What do you do and when do you do it when you are diagnosed with cancer or any disease?
First, stop and evaluate your lifestyle. What have you done to get you to where you are? It’s like traveling from A to B and discovering that you are headed to C. You pull out your map and look for the sign that tells you “You are here.”
Now you know where you are. Knowing where you are enables you to adjust your course to get you back on track to arrive at B instead of C. “The goal of good science is to isolate variables.” –Andrew Huberman Ph.D. It’s time for you to begin to isolate variables to determine what to keep and what to stop, what to change and what not to change.
If you want to lose weight you stop doing what you did to keep you from gaining more. You then adjust your sails, so to speak, as you implement strategies to reduce your weight. You want to lose fat not muscle, and you want to keep the weight off forever. It’s a lifestyle change that you must commit to until you find a better lifestyle. You keep evaluating and changing, re-evaluating and changing. Your lifestyle must continually improve. When you stop learning and growing you begin to stagnate. Cambridge dictionary defines stagnate as “to stay the same and not grow or develop.” If you want a dynamic, healthy, enriching life you must grow and develop, regardless of your age.
I’ll be recapping Dr. Andrew Huberman’s podcast as he hosted Dr. Mark Hyman for over two hours. Dr. Hyman said, “Food security is having enough calories and nutritional security is having enough nutrients.” I thought that statement to be profound as we should be concerned how we assimilate what is beneficial from our environment. The Cambridge Dictionary defines nutrition as “the substances that you take into your body as food and the way that they influence your health.”
We should also be cognizant of the many factors that are toxic to our overall health like micro-plastics for example. Dr. Hyman mentioned the book Our Stolen Future by Theo Colborn, Dianne Dumanoski, and John Peterson Myers. Our Stolen Future examines the ways that certain synthetic chemicals interfere with hormonal messages involved in the control of growth and development, especially in the fetus.
More especially we should be aware of the positive factors to enrich our health and lives in diet and behaviors such as sleep, sunlight, social connections, exercise, nutrition, microbiome, and stress modulation. The conversation turned to nutritional additives and Dr. Hyman said that if you breathe clean air, drink clean water, you rise with the sun and go to bed with the sun, consume clean live foods you will not need additives.
These are a lot of subjects to unpack but who doesn’t like a good sound sleep or afternoon nap? Who doesn’t like to bask in the sun, but not get sunburned? Who doesn’t like good food that doesn’t make you feel bloated or uncomfortable? Who doesn’t like good gut health? Who doesn’t like to be stress free? And finally, who doesn’t like to exercise?
I just saw a news article about a Home Depot employee in Louisville, Kentucky who was celebrating her 100th birthday.
Home Depot’s 100-Year Old Employee Is Not Ready To Retire Even After Quitting And Getting Cancer Three Times
When asked about her secret to her longevity, JoCleta Wilson, listed several factors including exercise. She described two as breathing and eye exercises. Now if you’re not into exercise or have some physical issue that restricts your ability to exercise then I’m certain that you can work in breathing and eye exercises into your new lifestyle regimen. When I’m 100 years old I hope to be playing golf and traveling with my family. To each their own.
I’ve recently been reading Harvey and Marilyn Diamond’s book Fit for Life. What I’ve learned so far is that we need to know the what and when. What to eat and when to eat it. I’ve mentioned in previous blogs that the universe down to our cells involve chemical reactions. Some reactions are good, but some are bad. Not knowing the what and the when too often results in bad chemical reactions as our digestive tracts struggle to metabolize the food we eat to our maximum benefit, too often at no benefit or a detrimental benefit. Too many detrimental bad chemical reactions have caused our nation’s population to suffer from auto-immune disease, obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and cancer.
Don’t despair, it’s not your fault. Our government, food industry, pharmaceutical industry, and healthcare system have all failed us. Food policy like GRAS – generally recognized as safe – has poisoned us with 10,000 food additives GRAS with only 400 GRAS in Europe.
Fit for Life teaches us to eat certain foods together and not combine with others. You can eat what you want, just some not at the same time. Fit for Life covers how long it takes for certain foods to digest, enabling you to know when you can then eat other foods without counteracting the digestive chemical reaction taking place in your gut.
Take the time to check out Dr. Huberman’s podcast and Harvey and Marilyn Diamond’s book, Fit for Life.
I pray that you reach your health and fitness goals and enjoy a full and enriching life.
Improve Vitality & Reverse Disease by Dr. Mark Hyman on the Andrew Huberman podcast
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Our Stolen Future: Are We Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence, and Survival?–A Scientific Detective Story Paperback – March 1, 1997
by Theo Colborn (Author), Dianne Dumanoski (Author), John Peterson Myers (Author)
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“A critically important book that forces us to ask new questions about the synthetic chemicals that we have spread across this earth.”—former vice president Al Gore, author of An Inconvenient Truth
Our Stolen Future examines the ways that certain synthetic chemicals interfere with hormonal messages involved in the control of growth and development, especially in the fetus.
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