The link between nutrition and skin aging has been a topic of study for scientists for years and the connection between the two is undeniable. Your diet does play a role in how fast you age. Aging is actually chronic, low-grade inflammation. Some foods speed up this process because they trigger an inflammatory response in your body. Chronic inflammation results in aches and pains and also increases your risk for developing age-related diseases like atherosclerosis, Alzheimer’s, and Type 2 diabetes. Want to prevent these problems? See how your diet can play a role in that prevention!

 

Aging Well

It has long been said that true beauty comes from the inside. Nothing could be closer to the truth. Everything you put into your body will determine how long you live and if you will have chronic conditions during your life. You can look younger and your body can work better the more care you give it. When you have good health practices to keep your insides great, you will also be great on the outside. However, no matter how many measures you take to stay young and vibrant, you still inevitably age. Why?

 

Aging means to “become older”. Young people wish to be older and older people wish to be younger. You may not be able to stop aging completely, but you can slow it down through diet and through taking care of your body. The prevention of chronic conditions will significantly slow down the aging process for you and can help you live much longer. Taking care of your body with special regard to your nutrition and physical activity will also ensure that you live well as you age.

 

How Do Food Allergies Play a Role?

Did you know that food allergies and intolerances can accelerate the aging process? Your body ages as it tries to fight off inflammatory responses in the body. When you are sick, your body is working overtime to try to make you better. For chronic conditions, patients often have inflammation and swelling in the body because the body is trying to fight off the foreign bodies or reactions that are making the body hurt. All that work will age the body faster.

 

Now more than ever, diet plays an important role in the prevention of degenerative diseases, premature aging and the immune response. When you eat a food that you are allergic to, your body sees that food as a foreign body (like a virus) that it must kill off. You can have allergies due to genetics or even just your environment. When an allergy strikes, you can have responses such as: hives, itching, swelling, vomiting, inflammation, pain, anaphylactic shock and even death. These symptoms are all side-effects that can happen when your body is trying to fight off a foreign substance.

 

Foods that simply don’t agree with you (a food intolerance) or that are unhealthy, can cause a similar immune response, though to a lesser degree. You may get stomach aches, fatigue, headaches and migraines, digestive upsets, skin problems and more from eating the wrong foods. Doing this consistently every day, over time, will age your skin, your body, will weaken your immune system and will have all parts of your body working more than they should. Inflammation will also happen to some degree, and every time it does, you will age quicker. Is it any surprise that people who have unhealthy diets are often overweight and/or plagued with chronic conditions so often? That is why it’s so important to eat foods that are healthy and to avoid foods that don’t work well with your physiology or health.

 

Targeting Inflammation to Stop It

We know that food intolerances and food allergies can accelerate the aging process because it increases the amount of inflammation present in your body. Patients with inflammation will not only start to age faster and more poorly, but they will have negative health symptoms that should be treated by a professional. Quick intervention and treatment can help you to know what foods don’t work well with your body and what foods cause allergies. Allergies and intolerances lead to inflammation, as do unhealthy foods. However, it can be difficult to know what intolerances and allergies you have without professional health testing.

 

Spine Correction Center starts by offering our patients ALCAT testing to discover what your body is sensitive to that can cause inflammation. The core technology is a blood test that measures the body’s cellular response to challenges from a wide range of substances. Substances tested include foods, additives, colorings, and chemicals. Now more than ever, diet plays an important role in the prevention of degenerative diseases, premature aging and the immune response.

 

Treat Your Inflammation Today

At Spine Correction Center of the Rockies, we believe it is critical to treat the body as a whole system. Inflammation can exaggerate and intensify pain experienced in the body. It is important to address inflammation when testing pain syndromes in order to achieve the best results possible. If your inflammation comes from chronic conditions or injuries, we can provide effective therapies to reduce that inflammation. If your diet is inflammatory to your system, we can help you change it so you slow down the aging process. To have your free consultation today, call Spine Correction Center today at (970) 658-5115!