Utilizing Tea To Help Minimize Your Biological Age...
Your Chronological Age and Biological Age Are Likely Not The Same...
Based on research, it appears that our biological age may be a better indicator of how much life we have left than our chronological age.
Not the same? Could be good or bad news. You make the assessment. How do you feel about your life, your lifestyle and how you feel...you know, your wellbeing?
Are you feeling fit? Are you eating a healthy diet? Are you focused on nutrition?...or not so much? If you are, you might be pleasantly surprised to find that your biological age is less than your chronological age, meaning that you are optimizing your chances for a longer chronological life.
Researchers feel biological age is a better way than chronological age of predicting longevity.
But what exactly IS Biological Age?
We cannot change our chronological age...we are stuck with it! No matter what we do, we can't change when we were born or how many days we have been on this earth.
The fact is, your biological age may just be significantly different than your chronological age based on life factors, including genetics and lifestyle.
Aging is affected by both internal factors that we are born with and external factors, some of which we can influence.
Our biological age is the result of those factors combined..
Understanding the differences between Biological, or Physiological, Age and Chronological Age...
The genetics we are born with is our starting point...our initial internal factors. Think of your chronological age as the number of birthdays you have had and your biological age as how aged your body is. My guess is they are rarely are the same.
Consider people you know or meet. Sometimes they look younger or older than your expectation based on their chronological age. Sometimes you can rationalize that impression based on what you know about their lifestyle.
How much does biological age really matter?
A lot...sort of like a report card, and in my opinion an enhancement beyond your normal medical physical. Biological age looks deeper than averages on an individual basis and gives us insight into our future.
Biological age could be a vital statistic on your medical chart as it can help predict the possible onset of conditions such as dementia or diabetes to name just a couple.
Biological age can also provide a roadmap of sorts giving you an element of control of quality of life and lead to essentially becoming younger by making contributing lifestyle enhancements...guess what?...like drinking the right teas.
Yup, understanding your biological age, or even the concept of biological age can become an incentive or we say catalyst leading to a healthier lifestyle...and lower biological age...We call it The Healthy Tea Lifestyle...
What factors contribute to Biological Age?
Guess what?...you probably already know them...
As you likely would expect, diet, exercise, stress management, smoking, sleep and surroundings (where you spend your time) are all factors that contribute to influencing our biological age.
Daily choices...each day we make choice after choice on how we will conduct our lives...as I say...to an extent, we are the gatekeepers of our biological age.
Changes in your genetic material?
What? Changes to my genetic material?
Indeed. It is these changes to our genetic material that result in adjustments to our biological age.
The changes can be to the good or to the not-so-good...over time they lead to the sum of our current biological age.
Consider the State of YOUR DNA...
Every day we think about what is important us. Our memories, our families, our experiences, our quality of life. Minimizing our biological life continually contributes to extended longevity, but blended with wellbeing, allowing us to be the best us we can be.
At any given moment, considering the State of our DNA gives us the guidance to conduct our behavior in a way to put biological factors in our favor.
How do we know our biological age?
We measure. Our chronological age is easy...we already know it. Our biological age however is a bit more tricky.
Rather then telling us the period of time since birth, our biological life is indicating to us how much life we might have left...and might guide us in optimizing that life.
It is all about our physiology at any moment in time...and we can always be improving it.
When determining biological age, two things are analyzed, Telomeres, a portion of our chromosomes, and how our DNA is aging...called DNA Methylation.
Telomeres get shorter with chronological age, but studies have shown that a healthy lifestyle can both minimize shortening and in some studies may be able to lengthen telomeres.
Our DNA is not fixed and unchanging. DNA Methylation relates to the ability of our genes to be expressed or turned on and to be turned off. While a fascinating topic to explore, for our current interest DNA Methylation can influence aging in positive or negative ways.
Calculating your biological age takes medical tests which can be costly, but there are simple measures we can monitor every day. My personal feeling is that biological age testing should be a preventative step that is part of your annual physical and is covered by insurance. Imagine what good could be done with awareness of biological age early on in life.
While you can find less expensive online options to enter blood test data, or to provide a saliva sample, these options will be subject to less certainty than working directly with a healthcare provider.
Back to the things we can control...
Diet: Research has proven that more attention paid to considering nutrition when purchasing food is directly correlated with lower biological age.
Take control of what you are consuming always keeping your biological age in mind. Don't forget the correct teas...
Studies suggest an optimal diet being low in calories, plant-based, high in fish - consider a Mediterranean diet. Your healthcare provider can recommend ways to transition.
Exercise: Research on biological age reveals a connection between higher activity level and lower biological age.
Finding the right activity for you comes down to determining appropriate activity levels for your circumstances and discipline to stay the course.
Stress: In my opinion it is critical to minimize stress-induced telomere damage and chronic sleep debt...the right teas and herbal blends can help with these things...
Both physical and psychological stress can increase biological age. Studies show that controlling or eliminating stress can reduce or eliminate its impact on biological age.
Smoking: I'm not even going to go there. If you smoke, stop. You will immediately begin to reduce your biological age.
Sleep: I could go on forever about the virtues of sleep and minimizing biological age.
Start with a minimum of 7 hours per night. Sleep is your body's restorative time. Research suggests you can take strides to reducing biological age just by sleeping the adequate amount of time...and that is just the beginning.
See More on The Value of Sleep and Teas That Can Help...
Physical Environments: Where you spend your time matters. Your environment contributes physically through the atmosphere and any biological-age-advancing toxins as well as your emotional wellbeing considering the amount of our life you are subjected to those conditions.
Where you spend your time influences your mental wellbeing, which connects to stress, enhancing conditions and feelings.
Well, where does tea come in? An Intervention?
Tea comes in everywhere in this message on biological age.. You have heard me tout tea as 10,000 medicines which is in reference to the bioactive ingredients in tea that are infusing our bodies with reinforcing ingredients promoting reducing biological aging.
For those of you that are embracing the virtues of tea changing your life beyond the biological age reducing satisfaction to embellishing your life with teas that delight you every day...you already know what I am talking about and have already incorporated this valuable option into your quest for wellbeing and longevity...you are contributing to reducing your biological age.
For those that are just now hearing this message, the opportunity is real, and it is great.
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How much of our actual biological age is up to us?
Probably a lot. What do you want from life and how much do you want it? Enough to enhance your life with an incentive that will lead to reducing your biological age?
The best part of all this is that a lot of it is up to us.
Thinking about The State of Our DNA...what is yours? What do you want it to be and how can tea be part of your quest for wellbeing and longevity?
Look we cannot change the genetics we were born with...but we can certainly take the best care possible of what we have been given.
Will any tea do?
Hardly. To me, there are two important things about drinking tea...first and foremost the health benefits I am receiving with every sip...just think, every sip contributing to minimizing your biological age. But then there is enjoying the tea.
As you discover more high value teas, your appreciation grows, and your satisfaction increases compounding with the awareness that with each sip you are doing something so good for yourself...
What are High Value Teas?
High value teas are those that come from proven genetic stock, and that grow in conditions advantageous to having high value content produced as the leaves grow.
It is the plant genes, the growing environment and the period of time the leaves are grown that all contribute to producing the most prolific ingredient in the leaf...that is, the ingredient that is most favorable in helping us both love each sip and have the satisfaction that we are contributing to minimizing our biological age.
Don't get me wrong, all tea (Camellia sinensis) is healthy. It is just that teas produced in certain terroir, under favorable conditions provide the best options for cup enjoyment and contribution to minimizing biological age.
Leaves produced in specific growing locations, during Mother Nature's Spring Surge will have the richest high value added content. There is more cost associated with these leaves, but the results more than make up for the cost difference.
How can tea help you?
We call it The Healthy Tea Lifestyle...utilizing tea as an incentive or catalyst to inspire your quest for wellbeing, vibrancy, and longevity.
Tea can be a cornerstone in your foundation for building a better you and be part of your program, your journey to minimizing your biological age.
The Tea Council of the USA sums it up nicely in their report on Tea & Health: Tea contains hundreds, if not thousands, of bioactive compounds, including amino acids, caffeine, proteins, xanthines and flavonoids. Tea flavonoids are bioactive compounds that have specific cellular targets that are related to the cardiovascular, chemopreventitive, metabolic, neuroprotective and other health benefits.
In other words...tea is good for us, and the right teas, the high value adding content teas, pack a powerful punch...our job is helping you find them.
The Right Teas...
Being Tea Purveyors means that we search for the teas that fill the bill. Those that deliver authenticity to their growing region, that provide a drinking experience that delights us, that provide the high value content that helps us reduce our biological age, and that are still within a price range that people can justify and afford.
Our site is loaded with high value adding content teas, but here are some to consider starting with or to enjoy more of:
- White Pu'erh Bud-White Tea
- Silver Cloud-White Tea
- Cloud Mist-Green Tea
- Enshi Yu Lu-Green Tea
- Pumpkin Seed-Green Tea
- Imperial Jade-Green Tea
- Kabusecha-Green Tea
- Gyokuro-Green Tea
- High Mountain Jade-Oolong Tea
- GABA Oolong-Oolong Tea
- Four Seasons-Oolong Tea
- Ginseng Oolong-Oolong Tea
- Golden Water Turtle-Oolong Tea
- Black Snail-Black Tea
- Himalayan High Golden Tips-Black Tea
- Yunnan Golden Bud-Black Tea
- Ceylon Wiry Tips-Black Tea
- Assam Gold Rush-Black Tea
- Golden Flower-Dark Tea
- Gong Ting-Pu'erh Tea