6 Habits A Doctor Says People Who Get Healthier With Age Stick To

The useful part

One 12-year study found almost half of the 11,000+ seniors participating either got faster at walking (linked to better outcomes in older age) or performed better in cognitive tests more than a decade after their 65th birthday. Which begs the question: can individual habits make improvement, or decline, more or less likely? Of course, some conditions and health concerns are beyond people's control.

How it works

• "They pay attention to what their bodies are doing, make intentional changes, and measure whether those changes are working." 2) They build an...
• Speaking to HuffPost UK, endocrinologist Dr William Hsu, chief medical officer at L-Nutra, said there are a few habits which "consistently stand out".
• 1) They don't treat decline as inevitable The study we talked about earlier found that typically, people who had a more positive view of ageing were more likely to see improvements after 65.
• So, perhaps it's not a surprise that Dr Hsu said: "One of the most important things I have observed is that the people who become healthier with age do not treat decline as inevitable.