Health and fitness

How long do you and will we spend from now until you're 90 talking about this?  Well, there's a risk of that. So let's start with a couple of the things that you've already highlighted. So smoking, how much does smoking increase your risk of all-cause mortality? And the reason we like to talk about what's called ACM or all-cause mortality is it's really agnostic to how you die. And that doesn't always make sense. I mean, if you're talking about a very specific intervention, like an, uh, anticancer therapeutic, you really care about cancer-specific mortality or heart-specific mortality. But when we talk about these sorts of broad things, we like to talk about ACM. So using smoking, smoking is approximately a 40% increase in the risk of ACM.  What does that translate to?  And, um, that means I'm shortening my life by 40%? No, it means at any point in time, there's a 40% greater risk that you're going to die relative to a nonsmoker and an ever-s

Let's uncover the health benefits of vitamin D. It makes feel you happy, feel depressed. And it helps regulate how much calcium phosphate and other ingredients you have in your body. Vitamin D also helps your bones, teeth, and muscles stay healthy. Not to mention that without vitamin D, we're unable to stay healthy and free of disease.  So in this article, we shall try to reveal why vitamin D can be used for just about anything in your body and why you should be trying to use some of it and some of its health benefits before it's too late. The suicide rate in countries that have less access to sunlight is considerably higher than in tropical countries. Scientists attribute this pattern to vitamin D. Sunlight is the first and most important source that we have for vitamin D in the human body. And it has effects more than you imagine. Our skin can produce what it needs to keep us healthy.  Believe it or not, 15 to 30 minutes of sunlight exposure, just about is enough to chang

 Exercise is interesting in terms of its effects on the brain because it works in about four or five different ways. Uh, one of the most obvious ways is blood flow. And so if you, uh, get your heart working, your brain's going to be filled with oxygen-rich blood and nutrients. So that's the main way that we thought it would help. The other way that's sort of interesting, uh, is it's been thought that exercise produces, uh, new neurons.  And so exercise induces the production of growth factors, one called BDNF, and it actually stimulates the production of new brain cells. Now, when I was in school 20 years ago, we were told, you can't get any new brain cells. So when you're born, that's your lot. You're not going to make any more. But more recently, we found that exercise, uh, is a really good way of stimulating brain cell production. And some of these are functional.  And so, um, just this notion that something that you can do can generate new brain cell

 We all know that exercise is good for your body and your brain. But why? In fact, exercise decreases depression and anxiety.  How and what kind of exercise does that?  That's what I'm talking about today. I'm um, Dr. Tracy Marks, a psychiatrist and I make mental health education videos. You've probably heard the term runners high which describes a phenomenon where after intense aerobic exercise, like running, you can experience this euphoric feeling and sense of well-being. For years it was hypothesized that this was due to the release of endorphins which is your body's natural opiate. Well, it turns out the runner's high really isn't that common among runners. But anyone can experience a relaxed feeling after moderately intense exercise, not from endorphins, but from endocannabinoids. Let me explain.  You do get endorphin release with exercise that serves the purpose of lessening pain perception during and after intense activity. But those endorphins don&#

 Food companies commit one of the biggest sins in the world today. See this? This is marketed as a health drink. But you want to know something? Read the ingredient. This is 40% pure sugar. So we live in this lie. First, food companies are lying to us by getting us hooked on substances filled with sugar and other things that actually cause our body to age and put on weight.  And we are told that this is healthy. Second, late night infomercials lie to us by saying the solution to getting in shape is to exercise, exercise, exercise. Yet studies show that 95% of your body shape has to do with what you eat and not how you work out.  This is where Wildfit comes in. Wildfit is a way to completely reshape your body by reconditioning your mind, to understand the brainwashing that we go through, to reverse that, to understand hunger, and to be able to make conscious decisions on what you eat so that it becomes effortless to stay in shape. Join us in this masterclass as I bring you the creator o

 Exercise is one of the most critical things that we can do to have a healthy lifestyle. And, uh, luckily, there are all kinds that we can choose from. There's aerobic exercise, jogging, uh, brisk walking, jazzer size classes, that type of thing. Uh, we've got weight resistance, uh, we've got stretching. So there are a lot of things that you can choose from to have exercise be part of your daily life. But the most important thing about exercise is regularity . And if you wish to be regular with your exercise, which is where the efficacy comes in, then I'd suggest to you two things. The first is to keep a record of what your exercise is. Just take your calendar and block out when you want to exercise. On my calendar, it says, Appointment with Mr. Nike. That's how I know that that's the time that I'm going to exercise.  And then when I do exercise, I record it on that calendar. Because when we try to keep it in our heads, we give ourselves way too much credit