People experience many changes in their mind, body, routine, and even stamina as they become older. Even though old age brings some limitations, there are still many things that you can do if you live a healthy lifestyle.
Whatever your age is, keeping a healthy mind and body is essential if you want to live your life to the fullest. As you get older, it is important to make healthy choices to strengthen your immune system, reduce your chances of illness, and to live a long healthy life with your loved ones.
Here’s a guide on how to live a healthy lifestyle at an old age.
Exercise Regularly
No matter what your age is, exercising regularly is a great way to maintain a healthy lifestyle. As you get older, regular exercise becomes more critical because of its many benefits, such as:
- Aids prevention of memory loss (dementia) – It helps improve memory and slow down mental decline
- Produces feel-good hormones known as endorphins – Endorphins act as a stress reliever and leaves you feeling happy and satisfied.
- Helps reduce chronic pain – It can help ease pain long term by improving muscle tone, strength, and flexibility.
- Increased muscle mass from weight training improves metabolism – It will help them retain their motor functions.
- Improves quality of sleep – Exercise in the afternoon or evening leads to an increase in body temperature, and the post-exercise drop in temperature may promote falling asleep.
- Improves flexibility, balance, and good posture – People with poor posture are more likely to fall and experience serious injuries, so it is better to exercise and retain good posture and balance.
- Boosts your immune system – Exercise helps older people maintain a healthy and stronger body that can defend itself against inflammations and infections.
Basic light exercises should be more than enough for the elderly. Low impact exercises, such as walking, swimming, biking, light aerobics routines are great forms of exercise. For people who also want to strengthen muscles, they can lift weights or do yoga as well.
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