
- This is mainly due to the fact that Yoga aids in slowing down the process of aging in a number of ways.
- When you are able to practice this regularly, it so happens that the body cell degeneration decreases considerably.
- And moreover this in turn imparts vitality and vigor to mind, body and soul.
- Not only this, practicing meditation provides inner peace, helps reduce debility and limitations and even slows down the aging process.
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