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. Read more
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? Read more
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, surströmming. Poi in Hawaii. Many of these foods are so highly valued, they play a sacred role in the culture used as an offering to the gods or considered essential at the family dinner table. Read more
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. Read more
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 habits. Read more