Aging Well

  If we are going to age well it is important that we provide our bodies with the whole food nutrition it needs. We humans were made to thrive on the whole foods once available to us. If we have the right nutrition, our body can often heal itself. Our bodies are able to be the best hospital there is. The problem is getting the whole food nutrition that we need. And that problem just keeps getting worse as the years go by. Do you know that we would have to eat eight oranges today to get the same amount of Vitamins A and C as our grandparents would have gotten from just 1 orange? The quantity and quality of nutrients in food crops has been declining over the past 70 years or so. For example, in a serving of spinach, vitamin C content has dropped 30%. Evidence from multiple scientific studies show that many fruits, vegetables, and grains grown today carry less protein, calcium, phosphorus, iron, riboflavin, and vitamin C than those that were grown decades ago. Fruits and vegeta

  In my last post I mentioned that if you do strength training to build muscle, it is important to provide your body with the high quality protein your muscles need to grow.   Protein is great for building muscle and for so much more.   Every one of the trillions of cells in the human body is made up of protein. Your body needs protein to stay healthy and work the way it should. More than 10,000 types of protein are found in everything from your organs to your muscles and tissues to your bones, skin, and hair.   Protein plays a key role in the creation and maintenance of every cell in our bodies. It fuels our cells and powers our bodies.   Proteins are made up of a combination of molecules called amino acids.   Your body needs 20 different amino acids to function correctly. It can produce 11 of them, but it must get the final nine, called essential amino acids, from the protein you eat. And because the body cannot store amino acids, you need to replenish them regularly.   It is importa