Here’s your 10 things that need to be done and best to do all of them:
- Intermittent fasting and sometimes longer fasting
- Keto (avoidance of carbs)
- Supplementation with broad range vitamins and minerals, especially going overboard on vits D and C
- Sufficient sleep every night.
- Metabolism improving foods rich in polyphenols and MCTs
- Anaerobic exercise such as weightlifting (recommend Starting Strength method)
- Aerobic exercise, such as 10,000 steps
- Portion Control, don’t eat too much even of what’s healthy – what you don’t eat is more important than what you do eat.
- Lay off the alcohol. It gets in the way of almost all the other points here as well as having risks of its own.
- Monitor progress regularly, both in terms of weight, and body shape, and ability to do more.
That’s the high level thing. Obviously it’s necessary to research into some of these a bit more to know what kinds of food or exercise are meant in each case, and Gundry’s books all contain lists of do foods and don’t foods.
I haven’t made a big deal out of saturated and non-saturated fats, what kind of casein is OK and why sheep and cgoat milk is usually better or olive oil better than some other oils. I find that in my case if I only keep to all the above I can lose the weight. If I don’t, then it starts coming back.
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Some very useful advice here. Thanks for these recommendations David. Sleep is a very important factor on the list and I can testify to the deleterious affects of shortage of sleep, being a bit of an insomniac myself. On the rare occasions I manage to get a good night’s sleep (of the more profound variety) I feel SO MUCH better the next morning. I think possibly another point that could be usefully added to the list is not worrying too much as this is a negativity that impacts health adversely. Maintaining an interest or interests is also very helpful as we move into the final phase of life as it gives us a reason to want to maintain our health at an optimum level.
One of the reasons I don’t tell people not to worry is that they only end up worrying about not being able to not worry.
Instead I say that prayer and Bible reading enable us to “cast all your cares on Him, for He careth for you”. This is in the title, and is indeed more important than all these ten, which is why I have those ten as things to do other than prayer and Bible study.
Those who pray and study their Bibles will have for sure a lot of help with the whole area of worry. Those who do not wish to pray or study their Bibles may worry more, but then again it may well be a good things that they do, as a sense of peace without the Prince of Peace is illusory.