Changes in Your Skin

Everyone notices that as they become older their skin becomes drier, less pliable and more irregular (wrinkles). It also seems thinner, as you lose some of the underlying fatty tissue, and you may notice that your skin makes less natural oils. Also, spots appear that weren’t there before. A myriad of topical skin products are available that may temporarily help with some of these issues, but an important consideration is the proper balance of natural lipids that are the building blocks of skin cell membranes. These structures need to be constantly replaced to keep your skin tissue from the effects of premature aging. MLR® with NTFactor® Lipids will help by providing the membrane lipids needed to help keep your skin cells healthy and flexible.

Changes in Your Heart 

When you reach 50 and beyond, your blood vessels become stiffer and your heart has to work harder to provide the blood that all tissues and cells require. This can result in higher blood pressure, which is a prime factor in future heart attacks. You’ve heard it a million times, but you really do need to stay physically active, keep your weight and blood pressure under control, get enough sleep, and maintain a proper diet so that your cells and tissues can repair themselves. Maintaining a proper lipid balance in your heart and blood is also important, and that is where MLR NTFactor® Lipids comes in. In our published studies, NTFactor® Lipids daily lowered the known blood markers of heart attack risk. This means that taking NTFactor® Lipids may help in maintaining heart health as you age.

Hearing and Vision Changes

As we age, we notice that we often have a hard time following conversations, and find it difficult to see distant signs or read small print. These are natural changes, but it would sure be nice to put them off for a few years or reduce their effects. In published studies with laboratory animals, MLR® with NTFactor® Lipids prevented natural age-associated loss of hearing, and the antioxidant properties of NTFactor® Lipids may help to prevent changes in your eyes that cause improper lens focusing on close or distant objects.

Changes in Teeth and Gums

As you get older, you may notice that your mouth seems drier and your gums seem to pull away more from your teeth. You can prevent some of this by eating a proper diet and brushing and rinsing more often. Daily use of NTFactor® Lipids could help by providing the lipids necessary to maintain gum epithelial cell membranes. In addition, normal teeth have live tissues inside, including nerve cells, and these require constant repair of their cellular membranes.

Your Bones Change and Joints Become Stiffer

As we age, our bones begin to slowly weaken as they become less dense and more brittle. Tissues in our joints may begin to break down, and our joints feel stiffer.  Some of these effects can be partially mitigated by proper diet, especially by including enough calcium and vitamin D. Your bones and joints contain important cells and tissues that provide the precursor components that replenish and maintain them, so it is important to keep these cells provided with essential components, especially cellular membrane precursors. This is why MLR® with NTFactor® Lipids is important to bone and joint health.

Urinary Changes

Aging presents noticeable changes in your bladder and urinary system. Sometimes, it may be difficult to control your bladder and a little unexpected leakage may occur. For men, a common problem is an enlarged prostate. Although clinical studies with NTFactor® Lipids on these specific problems in aging individuals are still being conducted, in some of our previous clinical trials, certain participants have reported fewer urinary problems. 

Strength and Mobility Changes

One of the more obvious changes that occurs with aging is loss of muscle mass, which can result in overall weakness and loss of mobility. Exercise and movement can help to prevent some of this loss of muscle mass and function, but diet is also important—especially maintenance of your mitochondria, the little batteries inside each cell that provide over 90% of cellular energy necessary for muscle contraction and function. MLR® with NTFactor® Lipids helps restore and rejuvenate mitochondrial membranes that provide the high energy molecules that all cells and tissues require for their function.

Researchers may still be looking for that Fountain of Youth, but, as I outlined in this article,  there are scientifically proven things you can do to battle the effects of aging. MLR® with NTFactor® Lipids can be used as part of an anti-aging routine that includes exercise, diet, proper sleep and other tried-and-true methods. 

Please visit our Science Page to learn more about how NTFactor® Lipids is scientifically proven to reverse the effects of aging, reduce fatigue, and repair cell damage.

REFERENCE: Nicolson GL, Ferreira de Mattos G, Settineri R, Breeding PC. Membrane Lipid Replacement and its role in restoring mitochondrial membrane function and reducing symptoms in aging and age-related clinical conditions. Nature Cell Science 2024; 2(4): 238-256. https://doi.org/10.61474/ncs.2024.00038

To put it another way, exercise is a powerful medicine. This medicine makes your cells more sensitive to insulin, optimizing glucose metabolism. It oxygenates muscles and organs allowing for nutrient exchange via blood circulation and detoxification through perspiration and lymphatic drainage.

This medicine releases powerful neurotransmitters called endorphins. Endorphins don’t just make you feel great, like that runner’s high, these important neurochemicals alleviate depression and smooth the edges around tension and anxiety. Moreover, endorphins are potent immune system modulators. 

Exercise provides energy by stoking metabolism and is critical to deep, restful sleep. And did you know that it has been shown to delay shrinkage of the hippocampus—the brain’s memory center? In this way, exercise bestows positive effects on thinking and memory. 

Not motivated enough to start an exercise program? Play a sport. Do you enjoy basketball, soccer or volleyball? Recreational sports create a wonderful sense of camaraderie and team spirit. And as an added bonus, the interval training is built right in! 

Or, if you prefer something solo, maybe running or working out at the gym is more your thing. I’m partial to yoga and strength training myself, but I love a game of volleyball on the beach, or badminton in the yard on sunny days. 

A positive psychological aspect to exercise is it’s YOU time. Whether you’re on the road, in the gym, or on your exercise mat in the living room, it’s an opportunity to get out of your head and into your body; an opportunity to be PRESENT and aware of your breath. 

Namaste! 

Leyla Muedin, MS, RD, CDN 

In fact, this message is more important today than at any other time in our lives.

As we grow older and face our future health with some trepidation, we as individuals are tasked with taking the best care of ourselves we can to avoid chronic disease, acute illness and accidents that may lead to a requisite hospital stay.

While we can’t shield ourselves from every ill—and short of becoming a nation of paranoid recluses (that’s not good for health either!)—there are steps we can take to lower our risk of accidents and illness. Along with looking both ways before crossing the street, and wearing a bicycle helmet EVERY time you ride your bike, there are multiple opportunities every day to manage the things we can control, such as the food we choose to eat and our lifestyle choices.

Choosing organic foods daily will help reduce exposure to toxins like herbicides, pesticides, fungicides, hormones and antibiotics. And don’t forget, you have the same opportunity to reduce your toxic burden when it comes to personal grooming products, household cleaners and even how you care for your lawn. We get some healthy exercise too when we manually weed our gardens rather than use toxic chemicals like Roundup (perfectly manicured lawns have always looked unnatural to me. I like dandelions!). And, you get to say NO to Monsanto.

If you have the real estate, consider growing your own produce. There’s nothing like walking out to your own garden to gather fresh vegetables, fruits and herbs for your next meal. The nutrition content of fresh picked produce surpasses anything we get at the store, even if it’s organic.

Stay healthy, and you’ll be wealthy the rest of your life!

To your health!

Leyla Muedin, MS, RD, CDN