Anti-Aging Supplements

by Nichole Freely-Barnes

Who doesn’t like the idea of fighting the effects of aging? Lets face it, we all pretty much want to live as long as possible, so the idea of anti-aging supplements is a pretty attractive one. Well, if you’ve been taking anti-aging supplements and hoping to live forever, I have some bad news for you; you can’t stop aging. The phrase ‘anti-aging supplement’ is pretty much a marketing ploy to play on that universal desire to stop the aging process, and you’re going to get old no matter what you do. Hopefully everyone knows this, but I just wanted to remind you in case you forgot.

The good news is there are certainly things out there that can slow some of the effects of aging down. You can avoid too much sunlight or wear sunscreen a lot, you can get a lot of antioxidants in your diet and generally eat right, and you can get some regular exercise. Also, avoiding stress, smoking or excessive drinking, and getting enough sleep every night helps a lot as well. Not really any of those things can you get from an anti-aging supplement, with the exception of perhaps some vitamins and antioxidants.

So what the heck is in anti-aging supplements anyway? Your guess is as good as mine. Every anti-aging supplement I’ve seen has had a different and unique list of ingredients, and some of them are just plain bizarre. The only things that seem to be common denominators in the anti-aging supplements I’ve seen advertised on TV or across the internet are indeed vitamins and antioxidants.

By taking a multivitamin everyday and eating plenty of fruit and vegetables you get all of the same things anyway; its funny that as soon as their put into a pill form they become an ‘anti-aging supplement’. For the most part, I think the label anti-aging supplement is just an excuse to charge a lot more for some vitamin compounds that would otherwise be fairly cheap to get on their own.

One type of anti-aging supplement that may have some serious promise is HGH, or human growth hormone. While its far too early to tell, from what I’ve read and heard it looks like a treatment with HGH pills could have a lot of anti-aging effects. Unfortunately, its going to be awhile before its effect on adults in an anti-aging supplement capacity is going to be fully studied and understood, so don’t get too excited just yet. Until then you can keep dumping your money on vitamins and antioxidants if it makes you feel better.

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