Aging takes a toll on the body. Weight gain, hair loss, fatigue and low libido are just a few examples of the common symptoms of aging that should not be brushed off as a simple ‘fact of life.’

Is Bioidentical Hormone Therapy for You?

It is inevitable that every human being will experience a gradual decline in their health as they age and are exposed to a multitude of toxins. These factors contribute to a variety of uncomfortable symptoms, adverse conditions and notable changes in the body – including menopause and perimenopause in women and andropause in men. Over the course of a lifetime, aging and toxic exposures cause a natural decline of hormones and the responses to these declines vary from person to person. Genetics, along with lifestyle choices such as personal habits, dietary intake and physical activity, play a role in your exposure and how well your body functions as you experience the aging process.

With Easter upon us, our resident fitness and nutrition expert, Paul Isaacs, looks at ways that we can stay focused on our healthy eating plans.

Let’s be honest. It’s tricky for most of us to stick to a bog-standard healthy eating plan, let alone a full-blown ‘diet’, where the obsession with counting calories or adding up points can be all-consuming. Discipline and temptation are the two biggest factors that stand in the way of success.

Our resident fitness and nutrition expert, Paul Isaacs, looks at how we can overcome our dread of exercise to kick-start a new fitness regime that really delivers results.

Two of the key parts of my job are managing clients’ expectations and helping them to set achievable goals. Most of us are unrealistic when we set out to make changes to our fitness or nutrition patterns. Some of us simply don’t believe that we can ever make any significant progress and we get into the habit of using this ‘defence mechanism’ to sabotage our chances of success,
while some of us simply expect too much too soon. This too is normally unrealistic. We can all dig out old photographs of ourselves at the age of 21 and in the best shape of our lives as a benchmark for how we would like to look, but if we are now in our 40s or 50s, can we seriously expect to effectively recapture the same body shape of someone half our age?