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12.01.2022 TREATMENT TUESDAY Working from home? Incorporate more movement into your day. This is especially important during these lockdowns if you are working from home. Break-up sitting periods every 30-45 mins with a timer. Do body weight exercises at each interval if you can (e.g. squats, push ups, lunges, core etc). Aim to exercise for 5 minutes every 30-45 minutes. At worst, walk around for 5 mins stretching your legs or even jogging on the spot. You could also walk around the bl...ock, do some house work or run an errand. Try to break up your sitting periods with getting outside and exposing yourself to daylight. The hormonal response from daylight exposure on your eyes throughout the day will help your circadian rhythm, decrease fatigue and will improve your sleep later that night. If you can, try to achieve 10,000+ steps per day. It is associated with good health outcomes and decreased disease risk. As steps go up, all cause mortality and disease decreases. While focussing on 10,000 + steps is important, don’t let this number rule you. Do more when you can, do less when you can’t. Don’t decide not to walk at all during the day because you only have time or energy for 5,000 steps. Don’t feel like you’ve failed. Stay flexible. What really matters is how much you walk, or move in general, over weeks and months and years(track using your IPHONE or fitbit). Here are a few more ideas to increase your steps and daily movement while working from home: * Cycle or walk to destinations * Drink lots of water to make you go pee * Use standing desks (alternate between sitting and standing - 30min ON and 30min OFF) * If standing desks are out of the question, use a fit ball instead of a chair to engage more trunk muscles. Please still alternate between sitting and standing. The ideal situation is using a fitball to sit when you are seated at your standing desk. * Eat lunch standing up * Talk on the phone while walking or standing * Walk after dinner * Park further away from your destination * Carry shopping bags further to the car
12.01.2022 MENTAL HEALTH MONDAY Mental health issues are on the rise. Despite from a material point of view, life continues to get better and easier. The issue around our unhappiness is not material, it is existential. Chronic stress from mental health issues can increase the risk and exacerbate symptoms of chronic diseases. Stress is inflammatory to the body. Therefore, chronic stress leads to chronic inflammation, which underpins chronic disease. Our stress response is not meant to be... constantly activated. To help improve people’s mood, decrease stress and mitigate the effects of stress on both physical and mental health, I speak to my patients about the importance of engaging in behaviours that satisfy the following 5 criteria: 1. Breaks up your daily routine. 2. Brings you into the present moment (a lot of anxiety and depression is driven by focusing and worrying about the past and future). 3. You lose track of time (time becomes non-existent). 4. You experience an increased connection to your mind/consciousness, body, nature, animals or other people. 5. It is something that you find funand enjoyable. These behaviors can overlap with exercise and your hobbies. Satisfying these 5 criteria often leads to you attaining a flow state, which has many emotional, cognitive and physical health benefits. If you’re too busy valuing and pursuing things and a way of life that leaves no time for hobbies, fun and play, in my opinion, you are doing it wrong. You will die one day (who knows when) and this uncomfortable truth should scare you to make time to enjoy yourself! Don’t get caught in the hamster wheel with a blindfold on. Lastly, on the topic of values, while it as all well and good to decrease stress levels and mitigate its effect on the body. Chronic stress and mental health issues is a symptom of a deeper cause, which usually has something to do with your value system. What you choose to value dictates your behaviors, emotions and thinking. The wrong type of values can lead to mental health issues. Call Oak Health today or book an appointment online to find out how diet and lifestyle changes, as well as supplementation is used to improve mental health.
04.01.2022 THURSDAY THOUGHTS ON DIET AND LIFESTYLE The answer lies between or emotional brain and logical brain. New blog post up. Link in bio.
03.01.2022 TREATMENT TUESDAY 1 in 5 Australians live with persistent chronic pain and it is slowly becoming an epidemic that is overwhelming our health care system. If you suffer from chronic pain, please read this blog post.... Call Oak Health today (0423 34 347) or book a consult online (oakhealth.com.au) to find out how evidence based, practical and achievable diet and lifestyle interventions, as well as herbal and nutritional supplementation can address the underlying causes of your chronic pain, leading to decreased symptoms and improved quality of life. You might also want to enquire about the 6 week program for treating chronic pain.
03.01.2022 THURSDAY THOUGHTS ON DIET AND LIFESTYLE Good health and treating chronic health issues is all about consistency around good diet and lifestyle habits. It also takes time, discomfort, resilience to failure and patience. In a world of instant gratification, this doesn’t sit well with people. If you are not willing to go through the discomfort of changing your values, priorities and therefore diet and lifestyle habits consistently, in order to benefit your health, then you don’t deserve the reward of good health.
