There are more and more anti-aging centers and clinics popping up around the country. Considered a $97 Billion market, with everything from pills, lotions, hormones, diet, supplements, drugs, and I'm sure I'm forgetting some others, it is growing every year. It's not hard to imagine with a huge population expected to make up a growing percentage of the over 55 market, how more discoveries and increased knowledge of supplements in particular will spark the interest of those who would like to feel and look younger.

The great Dr. Oz and co-author Dr. Roizen have put out a book on the subject - YOU: Staying Young - that may give some insight into how diet and certain superfoods and supplements, among other things, can assist with not only anti-aging but reversing some of the normal effects from aging. Here's more from eMaxHealth.com --

After the runaway success of their first few books, doctors Michael Roizen and Mehmet Oz are back with a new guide to staying health and living longer with his Green Drink recipe.

You: Staying Young is the latest book from Oprah Winfrey's favorite doctors, who are also the authors of You: The Owner's Manual, You: The Smart Patient, and You: On a Diet.

In the book, doctors detail their claim that many of the effects of the aging process are not just preventable but even reversible with lifestyle changes, such as the Dr. Oz green drink recipe that they mentioned on the Oprah show. (The Dr. Oz green drink recipe contains ingredients such as spinach, parsley, ginger, and cucumber, which sounds very healthy... wonder how it tastes?). read more...

Comment: This is a time when we can get excited about all the new developments and discoveries on the care, prevention, and even reversal certain conditions. There are a plethora of superfoods to add to your diet and can assist with the helping avoid disease and sickness; there are new discoveries related to genomes and genetic mapping that may soon allow a treatment program for a patient with a disease, by using that patient's own cells and cultivating them to higher strengths and reinjecting them back into their own body. (It would be like taking your very best, elite trained soldier and cloning him a million times to fight a battle).

The bottom line for maintaining good health and wellness is to stick to a balanced diet, get plenty of exercise (recent reports suggest running or jogging is one of the best for maintaining your youth), and add some superfoods or phytonutrients to your diet and meal plan. Antioxidants are what "it" is all about for good health. And, who knows, maybe in the next 10 years with the computer and software technology, a discovery will be made to adjust the genetic makeup to allow 20 years of healthier, longer life.

HWI

Meal plan for maintaining a healthy diet and weight: Medifast

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