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Why is prevention better?
- Feeling strong and healthy all the time
- Sleeping well
- Live in vitality
- Not struggling with your health
- Skip out on medication – missing work, doctors offices, waiting rooms, forms to fill out, medication, side affects
- Stress put on your family
Reduce stress in your life
Figure out what stresses you out first
- Work – address the issue
- Family – talk to them
- Something your spouse is doing
How to Reduce Stress
- #1 thing NOT to do, is nothing
- Find a way to reduce stress, it will be different for you – painting, gaming, jogging, yelling
- Get away
- Take a drive
- Breath
- Stretch
- Write
Prevent with Food, every single day
- Free radicals increase aging, they cause health issues, cause wrinkles in your skin
– they come from, highly processed, sugary, fatty foods
- Antioxidants – dark leafy greens, bright colored veggies
– stir fry, green smoothie, fruit smoothie
– not enough people get greens
- Immune system lies partially in our gut
- If you’re not feeling well often look to your diet
– if you think it’s clean, clean it up more
- Look to fermented foods – probiotics – help digest, utilize, absorb, and create homeostasis in your gut
-kefir, sauerkraut, miso, kimchi
- Hydration – coffee, ‘don’t like water’, bathroom all the time- flush out toxins
Exercise
Some form of Exercise every single day
I know that seems like a lot to many but think about it
Is your health worth it?
Yoga, walking, a machine, rebounder, something simple, anything, stretching even, exercise groups, vacation, hobby.
Improve sleep with Shawn Stevenson
Children – set an example
Fight Dis-ease, strengthen your heart, and lungs, get fresh blood flowing through your body, increase your bone mass
You don’t have to accept less as you get older. Your health doesn’t have to deteriorate – old mind set
Accepting mediocre – reading, typing, – glasses, cane, walker, etc
Links and Resources Mentioned in this Episode
Detox with Exercise to Reduce Stress
Reduce Stress on your Immune System