Unleash Your VitalityYour Guide To Natural Health, Personal Fitness & Lifestyle Freedom

Alright – we’ve had some time to get clear and specific on our reason to live (cherishing our close relationships and doing what we love). Now, it’s time to get even more specific about how to keep your body in a state of peak physical performance (read “younger” and vibrant).

One of the easiest-to-implement tips out there – that’ll actually make a dramatic difference worth taking action on – is to make bright, colorful fruits and vegetables a regular part of your diet. Again, it’s simple and many people have heard it mentioned at least several times in their lives…but are you actually doing it? Are you actively purchasing a healthy variety of colorful fruits and vegetables every week when you go grocery shopping, and working them into your meals religiously? If not, there’s a divide between the knowledge you have and the actions you’re taking. Read the rest of this entry »

I couldn’t be more excited to be bringing you this special 3-part series on longevity and anti-aging! Longevity is one of the top, if not the top, interests and areas of research of mine that absolutely captivates me whenever I really start digging in.

We’re going to unearth several fascinating discoveries about longevity and living a long, healthy lifestyle – full of quality of life, just not years of aging. Parts 2 and 3 will come soon enough, so let’s take a look at Part 1 now:

What’s your reason to live? Read the rest of this entry »

I hope that you’ve had a chance to think over what this term “lifestyle freedom” really means – the core concepts of natural health, personal fitness and lifestyle freedom are all intertwined but clearly not the same thing. To me, lifestyle freedom encompasses the first two and so much more. Lifestyle freedom is about living the lifestyle that’s calling out to you – the life you desire at the deepest level. The problem is that most people shut down and dust away those deep-seated desires that would actually lead to the kind of lifestyle they’re yearning so deeply to live.

Lifestyle freedom, as I see it, has nothing to do with abdicating responsibility or being “free” of your personal challenges, obstacles and requirements. Rather, it’s simply being authentic and genuine enough to live the lifestyle that feels right to you. That lifestyle may seem to come across as something like the social norm, or it may be the calling that’s so far out and so out of your comfort zone that you might try to tune it out. What’s important to realize is this: everyone is driven by slightly different desires. Read the rest of this entry »

Fruit!

Without a doubt, you know by now that fruit is one of my favorite topics, and that I’m big on the importance of getting in fresh fruit to your diet. There’s so much that fruit has to offer, and so much value brought to the table. But here’s the big frustration that I hear from many people: “I don’t like to eat fruit because it upsets my stomach”.

Surprisingly, for such a natural food, this problem comes up all the time. I’d like to take a few minutes today to address this once and for all, and give you the insight and clarity that will allow you to never worry about eating fruit again! Read the rest of this entry »

We left off with Part 1 on the importance of building your neural network – in effect, challenging yourself with stimulating habits and practices that lead to the development of new neurons and connections. We also saw how certain key brain regions can be the major players in developing intelligence, “g”. Now that we’re challenging ourselves to perform mentally and building these new neurons, it’s time to tackle step 2: enhancing the speed and ease of neural communication.

Neural communication is the same thing as neural transmission; it refers to our ability to allow interaction between neurons to take place, and reap the benefits of this neural communication in mental performance, clarity of mind, problem solving skills, new ideas, etc. Read the rest of this entry »

Intelligence is one of those topics that almost seems too “fixed” to worry about – we instantly find ourselves labeling others as smart, dumb, intelligent, slow and all kinds of other markers that have to do with our ability to perform mentally. All of our brains work on remarkably different levels, and interpret the same information from our environment in vastly different ways. Put ten people in a room and give them a topic, and you can be sure that you’ll see all kinds of new, interesting conclusions and opinions based on their past experiences and the way their brains process the incoming information.

But here’s the kicker: you can enhance your mental performance, and increase your intelligence, in several fascinating ways. The two main strategies for improving mental performance are to build new neurons and neural connections, and to optimize the speed of transmission (neural communication). Read the rest of this entry »