5 ways to optimize your health:
(aside from lifting weights and eating clean)
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(aside from lifting weights and eating clean)
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We all know the classic advice that hitting the gym and eating nutritious food is good for your health.
But that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
There is so much more you can do to optimize your health and most things you don’t even know of.
Let’s dive in👇
But that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
There is so much more you can do to optimize your health and most things you don’t even know of.
Let’s dive in👇
1. Go Outside
We are not made to sit in an office all day.
We are made to soak up the sun, yet we constantly hear to avoid it because muhh cancer.
1. This is false. Only extreme burning and toxic sunscreens cause cancer.
2. Sun avoidance has more health costs than benefits.
We are not made to sit in an office all day.
We are made to soak up the sun, yet we constantly hear to avoid it because muhh cancer.
1. This is false. Only extreme burning and toxic sunscreens cause cancer.
2. Sun avoidance has more health costs than benefits.
Direct sunshine on the skin allows your body to make vitamin D. This lowers your blood pressure, strengthens your bones (vit D helps with calcium absorption) and can even cure tuberculosis.
Sunshine also resets your circadian rhythm, helps you fall asleep and wake up faster.
Sunshine also resets your circadian rhythm, helps you fall asleep and wake up faster.
In short, the light that enters your eyes translates into a time of day in our brain. Evening sunrays will make you fall asleep, morning sunrays will help you wake.
This goes hand in hand with…..
This goes hand in hand with…..
2. Fix your sleeping schedule
Fact is, most people don’t get enough (quality) sleep.
Our days are spent indoors and our nights are illuminated with led lights and screens.
This. Is. Not. Healthy.
Fact is, most people don’t get enough (quality) sleep.
Our days are spent indoors and our nights are illuminated with led lights and screens.
This. Is. Not. Healthy.
Blue light at night suppresses melatonin, the hormone that helps you fall asleep. A distorted melatonin rhythm/poor sleep is linked to diabetes, obesity, depression, breast cancer (and other common Western illnesses).
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
To fix your sleep avoid:
- screens 1-2 hours before bed
- caffeine after dinner
- big meals 1 hour before bed
Also:
- sleep/wake up at the same times
- make your room dark
- go outside early in the day
- use bed for sleep and sex only
Incorporate these for optimal sleep.
- screens 1-2 hours before bed
- caffeine after dinner
- big meals 1 hour before bed
Also:
- sleep/wake up at the same times
- make your room dark
- go outside early in the day
- use bed for sleep and sex only
Incorporate these for optimal sleep.
3. Walk barefoot/grounding
If you’re going outside to catch some sun rays, you might as well do it barefoot.
Why?
Bodily contact with the Earth's natural electric charge (aka grounding) has a profound effect on the body.
Modern lifestyle separates humans from such contact.
If you’re going outside to catch some sun rays, you might as well do it barefoot.
Why?
Bodily contact with the Earth's natural electric charge (aka grounding) has a profound effect on the body.
Modern lifestyle separates humans from such contact.
Grounding stabilizes the physiology at the deepest levels, reduces inflammation, pain, and stress, improves blood flow, energy, and sleep, and generates greater well-being.
Walking barefoot is also great because well… I could explain it but Juliana did all of that much better in this in depth thread 👇
4) Fix your hormones
Hormonal imbalances are a serious health crisis.
Men are losing their testosterone at lightspeed and girls are fucking up their estrogen/progesteron balances by taking birth control pills, sometimes even from the age of 12.
There is no way that's healthy.
Hormonal imbalances are a serious health crisis.
Men are losing their testosterone at lightspeed and girls are fucking up their estrogen/progesteron balances by taking birth control pills, sometimes even from the age of 12.
There is no way that's healthy.
Luckily (most of) your hormones will restore themselves naturally if you remove the things that disrupt them.
⛔️👉Polyester clothing, plastics, canned food, pesticides found on industrial crops (corn, wheat, mais, soy), being overweight,
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⛔️👉Polyester clothing, plastics, canned food, pesticides found on industrial crops (corn, wheat, mais, soy), being overweight,
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pharmaceuticals, beauty products (make up/shampoo), tampons, infant formula, fragrances and the list goes on.
Avoid these products and "foods", buy as much as you can from natural materials and organic, local sources and you will be on your way to a much healthier life.
Avoid these products and "foods", buy as much as you can from natural materials and organic, local sources and you will be on your way to a much healthier life.
5) Relax
This one may seem obvious but our current way of life is filled with high pressure to perform (job, sports, uni).
Wanting to do well is great, but it must not go at the cost of your mental health.
It’s actually super important that you take some time for yourself.
This one may seem obvious but our current way of life is filled with high pressure to perform (job, sports, uni).
Wanting to do well is great, but it must not go at the cost of your mental health.
It’s actually super important that you take some time for yourself.
What’s a life if you can’t enjoy it, right?
Personally, I love reading and playing electric guitar.
But for you it may be fishing, painting, visiting a restaurant or something else.
Whatever it is you enjoy, for optimal health make sure not to neglect it and do it regularly.
Personally, I love reading and playing electric guitar.
But for you it may be fishing, painting, visiting a restaurant or something else.
Whatever it is you enjoy, for optimal health make sure not to neglect it and do it regularly.
Thanks for reading!
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