Optimal Water
As you know, your body is made up of about 60% water. Your level of hydration is highest at birth and progressively decreases with age but most of that loss is in the first ten years. Being overweight also decreases the percentage of water in your body. Everyone will agree that hydration is critical to having a healthy body. Keeping hydrated is one of the biomarkers of youth.
Optimal Body Weight
Some people struggle to lose weight and the moment they have a lapse in their discipline, they just stack the weight back on to be where they were when they started or even heavier. Others are the exact opposite – they struggle to gain weight and the moment they are undisciplined with regular large feedings, they lose weight again. Why is this?
Good Bugs, Bad Bugs and Leaky Gut
For thousands of years there have been certain fermented foods eaten by traditional peoples who have regarded them as the secret to their long lives. The Russians and Georgians are renowned for their longevity and many say regular yoghurt eating is the key. The Japanese are also renowned for their long lives and many ascribe them to their fermented plums and radishes, miso and natto. The Koreans eat kimchi. The south-east Asians tempeh, fish sauce and soy sauce. The middle east and India drink variations of kefir fermented from milk. The central Europeans salami, sauerkraut and gherkins. The northern Europeans, ...
Fats, Oils and Public Enemy #2
We’ve all heard the story a thousand times… Saturated fat causes heart disease. Eating fat makes you fat. Eating meat is bad because it contains artery-clogging saturated fat that causes you to have a coronary. We all know that above all, we should eat low-fat… Only… the entire story is almost completely wrong.
Sugar and Carbs – Public Enemy #1
Sugar is the single most dangerous toxin in our food today by far. Let me say that again. There is nothing that causes more sickness, suffering and death that we regularly eat than sugar. This BluePrint is going to cover a lot of ground so hold on. By the end you will understand what ‘sugar’ is, what diseases it causes and how to eat so your family doesn’t need to suffer from these diseases.
Food Principle #1: Eat Food by God
You know that eating the right foods is very, very important. Your body is literally made from what you eat so if you eat junk, your body will be junk and will break down. If you eat right, your body will be right and serve you well without breaking down. But how do you know what is junk and what is right?
The Optimal Health Mindset
Probably the single most important step you can take to reclaim Optimal Health for yourself and your family is to adopt the right mindset. It is your mindset that you have already that has brought you this far – to be actually reading this BluePrint. It is your mindset that will determine what action steps you actually take. It is your mindset that will determine how easy or difficult each action step will be to implement. And finally, it is your mindset that will determine whether you will stick with the changes you make or progressively slip back into destructive ...
Optimal Supplements
Is it really necessary for you and your family take a nutritional supplement? Absolutely yes! Why? Here is a short list of research-proven reasons: increased life expectancy, greater mobility with aging, improved brain function, improved brain development in children, less cancer, less pain and less heart disease. Whew, quite a list!
Salt
Man has been harvesting and trading salt for over 2,000 years. The Phoenicians were the first to harvest it, and at that time salt was more expensive than gold. Ancient highways have been created to trade it, horses and cows love their salt-licks, and no household is without it. What is it about salt? Why do we crave it so? Could it be true that we actually need it to live?
Food Principle #3: Eat Organic
Organic, unadulterated, natural whole foods have formed the basis of human diet through the ages. They are what our body has been designed to use to build health. Only recently has the human race been subjected to the 7,000 (and counting) man-made chemicals added to food and the environment which our body has not been designed to deal with.
Optimal Exercise
While our brains are certainly different from other animals, our bodies are ruled by the same laws. Typically all animals move everyday to survive. For thousands of years, we humans too had to hunt or gather daily, and to be sedentary was a fast track to death. The truth is, our physiology has not changed; only now we have the technology to allow us to do more with much less physical effort... and nowadays slow runners are not in danger of being eaten by a wild animal! The only 2 species on the planet that suffer obesity are humans and the ...
Subluxation
Subluxation is a misalignment of your spine which interferes with your nerves (even the spinal cord itself) either by pressing on them directly or irritating them. Subluxation is one of the most commonly overlooked causes of lost heath, of disease and of shortened life. The problem is that your spinal cord has got no pain or pressure receptors so it is simply not possible to feel when you have subluxation squeezing the life out of your body by pressing on the cord.
Food Principle #2: Eat Nutrient-Dense Foods
Every single day, indeed every minute, there is damage happening to your body. Blood corpuscles get crushed in your feet, the lining of your stomach gets dissolved by your stomach acid, liver cells get destroyed detoxifying your body. At the same time, your body is in a constant state of renewal and repair. If the rate of repair in your body is greater than the rate of damage, you are healing and every day becoming stronger. If the rate of damage should exceed the rate of repair, then you move into a state of degeneration or decline. This is the essential ...
pH
The pH of your body is critical to its proper function and so it is maintained within a very tight range. If you have a swimming pool you will know how important the pH of your pool is to keep it sparkly clean and healthy. Well, your body's need to maintain correct pH is even more critical.
Optimal Sleep
Sleeping is the primary time for healing in your body, and for you to recharge your mind and spirit for the coming day. The time you spend asleep is as valuable as the time you are awake and similarly, good sleeping habits are as important as your daytime activities. This BluePrint was created so you can maximize the healing potential of your sleep.
Optimal Posture
“Posture is the window to your spine.” Your posture is so critical to your family’s health that we can all remember our mother admonishing us as a child, “Stand up straight,” or “Don’t slouch!” Well your mother was absolutely correct but maybe she didn’t realize just how important posture is.
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Optimal Water
As you know, your body is made up of about 60% water. Your level of hydration is highest at birth and progressively...
Optimal Body Weight
Some people struggle to lose weight and the moment they have a lapse in their discipline, they just stack the weight...
Good Bugs, Bad Bugs and Leaky Gut
For thousands of years there have been certain fermented foods eaten by traditional peoples who have regarded them...
Fats, Oils and Public Enemy #2
We’ve all heard the story a thousand times… Saturated fat causes heart disease. Eating fat makes you fat. Eating...
The Optimal Health Mindset
Probably the single most important step you can take to reclaim Optimal Health for yourself and your family is...
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