Life Force Part 2
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Intro (0:00)
Part 2 podcast about the book I have been reading, Life Force by Tony Robbins!
Some things in this book we can learn lessons from and take and implement into our daily lives.
Make sure we are taking care of our health.
Be our own advocates.
Need to have the knowledge behind you
Need to have intuition.
Educate ourselves
Maybe there are some tests we have learned in this book you can take to get ahead of what is going on with your body?
Starting At Chapter 13 (4:52)
Lifestyle and living our lives.
Power of sleep.
This is the 3rd pillar of health.
I am tracking my sleep and I can tell a difference in my body when I get 7 hours vs 8-9 hours.
Dr Walker - Why We Sleep.
Great book and talks about why we sleep and unlocking the power of sleep and dreams.
He suggested that sleep is probably the foundation of diet and exercise.
Global experiment of 1.6 Billion people in 70 countries.
How much damage could just one hour of lost sleep really do? Researchers discovered a 24% increase in heart attacks the following day. And a similar surge in traffic accidents
We need to be getting our sleep, Our bodies need it.
The average American adult used to sleep in 1942 for 7.9 hours a night and since then we now sleep 6.9 hours a night.
We need to understand what our bodies need from a sleep perspective.
Start Looking At Sleep (10:50)
We need to start looking at our sleep and tracking it.
Assess whether you are getting enough sleep.
I do this with my Garmin watch.
A lot of other options you can look into to track your sleep and how much sleep you are getting.
If you need to, get with your doctor about this and not sleep .
Set yourself a regular bedtime and wake up time.
Make sure you give yourself a long enough sleep opportunity each night.
Get prepared for bed.
Make sure your mattress is good.
How old is it? Is it good for you?
Sleep mask, black out curtains?
I sleep better when I exercise in the morning, not at night.
Done eating by 530/6pm. - Eat dinner earlier and finish earlier.
Keeping your room cool.
A few hacks to help with sleep.
Chapter 14 Fitness Strength and Fitness Performance (14:32)
Tony - “What if I told you there was something you could do for just a few minutes a day that could reduce your risk of cancer by 40%. Cut your risk of a stroke by 45%. Slash your risk of diabetes by 50%. Half the risk of premature death from heart disease and if you're a woman protect you from Osteoporosis, known as the silent killer. Since you often don't know you have it until it's broken, and it affects 1:3 (most women) over the age of 50. What is this nectar of gods? The answer is exercise!”
Exercising just 15 minutes a day can slash the risk of death by 14%. And boost life expectancies by 3 years on an average.
This doesn’t mean over training and overtraining your body.
There are a lot of simple things you can do.
Walking, lifting weights and muscle building.
Different types of workouts you can do.
Osteostrong technology.
Lifting weights and working out strengthens your bones.
Adding some strength workouts while protecting your ostomy will help prevent hernias.
Proper form, doing them correctly, hernia belt will help prevention.
Hire someone to help you if you are just starting out and want help.
Last Few Chapters (19:00)
Talks about beauty.
Women's health and womens hormones.
Selling a lot more stuff at the end of the book.
Speaks of heart disease, strokes and cancer.
How to win the war on cancer
Prevention
Can speak with them, but they do not have insurance.
But they are starting to create an app where you can work with doctors in different hospitals on doing different testing that he speaks about in the book.
Coming up with personalized cancer vaccines.
Take DNA and do scans.
A blood test at his facility that tests for cancer cells in your body.
If you have specific cancer cells in your body and genes, there will be vaccines to help prevent that.
Speaks on inflammation
Crohn's disease (chapter 20)
Inflammation and autoimmune disease
Breakthrough treatments can obliterate the pain and suffering of Crohn's disease and rheumatoid arthritis with precision electrical stimulation.
Chron’s affects 1 in 7 Americans.
Chron’s speaks to people in their prime, usually before 35.
Abdominal pain and cramping
Diarrea so severe
Weight Loss and fatigue
Higher risk of colon cancer and dangerous bowel obstructions
No definitive cure of Chron’s or any auto-immune disease in general.
Vagus nerve and understanding that nerve can be the breakthrough in auto-immune disease.
Closing (25:30)
Just highlighting some things in this book, but this book is so amazing and I highly recommend it.
Has so much breakthrough technology in this book.
I have just touched the tip of it, so if you want to know more, I suggest you grab the book and dive deep into it.
Anything you want to learn or hear more about let me know and send me an email!
Leeanne@leeannehayden.com
Or have someone with an amazing story? Let me know and send me an email. I would love to talk to them!
LINKS:
Life Force Website: Tony Robbins
Why We Sleep Dr Walker:
https://www.amazon.com/Why-We-Sleep-Unlocking-Dreams/dp/1501144316