Five Tips For Increasing Your Life

Life. We've only got one shot at it, we may as well make it as long as possible. Though life offers no money back guarantees, certain behaviors can help increase your chances of sticking around, like drinking alkaline water. Take the following five actions into consideration, each action can add years to your life and life to your years.

Laugh:

The phrase "Laughter is the best medicine" may seem more like a simple saying than the truth. But, it turns out, laughter may really be the best medicine, or at least one of them. Laughter is a natural enemy to stress: every time you laugh you release hormones that tell stresses to hit the road. Because stress can wreak havoc on your body - and actually take away years from your life - anything that fights it helps you live longer. In addition to decreasing stress, laughter also boosts the immune system, regulates blood pressure, increases the flow of blood and oxygen to muscles and organs, and internally massages.

Exercise:

We've heard it before and we'll say it again: exercise is a key to a long life. A recent study at the Erasmus M.C. University Medical Center surveyed and tested over 5,000 men and women, finding that those who engaged in exercise - running, aerobics, yoga - almost daily added up to 3.7 years to their life. This was largely due to the fact that exercising decreased stress and interrupted the development of heart disease, the leading killer of Americans. In addition to this study, the Center for Disease Controls approximates that 250,000 deaths each year in the US are because of inactivity. In short, exercise exercises your right to a longer life: for every hour you work out, two hours are added to your lifespan.

Get a pet:

It's no longer just a saying, dogs may truly be man's best friend. Not only are they friendly, happy, compassionate, and unyieldingly loyal, but they are also life prolongers. A variety of studies have shown that owning a pet lowers a person's blood pressure, increases self-esteem, decreases the mortality rates of heart attack victims, decreases cholesterol, decreases depression, relieves stress, and increases family happiness. Pets also make people, particularly younger people, more likely to participate in extracurricular activities. On a whole, research predicts that those who own pets will outlive those who don't by an average of seven years.

Have friends and keep family close:

Like pets, good relationships with people can also increase your lifespan by seven years. Simply put, those with friends and family have less stress in their life. They are more likely to laugh, more likely to exercise, and less likely to have high blood pressure or suffer from depression. Keeping old friends (or making new friends) and visiting family on a regular basis not only extends your life, but it also enhances it.

Drink water:

It's easy, it's simple, and it's a life saver. Drinking alkaline water can do wonders for you and give you an alkaline body, which, let's face it, is pretty much the key to living longer. Not only does alkaline acid water keep your digestive system working, keep you hydrated, and help maintain weight, but it also decreases your risk of getting a variety of disease. Drinking purified water from a kangen water machine (because it filters out aluminum additives) can decrease the risk of Alzheimer's, drinking ample amounts of water when bogged down with the cold and flu can help flush out the virus from you body and relieve symptoms. Drinking water that is part of an acid alkaline diet can also decrease chances of getting constipated, having kidney stones, heart attacks, and strokes.