Soluble fiber forms a gel-like substance in your gut and acts as a fuel for your gut bacteria. It can help lower cholesterol, stabilize blood glucose, and help you feel more satisfied after meals. Soluble fiber is found in oats, peas, beans, apples, pears, citrus fruits, carrots, barley, avocados, sweet potatoes, legumes, nuts and psyllium. […]
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Lifestyle Changes, Nutrition, Supplementation to Address Long COVID or PASC
Research suggests that between one month and one year after having COVID-19, 1 in 5 people ages 18 to 64 has at least one medical condition that might be due to COVID-19. Among people age 65 and older, 1 in 4 has at least one medical condition that might be due to COVID-19. Some people with COVID-19 have […]
Importance of Fasting Insulin Level in Your Blood Test
There’s one test that your doctor or lab test packages probably aren’t doing, that can detect high insulin levels before these warning signs appear and prevent type 2 diabetes decades before it’s full blown. What is it? A fasting insulin test. Insulin is a hormone produced in the pancreas, which regulates the amount of glucose […]
Importance of Phenotypic Flexibility and Hormesis for Improving Strength and Resilience
Scientists have been using the term “phenotypic flexibility” to describe health. Strive to live a life that increases your resilience and ability to tolerate all sorts of extremes. In the fields of biology and medicine ‘hormesis’ is defined as an adaptive response of cells and organisms to a moderate (usually intermittent) stress. All biological organisms […]
What Happens to Someone’s Brain From Complaining Every Day
We can change our brain for the positive, so we don’t have to feel “stuck”. We can increase our intelligence (our “I.Q.”). And, we can learn new, life-changing skills. In some instances, a person can recover from brain damage. “Neurons that fire together, wire together.” Relationship between our thoughts (“neurons that fire”) and structural changes […]
Weight loss versus increasing fitness and physical activity for reducing health risks
Excerpt from below Pubmed study analysis: Gaesser GA, Angadi SS. Obesity treatment: Weight loss versus increasing fitness and physical activity for reducing health risks. iScience. 2021 Sep 20;24(10):102995. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2021.102995. PMID: 34755078; PMCID: PMC8560549. The mortality risk associated with obesity is largely attenuated or eliminated by moderate-to-high levels of cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) or physical activity […]
Main Micro-Nutrients that Play a Role in the Immune Response
The main micronutrients that play a role in the immune response include: Vitamin A Vitamin C Vitamin D Vitamin E Vitamin B6 Vitamin B12 Folate (Vitamin B9) Zinc Iron Copper Currently, the strongest evidence suggests that these three micronutrients offer immune support: Vitamin C Vitamin D Zinc ~Praveen Jada *Do read the Disclaimer
Vitamin D Supplementation: A Potential Approach for COVID-19 Therapeutics
Vitamin D is likely to reduce acute respiratory tract infection risk, and that 10,000 IU/day is safe. It is not considered possible to achieve toxic levels via the sun alone, and supplementation for prolonged periods brings 25(OH)D to toxic levels only if the dose is consistently extraordinarily high (40,000 IU/day for many months) (28, 88, 91, 92). The […]
Vitamin D – Serum levels for optimum functioning
When we don’t get enough vitamin D, it impacts every area of our biology, because it affects the way our cells and genes function. Your body makes vitamin D when it’s exposed to sunlight. In fact, 80 to 100 percent of the vitamin D we need comes from the sun. The sun exposure that makes […]
Mindset for Leading a Healthy Lifestyle – Have High Integrity
We need to have high integrity. We must stick to our word once we say it. Leading by example is very important when we want to create trustworthy relationships, reliability, credibility and positive impact on others. Walk the talk. Make it possible. Be resourceful rather than searching for resources. Integrity is standing by our word […]
Mindset for Leading a Healthy Lifestyle – Take Action Now
You are much more likely to act your way into healthy thinking than to think your way into healthy acting. —Roger Seip If we want to know what we value in life, then let’s go and evaluate how we spend money and places we visit. We need to do an assessment on how we spend […]
Mindset for Leading a Healthy Lifestyle – Have Faith
Faith is having the belief that there is going to be better future and hoping for things to improve even though everything seems to have fallen apart now. Having faith and hope enables us to take better decisions. Our decisions would be instinctive, short sighted and would be focused on instant gratification when we are […]
Mindset for Leading a Healthy Lifestyle – Focus on Process
We need to focus on the process and journey while we are pursuing our ambitions. Progress is more important and achieving perfection. Making progress, growing and learning on the way to success are key factors that keeps us motivated. There is no perfect result or results may differ from what we imagined at the beginning. […]
Mindset for Leading a Healthy Lifestyle – Emotions and Subconscious Brain
Our subconscious mind (we can also call it as emotional brain) chooses easy over hard, pleasure over pain, inaction over action, energy saving over expenditure. These are human evolutionary traits. This does not mean there is something wrong with us. Stop feeling guilty about it and stop saying to yourself that you lack self-control. Instead […]
Mindset for Leading a Healthy Lifestyle – Procrastinating and Delaying
Procrastinating (Postponing) and sitting on a decision whether to do it or not, drains more emotional energy then actually taking action. Hitting our face with cold water and going to gym is much more easier on us then to just laying on bed half-sleep hitting the snooze button again and again. When we are sure […]