Healthy Bones

4 Tips To Get Healthier Bones

Botox and healthier looking bones . . . what do they have in common? Both of them can make your face look many years younger. But which of the two will make the rest of your body look and feel younger, too? Hers a hint, it’s the one that’s free!

Studies have shown that maintaining healthy facial bones may be even more crucial to fighting off wrinkles for when it comes to looking and feeling years younger. That’s because the bones in your face, like the bones that make up the rest of your body, lose  substantial volume as you get older. For example, when the bones that make up your eye sockets, nose, brow, and upper jaw recede, your skin will begin to droop and sag giving you a much older and wrinklier appearance.

Unfortunately for women, bone shrinking tends to happen earlier to them then in men.  Facial bone deterioration in women starts around age 41, while men don’t start to get older bones by age 65!  Talk about an unfair mother nature.

Now, there is even more reason than before to get healthier bones.  Below are 4 steps you can take to achieve healthier bones.

• Make sure you get at least 1,200 milligrams of Calcium every day. Calcium is the most important thing if you want to have young, healthy, and osteoporosis free bones. Try to get a daily intake of at least 1,200 milligrams (mg) of calcium every day. You should try to get as much as you can from food but drinking 2-3 glasses of milk a day and taking a calcium supplement every morning should do the trick.

• Don’t forget to take your Vitamin D3. Vitamin D3 is a crucial element to making sure your bones absorb calcium you are taking in. Get 1,000 international units (IU) a day — 1,200 IU after 60. Why D3? It’s the form your body uses best.

• Take a healthy dose of Magnesium. For optimum bone health, growth, and stimulation, try to get 400 to 500 mg per day of Magnesium.

• Exercise. Weight-bearing exercises like hiking, biking, swimming and doing push-ups, strengthens bones as well as muscles.  Try to get exercise every single day.  The minimum you should do is walk 30 minutes.  Remember, the heart is a muscle too!