About Ages.
At Ages we promise to formulate quality lifestyle products made from only clean sustainable ingredients we would use ourselves. Any proactive adjustment towards living a clean and intentional life is a small win, and small wins lead to big long-term changes. We celebrate taking back control of your wellness through these small wins. Our wellness journey should be a holistic, lifelong pursuit and we strive to support you every step of the way. Welcome to Ages - your wellness within.
Small Wins, Big Results
The Ages approach to longevity is a realistic one. There are no shortcut solutions for you to achieve your wellness goals, the only truth is that your ability to change is already within you and can rise at any moment. We believe every day is an opportunity to audit our tendencies and identify incremental changes for improvement. This could be reducing takeout dinners to spend more time learning to cook with your family or placing your running shoes outside of your bedroom door making ignoring your workout harder. However small, we will overly index and congratulate incremental improvements, because it is our small, consistent behavior that leads to long term habits and noticeable change. Keep stacking this behavior and that's how the magic happens.
Emphasis on Healthspan over Lifespan
In all things we do we favor quality over quantity, this is especially true when we zoom in on the years of life we each have on this earth. We ask everyone to question the sought out goal of defying the gravity of time and ‘living forever’ without thinking about the impact of unhealthy, disease filled living. We find it hard to get the point of this if your later years are filled with pain and hospital visits. What we are talking about and find very important to focus on is the idea of maximizing Healthspan, or the number of years one is healthy without chronic and debilitating disease. Of course disease burden can be a factor of genetics but there are ways to approach life holistically to maximize your Healthspan:
- Proactive Wellness:
- Clean Diet
- Consistent Exercise
- Quality Sleep
- Stress Management
Proactive vs. Reactive Wellness
Your health and wellness is more in your control than you think. There is no ‘right time’ to address a circumstance but there is certainly a ‘wrong time’, typically when it is a reaction that is all too late. One should approach their wellness as one would when filling their car up with gas. We do not wait until the tank empties and we are stranded on the side of the road to consider getting gas, this is done preventatively to avoid this very controllable fiasco. Similarly, one should not take supplements, seek a doctor, drink immunity boosts when they are beginning to get sick, this should be done consistently to give yourself the best chance to prevent the onset of symptoms. If we approach our wellness proactively with consistency.
Be Intentional
Every action or decision has consequences. Simply realizing this dynamic alone is awareness that helps us become more intentional in what we do. Through time, whether we realize it or not, what we think is correct behavior, technique, and approach could very well no longer be… well… correct. This is called being stuck in a pattern and it is vital to be in tune with your surroundings and decisions to confirm your patterns then determine if they serve you and your goals. If not, be aware and set an intention that breaks bad patterns and introduces good ones. There are examples of this everywhere we go and we all fall victim to it:
- You’ve sat at your desk chair the same way all your life only to look into the mirror after years and notice how poor your posture has become!
- You’ve mindlessly fallen into the habit of chewing your fingernails when one day your friend at lunch comments on your nails being practically non-existent!
- The clock turns 5pm and whether we really want it or not, we grab that drink out of habit because it's ‘happy hour’. Next thing you know it's been 1,000 days of doing the same.
We all fall into these patterns, preventing them outright is not the goal and can honestly be impractical. That being said, we can draw our awareness to the decisions we make on a daily basis and make necessary adjustments as we go. Sometimes it's as easy as taking a look in the mirror intentionally every now and again.
Age Well.
