Ageing gracefully is always the goal. However, our bodies don’t always make this easy for us.
Throughout your ageing journey you may experience hormone imbalances, weight gain, thyroid activity changes, changes to libido, chronic disease and more.
At Energie Natural Health our holistic approach to health care see’s our team focus on optimal wellness all throughout life, each stage, twist, turn and road bump.
The first step to assist with anti-aging and longevity is to understand any pre-existing health conditions or concerns. Understand your state of health assists our team in creating a detailed road map of you antiaging journey and understand pre-existing factors that may need to be addressed or managed before moving forward.
The next step is look at your diet and lifestyle, are you caring for your body as best you can from the inside out? Do you keep fairly active or are you looking to add energy back into your life through lifestyle, dietary and herbal remedy changes?
Although our team focuses on many factors in the anti-aging process the three more influential factors are oxidative stress, glycation and telomere shortening.
OXIDATIVE STRESS
Oxygen is one of our bodies necessities to live but also to assist in the production of energy. This process of producing energy is oxidation and causes free radicals, the free radicals that are formed as a byproduct of energy cause damage to the cells of our body.
As free radicals are naturally occurring in our body our systems can withstand a certain amount. However, to many free radicals and our body and not process them.
Free radicals are also brought on by stress, poor diet, alcohol, smoking, chemicals, radiation and infection.
Free radicals can cause:
- Damage to the nerve cells of the brain
- Arthritis
- Impaired vision through damage to the lenses of our eyes
- Premature ageing
- Increased risk of heart attack
- Increased risk of cancer
To be able to counteract free radical we look to antioxidants. Antioxidants work to neutralise free radicals and prevent damage to the body’s cells. However, to be able to utilise antioxidants patients’ needs to have adequate diet and nutrition to allow the antioxidants to effectively warn off the production of aggressive free radicals.
The naturopathic team at Energie Natural Health can work with you to supplement and replace antioxidants in your diet to ensure good health and a positive outlook.
GLYCATION
We identify glycation in the body when the sugar from the food we eat chemically binds to DNA, protein and fats leaving the molecules unable to be broken down and actively do what our bodies require them to do. Glycation usually increases with age and causes bodily tissues to malfunction which often results in disease and some cases death.
TELOMERE SHORTENING
Telomeres are found on the ends of our chromosomes and act as an end cap to ensure our chromosomes don’t fray or become stuck together. Then telomeres do not stop the fraying or the sticking of chromosomes abnormal cells are formed which often result in cancer and other diseases. This is the process of telomere shortening and is a large preventative focus for the team at Energie Natural Health to ensure our patients experience optimal health during their ageing journey.