Here’s how you can build back your good health post COVID-19 in UAE

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00:00Right, so inflammation is the root cause of every single disease.

00:03And inflammation is not a bad thing. It's part of the immune system.

00:07So when we fall down or we have a virus or a bacteria in our body,

00:11part of the immune response is to create inflammation to protect us.

00:14The problem is when the immune system doesn't know how to switch it off

00:18and the inflammation continues, then it becomes something called chronic inflammation.

00:22And that causes all the disease, whether it's cardiovascular health, Alzheimer's, cancer.

00:27So it's very important. Again, there are medicines that can reduce it, but that's temporary.

00:33What we have to look at is lifestyle. Again, there are certain anti-inflammatory foods

00:37like your spices, your turmeric, your fruits, your vegetables.

00:40There are antioxidants that break down and neutralize free radicals.

00:44Sleep. Inflammation reduces when we sleep better.

00:46It increases when we're sleep deprived. And stress also creates inflammation.

00:50Chronic stress. So we have to learn how to relax.

00:53So all of these things, over-training in the gym, over-exercising creates inflammation,

00:59under-exercising creates inflammation.

01:01So it all comes down to the balance of all of these things.

01:03Certain drugs that we take for our own treatment also creates inflammation,

01:07which is why you need to balance it with lifestyle to reduce inflammation on the side.

01:12Sleep deprivation is the root cause of most problems today.

01:14Emotional, spiritual, intellectual, physical, mental.

01:18So we need to sleep better. We need to sleep deeper.

01:20It's not a quantity, it's a quality of sleep.

01:22Number two, we have to learn how to reconnect with ourselves.

01:25Everyone's connected outwards. So we're like puppets.

01:28Someone says something, we're pulled in one direction.

01:30Someone's doing something, we're pulled in another direction.

01:32It's nice to learn from the outside world, but we have to stay connected within.

01:36Because our body's always telling us what's right, what decisions to make, what not to do.

01:40So that inner connection has to be rebuilt.

01:42How does that happen?

01:43Whether it's meditation, sitting in silence,

01:46distancing yourself sometimes from social media.

01:48I'm not saying you've got to get off social media, but limit it.

01:51It can't be your whole life. The virtual world will make your world virtual.

01:54So that's extremely important.

01:56Nutrition has to be simple.

01:57Right food, right time, right quantity, right quality.

02:01As simple as that. Eat for you.

02:03Don't eat what everyone else is eating because we're all unique individuals.

02:07And exercise again, movement.

02:09Most people are sedentary right now.

02:11So the more movement we get, these are the four most powerful lifestyle changes

02:14that form actually the fundamentals of integrative and lifestyle medicine.

02:19And they don't cost money to do. They're free.

02:21So people now need to decide that was the past.

02:25Okay, now move forward.

02:26Like in any situation in life, you've got to keep moving.

02:29What's happened has happened.

02:30You've got to get back to your workouts because you have access to the outdoors right now.

02:34Get back to socializing and meeting people

02:37because it's so important to understand that we lost that during the pandemic.

02:41And that's why we had emotional and mental issues.

02:43People have to realize that stress is always going to be part of our life.

02:47It's always going to be part of our life.

02:48But how we relate to it is different.

02:50So I think the problems happen when people stall.

02:53They stop taking action.

02:54They become a victim and slave to their emotions and anxiety and fears.

02:58There's always some action that you can take.

03:00The smallest, littlest thing.

03:02Keep taking those actions and then you distance yourself between anxiety and fear.

03:07So fasting is therapeutic.

03:08We're meant to fast.

03:09The very fact that we sleep and we don't eat when we sleep is a fasting period.

03:13So the body is meant to fast.

03:14The only thing is don't don't fall into fads.

03:1716 eights and all of that stuff.

03:19It doesn't make sense.

03:19Why not 17?

03:20Why not 15?

03:21So we have to learn to keep gaps between our meals

03:23and between our last meal and our next meal next morning.

03:26So smart fasting is what we should do.

03:29Whether it's 12, 13, 14, 15 hours.

03:31It's different for everyone.

03:32Different every day.

03:34So we fast basically to give the digestive system a break

03:37because we're eating too much.

03:38We're eating at different times all the time.

03:40So when you give your digestive system a break,

03:42all that energy that goes towards digestion now goes towards repairing cells,

03:47growing hormones and all of that stuff.

03:49If we're constantly eating, the energy first goes towards digestion.

03:53So fasting is therapeutic for recovery, for healing, for rejuvenation,

03:57for even recovery from deadly diseases when it's done in a supervised way.

04:01Listen to your body.

04:02It's always telling you what to do.

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