WAKE UP! Anti Aging Foods They Don't Want You Eating! | Barbara O'Neill

muscle nose no age in other words whether you're nine or 90 you can have a strong fit healthy body it's not a bad idea to Google hundred-year-old athletes and just have a look at what they're doing hello I'm Barbara O'Neal today we're going to uncover some natural anti-aging secrets that big pharmaceutical companies would rather keep quiet aging is a natural process but the good news is that there are safe effect Ive ways to support your body and slow down the visible signs of aging or without expensive products or medications did you know that nearly 70%

of adults over 50 are on some form of prescription medication many of these drugs come with side effects yet simple lifestyle choices and natural remedies can often make a big difference in how we age in this video I'll share proven strategies backed by science that can boost your energy improve your skin and support your health no matter your age so if you're interested in feeling better and looking younger than Natural Way stick around you'll learn powerful accessible tips that can make a real impact on your life as a thank you for joining me today we're

giving away a 100 free copies of my bestselling book to subscribers so if you haven't yet hit subscribe like this video and comment why you want to win now let's get started my offsider Amilia who worked with me for 5 years she's a naturopath she got married she had a little app on her phone just a photo of two women both of them were 80 one of them was overweight hunched over with a walking stick and the other one she had like a sports crop top on and then um uh jogging pants on and you

could count her abdominal muscles she was both of them were 80 muscle knows no age so whether you're eight or 80 you can have a strong Fit Body and I believe that it's very important for us to prepare for our latter years how many people don't do that and their latty years unfortunately are spent in Misery we need to be preparing for our latty years and one of the probably most effective ways to do that is to keep the body strong strong fit of course giving it lots of water and nourishing food and we've looked

at that but what is the best form of exercise a lot of people say to me I don't exercise because I just don't have time so I'm going to show you a form of exercise today that only takes 15 minutes a day are you interested oh I'm very interested we used to do half hour a day and one of the reasons I started exercising yes I didn't actually officially exercise cuz I thought I'm always busy I'm in the garden I'm running here running there and this happened to me probably about 15 years ago now I

went to New Zealand and the lady I stayed with said to me I do a 5K walk every morning would you like to join me through the forest I said I would love to I don't have to get the kids up I don't have to put the washing on the line I don't have to get the breakfast going cuz I still had a few teenagers at home then well after about 3 I could hardly keep up with her and she was twice my size 10 years younger the next day when I woke up oh I

could hardly move I could hardly move she said you're coming Barbara and I said sure how can I not go I'm the health teacher I'm in their town giving Health lectures anyway I definitely couldn't keep up with her this morning and every time she turned around she said you going yeah yeah fine fine oh dear did it hurt it hurt very much she had a friend with her I just lagged way behind I learned my lesson from that time on I've exercised every day that's when I realize being busy all day is not enough I

acknowledge if you're if you work as a gardener and you're you're hoing into garden beds and and lifting certainly there there are some some jobs where yeah you are exercising a lot if you're a personal trainer yeah yeah you don't have to take a special time every day but even massages massage therapists they still need to do that that daily exercise so what is this form of exercise my husband and I started to do a half hour walk every day so how excited was I when I found well there's one that only takes 15 minutes

and let me tell you one other benefit I received when I began to implement an exercise program my feet were always cold I was always sitting in our little onu with my feet in the warm water warming them up I always cold I started exercising and guess what I don't have cold feet anymore I don't sit on the little on Suite with my feet in hot water anymore mind you I go to Great Lengths to make sure I'm warm absolutely I used to leave home now we were in Melbourne at the time that's right down

the bottom of Australia in the state of Victoria and most of the time when I walked it was Pitch Black outside because when I came home I thought how am I going to do this got to get the kids up got to put the wash on got to start the breakfast so the only way I could do it was get up a little bit earlier so I started to walk at 5:30 and it was Pitch Black outside but what I found was one once you start walking walking your eyes soon adjust cuz it's a hassle

taking torch I'd leave home and it was cold and dark I'd have a scarf on I'd have a hat on I'd have gloves on and when I'm coming back this is after half an hour well the scarfs off the hats off the the gloves are being taken off and I'd come into the house going whoa it's hot in here no one else was thinking that I have a friend his name is Dr Jonathan Gibbs and he did a PhD on the effect of exercise in the cell and he told me this he said when you

do that in the morning a network of capillaries is opened that equals the distance around planet Earth well I can hardly get my mind around that one so where are these capillaries they're in your extremities they're in your fingertips they're in your brain they're in your eyes so it increases eyesight it increases he hearing it increases every single body function and these benefits don't stop there regular movement especially in the morning gives your body a wakeup call it's like signaling every cell that it's time to work time to energize exercise gets blood flow into your

organs delivering nutrients and oxygen and the results can be felt almost immediately you'll feel more alert less sluggish and even more positive it's like a natural coffee boost but one that lasts much longer beyond the immediate effects regular exercise offers a form of long-term insurance for your health muscles stay strong and resilient bones maintain density and even your brain benefits studies show that physical activity stimulates growth factors that help brain cells survive and grow this means that consistent exercise doesn't just make you feel good it's actually supporting the structure and function of your brain so

as you age if you keep moving your body and mind can continue functioning at a high level you might avoid common issues that come with aging like losing Mobility or feeling mentally foggy exercise strengthens not only your muscles but also your confidence and Independence imagine not having to rely on others for simple tasks just because you kept Yourself Strong it gives you freedom and that's priceless I know the idea of fitting exercise into a busy schedule can feel overwhelming but as I mentioned you don't need to carve out hours every day even consistent 15minute routine

makes a difference if you find yourself thinking I don't have time consider it this way those 15 minutes can add years to your life years where you're active healthy and independent isn't that worth a small daily investment one of the simplest ways to start is by making exercise a habit first thing in the morning before other responsibilities take over I know some people prefer evenings and that's fine too but there's something special about starting your day with movement you'll feel the energy carry you through the day and it's almost like you've accomplished something significant before

you've even had breakfast how excited was I when I found only 15 minutes well let's have a look at this it's called high intensity interval training or often called Hit training and the first documented evidence of the hit training was probably uh before the War some German trainers were training their athletes in it the war came a lot was lost and then the next time it was documented was a Japanese trainer called Tabata now in many gyms they still have the Tabata protocol and he was a trainer for his girls in the Olympic Games and

they were doing figure skating and he discovered that if they did the hit trading they had an edge so what did he do so the high intensity he got his girls to do that for about 20 seconds the recovery was probably UH 60 60 seconds and the uh cycle meaning it's done for a cycle of would be about six so that's six cycles of 20 seconds high intensity 60 seconds recovery he found when it came time for the Olympic Games they had an edge they had an edge on the other athletes and this isn't that

what it's all about everyone that goes to the Olympic Games is the best that their country has and sometimes they win by split seconds so finding something that gave his girls an edge was was was very important I read about the hit training probably the first book I read about it was Dr Doug mcguff's book uh Body by science and he's a doctor I think he's he's a heart doctor and he started to he found out about this so what he did was he did 30 seconds high intensity 90 seconds recovery for a cycle of

six and what I have found in my reading that that's probably uh a time that most people come at would be the very best most of the most of the hit uh hit train experiments have been done on an exercise bike so if someone's a little unsteady on their feet their ankles their knees their hips not working well the exercise bike they're able to hold on they can go as fast as they can and then they do the recovery time so what is the high intensity it's running for your life it's going for as hard

and as fast as you can whether that be swimming whether that be running running up hills when I was in Mount heisen Mount he is near the top of Australia right in the middle and there's a lot of mining there so they've got these Hills that basically look like that and I think it's all the piles of dirt that came out of the mines so I was there doing um well giving some health lectures so say this is me here this is about how big I am so I would walk up them and by the

time I got to there I was high in I was experiencing high intensity so I and that's not even running that's just walking that's almost climbing it was that Steep and then I'd stop and I'd have my recovery time so what's recovery time well the research shows that the best recovery time is when you're moving a bit so what I would do is I I do my stretches I do my stretches I over over I can't do much cuz I'm more wired up but I would do my stretches and because all my exercises being done

on my legs I might do the you know the 10 down and the 10 up and the 10 back so the best recovery time is when you're doing it slowly so Michael and I we run up the hills because we're in the mountain so there are Hills and dips and we run up the hill and then we walk down the hill and then we by the time we've walked down the hill it's easily 90 seconds maybe a bit more we know we're ready to go again because our breathing you're breathing and your heart settle down

once our breathing and heart rates settle down we're ready for another round this pattern of pushing hard then resting is not only physically demanding but incredibly effective for cardiovascular fitness and endurance when you push yourself to high intensity levels your body enters a state where it needs to pull from all available energy sources and the result is a quick spike in calorie burn what's fascinating is that the after effects of high-intensity training can linger long after you're done with the workout at self this is often called the afterburn effect or technically excess post exercise oxygen

consumption your body continues burning calories as it works to return itself to a normal State repairing muscles and replenishing oxygen levels another thing I learned about heti is its impact on both aerobic and anerobic Fitness in traditional aerobic exercises like jogging or cycling at a steady Pace your body relies mostly on oxygen to fuel activity hit however alternates between aerobic and anerobic States when you're sprinting or pushing hard your body goes anerobic meaning it doesn't rely solely on oxygen it Taps into energy reserves in your muscles this dual approach can improve heart health and lung

capacity while also strengthening muscles essentially it's giving you a well-rounded Fitness boost some research even suggests that heat can have positive effects on insulin sensitivity which helps your body regulate blood sugar levels more efficiently in fact short bursts of intense exercise have been linked to metabolic benefits that traditional steady state cardio might not provide for people with time constraints it's also a huge plus as HIIT can often achieve in 15 20 minutes what might take 45 minutes or more of moderate exercise this makes it accessible for people with busy schedules who still want to stay

fit now when we talk about high intensity it doesn't mean everyone needs to go at a professional athletes level it's about pushing yourself to your personal limit which can vary from person to person for some that might mean sprinting for others it might just mean a fast walk up a hill the key is to find a pace that challenges you that's one reason High it is so versatile it can be tailored to all Fitness levels and adapted to various types of equipment or even done with no equipment at all by the age of 50 many

have lost 40% of of their lung capacity the the study showed that by the age of 80 most had lost 60% of their lung capacity remember oxygen the most vital element needed for Life W and that's where we get it through our lungs recovery your recovery time is the your indicator of your Fitness Dr Al SE in his book Pace his considered the exercise doctor his book is a bestseller what does Pace mean p is Progressive this is Progressive the more you do it the stronger you will get I don't I don't know whether this

has ever got easy certainly easier than when I first started but it's the recovery time shortens so your recovery time is your Fitness indicator so pace is p is Progressive a is acceleration you are accelerating this is no gentle stroll you're accelerating so when Michael and I are running up the hill we don't talk then he's way ahead of me because his legs are about 4 in longer than mine I say to him you must love running with me it makes you feel like an Olympic runner so you are accelerating and C is cardiopulmonary so

cardia meaning the heart muscle there's one way to strengthen the heart there's no other way and that is exercise so exercise strengthens the heart I'm going to give you a story to illustrate my son Peter about 10 years ago when he was 25 he was training for Triathlon so he was running up and down the hills behind Brisbane that's where he lived at the time now he's a Tyler and he was dismantling an old vanity unit that had a big chip off it huge chip and it was from about the 50s you know those old

ceramic ones he he got it out and he didn't realize how slippery it was and it fell and it hit his ankle because it was a few minutes before James got in the room and when he got in the room he said this little bathroom the whole roof and walls were sprayed with this most lovely decoration of blood little sprinkles when they went to hospital bound it up got to hospital the nurse kept taking Peter's pulse it was 50 beats per minute and she couldn't believe that it was 50 beats per minute why was it

50 beats per minute because Peter's been running up and down Hills so stronger the heart gets the less it has to pump because every pump is so powerful it was so powerful the blood hit the roof in fact if Peter's resting heart rate had been uh 70 80 beats per minute it just would have wouldn't have even hit the ceiling well Peter didn't do the triathlon had to fix his foot in fact that the doctor couldn't believe that he hadn't cut any tendons he kept getting him to move his big toe oh yes that needed

needed a few layers of stitches that one aren't we glad that we have hospitals and doctors when when we have a severe injury absolutely and Peter was so glad that they that he had an injection of uh local anesthetic you know we we certainly don't quibble emergency medicine and the doctor couldn't believe that it had missed the main the main tendons and I said to Peter that was your mother's prayers every morning she places you in the hand of God but it's an illustration to show that the the more you exercise the stronger that heart

gets and when it's strong it it doesn't have to beat much cuz every beat is so strong with the delivery of blood it is said we only have so many beats per lifetime so you can see the fit of the person the the longer the life and I'd like to suggest the better quality of life because of what exercise does to the body exercise is one of the most effective tools to slow down aging and maintain a healthy body regular physical activity impacts nearly every system in the body leading to improved longevity vitality and physical

function this is because exercise directly addresses many factors that contribute to aging including muscle loss reduced lung capacity heart strength and the decline of metabolic Health as we age we naturally lose muscle mass a condition known as sarcopenia exercise especially strength training combats this process by stimulating muscle growth and maintaining strength which is is crucial for balance mobility and overall function stronger muscles mean better support for bones and joints reducing the risk of fractures and injuries physical activity also strengthens Bones counteracting the bone density loss that often comes with aging this is important for preventing

osteoporosis a common condition in older adults that weakens bones and increases fracture risk exercise also keeps the cardiovascular system robust aerobic activities like running cycling or swimming strengthen the heart enabling it to pump blood more efficiently this means the heart doesn't have to work as hard to deliver oxygen and nutrients to cells which promotes healthier blood pressure reduces the risk of heart disease and improves circulation improved circulation helps deliver oxygen and nutrients to tissues more effectively supporting cellular repair and regeneration this boosts skin Health cognitive function and organ Health key aspect ects of maintaining a

youthful and vibrant body another benefit of regular exercise is its impact on metabolic health physical activity helps regulate blood sugar and insulin levels reducing the risk of diabetes it also AIDS in maintaining a healthy weight which is essential for preventing many age related diseases including heart disease diabetes and certain cancers exercise also helps maintain flexibility and Mobility by keeping joints and ligaments in good condition this allows for a greater range of motion and can prevent the stiffness and discomfort often associated with aging furthermore exercise plays a significant role in protecting cognitive function studies show that

physical activity can help prevent cognitive decline and conditions like dementia exercise increases blood flow to the brain and stimulates the release of chemicals that promote brain health such as brain derived neur neurotropic factor bdnf which supports neuron growth and enhances memory and learning exercise has also been shown to reduce levels of stress hormones while increasing endorphins the body's natural mood lifters this mental boost can have a powerful effect on emotional well-being and resilience making it easier to cope with the challenges of Aging the activity that opens every single gate in the whole body is the

rebounder so when you're on the rebounder and let me get on the rebounder and show you so when if you're not used to it you can just go like that that's called the health bounce but as you get better at it I'm not going to jump really really high but you can you get better at it you get kids have you seen what kids will do on this you know at first kids are a little bit out of balance and you might be a little bit out of balance but the more you do it the

better your balance will be you can also start by this just going like that but this little one's called the health bounce but when you start jumping when you're to the height of your jump every gate opens and when you hit the mat again every gate closes isn't that incredible you only have to rebound for 1 minute in the morning to get that lymphatic system activated for the whole day and once that lymphatic system is activated every movement you make just scratching your head turning around d d it's keeping the movement going rebounding or bouncing

on a mini trampoline is a highly effective form of exercise with unique benefits for slowing down aging this loow impact activity improves cardiovascular health strengthens muscles and stimulates the lymphatic system which plays a crucial role in detoxification as we age our lymphatic flow can become sluggish leading to the buildup of toxin rebounding gentle up and down motion encourages lymphatic drainage helping to clear out waste and improve immune function which is essential for maintaining health and resilience as we get older one key benefit of rebounding is its ability to improve bone density the repetitive light impact

strengthens bones and reduces the risk of osteoporosis a common age related condition that weakens bones unlike high impact exercises rebounding is easy on the joints making it accessible for older adults while still providing enough Force to stimulate bone growth and strength rebounding also promotes muscle tone and balance helping to combat the natural muscle and coordination loss that often accompanies aging this Improvement in Balance can significantly reduce the risk of Falls which are a leading cause of injury in older adults additionally rebounding improves circulation and oxygen delivery to cells which boosts cellular energy production and supports

tissue repair thank you for joining me today I hope you found these natural anti-aging tips helpful and inspiring remember taking small steps can make a big difference in how you feel and look as you age if you enjoyed this video don't forget to give it a thumbs up share it with someone who might benefit And subscribe for more Health insights and as always take care of yourself and stay healthy he