Optimal Health Daily - Fitness and Nutrition

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Episode 3535:

Chalene Johnson explains that the benefits of daily exercise are easy to name and hard to reach without motivation. She shares three tactics she uses herself: an alarm placed out of arm's reach, a pump-up playlist kept separate from her workout playlist, and a five-minute timer that only asks for a start. Each one targets the hardest part of a fitness habit, which is beginning at all.

Read along with the original article(s) here: https://www.chalenejohnson.com/motivated-to-exercise/

Quotes to ponder:

"It's hard to apply the benefits of exercise if you aren't motivated to exercise in the first place!"

"The trick here is that the hardest part is often getting your shoes on and getting out the door."

"Remember, the hardest part is starting. But once you start, continuing on becomes easier."

Optimal Health Daily is a daily health and wellness podcast where we narrate the best articles on nutrition, fitness, weight loss, and healthy habits, read to you by a professional narrator so you can improve your health a little more every day.
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Episode 3534:

Elana Miller shares what she learned while waiting to find out whether treatment for a cancer relapse had worked, and why she came to see fear as harder to live with than death itself. She describes passing the 100-day mark after her stem cell transplant and the ordinary pleasures that followed it. Her reflection is on resilience, and on the quiet value of days that turn out to be unremarkable.

Read along with the original article(s) here: https://zenpsychiatry.com/living-to-100-days/

Quotes to ponder:

"The reason I wanted to die quickly is that I've learned there is something worse than death, and it is fear."

"I live each day as if I have all the time in the world, and that makes me happy."

"There is a joy in being ordinary, in having the same petty worries and pleasures of a regular person who hasn't repeatedly had to contemplate their own death."

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Episode 3533:

Courtney Carver explains that rest is not something that arrives once the busyness ends, but a practice that has to be defined and chosen on purpose. She walks through seven restful practices, from becoming deliberately unavailable to making dinner slowly, that lower stress without adding to the to-do list. Her argument is that treating rest as one of the healthy habits worth protecting is what makes feeling well possible.

Read along with the original article(s) here: https://bemorewithless.com/restful-practices/

Quotes to ponder:

"If you think you don't have time to rest, it is likely even more important that you take time to rest."

"Rest looks different for everyone but if we don't define it and intentionally practice it, we are often too busy to do it."

"Holding all of our thoughts can get heavy and feel stressful."

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Episode 3532:

Dr. Neal Malik looks at fibromyalgia and the role inflammation plays in it, then walks through the methods most often recommended for bringing inflammation in the body down. He covers where nutrition, movement, and daily healthy habits fit into the picture.

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Episode 3531:

Becca Shern explains why gluten became one of the most polarizing topics in nutrition and what the research actually supports. She describes how the gliadin fraction of gluten triggers the release of zonulin and affects intestinal permeability, and why individual reactions to it vary so widely. She argues that a whole foods diet lowers gluten intake on its own, so most people can improve gut health without obsessing over labels.

Read along with the original article(s) here: http://minimalwellness.com/gluten/

Quotes to ponder:

"Gluten is a protein component of several grains including wheat, barley, and rye."

"Current research proves that gluten is a critical factor in gut health and functioning."

"Coincidentally, by focusing on whole foods, gluten content almost certainly decreases while other health-promoting qualities of the diet increase."

Optimal Health Daily is a daily health and wellness podcast where we narrate the best articles on nutrition, fitness, weight loss, and healthy habits, read to you by a professional narrator so you can improve your health a little more every day.
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