More information from an anonymous contributor who wanted me to spread the word about how if you don’t feel good, your business will suffer.
If you’re not healthy and don’t feel good, how can you possibly run an effective business? Here are a few more ideas in our continuing series about helping you improve your physical well-being.
• Skin—Many alternative medicine doctors, such as those who practice Chinese medicine, and some of the better conventional medicine doctors understand that many times your skin give clues to what condition you have. For example, if your kidneys, which are involved in cleaning and detoxifying the blood, aren’t working right, your skin may become very itchy.
Many traditional doctors would simply prescribe a hydrocortisone cream for the itching and completely miss the kidney issue and the root cause. Take note of your skin and see if anything abnormal going on which might help your doctor to diagnose your condition.
• Food tracking—Many times, there are certain foods that don’t agree with us. If you’ve got tummy issues and are trying to figure out if it’s something you’re eating, the absolute best thing to do is for one solid week, record every single thing you eat and drink and how your digestion/elimination is going on a scale of 1 to 10.
Easier said than done, right? Who’s going to remember to write it down? So put three recurring reminders per day in your phone (at 8 a.m., noon and 6 p.m., or whenever you normally eat) to remind yourself to record it. Then make notes using your cell phone calendar or note pad. Then, the key is this: After the week is up, create a chart that shows what you ate, and how you felt.
• Blood—Everyone checks their car fluid levels, such as oil, radiator and brakes once a year, yet few people if any check their body’s blood levels until there’s a problem by which point it’s too late.
Once a year, get your blood levels checked to make sure everything is in the proper range. It’s especially critical that you get a baseline of your normal levels while you’re relatively young and before you start experiencing health issues.
Go get your blood levels now and it will pay off later. If you don’t have a baseline of the standard levels, you don’t know what is normal for you and write them down.
There are of course the basic blood tests for cholesterol, triglycerides, but also ask for the following levels to be checked: liver enzymes, hormone, thyroid, blood sugar, iron and calcium levels. (Put an annually recurring reminder in your phone). Your insurance may or may not cover all of these. Deal with it. If you really want to get extensive blood tests, you can pay a ton extra and get extensive testing through a service like this: www.biophysicalcorp.com.
• Diet—We all know, in general, we consume far too much sugar and we all know excessive sugar has horrible impact on the body. In fact, eating too much sugar is thought to now be even worse than eating too much salt or fats. It’s the spikes in insulin (in response to eating lots of sugar), which people think now may be responsible for chronic health issues.
Say yes to fresh fruits and vegetables (organic if possible, especially for those fruits and veggies that get lots of pesticides like cherries), whole grains, oatmeal, wild fish, free-range chicken and eggs, grass-fed beef, red wine, green/white tea, plain yogurt and the like. Focus on foods that have a low glycemic index so they don’t spike your insulin levels (that is what can be particularly damaging to the body’s organs).
Limit quantities of red meat, fried foods and fast foods. Say no to drinks loaded with sugar, artificial colors, flavors, processed foods and anything made in a laboratory.
More next time.
If you need help staying on track with diet, exercise, health etc., we’re happy to help. Email us at healthybroker@yahoo.com and we’ll help keep you on track.
