When we’re young we never think time will catch up to us. Then we blink and time smacks us right in the face. Here are three steps you can take to help you continue aging gracefully and feeling your best.

When you have good blood sugar balance, you fuel our body properly to give it more energy, improve your sleep, improve your skin, provide fewer cravings, provide a happier/calmer mood, and balance hormones. Insulin resistance, pre-diabetes, or diabetes can lead to other inflammatory diseases such as stroke, dementia, cancer and heart disease if it’s not managed.

• Try and eliminate refined sugar and starches from your diet.  
• Eat more real, whole foods rather than man-made, processed foods. 
• Pair protein, fat and fiber together with all meals and focus on non starchy carbohydrates such as sweet potatoes, to add to meals.  

Our lifestyles today have become more sedentary due to technology and modern conveniences. This is a problem because our bodies are made to move. What can you do to move more?

• Walk, go to the gym, or participate in a fun physical activity or hobby that gets you moving.  
• A quick walk after meals can help decrease blood sugar levels. 
• Activities like weight training can help you build muscle, which will help with longevity, insulin sensitivity and overall mobility. 
• Find an accountability partner to help you get moving. This can come in the form of a friend, partner, family member or trainer at the gym. 

As we age, we lose muscle and gain fat. Protein is filled with the building blocks we need to build and maintain muscle mass. 

• Make it your goal to get 4 to 6 ounces of high quality protein with every meal.
• Easy protein ideas include chicken, turkey, wild-caught fish, grass-fed beef, organic tofu, high quality protein powders, tempeh,
  eggs, nuts, seeds, and beans.