Six ways to prolong life:
1, drink more tea
China people have a long history of drinking tea. Our ancestors seem to have understood that drinking tea can bring many benefits to health.
Drinking tea can not only refresh the mind, but also supplement various trace elements, lower blood pressure and blood lipid, beauty beauty, and help the body to detoxify.
Different teas have different health care functions!
① Green tea, one of the main teas in China, has the effects of preventing cancer, reducing blood fat and losing weight. For office workers, drinking more can also reduce the harm of computer radiation.
② Black tea, warm in nature and mellow in taste, has the functions of warming the stomach, keeping healthy, refreshing, relieving fatigue, eliminating edema, stopping diarrhea, resisting bacteria and enhancing immunity.
3 scented tea, different scented teas have different effects. Chrysanthemum can clear liver, improve eyesight and reduce fire! Roses can beauty beauty, regulate qi and relieve depression. Lily can moisten the lungs, relieve cough, relieve stomachache, and calm the mind.
④ Herbal tea has a good health care function, such as dandelion root tea, which can expel hepatotoxicity and prevent liver injury, especially for alcoholic liver injury. Suitable for drinkers to protect the liver every day, dandelion also has a good diuretic effect, which can help the human body excrete more toxins. Also known as "natural antibiotics", it has excellent anti-chronic inflammation effect!
Moreover, dandelion enters the liver and stomach meridian, which can not only protect the liver, but also nourish the stomach, and has a good improvement effect on stomach heat, gastritis and stomachache. However, dandelion is slightly cold, and besides improving stomach heat, people with deficiency of spleen and stomach are suitable for making dandelion root black tea by soaking in water after fermentation, which can not only reduce the coldness, but also have better health care effect!
2, moderate exercise
When people reach middle age, don't become "lazy", but must insist on proper exercise!
A new study in Denmark shows that jogging for one hour a week can increase life expectancy by six years. Male joggers live an average of 6.2 years longer than non-joggers, and female joggers live an average of 5.6 years longer than non-joggers.
Jogging is aerobic exercise, which has many benefits to health. It can exercise lung function, keep our viscera moving regularly, help blood circulation, improve heart function, improve insulin sensitivity, promote lipid metabolism and improve psychological function.
And jogging has a better fitness effect than any high-intensity exercise.
3, light diet
Generally speaking, the diet is light, with rice and flour as the staple food. Vegetables are an indispensable part of life.
Diabetes complicated with cardiovascular diseases is often caused by bad living habits, such as eating spicy hot pot, heavy oil and salt, eating animal viscera, etc., which is easy to cause disease.
Step 4 live happily
Anger hurts the body. Try to be less angry every day and smile more when things happen. Laughter can reduce stress hormones.
In addition, the study pointed out that laughter significantly increased interferon, stimulated immune function, and immune cells became more active.
If you feel that you lack humor, you can watch more comedies and funny animations, think about the plot when you are nervous, and learn to be optimistic about the status quo.
Needless to say, friends all know that the benefits of laughing every day are far more than improving resistance, so smile more every day!
Step 5 don't resist disease
Taking stomach medicine for stomachache, sticking plaster for shoulder pain and taking painkillers for headache have become the normal life of many middle-aged people.
As everyone knows, symptoms such as headache and stomachache may be early warning signals from the body. Ignoring blindly and taking some medicine can easily drag a minor illness into a serious illness.
For example, frequent headaches and dizziness may be related to hypertension and cervical spondylosis; Frequent stomachache may be caused by gastric ulcer and duodenal ulcer, which requires gastroscopy to eliminate malignant lesions; Going up and down the stairs is hard and flustered, which may be a heart problem.
No matter what the disease is, the most important thing is early detection, early diagnosis and early treatment. If you are unwell, you should seek medical advice as soon as possible and adjust your lifestyle.
6, more massage
① Knead Taichong point to calm down and lower blood pressure.
Taichong point is also called Xiaoqi point. Pressing it can not only lower blood pressure, but also "relieve qi".
Blood pressure and temper are like naughty children. If you often press Taichong point, these children will be "obedient".
(2) Rub your forehead, close your eyes, and relieve fatigue.
Some people often spend too much time and think too much, and Sichuan characters will form between their eyebrows and eyes. Such people are not conducive to health and longevity. However, there are ways to solve it.
Before going to bed every day, massage with your thumb all the way along Tang Yin point until you reach the temple, and do it 100 times a day, which can not only reduce the appearance of Sichuan character lines, but also nourish your heart and soothe your nerves and relieve fatigue.
③ Knead feet, dredge qi and blood, and harmonize meridians.
The foot is called the "second heart", and there is a reflection area of human organs on the sole of the foot. Regular massage and stimulation of our feet can promote the smooth flow of qi and blood and the harmony of meridians, thus achieving the purpose of disease prevention and health care.
④ Rubbing the abdomen, promoting blood circulation and strengthening the stomach.
Massage the abdomen after meals, promote gastrointestinal peristalsis and abdominal blood circulation, help to enhance gastrointestinal function, adjust the function of central nervous system, and play a role in fitness and disease prevention.
The way to massage the abdomen is to gently push the abdomen repeatedly from top to bottom (from the top of the stomach to the lower abdomen) with both hands.
⑤ Knead Houxi point to relieve pain and stay away from presbyopia.
If you are sitting in front of a computer, you can put this part of Houxi point on the edge of the table and use your wrist to drive your hands to roll back and forth easily.
During the rolling process, there will be a slight pain. Persistence has a very, very good curative effect on cervical vertebrae and lumbar vertebrae, and is also good for protecting eyesight.