El sueño es una de las herramientas más poderosas que tenemos a la mano para combatir el COVID-19 y en general muchas amenazas a nuestra salud. Escucha porqué en el siguiente audio y algunos tips para mejorar la calidad de tu sueño.
El sueño es una de las herramientas más poderosas que tenemos a la mano para combatir el COVID-19 y en general muchas amenazas a nuestra salud. Escucha porqué en el siguiente audio y algunos tips para mejorar la calidad de tu sueño.
En este video recopilamos algunos datos interesantes sobre lo que la ciencia ha descubierto del COVID19, ¿Porqué en China afectaba tanto a las personas mayores de 60 años? ¿Porqué en Estados Unidos afecta tanto a personas entre 25 y 50 años? esto y mucho mas
Although it is a common believe, research show the opposite.
For example, a study showed that the cases of melanoma are increasing enormously amongst people who work indoors – and who have 3 to 9 times less exposure to the sun, than those who work outdoors.
On the other hand, countries with the most sun exposure have lower rates of skin cancer.
Why?
Data indicates that what increases the risk of skin cancer is sunburning or being exposed to the sun intermittently.
People who are exposed to the sun every day without burning (instead of tanning and getting sunburned once a year) receive all the benefits of the sun without increasing the risk of cancer.
Vitamin D and the benefits of the sun
One of the biggest benefits of the sun is vitamin D, which your body produces when the skin is in contact with daylight, specifically with ultraviolet B rays.
That vitamin D is a natural defence against cancer and helps counteracting the damage on the skin that ultraviolet A rays could cause is you are exposed to the sun excessively (until getting sunburned)
A study found that vitamin D could prevent 30 deaths for every death caused by skin cancer. And another study showed that for every death by skin cancer in Europe, between 60 and 100 people die of a heart attack or hypertension, conditions related to the lack of vitamin D and a lack of exposure to the sun.
Vitamin D is essential for the repair functions of your body. Almost all types of human cells have D vitamin receptors. Besides, it influences genetic expression and regulates defences.
Other benefits of being exposed to the sun:
Is it recommendable to use sunscreen?
There is little evidence that sunscreen can help prevent the risk of skin cancer. A study showed that those who use sunscreen are more likely to develop melanoma or carcinoma.
Many ingredients in sunscreen are related to an increase in the risk of skin cancer. Several of the most common ingredients are hormonal disruptors, such as parabens. Oxybenzone, which is on 70% of commercial sunscreens, has been linked to the reduction of sperm in men and endometriosis in women.
Recommendations:
How often is it ideal to go to the bathroom to evacuate?
This is one of the questions I receive most frequently. When I was in Medical School, it was said that normal is what is usual for you: if you generally go once a week, then that’s normal for you. If you usually go three times a day, it’s normal for you. Is this correct?
We can assume a more analytical approach, why do we go to the bathroom? Why does our body have the need to eliminate? Evacuating is the main strategy that our body uses to cleanse itself. How often does it have to be cleaned? Every time it has waste, which are generated with all the processes of our organism, including walking and breathing, but especially when eating.
That’s why old medicines indicate that the ideal thing is to go to the bathroom the number of times you eat a day. If you do two or three strong meals a day, ideally you will evacuate two or three times a day.
Why is it important to make sure that we evacuate regularly?
When you don’t evacuate regularly, you’re reabsorbing the toxins and the debris that your body needed to eliminate.
This toxicity in the body can cause:
Is it convenient to use laxatives?
It’s estimated that between 20% and 30% of the population suffers from constipation. The most common solution is to self-medicate laxatives, known as the second best-selling drug after aspirin.
But this is counterproductive, because they damage the digestive system and, even though they give momentary results, they actually worsen the problem.
What are the causes of constipation?
The reasons can be simple, such as having bad posture, lack of movement, poor diet, not drinking enough water or accustoming the body to contain the need to evacuate. It can occur during menstruation and pregnancy.
It can also be due to chronic stress, some emotional up and down, or a hormonal imbalance, since we know that the digestive system is the emotional home of our body: it’s where 80% of the neurotransmitters and the greatest amount of hormone receptors are located.
Other causes can be chronic digestive infections, growth of bacteria in the medium intestine, lack of enzyme production, abuse of antibiotics, the use of certain drugs and some diseases.
What can we do to relieve constipation?
The number one strategy is always to take care of the cause.
Now, if you want to relieve symptoms at home, you can use these practical strategies:
Some habits that might help you:
Watch yourself and be sure to adopt strategies to help reeducate your digestive system and eliminate waste that your body no longer needs. It’s key in order to have an optimal body.
This idea challenges the whole history of our evolution. We have less hours of fasting every time, and this is one of the reasons why cases of chronic diseases have increased so much.
Fasting has been used for thousands of years for spiritual, religious and health reasons. today science has proved that its benefits are quite varied:
There are many cases of people showing excellent results when using fasting to reverse type 2 diabetes and to improve conditions such as obesity, cancer, polycystic ovaries, fatty liver, mitochondrial dysfunction, inability to lose weight, leaky gut or arthritis, among others. .
Digestion is a process that requires an incredible amount of energy. And our body tends to give it priority.
What would happen if our body didn’t give our digestion priority? what would happen if the food went bad inside our organism?
In order to avoid this, the body is engaged in digesting and postpones other activities: among them, the tasks of cleaning and regenerating. When you fast you give it a digestive rest in which your body naturally turns on signs of regeneration, cleansing, detoxification, balance and reduces inflamamtion and can even correct cells that are receiving wrong signals.
This is thanks to a cellular process called autophagy: the healthy cells are cleaned, the diseased ones are eliminated, and thanks to this the tissues regenerate. That is why fasting is linked to longevity and helps to reverse various diseases.
An easy way to practice intermittent fasting is during the night. Our body is designed to fast during the hours of darkness.
The ideal is to spend at least 12 hours without eating, from dinner to breakfast the next day. For example, if you dine at 7 o’clock in the evening, have breakfast after 7 o’clock in the morning. It is key to have a light dinner and to let three hours pass before going to sleep.
if it’s very complicated for you, you can start with 8 or 10 hours and extend them slowly. If you drink two glasses of warm water when you wake up (you can add drops of lemon or some herbal tea), it will help you reduce your apetite.
During the hours of fasting, don’t eat any food. You can drink water or herbal tea, but don’t add milk or sugar.
When you manage to fast for 12 hours daily, try to reach 14 or even 16 hours in order to allow your body to perform the tasks of cleansing and regeneration. If what you want is to help your body find relieve for some condition, it might be convenient to have a more prolongated fasting or use the help of healing foods like Bone Broth. In my next video I will explain other types of fasting and how to use this wonderful tool.
How to stop being a slave to diets?
Has it ever happened to you that you get on a diet and they tell you that you can’t eat some food and then that is exactly what you crave?
Why does this happen? What if it’s because of your cellular metabolism?
Cellular metabolism is the functioning of cells. If a vehicle works very well, it means its metabolism is good. The same thing happens with the body: if I have good energy or if I have a healthy weight, they are the result of my metabolism. If I have problems with migraines or allergies it means I don’t have a good metabolism. It’s all related to the way my cells are operating.
What if the reason why you gain weight is not that you are overeating, but the way your cells are working?
It’s not that you are exceeding with food and that’s why you gain weight, it’s that the cellular metabolism that you have is causing you to eat that way and to have cravings. It becomes a vicious circle, and the diets we make generally keep that cycle.
The problem is not just the weight, being overweight comes with many other consequences.
What impacts me the most is the effect that it has on the brain. A few years ago I cared more about having a good figure, fighting off diabetes and having children. Not that I’m growing older I want to look after my brain.
We are living an impressive epidemic of Alzheimer, dementia and senility. It is prognosticated that 50% of people will develop cancer and that 60% or 70% of people who live over 80 will have Alzheimer, dementia or senility. These conditions are the effects of a bad cellular metabolism.
What if weight is not the problem?
They’ve taught us to pay attention to the results and not the causes. We pay attention to the overweight, the migraines, cholesterol, high blood pressure, low defenses. What is one of these is not the problem but just the thing showing us that there is a problem? That’s why I decided to return to the scientific perspective that, unlike allopathic medicine, does aim at attending the causes of these conditions and not just focusing in the results.
What if your body is gaining weight to protect you?
Our body is perfect. It helped us get where we are after thousands of year of evolution in nature. Everything it does is to help us survive, to keep the species alive.
In what way could gaining weight help me survive?
It is said that 50% of cases of obesity and overweight or resistance to insulin are to protect you against the toxicity of the body. When the levels of toxicity in the body are too high, the body grows bigger to store those toxins in the fat and that way protect the lungs, the heart, the brain and the rest of the organs. Fat is the ideal storage unit for toxins because that way you don’t have to face them very often.
When we lose weight no matter what, we take this protection mechanism away from the body. The weight wasn’t the problem, it was the result.
When you take care of fixing the problem from its root (which in 50% of cases is high toxicity due to our life style), maintaining a healthy weight is very easy.
Other possible causes have to do with biochemical, hormonal or microbiotic factors, amongst others. Diets generally don’t address those causes.
Did you know that 80% of people have followed at least one diet to lose weight some time in their lives?
Out of all these diets, do you know how many are successful? Only 1%. Some don’t reach their goals; others gain the weight back a few months later.
In spite of all the trendy diets, in spite of being hungry and doing excessive exercise, it is calculated that 70% of the population is overweight.
How to break the cycle of dieting and restrictions?
Instead of following these extreme diets, my recommendation is to address the cause of the problem. You have to identify what’s driving you to gain weight, and many times this has to do with your lifestyle. You have to address it with strategies that don’t harm your cellular metabolism.
Everything that harms your cellular metabolism is going to harm you in the long term. You are the result of how your body operates, and the weight is only one of hundreds of results. There are others that have more impact in your life quality, as in the health of your brain. And what is the organ that pays the price for many of these diets that aim at losing weight no matter what? The brain.
If you want to obtain long term results and have an excellent quality of life, you can use science and the chemistry of nature. Getting a healthy weight is a good result for the body; it means that you have a healthy metabolism, good energy, good immunological system, good digestion, and good hormonal metabolism.
In order to get it, attack the problem at its root and choose a strategy that supports your body at a cellular, microbiotic and neurohormonal level.