What are your health goals for 2021?
Due to Covid-19, metabolic health, physical and mental fitness has become even more essential to maintain or improve.
Here are some tips to help get you started:
Regular movement is essential for immune function, pain management and general physical fitness
Developing muscle strength and stability can help prevent injury and improve physical resilience.
Some types of food promote systemic inflammation and can exacerbate the body's inflammatory immune response to infection.
Stress can suppress immune function and slow recovery from illness.
7-8 hours of sleep is essential for healing and repair as well as regulating the function of the immune and nervous system
I hope you find some of these tips useful; there is much we can do to make ourselves healthier and more resilient actively.
If you are struggling with pain or physical problems and need help, please give us a call.
In good health,
Simon Coghlan MSc, BSc Physio, DipMedAc
Practice Principal
References:
Horowitz BN. Exercised: Why something We never evolved to do is healthy and rewarding By Daniel E. Lieberman, New York, NY: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2021.
Shanahan C. Deep nutrition: Why your genes need traditional food. Flatiron Books; 2017 Jan 3.
Irvine WB. The Stoic Challenge: A Philosopher's Guide to Becoming Tougher, Calmer, and More Resilient. WW Norton & Company; 2019 Sep 3.
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