Yes YOU can choose good health.
Yes YOUR BODY is designed to be healthy and strong.
Yes LIVING more natural has a great track record.
NATURAL WELLNESS
Hello and welcome to my anti-aging space online. I love to share about my four-decade-long natural health journey because it has served me so well; and if I can help even one person live a healthier, more energetic and happy (because you feel strong and healthy) life, it’s a very good day.
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Life looks a lot different here in 2025, at 63 years young, than it did in early 1982 when I was 20 years old, newly married and wanting to improve my health before starting a family.
But health-wise, I still feel young, full of energy, strong and healthy. I attribute that to finding ways to live more naturally, even though it is far from perfect.
I wasn’t in a terrible health space at the time, but I did have some digestive issues and I wanted to make sure my body was in the best shape before I got pregnant.
My husband and I had moved 1000 miles away to a bigger city than where we grew up. The health industry, specifically natural health, is not what it is today in terms of so much information, so many products, and of course healthy service related options.
We weren’t ‘online’ to Google whatever we were wanting to know.
I don’t remember health stores or even a lot of talk about health and wellness, and so I’m not even sure why I felt so strongly about not wanting a medication to help my digestive problem if I could do something more natural and without side effects.
I saw an AD in the newspaper about a local meeting where some people from this town in Florida where we were living would get together and talk about ways to address health challenges in the most natural way and about the different natural health supplements that can help.
I went to these types of meetings for years and soaked up all the information that was shared. The conversations fascinating and so helpful. I took tons of notes (and still have them).
HEALTH BY DESIGN
There are different ways to live more naturally, and avoid what has been discovered that can be hurting our health. We live in a world of processed food and drinks that have almost no nutritional value but are causing health problems. There are chemicals and toxins throughout our environment, in our homes, and in the personal products we use.
While we can’t be shielded from them all, there are many choices we can make to avoid chemicals and toxins, starting with what we eat, drink and put on our skin.
People would share what was working for them or for a family member or friend. They would share new information they were learning and about the products they were using.
I bought some of those products in that very first meeting and still use the same brand 43 years later.
When something works, you don’t feel the need to change.
When the brand stays innovative, you don’t have to look for the next shiny object.
When the products are from the most clinically proven wellness company in the world, you trust them.*
Health and wellness topics and information are now widely accessible online, either on social media, in private groups, on blogs like this one, and on all kinds of health and medical websites.
I continue to learn about new ways to stay healthy.
When I have new health challenges pop up like elevated blood pressure that recently presented, I look at the causes and realize some of them are issues I need to address.
For me it was getting regular exercise (I am active but also busy enough that I wasn’t doing consistent exercise apart from busy lifestyle) and poor sleep. Maybe too little sleep catches up to you at almost 64.
I prefer to see what I can do naturally to help, along with getting blood work to see what’s going on and confer with a doctor.
I try new supplements that address my current age, or adjust them to meet my body’s needs at the time.
I stay fascinated about how our body is meant to be strong and healthy and how it can heal itself of many health challenges.
For example, did you know that lifestyle changes can help you avoid and/or improve or reverse many age related illnesses and diseases such as: Type 2 Diabetes, High Cholesterol, High Blood Pressure, Joint Pain, Sarcopenia, Osteoporosis, and Obesity.
Doctors do advise on lifestyle changes but they can’t be by your side 24/7 as you make those decisions. You have to make the daily changes to what’s not working, and commit to new healthier habits. And sometimes medication is tht answer.
PURPOSE
This AntiAgingByDesign.com blog has a couple of purposes.
I write about all kinds of health and wellness topics and strive to give helpful information for you to learn about and evaluate for yourself.
I share my personal experiences living more natural and the supplements and other products I use, such as the mini trampoline that we’ve had in our home to help us move our lymphatic system (it feels so good to jump on for 5 minutes and lightly bounce – your feet don’t even leave the trampoline).
I share the Shaklee brand of wellness products that I have used for 43 years. Shaklee is the most clinically proven wellness company in the world with the patents to prove it, with long-term (30+ year) studies to back up supplement performance, and with a 100% guarantee on all products.
Last, I welcome requests for topics you’d like to know more about that I haven’t covered here.
My Health By Design
I feel so blessed to have found Shaklee, not only for the products I use every single day, but for the natural health information and support that I continue to receive from the brand.
I wish I could remember what attracted me to natural. I know by age 20 that my body seemed to do so much better with real food and natural choices over synthetics and chemicals. It is still that way today.
If you are looking for more natural ways to live, and less chemicals, please contact me anytime if you would like to discuss and I invite you to explore what I have here on the blog for you.
I don’t eat perfect, but I don’t eat terrible.
I do pretty well when it comes to drink. There are some great low or no calorie, naturally flavored drinks that I have every day in addition to clean water – and they taste really good. You do not need high caffeine, high sugar, or sugar-free drinks (these have chemicals not designed for a healthy body). Your health can take a negative hit from just the drinks you choose.
Bottom line, there are small, easy, simple choices you can make that can make a measurable, good impact on your health. And then you can add from there when you see that it FEELS GOOD.
Take a moment and think about how you feel. Are you sleeping well? Do you wake up and have energy for the day, or are you feeling fatigue or experiencing energy crashes? How is your focus and your mental energy? Do you have joint pain? Do you have non-life-threatening but annoying health challenges? Any of these and many more can be addressed with natural lifestyle changes and choices.
You only have one body, and it is your only place to live (thank you for that quote, Jim Rohn). It is up to you how healthy you choose to feel.
MORE NATURAL HEALTH THOUGHTS
When I searched what natural health looked like in 1982, here is what I found:
“In 1982, natural health was gaining traction, with an increasing interest in preventative health measures and holistic approaches to well-being. This was reflected in the development of the Health Promotion Model by Nola Pender, which emphasized proactive steps to maintain health rather than solely focusing on illness treatment.” [Google]
Contrast this with the background of Shaklee.
Dr. Shaklee created the first multivitamin in 1915 and the first protein supplement in 1961. I love that Shaklee is responsible for these ‘FIRSTS’ and how the Shaklee brand continues to be innovative (based on science and clinical proof) over one hundred years later.
The Shaklee Corporation was founded in 1956 after Dr. Shaklee had created and used natural supplements in his private practice for years. This was BEFORE I was born and BEFORE many, many, many people were thinking natural.
Dr. Shaklee was always about living chemical-free in terms of what you eat, what you put on your skin, and what you clean your home with that would then be in the air in your living environment. He created the first organic, concentrated, multi-purpose cleaner in 1960 and it was the FIRST official Earth Day cleaning product in 1970.
I feel that I was ahead of the curve in the natural, wellness area in my own life and with family/friends, but nothing like Dr. Shaklee who was a man far ahead of his time.
Even today, I think that natural health and wellness should be so much further ahead than it is. There are so many bad food products and products of every kind that are not made to support good health.
In a world where we have access to more information than ever before, where there have been more discoveries than ever before (even though many healthy topics/info you have to dig for because they aren’t exactly promoted), WHY are we still so sick? Why are kids getting diseases that used to present at much older ages? Why are we so overweight and/or obese?
It really does come down to CHOICE. We have more than enough information we need about how to live healthy.
We have to want better for ourselves. And we have to make the changes or new habits, even small ones, that will make a difference.
I hope that I can help with that here on the blog. There is a menu across the top with topic categories and I welcome your feedback or contributions.
Contact me anytime through the blog, social media, or by text or phone.
Vicki
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The natural nutrition brand we recommend here on the blog are products we have personally used for the past 43+ years. We are not medical professionals. We are on a personal health journey to live younger, energized and healthy longer.
*These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.