Habits That Are Adding Years to Your Life

Habits That Are Adding Years to Your Life
A lack of sleep can increase the release of the stress hormone cortisol, which saps the energy from your day. amenic181/Shutterstock
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It’s easy to ask what you can do to look and feel younger. It’s harder to look at what you’re already doing to accelerate aging.

Chronological aging is a fact of life. Years climb as they pass, and there is nothing you can do about it. The years will lead to some natural decline, but how much impact they have has a lot to do with how you live.

Mohan Garikiparithi
Mohan Garikiparithi
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Mohan Garikiparithi, MD, practiced clinical medicine for over a decade before shifting his focus to health communications. During his practice he served as the head of the Dept. of Microbiology in India. During a three-year communications program in Germany, Mohan developed an interest in German Medicine (Homoeopathy), and other alternative systems of medicine.
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