Who
doesn’t like the idea of fighting the effects of
aging? Let us face it, we all pretty much want to live as
long as possible, so the idea of anti-aging supplements is a pretty
attractive one. Well, if you’ve been taking
anti-aging supplements and hoping to live forever, I have some bad news
for you; you can’t stop aging. The phrase
‘anti-aging supplement’ is pretty much a marketing
ploy to play on that universal desire to stop the aging process, and
you’re going to get old no matter what you do.
Hopefully everyone knows this, but I just wanted to remind you in case
you forgot.
The good news is there are certainly things out there that can slow
some of the effects of aging down. You can avoid too much
sunlight or wear sunscreen a lot, you can get a lot of antioxidants in
your diet and generally eat right, and you can get some regular
exercise. Also, avoiding stress, smoking or excessive
drinking, and getting enough sleep every night helps a lot as
well. Not really any of those things can you get from an
anti-aging supplement, with the exception of perhaps some vitamins and
antioxidants.
So what the heck is in anti-aging supplements anyway? Your
guess is as good as mine. Every anti-aging supplement
I’ve seen has had a different and unique list of ingredients,
and some of them are just plain bizarre. The only things that
seem to be common denominators in the anti-aging supplements
I’ve seen advertised on TV or across the internet are indeed
vitamins and antioxidants.
By taking a multivitamin everyday and eating plenty of fruit and
vegetables you get all of the same things anyway; its funny that as
soon as their put into a pill form they become an ‘anti-aging
supplement’. For the most part, I think the label
anti-aging supplement is just an excuse to charge a lot more for some
vitamin compounds that would otherwise be fairly cheap to get on their
own.
One type of anti-aging supplement that may have some serious promise is
HGH, or human growth hormone. While it is far too early to
tell, from what I’ve read and heard it looks like a treatment
with HGH pills could have a lot of anti-aging effects.
Unfortunately, its going to be awhile before its effect on adults in an
anti-aging supplement capacity is going to be fully studied and
understood, so don’t get too excited just yet.
Until then you can keep dumping your money on vitamins and antioxidants
if it makes you feel better.