When supplementing the vitamins find out the right doses for you and make sure that your supplements are of the best quality.
Eat healthy (Mediterranean diet), organic fruits and vegetables to get your vitamins, minerals and anti-oxidants. Avoid trans fatty acids because they will increase your risk of heart disease. (All processed oils contain trans fatty acids). And remember to drink only quality water (not plastic bottled water).
Fight against bad free radicals, which damage DNA and cause cancer. The best fighters are anti-oxidants, flavonoids; which you get of colorful fruits, vegetables, nuts, vitamins A,C,E, Selenium, Coenzyme Q10, Glutathione.
In hormone replacement therapy use only natural bio-identical hormones, which have the same chemical structure as their counterparts in the human body.
If you have some specific health problems, you might benefit of customized supplement recommendations. For example if you have high cholesterol and you are on statin drugs – you will need extra coenzyme Q10 because Q10 drops during statin-medication. Or if you are on birth control pills you need extra B vitamins because Birth control pills deplete your body of B vitamins.
Our vitamin, mineral, hormone levels can also vary widely from one person to the next even at the same age. That’s why the replacement should be carefully balanced. To know exactly where you are nutritionally, are you having some hidden deficiencies, get your nutritional status checked with laboratory tests.
Get regular screenings for age-related diseases like heart disease, stroke, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Disease, osteoporosis and cancers. Even here you have many ways to prevent or at least to slow down the process of developing serious health problems.
If you have an increased breast cancer risk in the family it is often helpful to measure the levels of anti- and pro-carcinogenic oestrogen metabolites, which can help assess your own cancer risk. Genetic tests are also available and can be helpful in assessing genetic heath risks if the family.
