Today we live in an epidemic of diseases of civilization. Be it diabetes, high blood pressure, arthritis, fatty liver, thyroid, cholesterol, obesity, or even cancer, all of these have skyrocketed over the past 25-30 years. The interesting observation, however, is that none of these diseases occur overnight. We don’t wake up one morning with any of these lifestyle diseases. Our unhealthy habits are responsible for these diseases.
In the last six years of my practice, I have observed that health or illness is just a by-product of our habits. It’s years of people’s habits – a combination of eating, inactivity, poor sleep habits, and stress – that led them to their current state of health. Epigenetics – a science that teaches us that what we do can change our genes – explains that whatever gets into our bodies makes our cells either healthier or more inflamed. And there are only the following things that can get into our bodies – food, thoughts and emotions. Hence, we should be aware that every day as we take care of our food and our thoughts, we have the opportunity to heal ourselves and become healthier than what we were yesterday.
The first step to beginning healing is to stop the disease from developing. I’m going to share four simple lifestyle changes that can make sure you are healthy.
Replace non-real food with real food – There are either foods or food-like substances. So cookies, chips, packaged items, fried foods, and maida are not real food. It is food-like substances that can trigger more inflammation and thus more diseases in us. So if we want to stop causing disease, we should stop consuming it and eat real foods. Natural plant-based foods – like fruits and vegetables – have fiber, antioxidants, live enzymes, and loads of disease-reversing properties.
Swap an hour at the gym to be more active throughout the day – The culture of sitting for five to six hours at a time creates insulin resistance at the cellular level. And insulin resistance plays an important role in aging, obesity, diabetes, heart disease and cancer. Many people feel that it is okay for them to work out in the gym for an hour a day. However, there is a difference between exercising for an hour and sitting all day versus doing all day activity.
Sleep on time – An important factor in poor health is impaired sleep. Getting a good night’s sleep and sleeping on time are critical to cleansing the system and stopping disease from growing. It is just as important for our cells to clean themselves and remove debris. And most of the cleansing happens while we sleep. When people have trouble sleeping, their bodies don’t purify themselves the way they should be, which leads to more illness and poor health.
Live in gratitude and happiness all day long – Like poor sleep, stress is another major reason for the increase in lifestyle diseases. As humans, we have 70-80,000 thoughts in a single day. And every thought has an emotion. We only have two options. We either live in hormones of stress, fear, anxiety or love, happiness and gratitude. And when we live in gratitude, our genes are expressed healthier, while in stressful situations, our genes express more proteins that cause disease.
What really matters in the end are our habits and the way we live our lives every day. It’s a choice we have to make.
(The author is an India-based expert on disease reversal. He is the founder and CEO of Reverse Factor. To find out more, call 8100550660 or visit www.reversefactor.in)
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Posted on: Saturday September 25, 2021 7:00 AM IST
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