All the time I see people trying to accomplish their health goals WITHOUT utilizing all three proven methods of health: nutrition/ exercise/ supplementation. It is abundantly clear from decades of research and well proven track records that optimal health must include all three categories.
There are many who claim that they can get enough of the nutritional vitamins/ minerals/ nutrients from the food they eat. But in today’s world full of laminate glues that off-gas, chemical spraying, mineral depletion of soil, and heavy metals in our airways from jetfuel (to name just a few), it is impossible to keep up with JUST the food we eat. Nutritional supplements and exercise both serve as metabolic boosters and detoxifiers.
There are many who claim that they don’t need to eat well because they exercise abundantly and supplement well. In our world of vast malnutrition due to eating processed food and the wrong types of food (soy, vegetable oils, etc) there is no way to get all of the fat soluble vitamins and healthy fat that we need to maintain our cell membranes. Sorry, there is no fat in exercise and hard to come by with supplements–no, you need to EAT healthy fat and that is vital to our overall health.
And there are many who claim they can eat nutritionally sound meals and supplement well and that their jobs are exercise enough. Our bodies are designed for movement and we live in a vastly over-sedentary society and so, no, walking at work or climbing ladders at work is not nearly enough. We need to move and we need to sweat and we need to train our hearts and muscles.
Instead of trying to work hard to do everything you can to just get by without adding all three components, I think a better option, is to adjust your life around actively adding all three components of nutrition, exercise and supplementation in. Life is full of other things–work, stress, committments–all of which we would handle much easier and smoother if our focus was our committment to ourselves and our health.
Being healthy is not convenient–to make time to exercise we have to get up early or go to bed late. To eat nutritionally well, we cannot rely on fast food and pre-made packaged food. And to supplement well costs money. It is a challenge to be able to incorporate all three into your life. But the challenge is well worth meeting–your health, your life, this moment, this breath…..
Tags: Exercise, Nutrition, supplementation