Family Physicians of Carmel

You can be younger than your chronological age. How old you are by the calender is your chronological age. Your physiological age is how old you are by the condition of your health. By the calendar, you may be 45 but by your physiological age you may be 35 (or maybe 55 ... oops).

Vitamins - One of the easiest and most effective steps to take the correct amounts of the proper vitamins. There have been many scientific and medical studies done on the associations between vitamins and health. These studies have shown reductions of cancer, heart disease, stroke, and death associated with taking certain doses of certain vitamins. Many of these studies show 30-60% reductions. For the most part these studies showed benefit only in doses quite different (usually larger) that what is found in standard multivitamin formulas and also well above what is found in a so-called healthy diet. Some vitamins (iron, beta carotene, and vitamin A for example) have been shown to be harmful when taken as supplements at all and even worse in high doses. Others can be troublesome or less than fully effective if taken in the wrong form or quantity.

We recommend BCEF-1 vitamins which will give you the beneficial doses of the correct types of vitamins to reduce your physiological age by approximately 2.25 years.
Take a calcium supplement with' vitamin D - Take a 600 mg calcium supplement with 200 units of vitamin D twice a day. This will allow you to reduce or stop drinking milk (the reduction of milk intake may be where much of the benefit lies) . Citracal 600 Plus D is an excellent calcium plus D supplement that we recommend. These are usually taken one twice a day. Calcium sometimes can be constipating, if that is a problem, please let us know. This will reduce your physiological age by 1.5 years.
Eat ocean fish - Eating ocean fish two portions per week will reduce your physiological age by about a half a year.
4. Avoid gum disease - Brushing your teeth after eating and flossing every day and seeing your dentist twice a year for cleanings are very important. Make sure you are completely free of dental and gum disease. This will reduce your physiological age by one to two years.
Avoid cigarette smoke - Eeing a nonsmoker will make you 2.5 years younger and smoking will make you 2.5 years older for a five year difference.
Avoid second hand smoke - If you are exposed to second-hand cigarette smoke for three hours a day you will be 2.5 years older.
If you are a woman over age 50 or a man over age 40 then you should take a baby aspirin (81 mg enteric coated aspirin) and be a % of a year younger.
Go for a brisk walk 20 minutes four times a week and be 1.25 years younger. Lift weights 10 minutes four times a week and be 1.25 years younger. (If you have high sugar, diabetes, prediabetes or high insulin problems, you should get 10 to 15 minutes of brisk walking twice a day for 2.5 years younger, rather than just four times a week. This is because each time you do this, your insulin levels or sugar levels improve for about six hours.)
Increase the fruits (four a day) and vegetables (five a day) in your diet and you can be one to two years younger.
Get your blood pressure under 120/80 and you can be 1.5 years younger (three years younger if you are starting above 151/96).

So, now you are 18.5 years younger! Kow do you feel?! You didn't do it all?! . . . start with #1 and 2 and work from there. BCEF vitamins are available at our office (317)5 69-9010. You do not need a doctor's appointment to get them. They are also available by calling us and we will mail them out but we prefer not to mail to a hot mailbox in the summer time.