Visit Us at: https://ultimatehealthadvice.com/ Ultimate health advice These days there is simply so much “health” information thrown ...
Visit Us at: https://ultimatehealthadvice.com/ Ultimate health advice These days there is simply so much “health” information thrown at us that we seriously can get confused. Whatever happened to a simplified fitness view that didn’t take a PhD to understand? From fitness to lifestyle to everything in-between, we got biggest health experts in the world to give their ultimate health Advice. Fitness doesn’t have to be incredibly confusing – it just needs to be understandable and therefore easy to implement. That’s where these ultimate health tips from the leading experts come into play. Pick one, try to tackle it, and don’t move on to the next one until you have conquered it. 1. Go slow on antibiotics - Professor Tim Spector, consultant physician and author of The Diet Myth 'For years I would develop sinusitis every time I got a cold and take antibiotics. I was an antibiotic junkie – taking four or five courses a year. Then, eight years ago, I went to a lecture by Professor Martin Blaser and it changed everything for me. He warned that regular courses of antibiotics adversely affect your immune system and could lead to weight gain because of their impact on your gut bacteria. It was the best piece of advice I’ve ever received. I stopped taking antibiotics for sinus infections – they only reduced the symptoms by a day or so, anyway – and have never looked back. From having six colds a year, I now have one every couple of years, I don’t get sinusitis and I’ve stayed a healthy weight. I became concerned about antibiotics in food as well, and now try to eat organic and only eat meat once or twice a month.' 2. Check your Vitamin D level - Dr Sarah Jarvis, Good Housekeeping GP ‘I’m a pale, freckled redhead and got sunburnt several times as a child. Once I became a medical student I was extremely worried about my risk of skin cancer and have avoided the sun ever since. It’s only been in recent years that I’ve become aware of the health risks associated with lack of vitamin D. Colleagues including neurologists (multiple sclerosis), rheumatologists (osteoporosis) and cardiologists (heart disease) warned me there was a silent epidemic of vitamin D deficiency, and I was shocked to find I was way down in the deficient range. I now take Fultium, a vitamin D supplement.’ 3. Good enough is good enough - Chireal Shallow, consultan psychologist ‘My mum always told me to pick my battles. She would question whether all the things I was trying to do were worth expending maximum energy and effort on. At first, I wanted to prove her wrong. I was working, studying and a single mum of four, and was convinced I could do it all. But when you are constantly firefighting, you don’t do anything properly and you feel like a failure. I reached a point when I realised that I was exhausted, grumpy and not fun to be around! Since then, I’ve slowed right down, I take things one at a time, try to focus and do each thing mindfully. Most of all, I tell myself that good enough really is good enough, whatever you’re doing.’ 4. Find your active self - Dr Carol Routledge, director of research at Alzheimer's Research UK . ‘I played a lot of sport when I was younger but although I’ve had quite a healthy lifestyle – I didn’t smoke, only drank in moderation and ate a healthy diet – the demands of my career and family life meant that I let exercise slip. It was only when my aunt developed Alzheimer’s disease that the reality of dementia and what I had learnt about risk reduction really hit home for me. The experience with my aunt spurred me on to do whatever I could to keep my brain as healthy as possible. That meant taking up regular exercise. I didn’t really get on with swimming or running, 5. Learn how to rest - Dr Nerina Ramlakhan, Silentnight's sleep expert ‘It wasn’t until my 30s that I realised just how badly I slept. I was always tired but wired, I found it really difficult to switch off and constantly woke up feeling as if I had been awake half the night. Eventually I reached a point where I crashed. My breakthrough came when I went to a yoga workshop run by a doctor who talked about the difference between sleep and rest. After that I took up yoga and meditation. It turned it around for me and I’ve been doing it every day since. It’s about self-care – when you make the connection between the things you do every day and the way you sleep, that becomes powerful.’ Less
