Best Anti-Aging Vitamins: 5 Supplements to Help Turn Back the Clock
This guest article was originally published at iveeapp.com with some minor edits.
What if someone told you there are ways to stop, or at least limit, the symptoms of aging? With help from specific vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants, we can help rewind our body’s biological clock by replenishing valuable nutrients that we lose with age. Aging is inevitable, of course, and symptoms are impossible to avoid altogether. But this collection of nutrients can help improve quality of life and slow down the process.
What Happens When We Age?
Shorter telomeres have been associated with an increased risk of disease and lower survival rates. Most of the symptoms related to aging are cognitive. Yes, our hair turns gray, and we start to get wrinkles, but the slow cognitive decline is the most reported and impactful result of aging. So let’s take a look at some supplements that can help reduce these effects.
Curcumin is the main active ingredient in turmeric. Turmeric is a spice that comes from the turmeric root and is used mostly in Asian dishes. is rated highly for its powerful anti-aging effects due to its antioxidant properties.
Antioxidants are substances that help protect your cells against free radicals, which may play a role in heart disease, cancer, and other diseases.
You can easily increase your curcumin intake by incorporating turmeric in dishes or by taking curcumin supplements!
Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) is another antioxidant that is self-produced by your body. It is responsible for energy production and protecting cells from damage. As we age, our levels of CoQ10 begin to decline, and symptoms such as and brain fog become more and more apparent.
In 2015, researchers ran an experiment to test the effects of supplemented CoQ10 in 443 older adults. The study found that supplementing and selenium (an element that aids metabolism) over four years improved their overall quality of life, reduced hospital visits, and slowed the deterioration of mental performance.
Though CoQ10 shows the potential to be a powerful anti-aging supplement, there still needs to be more research and definitive evidence before it can be recommended as a natural way to prevent aging. Make sure to talk to a health care professional before trying it out.
Our bodies don’t produce B12 naturally, but we can obtain it through various foods like fish, eggs, and chicken. Different types of vegetables, such as mushrooms, are high in B12 as well. B12 is also available as a daily supplement and can be found at your local pharmacy or natural food store.
You produce vitamin D naturally through the sun’s rays, but vitamin D supplements are widely accessible at any pharmacy or vitamin shop if you want an extra boost.
NAD+ treatment can last anywhere from two to six hours and has been reported by some as being quite uncomfortable. Some patients have reported nausea, chest tightness, and lightheadedness, as this is a form of niacin, or Vitamin B3. Fortunately, these symptoms are short-lived. There are some potential caveats to be aware of, though, which are addressed here.
Conclusion
Aging is inevitable; we all know that. As we age our body slowly stops performing at maximum efficiency, and there is no way around that. These supplements and treatments are in no way the “end all be all” for aging symptoms, but what they do provide is a higher quality of life and, at the very least, help to manage current and future symptoms of aging.
Originally published at https://www.drlaurendeville.com on December 4, 2020.
