You can put on all the night creams and serums in the world, do all existing plastic surgeries, but keeping your body looking and feeling young starts with your lifestyle. At the end of the day, eating the right foods, getting enough sleep, and exercising the right way are crucial elements to aging gracefully.

If you're a healthy person in general, you probably have an idea of how important exercise is to keeping your body strong and healthy as you get older. But how exactly does exercise aid the body in the aging process, and what are the best anti-aging workouts out there? 

There are a lot of outward factors associated with aging, from weight gain to thin, wrinkly skin. Young-looking skin has a lot do with something called myokines, proteins released by working muscles. The body uses myokines to stay young—so that's one huge way exercise helps.

Aging begins in your muscles around age 35 when you lose muscle mass  and gain fat. Exercise maintains lean body mass, keeps metabolism high, and weight on target. The outward manifestations are less joint pain, less bone loss, less wrinkles, more mobile ability. By changing that it changes how you look—you're standing more upright, you're walking with more intention and less pain.

When it comes to disease prevention, exercise is huge—from strengthening the bones to prevent osteoporosis to lowering the risk of heart disease to diabetes, it's hard to find a disease that exercise doesn't help with. Exercise improves sleep, which regulates thousands of genes and shrinks the white fat that increases your risk of diabetes and heart disease. Exercise also improves heart function, efficiency, and circulation, lowering the risk of heart disease. Plus, exercise stimulates the hippocampus, and a hippocampus means a better memory—and we all want to have that long into our old age.

So, are some workouts better than others? Low-intensity exercise one hour four times per week strengthen the muscles. Hiking in the forest or park is an excellent solution too, as nature is shown to lower cortisol levels. Yoga counts as strength-building because it slows down bone reabsorption and has other health benefits such as lower cortisol. However, any kind of movement is excellent. Something is better than nothing. Every work out counts.  If you are already in good shape resistance training, or moving your body against gravity is great solution. It takes about 30 minutes to get your maximum anti-aging benefit. If you are fan of cardio, it appears that only 20 minutes three times per week is great for your heart. 

Well, it's certainly comforting to know that even walking helps reduce the effects of aging. But we at Daniel Kanu Fitness and Lifestyle, we'll be running marathons and lifting heavy weights to keep our bodies young and healthy.

By Ljiljana Kostic