How to Tackle Positive Lifestyle Changes for Better Health

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“How do you start making positive lifestyle changes for better health?”

It’s a question I get from my patients all the time. They understand that they can’t just go on a temporary diet or force themselves to work out for a month. They get that the key to achieving and maintaining a healthy weight, increasing energy levels, and just generally feeling and being healthier in the long term requires permanent lifestyle changes.

My answer is always, “One goal at a time.”

Develop New Habits One at a Time

I give my patients tons of information, and it can be overwhelming. So can the prospect of making all these major changes. The key is to not look at the whole picture, but to break it down into small, easily managed individual steps. When one positive change becomes a new habit, you move on to another.

For example, when I’m redesigning a person’s meal plan, I provide specific information about how to eat for longevity, energy, weight loss, or whatever their health goals may be. I deal with their breakfast, lunch, dinner, and between-meal snacks. However, I always begin with helping them master how to snack more effectively. That’s the first task for the first week.

But someone always tries to incorporate the entire food plan during week 1 instead of focusing on just one objective. And almost always, they end up completely frustrated and wanting to quit before the first week is even over.

While I want my patients to be mindful of everything, all that matters is the current week’s goal. This way, new habits form one at a time, and developing a healthier lifestyle is a relatively painless process that doesn’t drive people crazy and fill them with demotivating doubts.

One step at a time. That’s the only manageable, sustainable way to make positive lifestyle changes for better health. Look at the big picture and your goals, then break them down into individual items you can work on one by one. You’ll accomplish far more and feel way better.

5 Tips for Staying Energized When You’re Busy

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We’re all busy. And staying energized when you’re busy is important for making it through without sacrificing focus and performance. I’m usually super busy, going to meetings, seeing my patients, coaching my clients, making sure I get in my own exercise, and more. Here are some tips I personally use to stay energized and to rejuvenate when I’m busy. Without these steps, I doubt I’d get half as much done in the long run, and I know they go a long way toward preventing burnout.

1. Make a Flight Plan

Wake up in the morning and meditate, thinking through your day, your week, your month. Have it all organized, because when you streamline things in your mind, you save energy and use it more effectively. If a pilot’s flying from Orlando to Atlanta, he doesn’t just jump in the plane, flip a few switches, and take off. He checks the weather patterns, makes sure the plane is in tip-top shape, and examines the possible routes. He thinks through the process. This saves fuel and time, and it promotes safety. Get your flight plan together to stay energized through multiple tasks.

2. Plan Your Breaks

Every busy lifestyle needs moments when you stop and take a break, whether it’s only five or 10 minutes or more. Schedule it in so you don’t feel like your day’s being interrupted. If it’s planned out and part of the flow, you won’t miss a beat. Without breaks, the stress just keeps building up and you’ll eventually succumb to exhaustion.

3. Take Daily Technology Breaks

The devices that allow us to do more often just add to the pressure to get more done. Take a break from your computer, tablet, and phone. You might think it’s impossible, but even if it’s only for half an hour or an hour, take a tech breather. We’re so wired to use our phone, most of us can’t even wait in line without checking it. That’s the world we live in, but it’s good for you to step away from it and escape the nonstop bombardment sometimes too. You’ll find it’s very refreshing.

4. Drink Water

Staying hydrated is key to keeping up your energy levels as you go about your busy days. I love Essentia water because of its alkaline 9.5 pH. It helps you to stay light on your feet, lose weight, stay energized, and stay healthy. 

5. Take Business Vacations

Sometimes you have to get away. It’s the best way to recharge. You can still work, but get away to a new place of inspiration. I’m currently in New York, and I’m working. It’s still providing a much-needed breath of fresh air and opportunities to see new sights, eat new food, and go new places. But I’m taking care of business and not falling behind for my upcoming week. Sometimes, just a day or two away is all you need to stay motivated, energized, and focused, or to get that second wind we all need from time to time.

7 Tips for Better Sleep Hygiene Habits

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Establishing better sleep hygiene habits refers to taking simple steps to help you fall asleep faster, stay asleep more reliably, achieve more rejuvenating rest, and wake feeling more refreshed. The sleep habits below are time-tested—and tested by me, as well; I use them every day, and I almost always wake up feeling great!

Better Sleep Hygiene Habits: #1 – Sleep on a Schedule

Go to bed at the same time each night and get up at the same time each morning. This way, you establish a routine that trains your body to fall asleep and wake up on a schedule. Obviously, you probably won’t be able to stick to this schedule exactly all the time. Still, do your best to keep the times as regular as possible and your body should retain the habits you instill.

Better Sleep Hygiene Habits: #2 – Calm Yourself Down

Before you go to bed, relax! I tell my patients that the mind is like a pond that needs to be stilled. Figure out what best helps you relax as bedtime approaches, because there’s no one right answer for everyone. For some, it’s listening to soothing music; for others, drinking warm tea; and for others, a warm bath works wonders. Whatever it is, make it part of your bedtime routine and your mind goes from choppy to motionless with increasing efficiency and effectiveness.

Better Sleep Hygiene Habits: #3 – Focus on the Positive

Think about something good at bedtime. One of the top complaints I hear with insomnia is that patients experience racing thoughts—and usually they’re stressful thoughts. Keep a journal and make two columns. On the left, write down the concern. On the right, put down a possible solution and resolve to try it tomorrow. Close the book and start to relax, focusing on using the next day to take positive steps.

Better Sleep Hygiene Habits: #4 – Get Off the Electronics

Kick that TV out of the bedroom. The TV is stimulating and its light confuses your body. Also, the sound while you sleep interferes with completion of sleep cycles. If you think it doesn’t affect you, consider whether you’ve ever woken and realized you were dreaming about what’s on the TV. Also, get off the computer, tablet, phone, and other electronic devices for the last few hours before bedtime. It all works against your ability to fall asleep.

Better Sleep Hygiene Habits: #5 – Don’t Read in Bed

Stop reading in bed. Yeah, I know, reading in bed is a classic pastime. But if you want to get sleep, your bed should be reserved for sleeping (and sex), not for high-frequency brain activity. If you want to read before turning in for the night, that’s OK. Just do it in a comfy chair, in your home office, or on the living room couch—not in bed.

Better Sleep Hygiene Habits: #6 – Stop the Stimulants

Eliminate caffeine. “But the caffeine was earlier in the day!” Yeah, but you can’t sleep. Caffeine is associated with insomnia, headaches, and even high blood pressure, and its effects can last for many hours. Why not just make this a non-factor? Drink some decaf tea (with lemongrass and honey) and go to town—Dreamtown, that is!

Better Sleep Hygiene Habits: #7 – Create a Soothing Sleep Environment

Go to a massage room at a spa. Not for a massage (though you might as well since you’re there), but to check out the ambiance. What do you see? A calming environment with dim lights and gentle music, the perfect relaxation space. Why isn’t your bedroom like that? You have to make your bedroom a sort of refuge. Otherwise it defeats the purpose—and your sleep.

The Advantages of Concierge Medicine

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Concierge medicine is a medical practice focused on you and your needs. It’s an innovative new approach designed to address many of the inconveniences and shortcomings of today’s standard fee-for-service office care, and it’s quickly growing in popularity because it does so successfully.

In some respects, though, it’s really not so new. It embraces personalized care based on a strong doctor-patient relationship like those that used to exist in bygone eras, when doctors knew patients and their families well, when they happily made house calls, when appointment times were the actual time patients were seen, when there was no stopwatch counting down the 10 minutes till the end of the consultation, and so on.

I’d love to see everyone have a concierge medicine doctor. It’s medicine without limits. It’s medicine that can so much more effectively protect and improve health. I want to share a few of the major advantages offered by concierge medicine practices.

Concierge Medicine Offers Truly Personalized Care

As a concierge patient, you receive one-on-one care without limits. Your doctor spends as much time with you as is needed, listening and discussing, rather than finding the fastest route to the end of the appointment knowing the next patient is already becoming impatient.

When your doctor gets to know you and gives you enough time, you can address every nook and cranny, question, concern, and problem. This allows for more informed, more personally tailored advice, prevention, and treatment. It’s the difference, for example, between being told to “eat better and exercise more” and getting a thorough, practical, actionable plan for what specifically you can do differently to feel and be healthier.

Concierge Medicine Offers 24/7 Care

Medical problems don’t care what time it is. Neither does your concierge doctor. Concierge service means you have your doctor’s personal phone number and permission to call at 3:00 am if you need to. Personally, I’ve found that most people have concerns after hours. There’s great peace of mind—and potential health benefits—in being able to pick up the phone and call your physician’s cell.

Concierge Medicine Means No Waiting

It’s tough enough to fit appointments into your busy schedule, especially during business hours, so you don’t need additional complications due to your doctor’s limited availability. You also probably have better things to do than sit around in a waiting room for 45 minutes past your appointment time. Concierge doctors typically guarantee same- or next-day appointments, and they’ll see you at their office or come to your home, as you prefer.

Concierge Medicine Is More Affordable

Most people think this type of care is out of their reach. Not at all. In fact, because it’s more efficient, more prevention-focused, and there are none of the financial incentives of a fee-for-service pay structure to do as much as possible, concierge medicine is often significantly less costly. Many people could simply forgo an unhealthy habit, perhaps a daily latte, and apply that money to investing in their health with a concierge doctor. Choose wisely.

Concierge Doctors Coordinate Care

A common criticisms of the American healthcare system is that patients receive such disjointed care. If you see multiple specialists and providers, they don’t communicate with each other. Each focuses on their particular part of your body or disease with little thought to the whole picture. Getting test results and other records shared between unrelated practices can be a headache, too. Your concierge doctor ensures you see who you need to see, when you need to see them. Plus you have a medical professional gathering all the disconnected information, compiling comprehensive medical records for you, getting a big-picture view, and advocating for you the entire time.

5 Weight Loss Tips for Reaching Your Ideal Body Weight

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You’ve probably heard talk of your “ideal” body weight, but what exactly does that mean? Obviously, it’s different for everyone; there’s no number to cite, and while your body mass index (BMI) is an important indicator of health, it’s certainly not a perfect and precise measurement.

Your ideal weight is simply the point at which you experience optimum health. At this weight, you benefit from peak energy levels, you feel your best, and you eliminate excess weight as a risk factor for developing cancer, heart disease, and other serious health conditions.

Generally speaking, your ideal body weight is achieved when your BMI is somewhere between 20 and 25. A body mass index between 25 and 30 is considered overweight, and a higher BMI indicates obesity. You can quickly find your number with this online BMI calculator.

Here are five tips I like to share with my patients and private coaching clients:

Weight Loss Tip #1: Exercise in the Morning

When you exercise in the morning, you jump start your metabolism. Increased metabolism helps you burn calories throughout the day. An early workout also gets it in when motivation tends to be at its highest, and it’s something you’ll feel good about all day long. Starting your day with a real accomplishment helps keep you on track for the rest of the day.

Weight Loss Tip #2: Lift Weights

Cardio gets the most attention for burning calories, but weight lifting and resistance training are another key part of achieving an ideal body weight and more energy. These types of exercise build muscle mass. The more muscle you have, the more fat you burn throughout the day. Building muscle also improves overall health and helps you feel great about yourself.

Weight Loss Tip #3: Eat Snacks

Yes, you read that right. Eat snacks between meals. Going hungry for hours just makes you likely to overeat at meals. Choose nutritionally dense whole foods. For example, a serving of blueberries or other fruit is packed with nutrients and low in calories; a small handful of almonds, walnuts, or other nuts provides plenty of protein, healthy fats, and other nutrients.

Weight Loss Tip #4: Eat Salads for Lunch

Salads get a bad rap as diet food, but they can be exceptionally nutritious and delicious while helping you reach and maintain your ideal body weight. Use dark green lettuces and combos of fresh veggies, fruit, legumes, nuts, seeds, or a serving of fish or other lean meat. Go light on a heart-health oil-based dressing. You get lots of antioxidants and other nutrients, and a real energy boost that lasts.

Weight Loss Tip #5: Stretch Before Bed

It’s such a simple, beneficial thing to do, but you don’t often hear it. Stretching before bed is an effective way to stay loose, limber, and at less risk of an injury during exercise. It also improves circulation and relieves stress to help you sleep better, promoting increased energy, especially for those morning workouts.

Concierge Medicine in the United States: Why a Monumental Shift in Patient Care Is Emerging

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Concierge healthcare practices are booming in the US. This model is highly patient-focused, offering convenience, simplicity, and a depth and quality of attentive personal care that has long since fallen by the wayside in traditional office-based, fee-for-service primary care.

Patients aren’t the only ones fed up with the rushed, impersonal, treadmill-like service they receive in a fee-for-service doctor’s office. The doctors don’t like it either.

Doctors Are Shunning Primary Care

Once, becoming a primary care physician or family doctor was a coveted, respected, lucrative career path; today, however, there’s a shortage of primary care doctors that’s approaching crisis levels. According the the US Department of Health and Human Resources, by 2020, our country will be short 20,400 primary care providers.

On the front lines of health maintenance, prevention, and early detection, primary care doctors are an essential part of Americans’ well-being. But already, there are too few available with too little time, and not nearly enough college students are on the primary care career path.

Patients experience many of the side effects of traditional fee-for-service primary healthcare. It takes them weeks to get an appointment, they typically wait about an hour after appointment times to be seen, they spend a whopping 8 to 12 minutes with their doctors, and their doctors don’t know anything about them or their health.

Many patients think doctors like it this way, but generally speaking, that’s not the case at all. They don’t appreciate being stressed and hurried all day long. And they don’t like feeling as if they’re not giving each patient enough attention and the highest possible quality of care. 

Why Is Traditional Primary Care Such a Treadmill?

The fee-for-service model is controlled by insurance companies and a system that requires high patient turnover to be profitable. It’s billing-centric, rather than patient-centric. This is driving an unforgiving system that seriously detracts from a primary care doctor’s quality of life in the workplace. 

Consider this: To net $150,000 annually, a primary care physician has to generate $350,000 in gross annual billing. That works out to about 25 patients per day. A primary care doctor breaks even at 15 patients per day.

If you’re doing the math, you might think, “Well, that gives doctors a little over half an hour for each patient in an 8-hour day. That’s not so bad. Why does my doctor only give me 10 minutes?”

Obviously, a lot goes on behind the scenes, as at any workplace. Doctors spend a significant chunk of their time outside appointments doing things for which there is no reimbursement under the fee-for-service model.

For example, internist and former CEO of The University of Maryland Medical Center Dr. Stephen Schimpff wrote an article called “Why Do I Only Get 10 Minutes with My Doctor?” In it, he details how, on top of seeing 25 patients per day, the average primary care doctor:

  • Takes 24 phone calls
  • Responds to 17 emails
  • Signs off on 12 prescription refills beyond those filled in appointments
  • Looks over 20 lab results
  • Reviews 11 X-ray reports
  • Reads through 14 reports from specialists

Add to this that some patients take longer than the allotted time, and doctors easily fall behind schedule, since it’s arranged so tightly by necessity. Then, every single appointment requires official documentation be filled out for billing purposes. And what if a doctor needs to do a little thinking and research to get someone a good diagnosis or treatment plan? Then, doctors deal with an exceptional amount of emotional stress over the course of the day; sometimes, like any other human beings, they need to take a few minutes to breathe.

None of this extra stuff is scheduled into a day that must be filled with 25 patient visits.

In Contrast: Concierge Medicine

Concierge medicine relies on what are essentially membership fees from patients. This eliminates the pressure to churn through countless patients as quickly as possible. As a result, the doctor’s schedule allows for an otherwise unheard-of flexibility and amount of time for appointments. From the doctor’s point of view, it’s a much less stressful, overwhelming way to work, and it allows focus on the right priorities: developing strong doctor-patient relationships and delivering the highest quality care.

4 Tips for When You’re Tired All the Time and Have No Energy

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We all get tired. And while we all have those times when we need to step back and get some serious rest and relaxation to rejuvenate, if you’re chronically tired and stuck in a rut of fatigue, it’s not just a matter of being sleepy.

Chronic tiredness or fatigue is when you feel drained of energy much of the time on an ongoing basis. It’s an important distinction from feeling unrested on certain days after not getting enough sleep. We all have to slug through sleepiness sometimes, but fatigue saps our energy and motivation to tackle each day and just generally keeps us from our peak performance and enjoying life.

If feeling worn down and without energy or enthusiasm is a continuous problem for you, here are four important tips to start turning things around:

Expend Energy to Generate Energy

You have to give to get. Yes, this principle applies to energy too. The less energetic you feel, the less energy you tend to expend. But this is part of a cycle that feeds off itself, because the less active and less motivated you become, the less energy you generate. Conversely, when you push through, making yourself get up and get going, your energy and motivation build.

Make a Plan to Spend Your Energy

Devote your energy to a plan. When you give, you have a goal. You donate money to a cause or time to some objective, for example. A target provides your motivation, and the same goes for your energy. Create a routine and set goals that guide when and where your energy is directed; watching your plans succeed trigger you to feel greater drive and renewed energy.

Exercise in the Morning

The importance of physical activity can’t be overstated. It burns calories, boosts metabolism, gets your heart and respiration rates up, promotes a healthy body weight, and gets endorphins flowing. But it also makes you feel better about yourself, your day, and your life, and it’s motivating and energizing to cross such an important item off your to-do list first thing in the day. The many physiological and psychological benefits of exercise continue to pay dividends over the course of your entire day.

Stay Well Hydrated

Drink more water. We’re approximately two-thirds water. It cleanses us, helping flush out bad metabolites in our bodies, and it hydrates us. Being properly hydrated is essential to generating energy. Skip the sugary products like energy drinks and sodas, because they’ll just make your blood glucose levels spike and crash, further sapping your energy. Water is the basis of life, and your body needs it. One of my favorite waters is Essentia water because of its pH. It’s alkaline water and a great brand that I drink all the time.

The 5 Rules for Weight Loss

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Weight loss often seems like such a complicated, difficult thing. For many people, all the fitness and nutrition advice out there—sometimes contradictory—is overwhelming. Then, there are many factors that cause people to struggle with making healthy decisions. Busy schedules, lack of energy, and emotional eating are common ones. 

Putting that aside, though, weight loss is governed by one simple law: You lose weight when you use more calories than you consume. 

That’s it. On the flip side, you gain weight when you consume more calories than you use. Below are five essential rules for weight loss designed to keep you in line with this fundamental principle. 

Weight Loss Rule #1: Don’t Overeat

Intuitive, I know, but still people overeat. Sometimes, it’s because you love a certain food. Sometimes, you’re not paying attention to your hunger and satiety cues. Sometimes, you eat whatever you happen to be served. There are lots of reasons people eat too much, and getting a handle on it and creating a plan for healthy eating is a must if you want to lose weight. 

As a generalization, most adults should consume 1,700 to 2,000 calories per day. Work with your physician or personal health coach to more precisely determine your caloric needs and how to meet but not exceed them in healthy ways. 

Weight Loss Rule #2: Don’t Undereat   

It’s tempting to eat too little when you’re eager to lose weight, but it’s not a smart way to go about it. Your metabolism slows and you lose muscle mass, meaning you burn fewer calories and less fat. And because calories are your fuel, you’ll also be short on energy for exercise and daily tasks, it’ll interfere with your focus, and malnutrition poses serious health risks over time. Also, while undereating leads to short-term weight loss, that weight just comes right back when you start eating a healthy number of calories again. 

Weight Loss Rule #3: Don’t Skip Meals 

Sometimes there’s a tendency to skip meals because of lack of time or to cut calories, but this isn’t beneficial. When you deprive yourself and go hungry, you suffer needlessly and overeat at your next meal. Eat three regular small meals every day, and I even recommend a nutritious snack in between each one. This keeps you energized and focused and goes a long way toward keeping your meal portions to appropriate sizes. Remember, healthy eating is about feeling good, not suffering. 

Weight Loss Rule #4: Eat Healthy Foods 

To sustain an ideal body weight and optimize your energy and health, you must eat nutritious foods. The idea is to maximize the nutritional value you get from a healthy number of calories at any given meal or snack. First and foremost, choose organic whole foods over processed ones. Lean proteins, fruit, vegetables, legumes, nuts, seeds, whole grains, and unsaturated fats are the ultimate fuel for your body. They energize you without spikes and crashes in blood sugar levels, promote well being, and help prevent disease, all from serving sizes that deliver reasonable amounts of calories. 

Weight Loss Rule #5: Exercise 

You can’t be sedentary and expect to lose weight, have energy, or feel good. You have to move consistently, and that means having a routine. I usually recommend people start out exercising just three times per week for five minutes. That’s a sustainable and cautious start. Then, you can increase the frequency and duration. Just do jumping jacks for five minutes. Something that simple elevates your heart rate and respiration, and that’s how you increase metabolism, burn calories, and start hitting weight loss goals. 

It’s important to establish a regimen to keep yourself on point. It’s also important to introduce and increase exercise gradually. Talk to your doctor or professional health coach about doing so safely.

How I Changed My Health From Good to Great

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Friends, I want to share with you a couple of staples that have changed my health from good to great. In this post, I’m going to share with you some name brands that I really enjoy and that have made a difference in my life. As America’s Energy Doctor, it’s important to live by example, and so I want to give you a sneak peek into my life and show you some of the things that I do to stay energized, healthy and cancer-free.

Cancer is something that is pervasive in our society. I think there are a lot of routines that we—for lack of a better term—practice, sometimes habitually, that we don’t realize. Example are eating a lot of sugary foods, overeating, lack of exercise, or eating things without investigating what’s in them. These things can have deleterious effects in our body if we don’t eat smart. We should always streamline our health so that we’re eating toward a cancer-free life, an energized life, and an overall healthy life.

Staple #1
You need to have snacks. I think snacks are the easiest way to take your health from good to great. One of the things I like to eat is the PROBAR Meal. I like the Wholeberry Blast, and this is something that I keep with me everywhere I go. I have it between breakfast and lunch, lunch and dinner, and dinner and bedtime. And though it might seem like I’m eating the same thing all the time, I do this to stabilize my blood sugar and provide the energy that I need. It’s something that is easily reproducible, and it’s inexpensive.

A lot of times people will say, “Hey, I don’t want to have the same thing every day.” But when you try to make changes, the most important thing is choosing something that is readily available, and then stapling it down into something that you can reproduce. I just keep it simple and I think if people will do the same, it’s an easy way to stabilize one aspect of your health. Breakfast, lunch and dinner may change, but you want to try to keep your snacks consistent if it’s going to allow you to partake in them every day.

Staple #2
Take a daily multivitamin. I recommend that everyone should. I use the GNC Mega Men Soft Chew Multivitamins because in this I get my vitamin A, C, calcium, E, and B-complex vitamins: B1, B2, B6, B12. You get awesome things like folic acid, biotin, zinc, selenium, chromium—these things are all important for health, and we don’t get enough of them in foods that we eat, especially in the average American diet. One of the simple things to do is wake up in the morning and get one of my soft chew vitamins and to go on with my day.

Staple #3
The next staple that I’d like to share with you is D3—I like to take 2,000 international units. A brand I use is Nature’s Life. The reason I like vitamin D3, even though it’s in my soft chews, is that the 2,000 international units are more than what’s in my soft chews and vitamin D is important as far as anti-cancer health, energy, bone health and even mood. So it’s something that I think is important. A lot of people have low vitamin D levels and don’t realize it. If you’re concerned about that, you can always ask your doctor to get a blood test and find out where you’re at vitamin D-wise, but it’s something over-the-counter that I think can make a huge difference in your health.

Staple #4
Another staple that I think is really important is making sure that you drink good water. I talk about this all the time, and I’ve talked about this in previous blog posts, but again when you talk about staples, there are things that really nail down things in your life, and things that you know that no matter what, you’re going to reproduce time and time again. We know about staples and the fact that, for example, every man should have a black suit. I think that’s a staple of a man’s wardrobe. And same for a woman—every woman should have a black dress, and I think that’s just important because they’re staples because you can wear them on multiple occasions and it stabilizes your wardrobe.

Likewise, water is a staple that we just have to have in our diet and in our life. I like to drink Essentia water. It’s got a pH of at least 9.5. It’s alkaline water, and alkaline water’s great because a lot of diseases and even cancer love acidic environments, and you want to do something very simple to kind of flip the switch on that type of environment. That’s why I drink alkaline water. I like Essentia because I think it’s a great brand and it’s something that you can find in most stores, such as Publix and Whole Foods. It’s something essential that you can do for your health to make a huge difference and provide energy.

Staple #5
Another staple that I really like and recommend is flaxseed oil. I take about a tablespoon a day. You can take it straight, put it on your salad or oatmeal. Flaxseed oil’s a great way to reduce cholesterol, provide energy, and it’s got the good fats in it. One gram of fat equals nine calories, and calories are energy. It’s great for brain health, energy, and it’s something that is so simple and readily available to obtain in the grocery market. I just think that it makes a huge difference in your health and it’s something that I take every day.

Staple #6
Another staple that I think makes a huge difference is meditation. Meditation helps streamline your day. It kind of helps you think through the problems you know you’re going to face—because we all face problems—but if you can think about them before you actually go through them, you can streamline things. You can even speed up your day, and that’s a way to save energy, and in a way that’s going to produce energy because if you know the answer before the problem hits you, you feel energized; you feel that you can conquer that situation and you can move on with your day, and you can do what’s next. So meditation’s the key and it’s something that you can do with just five minutes in the morning when you wake up. You can think through your day, plan things, and move out on your plan.

Staple #7
And the last staple I want to share with you, which I love and practice, is yoga. Yoga is a great way to improve power, balance and alignment. It trains your body to know if you’re out of alignment or if you have bad posture, so you can readjust. Anyone can do yoga, and I think it’s something that will tone you and improve your flexibility. And this is something that could be the platform for any sport or exercise that you participate in.

These are my tips on how I turned my health from good to great. I wanted to give you a little insight into my life; I hope you enjoyed them.

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If You’ll Meditate, You’ll Have More Energy

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You’ll find that when you think through your life, mental clarity will enter in. You’ll feel together. This is what you want. You think you want more energy. You think you want the latest and greatest solution. But what you really want is a healthy you—a healthier mind, and finally a healthier body—to make it all work. Being healthy in totality is what you really crave.

This is how I achieve more: I meditate. My secret is that I usually go for a walk after work to make the transition into my after-work work easier. It is important to have a place to meditate. Walking is my environment to get my mental juices flowing so that I can actively think and meditate. Also, in my office at home is another place where I critically think, plan and strategize. When I do this, I am deleting old habits and taking in new life modifications to improve my life and take me higher.

My message to you is simple: If you’ll meditate, you’ll have more energy. You’ll feel more in control. You’ll have an improved life. If you side-step this essential piece to modifying your life, you will forever find yourself lacking what it takes to take the next step in your life. If you only treat your body and never your mind, you’ll always be the person who has a ceiling they cannot get above. Don’t be that person. Don’t be stuck in a rut. Think again by visualizing, verbalizing and memorizing, and you’ll change your life for good.

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