Desert Health News - January-February 2024

www.humineral.com www.myoknetix.com building. Take the elevator down to the bottom floor (or walk down) and walk back up the stairs. Even if you don’t have a desk job, just adding short bursts of walking throughout your day can help keep your muscles, joints and heart healthy. Better than that, you can walk for 30 minutes through the local park, through your neighborhood or from your house to the corner store and back. Even walking from the living room to the kitchen can be exercise if you do it purposefully several times in a set of repeated periods of time. Get your heart rate up, keep it up, and you will see and experience the difference over time. Walking is an easy step towards health you can add to your daily routine. Be sure to support your active body with healthy nutrition, vitamins and minerals to keep muscles loose, joints pain-free and motivation high. Here’s to walking through this spectacular new year! Candice Nicole is a health advocate and founder of HUmineral food derived mineral nutrients. She can be reached at info@HUmineral.com or (818) 400.7657. For more information, visit www.HUmineral.com. It’s a brand new year – time for new steps, strides and strolls. Let’s get moving. Getting healthy is literally a step-by-step process, and it can be easy with simple adjustments to how often you move - and making those moves count. So, let’s get that blood flowing through our veins! Step away from the desk. Many of us have desk jobs, careers that keep us seated behind a computer screen or at boardroom tables or even jobs that keep up standing in one spot for hours a day. These jobs aren’t only demanding on our time, but can be brutal on our bodies as well. Believe it or not, sitting or standing in one place for too long puts undue stress on muscles, joints and nerves that are meant to help our bodies in motion. When these interwoven groups are kept in unnatural positions for too long, it stresses the body and can result in aches, pains and even long-term damage. Not good! One step at a time. You might be stuck at your desk, but that doesn’t mean you can’t get up and move or engage in some leg or arm lifts. During your lunch break, take the time to eat (preferably a meal with balanced macros and a mineral supplement), but then also take the time to move. Walk the parking lot of the office www.DesertHealthNews.com January/February 2024 Natural Options The Valley ' s Leading Resource for Health and Wellness 14 An easy resolution for 2024 is to increase the number of steps you take. Good health starts with healthy cells. Give your cells the nutrition they need. 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There is considerable discourse these days about longevity and its correlation to how we manage stress. Stress seems like a conditional part of day-to-day living. It is natural to have intermittent tension in life, yet incessant stress seems the new norm and ultimately creates risks for health decline. When chronic stress elevates, we find ourselves in a rumination loop where cortisol levels remain high. When this happens, the body is never allowed time to recover, and the damage that ensues starts at our chromosomes. There is an enzyme at the end of our chromosomes preserving our telomeres, the caps protectingDNA. When telomeres no longer protect chromosomes, they become too short. This poses a threat for cells which stop dividing and disease can creep in. When our adrenaline is constantly pumping, it manifests in a weakened immune system and various health issues. Heart disease, memory loss, vision loss and an aftermath of unhealthy choices unfold. How do we stop this cycle? We can learn from the behavior of our elders. As Theodore Roosevelt said, “Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.” Upon speaking to my 90-year-old mother about this topic, she reflected on a self- preservation hypothesis as to why our elders might sometimes exhibit intolerance. Often there is a stigma about older people showing restriction and short response in communication. Wemay refer to such a person as a curmudgeon. However, the behavior might not be just grumpiness. Older people do not want to be bothered with stress and have learned a preservation mechanism for filtering stress by being somewhat curt. Studies show our happiness and experience of stress lessens as we age. One study found that centenarians reported using three coping strategies to deal with adversity: acceptance, not worrying and taking things one day at a time. As we navigate adulthood, we spend time trying to fix others or change situations, putting the brain under undue stress. There is both self-inflicted and externally imposed stress and knowing our role to navigate stress reduction is imperative. If it requires cultivating some curmudgeon approaches towards allowing stress in, then perhaps we should adopt this lesson from our elders. For a large segment of the population, personal finances are a leading cause of stress. Approximately 4 in 5 Americans are stressed about the cost of living. This stress can cascade to affect mental health, physical health and even our relationships. These are weighty issues and there is no perfect solution, yet what we choose to do on a moment-by-moment basis either helps or hinders our stress reduction. Choose purpose driven intention, connect with others and take self-care. Working in a charity role may provide an immediate surge of well-being and these small wins produce positive modifications in our brain. As we enter the third act of life, we can cause others less stress, take in less stress for ourselves and know that our health and life span depend on this self-preservation. Jennifer Di Francesco is a wellness explorer and desert adventurist and can be reached at www.coachellabellaboho.com . Sources available upon request. The Uninvited Guest: Stress