Banana diet works!

Maybe it does not have to be banana, if you like different fruits. Eating fruits in the morning is very effective for digestion, because of the fruites' enzyme. Ideally you should eat only one type of fruites at the same time. Otherwise, several fruits' different enzymes fight each other.

How Asians age

Let me introduce a funny article about how Asians age.

http://iamemiko.blogspot.com/2010/09/how-asians-age.html

Asians do not change their look until 50 years old, but suddenly after menopause, they completely change their look!

Toilet exercise

Anti-Aging Women have no time to rest, even in bathroom!

During urine, it is perfect timing to training Kegel or Pelvic floor exercises.

- Start urine
- Stop the flow of urine by tightening urinary sphincter (muscle that controls urine flow) for a few seconds.
- Start the flow again
- Repeat the same

By training this part,

- Avoid light bladder leakage
- tighter butt
- enjoy more during sexual act!

If you cannot convince your kids about food safety, maybe he can help!

Ganbanyoku

Ganbanyoku (Gan-Ban-Yoku) means ‘stone bath’, or ‘stone sauna’ in Japanese. It is a method of cleansing and relaxation that involves lying down on a heated slab of rock that is embedded in the Ganbanyoku room floor (or on a Ganbanyoky bed) without using hot water. It is also referred to as "stone-bathing", but there is no bathing or water involved. It has been very popular in Japan in the past few years, and word is now spreading to the rest of the world.

The Ganban (stone) used at stone-spa parlors contains a lot of minerals and emits far-infrared ray. At such places, the rock is heated up to about 40c (105F) and you spread a towel and lie on the rock for 15 minutes. After taking a break for 5 to 10 minutes, you will repeat the same set for 3~4 times.

The effects of Ganbanyoku use are numerous and both aesthetic and metabolic. The detoxification process improves general bodily functions, blood circulation, alleviates pain, jump-starts a flagging immune system, deodorizes, and yields visible skin improvement, lending one a healthy, robust aura. The treatment also improves basal metabolism, making the body more efficient in utilizing energy, resulting in sustainable weight-loss. Prolonged proper treatments have also revealed the undeniable anti-ageing benefits of Ganbanyoku.

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Gold pack mask

Electric micro current is going around your body. Gold pack helps activate the current, which gets slow with age. By activating the current, your skin turnover (rejuvenation) and blood circulation becomes more faster.

I tried it in Kanazawa, Japan, where 99% of gold in Japan is produced. Gold pack mask is famous here, but I am not sure the effectiveness though...

Don't believe cosmetics claims of quick fix-over night change

Some of your cosmetics might say, "wrinkles disappear right after applying" or "skin gets younger over night," but that's too good to be true!

Your skin cell's turnover rate is every 28 days. This means that the cells die and are re-born every 28 days.  (If you are 40 years old+, your turn over might be every 40 days in general.)

Your skin may become improved by cosmetics, but it takes at least 28 days to see the results.

In addition, skin cells in different areas have different re-born rates.  So taking these differences into account, it's said that it takes 3 months to see results from new cosmetics.

If you see big difference too quickly, that's just because of the formula's synthetic ingredients, like polymers. That doesn't mean that your original skin gets younger overnight.

Don't rub your eyes- It may cause wrinkles

The skin around your eyes is the thinnest and most sensitive. If you have a habit of rubbing eyes often, try not to do too many times and do gently when have to do.

Rubbing skin can damage epidermis (top layer of the skin) and that leaves many small wrinkles and dark circles around eyes.

Confusing warnings on cosmetics package

- "For Professional Use Only"
By using this phrase, companies do not have to include some chemicals, which should be included in the formula.

- "Hypo-allergenic"
Neither the FDA or any other organization regulates the use this word on packages, which means that if the company thinks this is hypo-allergenic, the word can be on the package.

In summary, it is important for you to know the facts and evaluate products yourself! 

Don't wash your face with hot water.

Facial skin is very thin and sensitive and hot water damages the skin easily by rinsing away necessary natural oils.
Without natural oils, your skin becomes dry and more sensitive.  The oil on your skin is very important and protects your skin.
Also, hot water evaporates faster than room temperature water. To make it worse, the hot water evaporates WITH your skin's moisture too.

When you wash face, try to use water which is almost the same temperate as your body.

Japanese pizza

Okonomiyaki

The name for Japanese Pizza means, "As you like it!" which sounds perfect for me.



Japanese pizza is a healthy dish.

Ingredients are cabbage, egg whites, flour and I added fresh seafood. That's it! Very delicious!

I choose healthy toppings and avoid mayonaise based sauces.

Ecology Humidifier

I use this Japanese humidifier, which is made from special antibacterial paper!!! 

Place the decorative shaped filter into a shallow dish and add water, or you may add water based aromas.  Thats it!

Perfect for any room, office or cubicle.

     *The special paper absorbs water much faster. 

     *No electricity

     *No noise

     *Just pour water! 

Decreases dry skin, dry eyes and sore throats

Anti osteoporosis

One of the menopausal symptoms is osteoporosis, because estrogen is supposed to inhibit breaking down bones. In other words, the less estrogen, the more bones are broken down.

KAATSU training in Japan is known that it works to create more bone density. According to the Katatsu data, 15 minuites KAATSU training 2 times per day X 6 days per week X 3 weeks made 5 times more stronger bones than before.

Kaatsu training

One of the popular trainings in Japan is KAATSU training! KAATSU means adding pressure.

While adding some pressure on arms or legs to reduce blood circulation, you do light muscle training. This condition allows you to gain a lot of result just from light simple muscle training, because this equals hard muscle training.

During KAATSU training, blood circulation does not stop. It is just reduced.

When the belt is released, blood circulates amazingly fast. a lot of lactic acid is produced. This gives you a lot of growth hormone.  The KAATSU organization in Japan says KAATSU training gives you 290 times more growth hormone than regular movement!!!

90% of aged skin causes is UV!

Japanese love UV block. UV is one of the worst enemies for the skin. We use hats, umbrellas and sun glasses as well as lotions to prevent the dangerous UV rays.  UV can attack you from the ground up too. Concrete roads reflect UV at 10%, water at 10-20% and snow at a shocking 80%!

I know Vitamin D is produced by UV, but you should protect face, hands and neck from UV, and expose other areas to UV, for example arms or legs.

Age Spots

Age spots comes from various reasons.

- Too much UV exposure

   Obviously!

- Poor turn over

   Healthy cell replacement in skin is every 28 days. As you get older, this takes longer.  Some say if you are 40, your turn over is every 40 days.

- Processed food and oxidized oil

-  Too much stress.

-  Not enough sleep

- Hormone imbalance

- Rubbing skin too much or using synthetic cosmetics

How to erase age spot

If you had too much UV, there are ways to stop age spot.

- Cool down the skin

- Eat tomato or water melon!

They have lycopene to neutralize fee radicals which result from UV.

It is hard to erase established age spots completely, but do not give up! Take Vitamin C and eat anti-oxidant foods, which helps erase age spot. If skin turn over is late, you should exercise or take a bath for better blood circulation.

Good feces

You are what you eat.  A balanced diet is very important for anti aging.

Our cells are rejuvenating every day, fueled by what we eat and what we eliminate (or detox.) Our health is composed of 25% genetics and 75% environmental factors.

What you eat is really important, but in addition, detox is also critical for health.

Break down of detox (or elimination)

75% feces

20%  urine

5% hair, nails and sweat

Therefore, constipation is very very bad for anti aging.

The best feces is

- banana shape, comes out quickly, smoothly

- golden color

- not too stinky, floats in water

- when you wipe, the paper does not show anything left.

Onsen - Natural Hot Spa Baths

Japanese love onsen! Even monkeys enjoy onsen!

- The waters warms your body for better circulation

- The water pressure stimulates your internal organs

- The buoyancy effect reduces body weight to 1/10. This relaxes your muscles and mind.

Enzymes from raw vegetable to aide in anti-aging

Half of the vegetables you eat per day should be raw vegetables.

There are 2 types of enzyme.

- Digestive enzyme

- Metabolic enzyme

Digestive enzyme is necessary to digest food. If not digested well, small intestine cannot absorb nutrition.

Metabolic enzyme works to metabolize, detox, and to antioxidize body. Antioxidants are very important for anti-aging.

These 2 enzymes are composed of proteins and minerals. They are produced in body, but are in raw food and fermented food too. The amount of enzyme produced in body is fixed already, so if too much enzyme is used for digestion, the enzyme cannot be used for metabolism, including antioxidant function. Therefore, you should increase the amount of these enzymes by eating raw food and fermented food, before eating a lot of other food.