Guide to a happier, longer and healthier lives

The most valuable thing we have is our health.

Step 1 – Learn how to be happy

Are you happy enough? Have you tried the pleasing secret of attraction, the mentality of abundance? Does positive thinking not work for you? Being happy is no secret. It’s just a meaningful job to yourself. Many examples will show you how to increase your short-term and long-term feelings of happiness. Here are the first two tips. Listen to the birds singing for at least 15 minutes a day.

Write down every day what you are grateful for and what you have precious. At home and in the office where you work, surround yourself with green colors( a green pad, a mug, paint your room green), it helps to induce a feeling of happiness. Every day, write in your diary two things that you are grateful for and what you have accomplished. Enjoy the little things and be grateful for every beautiful day.

Step 2 – A healthier diet helps

The basis is a varied and balanced diet, plenty of quality protein, fruits and vegetables. Increase your intake of whole grain rye flour. Eat regularly, make time for food. Add five servings of fruits or vegetables a day to your diet or a fresh fruit and vegetable juice, which is an important habit to learn.

Carefully prepared potatoes are a source of vitamin C.

Are You interested in the composition of what you eat and buy? Read Food Labels!! And what to watch out for? Excessive consumption of sugar, salt, fat and is very dangerous. It is important not to overeat or starve. Insomnia, frequent awakenings, nervousness, this could be post-covid syndrome? Limit or completely stop the intake of sugar in food, we mean sweets e.t.c..

You shall read the food packaging and its composition carefully.

Step 3 – Regular fitness

The biggest enemy of a healthy lifestyle is a sedentary lifestyle. Individuals who run a regular fitness for at least half an hour five days a week have telomere age ten years younger than people with a sedentary lifestyle. Telomeres are related to cell viability. High-intensity interval training, alternating between small and high loads, also has a positive effect on health. It can be running, skipping rope or strengthening with your own weight. Move in the fresh air for at least 30 minutes daily.

Step 4- Stress management

Stress has been experienced by people since time immemorial, it is an important mechanism for survival, as it awakens a person to perform in pursuit of prey or escape from a predator. In ancient times, however, stress was more striking, while today it is long-lasting, which exacerbates the human body. The already mentioned balanced diet and exercise itself help to fight stress. But stress is largely associated with the state of mind, ie individual. It is true that a situation that is extremely burdensome for one person can be perceived as another matter of course and not stressful. Stress cannot be fought. It is possible to avoid stress – stressful situations by a good organization of one’s own life, i.e. by the presence of some rules and a plan. Learn “first aid from stressful situations”.

How? It consists in consciously slowing down breathing at the moment of stress, which will gradually reduce the heart rate, relax the muscles. As the body begins to return to normal, so does the brain.

TIP. Also, start practicing yoga, meditation, or other healthy exercises that otherwise have beneficial effects on your mental state.

Step 5 – Good sleep

People who follow the rules of sleep hygiene, exercise regularly, are resistant to stress and take care of their diet, most of them have a good night’s sleep. As many as 60 percent of people sleep and fall asleep, doctors say. The most common type is inorganic insomnia, which is a condition of insufficient quality or quantity of sleep. Patients are said to most often report difficulty falling asleep, but they also describe intermittent sleep or early morning awakening. Most patients then expect a quick, instant solution in the form of a sleeping pill.

TIP. Following the “basic rules of sleep hygiene”, many people have no idea of ​​their existence. Common mistakes include, for example, alcohol consumption and meals just before bedtime, watching TV in the bedroom, drinking coffee in the late afternoon, staring late into the night at computer or mobile screens, or zero physical activity during the day. Listen to relaxing music.

Step 6 – Preventive medical examination

Don’t forget to have regular preventive check-ups with your general practitioner-doctor, ophthalmologist and dentist. Follow preventive check-ups with your general practitioner, within 2 years and a dentist every 6 months. Measure your pressure, condition, LDL cholesterol, PSA, etc..

Step 7 – Prevention and dietary supplements

Talk to your dietitian about what supplements to supplement if you suffer from long-term stress and do not have a varied and balanced diet, plenty of quality protein, , fiber, fruits and vegetables. Try for example Lifestyles Herbal Products. Follow the drinking regime.

TIP. Watercress. Watercress can be grown at home, so you have a daily crop of nutrients!

Step 8 – Incorporate these steps into your New Year’s plans, strategies and resolutions.

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Step 9 – Regular rest and vacation

Treat yourself to a vacation where you can relax and forget “Your worries & problems at work” as needed, don’t skimp on it, it’s an investment for you. Pack your travel INTRA capsules. Try fresh juice with Intra.

TIP. Add 28 ml of INTRA to warm water with lemon.

Updated 12.23.2023 by Tom