“Factory settings of our body”: Conditions for a long and healthy life

Dear reader, we present to you our beauty columnist Inessa Tsarkova!

Inessa is an active nutritionist, gastroenterologist, therapist, naturopath and aromatherapist, health coach, integrative medicine doctor with a holistic approach. And now he will share with us his knowledge in the field of both physical and mental health, nutrition and much more.

In our last article, we talked about the dangers of industrial desserts, today we will start talking about what you should prioritize to live a long and healthy life.

Inessa Tsarkova

We are all children of nature. When creating the human body, nature laid down the basic principles of its functioning and created optimal conditions for it. How should a person live? What conditions has nature laid down for a healthy, active and long life?

To strengthen your decision to create new healthy habits, it is important to understand how they work and what changes they can bring to your well-being and health.

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The first important condition for the functioning of the body is clean water with healing natural properties (structured, slightly alkaline, free of foreign and harmful impurities). Initially, water in nature is life-giving moisture in fresh fruits, berries and juicy vegetables, as well as in spring, rain and melt. In addition to filling our cells, water also ensures the fluidity of fluids (blood, lymph, bile) and also performs the function of cleansing the body.
It is important for a modern person to ask himself these questions: Do I drink clean water? Is the quantity sufficient? What products prevent it from performing its functions? What percentage of my diet consists of raw, juicy foods, and how much is heat-treated, essentially dried? It should be said right away that the optimal amount of water for each person is different. This amount depends on diet, age, activity, climate, existing diseases and metabolic characteristics. It is useful to know that drinks such as tea and coffee stimulate urination and increase rapid water loss. Our cells also lose water after eating starchy and salty foods, sugar and alcohol, and foods containing artificial chemical additives.

Clean Air

Purify fresh air with the necessary amount of oxygen that enters our cells. Ask yourself: How often do you walk outdoors, in the park or outside the city? What is the environmental situation in your home or office? How optimally are your lungs, diaphragm and respiratory muscles functioning? Most often, the diaphragm and lungs do not function fully due to chronic stress, long-term static and incorrect postures, and poor posture.

breathing practices

Do you do special breathing practices and exercises that increase the penetration of oxygen into cells and maintain the correct acid-base balance?

shortcomings

Are you deficient in iron and ferritin (the protein that stores it) or vitamin B12? How well are your red blood cells doing their job of carrying oxygen?

physical activity

Another condition for the existence of our body is daily physical activity. The work of the leg and arm muscles – the largest volumes of muscle mass – is especially important. Muscles are pumps that help the flow of our internal fluids (blood and lymph). Without their daily work, the clean “lakes” of our intercellular fluid gradually turn into “odorous swamps”. It is this “swamp” of internal environments that negatively affects our health, youth and beauty.

You have to ask yourself: Am I moving enough? How many steps do I walk a day? Do I take long walks (or other aerobic activities)? Are my chest and arm muscles working all day long? Do I relax my muscles after prolonged static postures and tensions (for example, after long periods of sitting at work, stress or strength training)?

Sleep and wakefulness

Nature also intended for us to sleep (rest and recover) when it is dark at night, and to eat and be active during the day when the sun is shining. To do this, he created two “orders” of the hormonal “kingdom”: day and night hormones. Moreover, the transition from light to dark is also important. In nature, it is sunset time with a red-orange color spectrum. In the modern world, people often go to bed long after midnight, stare at bright screens (comparable in brightness to the light of the noon sun) until they fall asleep, and then suddenly turn off the lights. But at the same time, other light sources such as street lamps, charger bulbs often remain in the room. In this case, the hormonal system becomes confused, does not have time to readjust, and night hormones cannot work efficiently and fulfill their functions. But they need time to regenerate and build new cells to “rejuvenate” the body. Moreover, they use internal organ fat tissue for this. So, the next morning, after a proper sleep, your waist will be slimmer.

Understand how things are going with sleep and rest. Are you sleeping enough hours? How quality and restorative is your sleep? Are you creating optimal conditions for night hormones to work?

Nutrition

A necessary condition for the health and activity of any living creature is that it eats its specific food. Let’s imagine what will happen to the goat if you feed it fried fish instead of fresh cabbage and grass. But what if you give your tiger semolina porridge instead of raw meat? By the way, if you feed animals with their own special food, but heat-treated, then they will not last long either. So, as an experiment, calves were fed milk from the store and they all died within a week.

The fact is that raw fresh foods contain special protein substances, enzymes (or enzymes). They are obligatory participants in all biochemical reactions in a living organism. And when heated during culinary heat treatment (already above 42-45 degrees) they begin to collapse.

Man was originally conceived as a gatherer, and the main type of food is plant fruits: fruits, berries, nuts, seeds, juicy roots. The body can easily process about 10% of out-of-species foods. But it will be difficult for him to cope with a large amount. If there is too much of it and the enzymes necessary for its processing are constantly destroyed, health problems begin.

“An indifferent attitude towards food builds a bridge through which disease and old age come to a person,” said Katsuzo Nishi, the creator of his own healing system that has helped millions of people. You may ask me why a person lives long enough if he is not what nature intended.

The truth is that our body knows how to adapt because it has many backup systems. But he spends a lot of vital energy and resources on this “adaptation”. And when they are not renewed in time, these resources run out and “buffer systems” cannot cope with disruptions.

With a modern lifestyle, after 40-45 years (and for some people even earlier), their sources of adaptation begin to rapidly decline and they cannot do their job well. Then various diseases begin to develop and the body begins to age rapidly. But disease and old age are not designed by nature.

Our little brothers, who live in their natural environment and eat their own unique foods, live actively, without getting sick, live their biological lives, look great and even continue to reproduce until the end of their lives.

There are no obese lions or diabetic antelopes in nature. The decline of some animal species is not due to improper lifestyles, but to changes in living conditions due to the influence of modern ecology and human activities.

What about people?

Genetics determined the lifespan of the human body – 120 years.

And in the modern world there is evidence of this – the existence of long-livers and hardy “old men” in good condition. In the meantime, so that the body does not age, you need to keep it young and active by constantly “training” your brain, creating new neural connections: for example, learning new dances or learning languages. So our health and youth are in our hands and depend on the actions (good habits) we perform every day.

The great Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw wrote:

“Life is not about finding yourself.

Life is all about creating yourself.”

My dear readers, I encourage you to be conscious about your life, to create the best version of yourself, to maintain optimal conditions for the well-being and development of your body, mind and soul!