Adjust Diet to Nourish Spleen and Kidneys as First Stage to Prevent Premature Aging

When a person passes middle age, his/her yang qi starts to decline, and the body begins to age from then onward. Coupled with the effects of modern-day diets, abnormal daily routines, lack of exercise, and high tension from life and work, together with air and environmental pollution, all contributors to accelerated damage of the internal organs, resulting in premature aging. Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) believes that the prevention of aging should start with the maintenance of the viscera (internal organs). Among them, the spleen and kidney are the most closely related to aging, and maintenance of them should best start with the daily diet.

According to the general theory of TCM, the kidneys are the basic innate foundation of the body, while the spleen determines the body’s performance after birth. They work in unison so that the state and function of the spleen and kidney determine whether a person is healthy or not, affecting the onset of premature aging.

People with kidney deficiencies will suffer from a sore back, weak knees, fatigue, and maybe poor memory; spleen deficiency will lead to body weakness, lack of energy, and blood deficiency. When the spleen is weak, the blood supply to the brain becomes less efficient. When this happens, it will result in dizziness, unclear thinking, walking less briskly, and the like, which are all signs of aging.

Most of the anti-aging methods in ancient literature are mainly based on nourishing the kidneys. “The…