healthy lifestyle - your most valuable asset is you!

NHS:  A well-balanced diet provides all of the: energy you need to keep active throughout the day. nutrients you need for growth and repair, helping you to stay strong and healthy and help to prevent diet-related illness, such as some cancers.  This means whole and minimally processed foods.   There is a definite gut - brain connection.

Caution on mail-order herbs, a large percentage are counterfeit and poisonous. 

Good sleep improves brain performance, mood, and health.  Not enough quality sleep regularly raises the risk of diabetes, heart disease, obesity, strokes, dementia, as well as worsen anxiety and immunity.  Many common PM meds have been shown to cause dementia too!   Research the ingredients. 

Sitting at a desk or carseat for prolonged periods increases your risk of obesity, heart diseases, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, stroke, metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes, and increased cancers, such as, colon, breast, and uterine cancers.  Get a standup desk, walk every hour, and use a walking treadmill, if possible. 

Having a 20-minute walk in the morning and early evening can support overall well-being. 

Most brains shrink as we age.  It does not have to be that way.  And if we improve our brain's neuroplasticity, its ability to process and reorganize information, and change in response to trauma or injury, we can be more resilient.  We can become more powerful, sharper in insight, and possibly stave off old age dementia.  

Would you like to live a life of intentionality, purpose, and flexibility to see the world more clearly and broadly? To become more self-aware of your own inner power and creativity?

Practice visualization, gratitude, empathy, and meditation.  This will change your life. 

Frontline heros must be keenly aware of all going on around them so that they can respond quickly and safely.  Establishing a meditation practice helps generate brain cells, promotes neuroplasticity, enhances clarity in thinking, and improves immunity. 

My the way, mindfulness is a powerful form of meditation.....and so is prayer!