Requirements for optimal health

Although the body is composed of many different types of structural units, each cell requires the same three factors to maintain life. They are:
Nutrition
Drainage
Coordination

The essence of this is that these factors are also essential for the health of the total body, which is dependent upon the health of its individual cells. So, let’s look at these three essentials one at a time.

NUTRITION
The body is composed of a number of chemical elements which combine to form the basic units of protein, carbohydrates, and fats; as well as essential fatty acids, vitamins and minerals.

Proteins are built up from building blocks called amino acids. Eight of these are considered essential amino acids since they cannot be synthesized within the body and therefore must be taken in with the normal diet.

Carbohydrates are essential units which must be supplied by the diet. Although complex by by nature, the basic unit is glucose, which forms the major energy source for the body. Carbohydrates may be synthesized from proteins or fats within the body. In the case of proteins, this is an energy expanding pathway that yields less energy than required for the conversion and only functions when the body’s dietary supply of carbohydrate is absent.

Fats are used partly as structural and functional material and partly as a storage form of food. Fats may be synthesized within the body, however, food acts as the major source.

Essential fatty acids are made up of three polyunsaturated fatty acids – linolenic, linoleic, and acrchidonic – and have essential fatty acid activity. In humans, only linoleic and acrhidonic acids are considered essential. They play important roles in fat transport and metabolism and in maintaining the function and integrity of cellular membranes. They also act as precursors to prostaglandin formation. This means that it is one of a number of hormone-like substances that participate in a wide range of body functions such as the contraction and relaxation of smooth muscle, the dilation and constriction of blood vessels, control of blood pressure, and modulation of inflammation.
While the body can synthesize arachidonic and linolenic acids from linoleic acid, linoleic acid itself must be ingested and cannot be synthesized in the body.

Vitamins and minerals are essential to life and are used within the body’s various structures as building material and are necessary for various biochemical functions. Normally these must be ingested; however, some may be synthesized within the body.

For normal maintenance of health, all the above nutrients must constantly be ingested to provide the basic building blocks of life for the body’s tissues to be repaired and remade, and to furnish an adequate energy supply for body action and maintenance.

DRAINAGE
Proper drainage of the cell is necessary to get rid of toxic end products of metabolism. If these wastes are not removed, the cell’s function is reduced, which can downgrade the health of tissues, organs, and ultimately the entire body, if affecting many cells.

COORDINATION
Coordination within single cells and also within the total organism is essential for life. Intracellular regulation is controlled by chemical means while coordination throughout the entire system is controlled by both the nervous and hormonal systems. If either of these is not functioning properly, delicate balancing mechanisms can be upset, causing downgraded local or systemic health.

In health, all three of these essentials – nutrition, drainage, and coordination – are functioning and in balance, while in disease, there is either disharmony or lack of performance of one or more of these essentials of life. The body’s constant effort is to establish this harmony. If harmony exists, inner vitality is then able to express itself fully. Such a person appears to have an unbounded source of life and energy.

In reality, very few people have completely free-flowing vitality. The total vitality available to the ordinary person equals his or her life force, minus any obstructions to this energy being expressed. Just as the quality of television reception may depend on the television receiver or antenna, so it is with the human organism. These obstructions to the life force can be any one or any combination of the basic causes of disease. In order to relieve any diseased condition, it is necessary to remove from from the body any obstructive factors which interfere with its life force, allowing the body to heal itself.

We truly are what we eat and drink, what we feel, and what we think. Health can only be attained and maintained by the coordination of our body, emotions, and mind. Cures cannot come from external measures, even if they are natural therapies. True healing can only come from within with the heling power of nature freely flowing.

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Requirements for optimal health

How To Combine Foods For Optimal Health

Combining Foods for Optimal Health

In seeing patients every day, we inevitably have to focus on nutrition and combining macronutrients for health and vitality.  This can be a little more advanced because we are now discussing combining your carbs, proteins and fats in the most optimal way for weight loss and energy.  This is beneficial for competitors, athletes, individuals looking to shed a few pounds and for professionals looking to make it through a long day at the office.  These are the clients and patients I see all day long in my practice and this is a general guideline for the average person.  Please remember that each person is unique and we can run specialty labs to determine your best course of action.  There is also metabolic typing assessment that can determine if fats, proteins or good carbs work best for you or a combination (mixed type) of the three.  With that being said, most people don’t run serum, saliva and urine tests to figure out their optimal levels.

Let’s start with some factual information.  Insulin levels are high in the morning and most people grab cereals, bread or bagels which increases insulin even more leading to a midday crash.   Even the healthy carbs like vegetables and fruits are best to have in moderation in the morning so you can level out your insulin levels and not have the highs and lows that come with blood sugar fluctuation.  Traditional recommendations have been to start your day with lots of carbohydrates and then have more protein later in the day.  I can surmise a general observation that diabetes and obesity have never been at higher rates than in the past five years and people are consuming energy drinks at an alarming rate.   Take a look around your office or workplace and look at all the people grabbing a coffee or energy drink at 2 or 3 p.m.  They are looking for excessive caffeine or sugar to prop up declining blood sugar levels or even hypoglycemia.  You see when you have carbs like bagels, bread and cereal in the morning, your blood sugar levels rise, insulin is produced by the pancreas to carry the excess sugar to the cells.  If the cells are full, the excess sugar is sent back to the liver (glycogen) for use later on and/or it is stored as fat.  My recommendation is to start your day off with more protein and healthy fats.  This will normalize your blood sugar and insulin levels in the body and give you sustained energy.

The second step is to have more healthy carbs in the afternoon to keep the sugar levels normalized and a steady balance within the body.   Again, this goes against the conventional model you have been taught but it works at reducing fat and keeping your energy levels naturally high throughout the day.  I would go with some lean meat and avocados, almond butter in the morning with one vegetable and some more vegetables and a couple of fruits in the afternoon augmented with some more meat/eggs and coconut, nut butter, etc.  Try it out and see how it works.  This is from a mentor of mine whom I respect in the health field.  Dr. Sara Gottfried states: “Focus on protein and healthy fats in the morning and carbohydrates in the evening. We tend to be more insulin-resistant in the morning so if we eat carbohydrates at that time, like fruits and grains, we will store it as fat more quickly.”  1

Intermittent Fasting

People hear this term a great deal but most of my clients don’t know what it means and why it may be useful for some people when trying to lose weight.  Intermittent fasting is simply a temporary pattern in the timing of how you eat. It’s a way of scheduling your meals so that you get the most out of them with the greatest benefit specifically for weight loss.   I will recommend this to some of my clients if they want to change things up and avoid becoming stagnant.  It is a way to get your body moving again.  Here is a little background on how the body recognizes food.  Your body is in a “fed state” when it is digesting or absorbing food.  This typically lasts for three to six hours.  Your insulin levels will be higher as insulin is being produced to deal with the influx of nutrients.  Your body typically goes into a fasted state around 10 to 12 hours after your last meal and your insulin levels will be lower.  The way in which I will describe or define intermittent fasting is eating your normal daily caloric intake of healthy fats, proteins and carbohydrates from 11 in the morning until 7 at night.  That will leave 16 hours where you go without food.  People who are in good health with no underlying health issues can try this if they want to lose some weight and understand their body better. I would consult with your doctor as people with documented health issues should not try this.  Some examples of people who should not try this are diabetics, people with autoimmune conditions, HPAA deficiencies, disease, and many more health concerns.  My patients and clients enjoy changing up their routine and tricking the body so your receptors stay sensitive and ready for the signals your body will send it.

Mike, FDN, PT

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About the Author:

After completing his Degree at Ryerson University and spending 15 years in Corporate, he graduated from the Functional Diagnostic Nutrition program in California and is now the CEO of Interactive Body Balance where he oversees a vibrant functional medicine health practice. Transitioning from Corporate to the entrepreneurial paradigm has involved seeing patients and clients via the conventional method but also virtually. He has authored the popular self-help book titled “The Transformation From Within” and the Functional Medicine Book ” How To Restore Your Health”, hosts the highly ranked ITunes Podcast called Interactive Body Balance, is creating multiple online health courses while also presenting to audiences around the world.

Sources for Article

1. http://www.saragottfriedmd.com/7-essential-steps-in-resetting-your-bodys-natural-clock/

How To Combine Foods For Optimal Health

Flow States: Solutions To The 3 Most Frequent Inquiries About Optimal Functionality

About a month back, my organization—the Flow Genome Project—put out a get in touch with for concerns. We asked our community, when it came to knowing movement states, if there was anything at all they’d really like to know. We got a fairly wholesome response. Then, after I published a couple of website posts on the subject right here, even a lot more queries came. In reading by way of everything, most everybody zeroed in on three overlapping issues: Who can enter into flow How do the distinct on-ramps into movement work and, Is the state the very same for absolutely everyone. Let’s consider a closer search

Who Can Enter Into A Flow State?

Everyone, literally. Flow is ubiquitous. The state can present up in anybody, anyplace offered particular original conditions are met

One particular of the principal reasons we know this is due to the fact of Drucker University psychologist and groundbreaking movement researcher, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Back in the 1970s, even though running the University of Chicago’s psychology department, Csikszentmihalyi carried out a single of the biggest psychological scientific studies ever—literally going all over the planet asking individuals about the occasions in their lifestyle when they felt their ideal and performed their best.

He commenced out with skilled degree performers—surgeons, musicians, dancers, rock climbers,  chess gamers, etc.—then moved into more regular folk: Italian farmers, Navajo sheep herders, elderly Korean lady, Chicago assembly line employees, Japanese teenage motorbike gang members—this list goes on and on. And no matter where in the planet he went or what patient population he studied, when people felt their ideal and performed their best, movement was the only constant commonality.

Of program, in the years since this early work, hundreds of other researchers have validated these findings. The ubiquity of movement is now one of the most nicely-established suggestions in the area. In truth, it goes even farther than that. Because of similarities in neurobiology, flow states are not a human-only phenomena. There is substantial study exhibiting these states come up in canines, primates and—some have speculated—can be located in all larger order mammals.

Are There Distinct On-Ramps Into Flow?

This is type of an extension of the 1st question, however it has a somewhat different answer. As of right now, researchers have identified about 17 various flow triggers—that is, pre-problems that lead to a lot more flow. There are three environmental triggers, three psychological triggers, ten social triggers and, as of appropriate now, one innovative trigger.

I won’t go into too much detail right here (it will take about 90 pages to discover these tips in Rise), but I will attempt to put some context all around these triggers.

Get “high consequences”—a.k.a. risk—which, as many know, is a frequent and potent movement set off. A lot of people—especially action and adventure sports athletes—ride this set off into flow. Yet risk doesn’t only have to by bodily. It can be emotional, intellectual, social—doesn’t matter. Artists get into flow almost as frequently as athletes by taking innovative risks. Examine out Two-time Sundance winner Ondi Timoner talking about how film editing puts here into flow here. Truthfully, however, when it comes to risk, it’s really dependent on the person. A huge wave surfer may want to ride Jaws to pull this trigger, but an ordinary shy man requirements only to cross a area to speak to a pretty gal to do the same.

Furthermore, chance is merely one gateway. Makers of all varieties—whether we’re talking about laptop coders or synthetic biologists—follow the deep hrs of uninterrupted concentration needed by their efforts appropriate into the state. Final week, I was speaking with Jay Rogers, the CEO of Regional Motors (the world’s very first profitable open source vehicle company) about the deep flow that comes from working on cars.

Athletics of all varieties also function well. This does not just suggest action and adventure sports. Bat-and-ball sports, track-and-area sports, does not matter. Back in 1990, for illustration, Csikszentmihalyi level out: “The similarities among yoga and flow are incredibly robust in reality, it tends to make sense to consider of yoga as a extensively planned movement action. Each try to accomplish a joyous, self-forgetful involvement via concentration, which, in turn, is made achievable through discipline of body.”

Altruism is an additional gateway. Back in the 1990s, Big Brother/Massive Sister founder Allan Luks discovered there’s an altruism-backed flow state referred to as “Helper’s Substantial.” Originally, it was believed to show up only in hands on acts of altruism—like joining the Peace Corps or volunteering in a soup kitchen—but has considering that turned up in far a lot more ordinary examples—like bidding at a charity auction.

Tangentially, one of the factors we may be seeing such outstanding accomplishment for microlending internet sites like Kiva.org—which enables you to make zero-interest micro-loans (usually less than $ 100) to individuals in developing countries—may be simply because generating these loans produces a minimal-grade flow state and that state is very addictive.

In company, flow shows up everywhere as nicely, but is most commonly associated with startups. This has to do with the reality that entrepreneurial environments are packed with movement triggers. A lot more importantly, the state also appears to a single of the major dividing lines in between enterprise good results and failure. “Because entrepreneurship is about the non-stop navigation of uncertainty,” says former Yahoo head of innovation turned Singularity University global ambassador, Salim Ismail, “being in movement is a critical aspect of achievement. Movement states let an entrepreneur to remain open and alert to choices, which could exist in any partnership, merchandise insight or customer interaction. The much more movement produced by a startup group, the increased the opportunity of success.  In fact, if your startup staff is not in a close to continuous group movement state, you will not do well. Peripheral vision will get lost and insights don’t comply with.”

Are There Variations Inside of Flow?

Flow States: Solutions To The 3 Most Frequent Inquiries About Optimal Functionality