Where your treasure lies, you will find your heart.

What you have no respect for you will lose.

If you can't keep a promise to yourself then you can't keep promises.

It takes the average 75 year old person 95% of their body strength to get out of a deep chair. The measure for placement in a old age home is the inability to walk 300 meters.

That is average. Be serious about your health. Put effort into it. The level of fitness you have now is a prediction of the fitness you will have in ten years. Plan, and train for the future. Laziness is punished by increased effort in every aspect of living. Pay now in effort, or pay later with pain and weakness. 

Dates and Pomegranate for your heart.

The Technion-Isreal Institute of technology did a study of two types of phenolic acids which individually reduced oxidative stress on the interior walls of arteries.  One was from Pomegranate,  and the other was from ground up dates  ( pit also).  They each were really effective one at a time, but combined, much better.

The prescription is: 120 ml. and 3 dates a day. If one can't grind up the pit, just eat the fruit. Both together work well as a preventative, and as a treatment.

If one has heard some difficult news from their doctor about the condition of their arteries,  or there is a history of heart problems in your family, then consider this remedy.

I wear my rose tinted sunglasses at night.

Wearing rose tinted glasses at night raises melatonin levels naturally.  There has been a lot of information lately about blue light from the TV and from tablets being a huge disrupter of circadian rhythm.

If one reads about all the implications of sleep disruption, then one realizes a huge negative influence in a modern lifestyle. That is blue light pollution at night.

The problem began to get serious when fluorescent, and led  lighting took over our environment.  No one makes old style lighting anymore. I believe it's outlawed.

Now because of light generation realities of led lighting, TV,  and tablets there is a much higher blue light pollution in our daily life.

This is a huge new problem in daily, and nightly life. It's big and if you love health and life it needs to be addressed.

Do you buy a huge reserve of incandescent lights? Do you revert back to plasma TV?  Do you use only grey scale tablets with three colors, grey, black, and grey-white?  Or just simply give up TV,  video games, and tablets and read paper media?

No you go and buy rose tinted shades ala Bono.

Wearing rose tinted glasses is a huge positive change one can make with little effort. 

Now let's bring the heat. Sweat. Hot Yoga. Sauna. Banyas.

If one has a mildly elevated blood pressure, Doctor's are going to begin to consider prescribing diuretics early. Hey lose water and you lower blood pressure. The volume of your blood changes.

Just sweat it out. Sweating aids in the removal of all the weird junk aging us faster from modern life. Like pesticides and heavy metals.

However today it's about saunas or steam rooms. They are not the same. Sauna is dry heat. Banyas or steam rooms are wet heat.

Medical research says dry heat is gentler on the body, and will actually result in more sweating because one can handle the experience better.

I've experienced both and I do like the steam better. It is hotter. But it's true that one can take the heat longer in the drier heat, and may very well sweat more volume of sweat.

The traditional Russian experience include drinking water or tea. From my reading that might not be enough. One needs electrolytes in the fluid replacement. And it should be warm not cold.

If you had to take a natural drink best suited for replacing sweat loss, it would be coconut water.  Also in health food stores there are non sugary electrolyte drinks.

Here is a recipe for a homemade drink. 32 ounces filtered water, 1 organic cucumber sliced thinly,  1 orange sliced the same way, 1 lemon sliced, and 1/4 teaspoon sea salt, or Endure performance electrolyte drops.

Drink a glass before beginning,  and afterwards.  Not cold! Room temp is fine. It would be excellent if the mix was shaken up, then  allowed to steep for few hours.

Make it a peaceful experience. A meditation.

There is brown fat, and there is white fat.

Now I've prepared my share of meat back in the day, and I never noticed any form of fat but the white type. Well my experience must be misleading because I have read quite a bit about brown fat and it's role in body temperature regulation.

Most people are so obsessed with comfort that I expect their  need for brown fat is little. However brown fat is found in healthy people, not in diabetics. How does one stimulate brown fat creation?

By being uncomfortable.  By being cold to the point of shivering. If you swim in cold water, and I mean a vigorous pace of effort for 15 minutes, you will do yourself a lot of good.

You will be able to handle temperature shock to the downside.  Your brown fat tissue will protect you.

Babies are born with 5 % of their body weight as brown fat. That's because when they are real little they cannot shiver. They need the powerful temperature protection brown fat gives.

Pure water isn't a given.  Not even from the store. Perhaps especially not from the store. Most store water is simply run through a filter to take out chlorine and sulphur.  That is only for taste, not health. Then it's stored in plastic jugs, often left outside in the sun for weeks.

Sheryl  Crow followed Lance Armstrong around during his racing days with bottled water by the case sitting in her car in the summer sun for weeks.

For her loyalty she developed breast cancer. She is certain it was the high levels of BPA  she consumed in the water from the plastic bottles.  Of course Lance dumped her when she was sick.

I use Zero Water system to filter drinking water at home. It came with a water tester. The advertising in Amazon sold me. I bought 2. One for Russia, and one for my place in the US.  Water taste fine to me.

One caveat though, both of my pitchers leaked. So I keep an all glass bottle for drinking.