Health for Life and Antiaging Depend on Lifestyle Change
If the warranty period on your body just ran out,
I have some natural health solutions for you.
Five relatively easy solutions that you can incorporate into your life without too much radical change. Then you can decide if you want to go further on the pathway to radiant health and wellness.
Number 1 - Many of the problems we face after 50 are rooted in the things we eat. We are almost always over-acid even if we are vegetarians. Over-acid pH is easily changed with my system of correcting for the acid food we eat. After our pH has been more alkaline for a while, the increased energy and upbeat outlook that we will have, will make it easier to change the actual diet that is causing the problem. But meantime, my pH Balance page will tell you how to correct the problem of acid ph in an easy, inexpensive way.
Number 2 - It's important to have a good multiple vitamin and mineral supplement to cover the bases in your nutrition. But most of the vitamins that people take in pill form are not well absorbed. You can't have health for life without having your nutritional needs covered. I have been researching liquid vitamins for a year now and I've found one that is exceptional. For more information.
Number 3 - Most of us are low in magnesium and overly high in calcium. Magnesium is necessary for every electrical exchange in our body. Read the magnesium page (especially if you have heart problems) and add some magnesium drops to your drinking water. Adding magnesium to your diet is a quick fix that will make you feel better within a week plus it has antiaging properties as well.
Number 4 - It's probably time to do an internal cleanse. This is a topic that can be scary but it's absolutely essential for health in this time of increasing toxicity and foolish eating. We are killing ourselves with what we put into our body that it does not recognize and can't deal with. I have found a company that guides you through internal cleansing in the safest way possible. They also have excellent specialty supplements that are light years ahead of the crowd. For more information.
Number 5 - Saving the best til last - now it's time to start moving. Some health practitioners have said that what you eat isn't as important as what you are holding in your body. Our bodies fill up with toxins of all kinds, from the air, water and food we eat. Toxins are removed by the lymph system which surrounds the cells, and expelled through the skin or the excretory system.
The lymph fluid doesn't have a heart or lungs to pump it around the body. It relies on your moving around to keep the system going. Any kind of movement is fine, it's not picky. As your muscles tighten and release, they squeeze the fluid and get the waste products of every cell in your body moving on out. You don't have to go for a hike. In fact, exercising three times a week doesn't do your lymph system much good, although it's great for your muscles and bones. But getting up from the computer or the couch and doing some gardening or stacking wood or cleaning house is good for your lymph system.
 What I do is set the oven timer and get up from the computer every hour and bounce on my rebounder (mini-trampoline) for one or two minutes. I've tried everything, from the gym to home videos, but I really don't love exercise - it's boring! But I can do one minute an hour. Anyone can do one minute an hour! And I've found a new rebounder accessory that makes even injured, overweight people feel safe on the rebounder. For more information.
Rebounding breaks up my day and gives me much more energy. If you don't have a rebounder then just do anything else you want for one minute- dance, go up and down a flight of stairs, jumping jacks. My mother just marches in place bringing her knees as high as she can. It's the regularity of it that is the miracle. You don't think about it or argue with yourself. The timer rings and you get up and do it. I was a movement therapist for years and I saw clearly, how simple changes in the way people moved, could transform their lives.
We all have choice. Instead of thinking that drugs and pills will solve all our health problems, we have to take a good look at our lives and be willing to make some lifestyle changes.
There is so much proof coming out daily now that lifestyle change can accomplish more than most drugs - with innumerable side benefits - instead of negative side effects.
Here's a good story - The testing on a diabetes drug showed that it improved blood sugar levels by 30% over one of the control groups. But the other control group that used simple diet and exercise solutions actually improved by 60%. This was, of course, not mentioned in the drug ads. The diabetes disease infrastructure said that people would never change their lives that much.
Well, I think differently. We all have the power to change our lives if given sufficient motivation. Some of us need the carrot to get us going, and some the stick.
It's my strong belief that our bodies can heal themselves, if we give them the right tools and don't put negative thoughts in their way. Many people are pretty far from believing in any personal power in the health area; they have given their power away to doctors and drug companies. Well, power corrupts, so now we begin to see the results daily in the newspapers. With the three simple tools above you will begin to see improvement in the way you feel within days and you can start taking your power back.
With all the information available from the Net, we can research anything on the planet. But, most people over 50 are busy, stressed, tired or lack computer skills. Then there is so much conflicting information. Notably conflicts between old-style medical, AMA solutions and alternative solutions. So sites written by people like me with a passionate interest in staying vibrantly alive until it's time to go, are the best solution.
Many of my customers from my other two sites have asked me to do a website on general good health practices. I have been in the health field most of my life and have a wealth of knowledge to share and I know that this site will attract those people who are ready to hear. I am offering a few products for sale, some I make or designed myself, but I am mostly offering information that I have found useful.
I have been reading everything I could find about health and improving the quality of my life since the '70s. I've bought newsletters from all the alternative doctors and health advocates around. Most of them have degenerated into sales letters for their latest fad vitamin, herb or supplement. I've tried so many and most don't make any difference. But it is really big business now, $35-80 for a month's supply of the latest wonder supplement. If you had bought everything recommended in the last newsletter I got, it would have cost $410- a month!
No matter how many handfuls of pills you take every day you won't achieve vibrant well-being with them. They are at best small chunks taken out of healing foods and at worst; chemical soup. One of the few exceptions I have found is the green powder I sell, made from whole green juices with just the water subtracted. Most people don't get the green foods they need in their normal diet - iceberg lettuce is the only green food that passes most people's lips. There is very little nutrition in that and it is one of the most widely pesticided crops grown.
What I have found on my own health journey is that there are some tools that have affected my health more than any supplement. The weight vest I designed to heal my own osteoporosis is a wonderful tool that is way better for you than taking Fosomax. It's patently obvious now that the drug companies cannot by trusted and the FDA is the fox in the henhouse. You can't afford to put your life in their hands. You are the one who has to be responsible for the quality and length of your life. Weight-bearing exercise has been proven to improve the strength of your bones. Don't take Fosomax thinking it is the answer and then find out a few years down the road that it was undermining your health. Read the research on the weightvest site about that.
To create health and wellness you can check your pH Balance first, that's concrete and easily changed. Then you could add some magnesium to your water and then start moving. After that you could check out the attitude page, then move on to find the wellness solutions that you need. Be sure and check the health articles page, I will be adding to that page regularly. My first article will be on Cod Liver Oil and everyone should look into adding that to their diet.
Knowledge that you have integrated into your life becomes your own to share. I remember anything that strikes me as important but I may not remember where I read it. So if you read something that sparks your interest then it is your work to put it in a search engine and track it further. Then try it out and make it your own; until then it's just more words on the page.
So, Good Health to you and may you fully enjoy your life until you pass over to the next one with a big grin on your face.
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