The Golden Ticket for Baby-Boomers!

While at first glance, strength may seem like a young person's game, it is, actually a game we all need to be playing. 

Strength is something that many people take for granted in their youth. After all, how important is something you can't see? As we age, however, strength becomes a vital part of our health and well-being. The right amount of physical activity can protect you against diseases such as osteoporosis, diabetes and heart disease. As you get older, muscle loss doesn't just make everyday tasks like getting out of bed difficult – it will, plain and simple, slow you down.

Why Muscle Strength is Important for Baby-Boomers

Strength is one of the most important abilities for living life at its fullest. It helps you move, work, and play more easily. Knowing how important strength is and keeping it as you age can influence your overall health. Strength also affects your bones and joints, as well as your balance.

Getting older doesn't mean you have to feel weaker, but losing muscle strength is one way we age. It’s difficult to reverse this process, but there are things you can do to help prevent it from happening. Start by using proper body mechanics and building the strength of certain muscles by using the right exercises for your body type.

What Studies About Muscle Strength Show Us

Study after study shows that maintaining muscle strength is is the one way to have fewer fractures and falls, fewer doctor visits, and lower healthcare costs as you age if you maintain strength levels. Many studies show that strength training helps improve bone density, and recent research suggests that it could help with weight management by boosting resting metabolism. If you're over the age of 30, maintaining your strength is one of the best things you can do for your overall health."

While it's generally believed that hormones have no effect on strength, recent research suggests that they may have a greater effect than we previously thought. Knowing more about your body's hormones could help explain why you're not able to perform certain exercises or lift as much weight as you used to.

How Hormones Affect Muscle Strength

Depleting and deficient hormones can actually impact your strength, so, maintaining a stable body weight and an active lifestyle can help offset this effect. When it comes to life expectancy, being physically fit does more than just reduce the risk of heart disease. It also keeps bones strong, improves balance and coordination, reduces muscle loss and boosts energy levels until you’re ready to retire!

Living a healthy lifestyle is important in maintaining that high quality of life. Resilience to the diseases of aging, and healthy aging overall, is influenced by many factors. Exercise plays an essential role in these processes. On average, older adults lose around 0.5% of their muscle mass each year from the age of 40 onwards and this process accelerates after 65 years of age.

The good news is you don't have to be a victim of aging. You can start taking control through a couple simple lifestyle changes.

First, you need to know if your condition is a result of changes in your hormones or if there is some other underlying condition.

Hormonal change is a natural process and a normal part of aging that starts around 30.

How to Become An Advocate

Our processes starts with lab work, analysis, and realistic goals. After all, if you start chasing solutions without understanding what's really happening, you are not going to be successful in feeling better.

We help our clients become advocates. We don't just request the typical blood panel. We make sure you are getting a complete evaluation along with second opinions from various experts. Your condition might be typical aging, but often times there is something else going on. We help our clients not only identify the issue, but take the time to understand the issue, so they can make smart choices.

Now that we have a window into into your body, we can start to infuse good choices into your life.

To learn more about the next steps, you can schedule a free 30-minute no obligation strategy call here, so you can ask questions and I can learn more about your situation.

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