2020-05-01_Good_Health

YOUR 30s

As you enter your fourth decade, life can become more demanding and you’re likely

to be juggling family and a career. It’s important to find balance and make time for

healthy habits to safeguard your health.

GET THAT GLOW!

If you practised good self-care in your

20s, you’ll land in your 30s with a bang.

If not, it’s never too late to turn over

a new leaf and make those healthy

habits stick.

Working out. Your body is still

strong, but your metabolism

can slip into a lower gear

so now is the time to

work on losing excess

weight, if needed.

Making exercise a

regular part of your

day and working on

maintaining muscle strength

now will mean a stronger body

in your 40s and 50s, when muscle

strength can start to decline. Pay

particular attention to your knees, which

need all the help they can get as you age

• scaffold them with strong quadriceps
  and calf muscles.

Fertile time. There is a big

gap between the ideal

biological age and the

ideal social age of

conception, according to

Monash University’s Dr Karin

Hammarberg. The

easiest time to get

pregnant is before 30.

As you get older, it will

takelonger to conceive and

the chance of having a baby

decreases. A healthy lifestyle boosts

your chances of a successful pregnancy

• not smoking, taking care of your oral
  health, avoiding or limiting alcohol and
  caffeine, and protecting yourself
  from environmental chemicals.
  Try the Healthy Conception
  Tool at yourfertility.org.au to
  help you pinpoint everyday
  factors that may increase your
  chances of becoming pregnant.

Tackle stress. Stress is often on the

increase at this stage of life, and those

everyday micro stressors can add up and

take their toll. There’s no better time to

work on keeping a lid on stress because

over time it can lower immunity, disrupt

digestion and hormones, and trigger

disease-causing inflammation. The

most effective stress-buster is finding

a healthy work-life balance and

introducing a little ‘me-time’ into

There’s no better time to work on

keeping a lid on stress because

over time it can lower immunity,

disrupt digestion and hormones

WHAT

YOU NEED

Maintain muscle

strength, boost

fertility, manage

stress and learn

your health

numbers.