How does a healthy day start?
Only after a healthy sleep, which avoids inflammation and disorders; and if it is not nocturnal and lasts at least seven hours, you will end up sick.
And a nap after eating?
After ingesting energy, our parasympathetic system generates daydreaming, but only for 15-20 minutes; If you sleep more, something is wrong in your body. We are photoperiodic beings and genes regulate our biological clock synchronized with sunlight. Sleep at night.
Are we still only diurnal primates?
Since a million years before the light bulb, the biological clock has been regulating our neuroendocrine axes: hormones, neurotransmitters, digestive juices… If we respect it, we prevent pathologies such as Alzheimer’s, cardiovascular diseases, obesity, diabetes, cancer…
How to sleep better the same hours?
Eat dinner early, because the peristaltic movements of the stomach interfere with the quality of sleep, and keep the lights at home dim or orange and the bedroom temperature less than 18ºC; and well ventilated.
Should I open the bedroom window?
Even if it is cold outside, because the CO2 concentration above 900-1,000 parts per million makes it difficult to get a restful sleep, and avoid some stimulants outright such as coffee, tea and chocolate.
I have already read that you have a coffee mania.
Only for those of us who metabolize it poorly; and you will know it, if you take a test for the ZYP1A2 gene.
Isn’t there something more at hand than that test?
If your urine smells like coffee or makes you nervous or shaky, it is doing you more harm than good. It takes us 12 hours to eliminate it and it generates a mimetic substance of adrenaline that prevents us from falling asleep.
Why is coffee addictive?
Because it releases dopamine, which is the neurotransmitter that gives us pleasure; but it degrades our melatonin levels and delays daydreaming; and for many this biochemical imbalance becomes catastrophic.
Is there any healthy antidote?
Meditation, which is paying full attention in space-time, anatomically and morphologically modifies certain areas of the brain, which are activated and inflamed when we go into a loop with negative thoughts. In contrast, the hippocampus is activated by tranquility and calm. And these processes are now measured with magnetic resonance imaging.
Why exercise on an empty stomach?
Because we have evolved as a species so that certain fasting benefits us.
Doesn’t fasting alert the body to shortages and save calories?
In the body we have two energy sensors: the MTOR molecule, which detects when we eat and tells the cell that energy is available and we can spend it; and, in contrast, the AMPK molecule, which is a sensor of energy deficit. When AMPK is activated, our energy saving mechanisms kick in…
How to avoid it when I’m on a diet?
To activate AMPK you must fast for at least 48 hours; That’s why I propose a shorter fast of only 4-5 hours: an intermittent intake, which is healthier. And never eat more than three times a day.
Does walking barefoot heal us?
Barefoot we incorporate electrons that the Earth emits and reduce inflammation and modify the voltage of some cell membranes.
Is it useful to walk barefoot on my parquet?
It doesn’t work: walk on ground that transmits electricity: grass, beach sand…
Why do you encourage us to be thirsty, hungry, cold or hot to be healthier?
They are stimuli that are called hormetic: if they are prolonged rigorously they damage and intoxicate, but in small intervals they activate the vitagenes, which keep all the metabolic pathways of adaptation to the environment active.
Why does an organ hurt in another place?
Because each organ receives information from a small piece of the spinal cord, which projects nerves and blood vessels to another organ and tissue. Referred pain has its cartography…
Guide us through it, then.
A heart attack hurts in the left arm; From the piece of the metamer of the spinal cord where the nerves that go to the heart come out, those that sensitize the arm also come out. Those of the liver, to the right shoulder; from the prostate, to the sacrum; The diseased large intestine gives low back pain. It’s in the manuals.
And something that is not there, but is interesting?
Sleeping without pajamas is healthy, because exposure to air on the skin causes us to secrete serotonin and oxytocin, which are hormones of well-being and skin care.
Isn’t a little cream enough?
Cosmetics that are not of organic origin have endocrine disruptors and this can especially affect the thyroid, testicle and ovary.
I’ll be careful.
But without obsession. Most of our problems don’t exist; but the damage that obsessions cause us, yes.