There’s no getting around it – we all get older! But some of us age better than others. Much of the quality of our lives as we grow older comes down to the health of the cellular membranes in our bodies, which protect us from a host of things in our environment – some of which we can attempt to control, but many more that we can’t. Our cellular membranes also change naturally as we age, but there is a way we can help maintain the youthful qualities of our cellular membranes, even with advanced age.

A lot of this depends on how well we take care of our cellular membranes. Each cell is surrounded by a very thin membrane called the cell or plasma membrane. This membrane forms the outer boundary of every cell in your body. Other intracellular membranes also function inside cells as internal barriers that separate cellular compartments called organelles.