Here are some snippets I noted from the various health professionals who spoke on just the first half of presentation number 9 from the Zonia series.
Physical Body
Slouching increases cortisol and lowers testosterone.
Chemistry
How we fuel our body.
Emotional Journey to Health
Most of us are not kind to ourselves. We need to change how we treat ourselves.
Social Journey to Health
Find your tribe.
Spiritual Journey
Discover your basic purpose to empower your life.
Four Prime Areas:
Air
Water
Food
Sunlight
Also mentioned:
Grounding
Infrared Saunas
Gratitude
Setting intentions for the day.
Test your biological age versus your physical age.
Improve daily, incrementally.
Medication allows a person to suppress the symptoms of your body warning you to change your diet and regime. Hence the medical profession is actually forwarding an early demise. Without the medication to prescribe the doctors would have to be encouraging us to fix the underlying causes of disease.
The one proven way to longevity:
Moderate caloric restriction in the context of micro nutrient excellence.
If your diet is low on nutrients you become a calorie consuming monster!
Over-reliance on animal sources of protein (keto, carnivore etc.) leads to earlier death.
Animal protein instantly converts to IGF1 (Insulin Growth Factor) which increases the ability of cells to replicate, including cancer.
Plant proteins are rarely complete so the body does not convert them to complete protein unless it needs to. Therefore plant sources of protein do not automatically increase IGF-1.
Fasting:
Resets Immune System
Turns on Stem Cells
Helps With Mitochondrial Biogenesis
Sleep
Get 7-8 hours a night
Exercise
Best for mitochondria is HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training)
Supplements
NAD, POQQ, D-Ribose, Acetyl L-Carnitine
Detoxification
Supplements, Infra-Red Sauna penetrate deeper to internal organs to release toxins.
More than 20 grams a day of saturated fat increases inflammation.
We should aim for 40 grams a day of fiber. Helps feed the mitochondria and increase the production of butyrate.
To keep you gut intact, manage your stress. Stress increases cortisol which triggers adrenaline which goes through the enteric nervous system and attacks the brain and gut, increases gut permeability.
Exercise increases blood flow to the gut and helps maintain health.
Managing your weight is a great longevity strategy.
Minimise your visceral fat (around the organs). Visceral fat is an inflammatory engine that throws off adipokines, inflammatory compounds which lead to the gut breaking down.
You should be able to eat your skincare. To make your skin look better – eat berries, avoid sugar and gluten.
High amounts of sugar and seed oils adversely affect your sexual health. Sugar causes inflammation which nicks your blood vessels. The body makes more cholesterol to reduce the inflammation. Cholesterol is a starting molecule of hormones, including testosterone. Increased cholesterol will cause the doctor to prescribe statins to lower cholesterol which in turn reduces the production of testosterone.
Continued sugar consumption continues the inflammation and blood vessel damage but the body no longer has enough cholesterol to fight it so you develop heart problems.
Seed oils are the bandit twin of sugar. Seed oils are not native to our consumption but the body does what it can with what it is given. Our cells have a phospholipid bilayer that is constructed from the fats we feed it, good or bad. If you give it good fats it’s like the third pig in the three little pigs story. it builds strong, fully functioning cells. Give it seed oils and the cells more resemble the house made of straw, far more susceptible to damage when challenged.
Over time seed oils lower your tolerance to the sun, you can’t spend as much time in it.
Study published in the British Medical Journal in late spring 2021. The only change they made was to increased amount of Omega-3 fatty acids and reduced Omega-6 fatty acids. Within three months the participants went from 16 headache days a month to 9.
Fasting enables the mitochondria to go into repair mode. This process is critical to maintain mitochondrial health.
Only 7-8% of Americans are metabolically health. We really need 4 hours between meals for optimum digestion. Many people experience a relief of symptoms when they do this.
Our bodies like variety. There are benefits to not eating the same thing every day or following the same eating pattern every day. Mixing things up can be therapeutic. For instance one regime is eating during an 8 hour window and fasting for 16 hours for 5 days then doing a 24 hour fast then a higher than normal protein intake for day 7.
It is important to maintain our electrolytes during fasting to minimise deficiency which leads to headaches for instance.
Mold, sick or cancer cells can less easily tolerate fasting than normal cells.
Three months of doing a 24 hour fast once a week will yield similar results to a three to five day water fast.
Re the Mediterranean diet, the Orthodox Greek diet is fasting for 200 days a year. So maybe it’s not as much about what they eat but when they do and don’t eat.
Adaptogens are the most valuable herb in any culture in recorded history as they help counter the effects of stress.
One of the biggest accelerators of aging is allostatic load, when the mind can no longer counter the effect of chronic stress. The brain responds by making more stress hormones, reducing the signals to make sex hormones, reducing below adequate the level of growth hormones, the body becomes more insulin resistant.