Maintaining our health to live long and well depends on simple lifestyle choices we make every day, often unconsciously.

To identify how long and how well you’re going to live, the National Institute on Ageing (NIA) asks questions such as:

• Do you sleep 7.5 hours/night on average?
• Do you exercise for 30 minutes/day?
• Do you eat mostly whole foods?
• Do you have friends (at least 3) that you can call and that actually care?
• Do you have a sense of purpose that you can write down that gives meaning to your life?
• Are you a non-smoker?
• Do you have protected sex with people that you don’t know?

If you can say yes to all these questions, they tend to predict that you’ll live healthy until 90 years old on average.

As you say no to some of them your lifespan starts to decrease.

Time and again we see the basics play a major role in our lives. Simple choices we make every day but seldom think about. Habits that run on autopilot but do not support our health and wellness.

Unfortunately the bulk of western medicine is centred around treatment of disease. We don’t pay a doctor to keep us well. We pay the doctor to treat us when we are sick. The cure frequently involves taking some kind of medication. Education about lifestyle changes to return is to health is not often provided.

What if we placed more focus on maintaining our health, instead of fixing disease when it turns up?

If you want to learn how to make some simple changes to support your health and wellness and think a holistic approach would work for you, check out my pages on WEmind – https://wemind.com.au/suzi-jenner/.