Quotes About Wellness

You need to build a positive base: physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. Once these four "bodies" are working in harmony, you can reach out into the world. You build the foundation for the house you want to live in.

yogis measure their lives in breaths, not years. Deep breathing is what keeps those breaths going.

What you need to do is build the house you will live in. You build that house by laying a solid foundation: by building physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual health. This

For now, the Simple Daily Practice means doing ONE thing every day. Try any one of these things each day: A) Sleep eight hours. B) Eat two meals instead of three. C) No TV. D) No junk food. E) No complaining for one whole day. F) No gossip. G) Return an e-mail from five years ago. H) Express thanks to a friend.

This is not to say you should eat chocolate all the time. You'll get obese. It's much better to just simply fall in love.

You can't get good at something if you are working twenty hours a day. In fact, something is very wrong in your life if that is how much you are working at one thing.

Care About Your Health A sick leader is not a great leader. A leader who is spending time with people not good for them is not a good leader. A leader who doesn't constantly practice creativity is not a good leader. A leader who is not grateful for the abundance already in his or her life will never lead his vision into abundance. He won't know how.

As Nassim Taleb mentioned to me on our podcast, "many people drive two miles to the gym in order to walk two miles on a treadmill." Just walk.

You can't get good at something if you are working 20 hours a day. In fact, something is very wrong in your life if that is how much you are working at ONE thing.

This was all part of the American Dream. Get a checkup once a year. Get blood tests. Live your life. But protect yourself. Don't step out of the box. Take care of yourself. Life is hard. But then life is easy if you follow the rules.

So the first thing is to spend less energy digesting food. Skip dinner (so your body is not trying to digest when you sleep), go to sleep early, don't expose yourself to news, avoid pop culture, don't drink alcohol, try to only be around the people you love, and have a sense of surrender and gratitude.

REFERENCE RANGES FOR LDL CHOLESTEROL LDL Cholesterol (mg/dL) Category Greater than 189 Very high 160 to 189 High 130 to 159 Borderline high 100 to 129 Slightly above normal Less than 100 Normal Target Range: 80 mg/dL or lower

REFERENCES RANGES FOR HEMATOCRIT Category Normal Hematocrit (%) Men 36 to 50 Women 34 to 44 Children and Adolescents (under 18 years of age) 29 to 40

7-Keto-DHEA 75 to 100 mcg twice a day. Helps improve the conversion of T4 to T3 in tissues. Tyrosine 250 to 500 mg twice a day. Do not use if you are pregnant or breastfeeding

REFERENCE RANGES FOR PROGESTERONE Category Progesterone Normal Range (ng/mL) Men 0.2 to 1.4

REFERENCE RANGES FOR DHEA Category Age DHEAS Normal Range (mcg/dL) Men 18 to 19 108 to 441 20 to 29 280 to 640 30 to 39 120 to 520 40 to 49 95 to 530 50 to 59 70 to 310 60 to 69 42 to 290 69 and older 28 to 175 Women 18 to 19 145 to 395 20 to 29 65 to 380 30 to 39 45 to 270 40 to 49 32 to 240

REFERENCE RANGES FOR C-REACTIVE PROTEIN (CRP) CRP (mg/L) Category Greater than 2.9 High risk 1.0 to 2.9 Intermediate risk Less than 1.0 Low risk Target Range: Less than 1.0

REFERENCE RANGES FOR TOTAL VITAMIN D Total Vitamin D (ng/mL) Category Greater than 85 High 25 to 85 Normal Less than 25 Low Target Range: Ranges vary for individuals, so consult your physician.

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

unproductive retirees. Take care of yourself physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Get enough sleep. Stay healthy. Get some exercise. Have diversions. Read. Converse with interesting people. Expose yourself to new ideas. Spend time in solitary, renewing activities. Set new challenges for yourself. Do whatever is necessary to keep yourself vibrant, stimulated, growing, and alive as a human being.

Lose thirty pounds within the next thirty days, or I'll have Chief Horrall put you on the 'Fat Husband's Diet' recently extolled in the Ladies' Home Journal.

Content is a great fortifier of good looks.

There are nothing but great things that come out of dancing. People are laughing, people are uncomfortable, it's an ice breaker.

You don't have to be uncomfortable or hungry to lose weight. You just have to learn what foods you can eat.