Dr. Oz and Dr. Roizen, the two authors of the YOU book series have put together a website with a real age quiz. The quiz on their website can help you to find out your real age.

The website requires you to register. After the hassle-free registration on the site you are able to complete the quiz and answer the questions.

Is the Real Age Test a Scam?

The RealAge website will send you e-Mails with medicines, drugs and other products that might help you to treat a condition or diseases (based on your test results).

Is that a scam? I would say no, because it’s a simple e-Mail. Ignore it if you want. If you think the recommended products are useful then buy it.

We should certainly stop calling everything a “scam”. A mail is not a scam, because it is up to us to decide if we trust this brand or buy this expensive brand or not.

My advice: Take the quiz, but be more careful if you open any e-Mails.

Many people have health issues nowadays. If you can add more fiber to your diet to keep your blood sugar levels balanced it can significantly help you to stay healthy and lower your real age.

Smoothies can be a great addition to any diet to get your daily intake of vitamins and fiber.

On the site www.realage.com Dr.Oz and Dr. Roizen put together a site with a lot more diet tips and the real age test.

There is no so called secret to weight loss, it’s actually quite simple if you eat the right things.

Stress can also be a major factor, both for aging and weight gain. If you can avoid stress that’s a big plus and will help you to stay young.

Calorie-restriction refers to a lifestyle where people eat less calories than they normally should to live longer. It is a strict diet that only few people actually can do.

The Dr. Oz diet includes a lot of raw foods, fruits, veggies and nuts. When done correctly, you can slower the aging process and add many years to your life. Oz put it this way: When you are on a calorie-restriction diet your body gets really efficient and your body activates a gene called sirtris. This gene can help you to live longer.

To lose a lot of weight, fasting and raw food might be great, but would you want to live like that forever? Actually, I believe this diet won’t work for the majority of all Americans and it would be a pretty expensive diet too. Eating only organic foods can be costly.

Luckily, science can help us. Resveratrol, a natural compound found in red wine, also activates the gene sirtris. Why would you stay on a calorie-restrictive diet if you can take Resveratrol? In certain tests it helped animals to live up to 56% longer. That’s not everything, it also has a lot of other health benefits: It can increase your energy and metabolism, improve your mood and endurance and help you to lose weight. Resveratrol is *the* wonder pill of 2009. Actually, it has been discovered years ago. I even read an article about it back in 1998! It only became so popular when David Sinclair promoted his discovery on TV (CBS, 60 minutes, etc). Sinclair’s company has been bought for $720 million. Do you think anyone would spend that much money if Resveratrol wasn’t a really important discovery? Resveratrol might change our future!

According to Dr. Oz Meditation and Yoga can help you to add a couple years to your lifespan.

Meditation can stimulate your sinuses to release gases that will help your body to relax. That’s why a very effective treatment for sinusitis is humming. It will dilate your blood vessels effectively and as good as antibiotics. The gas that is produced is called nitric oxide. Inflammation causes an increase of nitric oxide as well and is your natural answer to sinusitis.

On this website: http://www.yogabasics.com/yoga-postures.html you will find many meditation yoga poses that will allow you to meditate effectively.

Yoga Pose

Dr. Oz believes that an active sex life can keep us young. Sex creates chemicals as we all know, men have increased testosterone values and women have increased oxytocin.

Those chemicals keep us going and make us stay young. Therefore it is recommended that lack of sex and sleep should be avoided.

Sleep plays a critical role too. To keep our vitality sleep is very essential, because that’s simply how we recharge our energy. Lack of sleep can make you age dramatically faster.

On Wikipedia I found an interesting statement that two things should be fulfilled when you sleep:

The optimal amount of sleep is not a meaningful concept unless the timing of that sleep is seen in relation to an individual’s circadian rhythms. A person’s major sleep episode is relatively inefficient and inadequate when it occurs at the “wrong” time of day; one should be asleep at least six hours before the lowest body temperature. The timing is correct when the following two circadian markers occur after the middle of the sleep episode and before awakening.

• maximum concentration of the hormone melatonin, and
• minimum core body temperature.

Source:Wiki

Dr. Oz also recommended to floss your teeth before going to bed.  He says that it might cause gingivitis and irritation of the gums if you don’t. Oral health can also prevent cardio-vascular related diseases.

We all age. It’s life.  To be exact our cells age. How could you possibly slower that process?

A harvard study about the French Paradox revealed a compound called “Resveratrol” that has been found in red wine, chocolate and other foods and even plants, that can help us stop the aging process of our cells. Resveratrol is activating a gene called sirtris.

Trivia: The people that discovered resveratrol called their company “sirtris”. By now it has been bought by GlaxoSmith Kline for about 720 million US-dollar. A nice sum for one of the most important discoveries since antibiotics.

Dr. Oz says if you don’t want to drink red wine to get your daily dose of resveratrol, you should get it from other sources like Concord grape juice or other dark grape juices.

However, Dr. Oz got some facts messed up. According to the harvard study you would have to drink 1000 bottles of wine per day to benefit from the resveratrol in it. Unthinkable. Instead you can get resveratrol pills. Resveratrol is being extracted from japanese knotweed. They usually sell small pills between 100 mg and 500 mg of trans-resveratrol.

Red Wine Resveratrol

For the average American coffee is the main source of anti-oxidants. Dr Oz recommends to drink green tea instead.

Sidenote: Coffee has a lot benefits too. Caffeine is being used to treat Alzheimer for example.

Aside from green tea, there is white tea. It is extracted of the same plant as green tea, but in a different way.

Also Dr Oz’s Green Drink is a great source of antioxidants.

Here’s the recipe for Dr Oz’s Green Drink:

• 2 apples, cored

• 1 thumbnail length of ginger root, peeled
• 1 lemon - juice only (use peel slice for zest)

• 1 celery stick, chopped

• 2 big handfuls of spinach

• 1 medium cucumber

• 1/2 cup of chopped parsley

Antioxidant Drinks

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Blueberries are the favorite anti-aging food of Dr. Oz. The ORAC, anti-oxdiant scores speak for themselves. Blueberries are a great source of anti-oxidants.

On Dr. Oz’s Anti-Aging food list you will also find sweet potatoes, broccoli and heated tomatoes with a little oil.

Two popular anti-aging foods are acai berry and maqui berry. They have more anti-oxidants than blueberries and help you to cleanse your body.

Dr. Oz recommends to eat at least five servings of foods with a high amount of anti-oxidants to stay young.

Anti Aging Foods

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We are exposed to oxygens all the time, we can’t avoid that. With time an apple ages and becomes brown and shriveled. Why? Because of oxygen exposure.
The same thing that happens to an apple happens to our body – just a lot slower. Anti-oxidants help us to slower that process.

An antioxidant is a molecule capable of slowing or preventing the oxidation of other molecules. Oxidation is a chemical reaction that transfers electrons from a substance to an oxidizing agent. Oxidation reactions can produce free radicals, which start chain reactions that damage cells. Antioxidants terminate these chain reactions by removing free radical intermediates, and inhibit other oxidation reactions by being oxidized themselves. As a result, antioxidants are often reducing agents such as thiols, ascorbic acid or polyphenols.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antioxidant

What are Anti-Oxidants?

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If you add lemon juice to the apple it will slower the process of oxidation. It will not become brown that fast. If you translate this metaphor it means that more anti-oxidants can help us to stop the aging process too.