Top 10 lifestyle steps to protect your body, health

When it comes to staying healthy or reclaiming your health, we always advocate getting 10,000 steps a day and eating seven to nine serving of fruits and veggies daily while dodging the Five Food Felons of refined grains, processed and red meats, added sugars and syrups, and trans and sat fats. But if you want to supercharge your efforts to achieve your healthiest life, incorporating all of our Top 10 Lifestyle Steps will do the trick.

1. Embrace the four forms of physical activity.

Use a pedometer to measure your daily steps, aiming for 10,000. Get 150 or more minutes of aerobic activity (interval walking; cycling; etc.) weekly. Every morning, do a sun salutation. Twice a week, do 30 minutes of strength-building with bands or hand weights.

2. Enjoy games.

Research shows that these can decrease dementia in 73- to 83-year-olds by over 33 percent when practiced for five weeks.

3. Avoid ‘Snake Oil Foods.’

Snake Oil Foods are the ones that make empty promises and deliver either ZERO benefits or are harmful.

4. Practice daily meditation manage your stress response.

Stress causes your body to secrete hormones that raise blood pressure, speed-of-processing to suppress your immune system, cancer and heart attack risks shrink your brain cells.

5. Dodge toxins.

Steer clear of tobacco and secondhand smoke; eliminate unnecessary contact with hormone disruptors in plastics, personal care products and receipts; avoid pesticides; and dodge air pollution (exercise indoors on days with poor air quality).

6. Drink coffee daily.

Decaf and caffeinated coffee temper inflammation; are brain-friendly; lower postmenopausal women’s risk for Type 2 diabetes by 15 to 25 percent; lower the risk for esophageal, colon and rectal cancers by 20 to 30 percent; and reduce the risk for endometrial, aggressive prostate and estrogen-negative breast cancer.

7. Eat salmon/ocean trout twice a week

Anti-inflammatory omega-3 DHA fatty acids are essential for eye and brain health. If you’re not a fish-eater, omega-3 DHA supplements fill the bill.

8. Enjoy an infrared sauna for 20 minutes, four times weekly.

Infrared spectrum light triggers heat within your body (but not in the room around you) to ease aches and pains, and reduce stress.

9. Take Fab 8+ supplements daily. They are vitamin D-3, calcium, magnesium, DHA omega-3, aspirin purified omega-7, and a probiotic. PLUS: coenzymes Q10 and NAD+.

10. Give sleep the respect

You won’t achieve super health if you’re not getting seven to eight hours of restful sleep nightly. raise and it deserves.