The fitness industry is full of fads. One week it’ll be about a way to exercise and another week it’ll be about which diet you should be eating for the optimal version of you. Another week will go by and the fad will be billed as something that you should avoid because it’s the worst thing that you could possibly be doing for your health even though you’ve been doing it for 30 years without a problem. Sometimes the main challenge is simply trying to determine which information is correct and which is bogus. Here at The Longevity Zone, we will help you sift through the fads of the day. Our goal is to help you make intelligent decisions for your needs. To guide you through the best choices for your individual situation. For example, there’s a bunch of research that says eating in the style of the Mediterranean diet is one of the healthiest ways to eat, but the fad of the day is the ketogenic diet.. How are you supposed to be able to determine which diet is best for you? Well, we are here to help.

How hard should you really be exercising? Are you simply wasting your time if you’re not pushing so hard that you cry? Or, are you in need of a gentler approach because you’ve been working too hard for too long? Research has been showing that high intensity interval training can be an intelligent way to improve your fitness in a very short amount of time. However, if you tend to work out so hard and so often that you can’t fall asleep at night or you wake up fatigued then you might need to consider a different intensity level. The person that I just described probably needs lots of slow walking and some yoga.

to keep ourselves balanced we need to continually reevaluate where we are.

 As a society, we are always trying to look for that magic pill, that “thing” that will be the answer to all of our health and fitness woes. So much so that many people try some very extreme things in an effort to reach a mythical place. We believe in moderation. Sometimes making changes to find moderation might feel extreme, but in an effort to keep ourselves balanced we need to continually reevaluate where we are. A healthy dose of introspection can generally serve us well.

We can establish set of guidelines for ourselves to determine if something is working for us. For instance, dietarily,  if we decide to stop eating bread then we can evaluate if it’s an intelligent decision by measuring how we feel before and after the experiment. Often, people that stop eating bread find that they lose weight, their digestive system quality improves, and their cognitive function improves. Other people can’t distinguish any improvement at all if they stop eating bread or gluten or wheat. The point is that if you don’t know what you’re looking for, it’s very difficult to see it. without a set of criteria to measure before and after it’s difficult to determine whether or not your experiment was a success. Often, a physician or a nutritionist or a personal trainer will tell you that they have the answer. that they have the one thing it will make everything better, but often the answer to your imbalance is as unique As You Are. so we encourage you to take the time to develop a list of quality control measures to guide your health and nutrition experiments.

The fitness industry is full of fads. One week it’ll be about a way to exercise and another week it’ll be about which diet you should be eating for the optimal version of you. Another week will go by and the fad will be billed as something that you should avoid because it’s the worst thing that you could possibly be doing for your health even though you’ve been doing it for 30 years without a problem. Sometimes the main challenge is simply trying to determine which information is correct and which is bogus. Here at The Longevity Zone, we will help you sift through the fads of the day. Our goal is to help you make intelligent decisions for your needs. To guide you through the best choices for your individual situation. For example, there’s a bunch of research that says eating in the style of the Mediterranean diet is one of the healthiest ways to eat, but the fad of the day is the ketogenic diet.. How are you supposed to be able to determine which diet is best for you? Well, we are here to help. 

How hard should you really be exercising? Are you simply wasting your time if you’re not pushing so hard that you cry? Or, are you in need of a gentler approach because you’ve been working too hard for too long? Research has been showing that high intensity interval training can be an intelligent way to improve your fitness in a very short amount of time. However, if you tend to work out so hard and so often that you can’t fall asleep at night or you wake up fatigued then you might need to consider a different intensity level. The person that I just described probably needs lots of slow walking and some yoga.

 As a society, we are always trying to look for that magic pill, that “thing” that will be the answer to all of our health and fitness woes. So much so that many people try some very extreme things in an effort to reach a mythical place. We believe in moderation. Sometimes making changes to find moderation might feel extreme, but in an effort to keep ourselves balanced we need to continually reevaluate where we are. A healthy dose of introspection can generally serve us well.

We can establish set of guidelines for ourselves to determine if something is working for us. For instance, dietarily,  if we decide to stop eating bread then we can evaluate if it’s an intelligent decision by measuring how we feel before and after the experiment. Often, people that stop eating bread find that they lose weight, their digestive system quality improves, and their cognitive function improves. Other people can’t distinguish any improvement at all if they stop eating bread or gluten or wheat. The point is that if you don’t know what you’re looking for, it’s very difficult to see it. without a set of criteria to measure before and after it’s difficult to determine whether or not your experiment was a success. Often, a physician or a nutritionist or a personal trainer will tell you that they have the answer. that they have the one thing it will make everything better, but often the answer to your imbalance is as unique As You Are. so we encourage you to take the time to develop a list of quality control measures to guide your health and nutrition experiments.

The list can look like this:

1) If I eat vegetables 3 times a day do I lose weight? Does my blood chemistry improve? Does my digestive quality become more regular? does my energy go up? does my immune system improve?

2)  If I reduce the amount of prepackaged and refined Foods, does my brain work better? do my tendons hurt less? Do my joints feel better?

3) If I go to bed at 9p.m. every night, can I sleep all the way through the night? What does my energy like in the morning? what is my emotional balance throughout the day when I’m well rested? What happens to my appetite in the afternoon and evening when I maintain a normal sleep schedule?

4)  If I commit to walking 10,000 steps a day in one shot, what happens to my body weight? What happens to my blood chemistry? What happens to my happiness? What happens to my ability to make intelligent decisions for my health? 

Using criteria like these help us to determine whether or not the current research fads are relative to us. It takes time to develop the skill of observation. Taking time to reflect on the outcomes for your specific wellness needs requires a slower pace than the tweet based world that we’ve evolved into.

We’ll continue to present you with the  latest and greatest, but don’t be surprised of we advocate a touch of moderation along the way.