Add Years To Your Life and Life to Your Years!
Challenge – Article 10
This is article 10 and is the first of 3 articles designed to get you excited and motivated for our 30 Day Moving Challenge which starts next week. Look out for articles 11 and 12 coming your way shortly. As usual the video link for this article is set out above.
Introduction
All across the world our focus seems to be on keeping people alive longer when we should also be focusing on keeping people healthier, longer. There can be a significant time difference between your longevity, how long you live and your healthy life years, how long you live an active, healthy sustainable lifestyle. In an ideal world you want these to be the same or certainly very close. Unfortunately many people, especially those 50 and over, consider this goal unrealistic and unreachable.
The good news is there is much you can do to increase your healthy life years and it all boils down to things you can do, actions you can take, every day. You have the power to add years to your life and life to your years!
Sadly many older and vulnerable people are dying at present. Many of them are not dying directly from the virus; rather it’s the inability of their immune response to respond that’s largely causing the problem. This is why improving your immune system resilience is so important.
9 Key Actions To Boost Your Immune System
There are so many things you can do to boost your immune system and in doing so significantly reduce your risk of diabetes, heart disease, stroke and cancer. We’ve selected our top nine things you can do, though this includes to stop smoking, if you are still a smoker. So for most of us only the first 8 apply:
1. Healthy Nutrition: possibly the most important and most fertile ground for improvement for most of us.
2. Physically Active: crucial to your physical and mental health and refers to both exercise as most of us know it and moving throughout the day which is just as important.
3. Sleep: seven/eight hours of quality sleep is also critically important to your immune system resilience.
4. Hydration: We often include this under nutrition but adequate hydration is so important, we have given it its own category.
5. Healthy Weight: this may be controversial but we feel it needs to be said. Many get heavier as we age but it doesn’t have to be this way. If you’re overweight you should try to lose weight as your immune system doesn’t work as well, the heavier you are.
6. Reduce Stress: there will always be some stress in your life so try to get back to basics; spend more time outdoors, social connection, physical activity and where possible take breaks and holidays.
7. Supplements: do what they say on the tin. They supplement and are not a substitute for healthy nutrition. Each person’s supplement needs differ but in the current climate one exception that we all need to make sure we are not deficient in, is Vitamin D.
8. Manage Your Health: it’s very important to listen to your body and see your GP if you feel something isn’t quite right. You need to be proactive rather than reactive. We know this is difficult but it will pay dividends in the long run. Better safe than sorry.
9. Stop Smoking: I know this is easier said than done if you’re still a smoker but this may be your time to make this happen, if you want to.
Use The Pilot Study & Challenge
Why not use the Pilot Study and our forthcoming 30 Day Moving Challenge to help you achieve your personal health goals. The challenge’s primary focus is physical activity, walking and moving during the day. However you also have the option to choose a secondary objective such as nutrition, weight or smoking and build that into your challenge. We will help you do this; all you need to do is ask.
Die Young When You Die
One of your key goals in life should be to “Die Young When You Die”! This implies that you’ll enjoy your life to the full, doing all the things you want to do such as remaining physically active, going on holidays and playing with your grandchildren! That’s my grand son AJ winning his first Ireland cap.
Our mission is to help and support participants in the Pilot Study and the 30 Day Moving Challenge to start your journey, your Forever Young Journey and develop an Active, Healthy, Sustainable Lifestyle, so you can achieve your goals and dreams.
Your Comments
Your comments and questions are very important to us. If you have any questions about the 30 Day Moving Challenge, in particular, let us know as we plan to discuss these in our next podcast.
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Hi Jim & Pat,
Early on in the week in the evening is usually best for me.
Thank you both.
Catherine
Would Wednesday at say 7:00pm or 7:30pm work?
Hi Pat & Jim — The weekday evenings would be better for me – hopefully we will be able to be out and about on Saturdays –
Thanks Daithi we may end up doing both!
Thank you. This is an excellent presentation. I always find that when I am walking it frees up the mind and body and one can immerse oneself in the the walk and surroundings.
Hi Jeremiah, thank you for your kind words and I love what you said about when you are out walking! Way to go! Look forward to engaging with you during the challenge!
I can’t make either time slot as I’m working at those times, but I would love to access the replay.
Hi Annette, we will definitely record these and make them available to everyone!