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Thoughts on nutrition and diet to help you stay at your best.

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Checklist for feeling good.

Hi I’m Brian Pombo, welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live.

I was having a conversation with my friend Patrick earlier today. And he was discussing some of the health issues that he was having and the type of things that he’s watching for it and the type of things that he’s paying attention to.

A lot of them were nutrition-based, and so forth.

I was also having conversations with other people about similar things where people were having, you know, I got a little this or a little that and there was nothing that was so chronic or horrible that you would definitely recommend that they go talk to a doctor right away or anything of that sort.

And the funny thing about the way the American Medical System is, there’s very few go-betweens, rather than going to the doctor’s office or going to a hospital, there are very few people, you just call up and say, Hey, I got a question about this.

They exist out there, you know, you got your natural path, and you got your own all these other types of things that are out there, depending on your perspective of, of those. And nowadays they have, they’re starting to have, you know, visits that you could do virtually, with a Nurse Practice.

Also want a nurse practitioner that was doing that, or, or even a doctor that you can go virtually, and just discuss with them what your issue is, and they can kind of help you kind of diagnose from there.

But there’s a whole lot that you can do on your own. And it’s one of the things that I’ve, I hate to say I’ve gotten good at it, because then I know the next thing that’s going to happen is I’m going to get really sick or I’m going to drop dead.

But let me just say that up until now, I’ve gotten better and better every year.

Let’s just say that every year, I’ve gotten better and better at diagnosing what ails me. So if there’s anything, anything that feels doesn’t feel right, anything that isn’t doesn’t seem to be working in tip-top condition, including my emotions, my mindset, all that stuff, it’s all the same to me.

It doesn’t matter whether it’s physical, mental, or what have you. It’s, it’s all the same in terms of I handle it the same way.

So I kind of wonder about it, and see what pops up but there’s also kind of a quasi checklist that I’ll run through and see if there’s anything that’s different in any of those areas. One of the first main things I’ll check is nutrition.

So I’ll ask myself, you know, what have I been eating, eating and drinking?

What’s different really about what I’ve been eating or drinking?

Have I been eating or drinking more of one thing, if nothing’s different?

Have I had more of one thing?

Did I have that one thing and a certain part of the day, because that really makes a big difference, especially as you get older, you know, if you if you eat too late, yeah, you could be eating old good stuff?

But if you eat too late, sometimes that’ll affect things you may end up with heartburn, you may end up with the acid reflux, and you may end up with, you know, feeling groggy in the morning, just because you ate too late, you got your blood sugar spiked, or whatever else, all the other things that happen with that.

But looking at all the different things when it comes to nutrition, it’s a that’s a job unto itself. I’m not saying you’re going to know the answer. But you may get a clue as to what the answer is, you may be able to do a little bit of research on your own in terms of how different foods affect different people and how it may have or maybe affecting you.

So nutrition is a great place to be able look, that’s one of the first things I think about, depending on what it is, that’s wrong with me.

Another thing I watch while asleep, sleep is one of those things that, like I said, as you get older, it seems to matter more, not that you need to sleep more necessarily because you don’t necessarily need to sleep more but you need quality sleep. And you need enough of it.

So that you can function properly. So that your mind doesn’t function properly, your brain doesn’t function properly, your body doesn’t function properly.

If you don’t get that consistent sleep and the right type of sleep, you don’t want to sleep too deep and you don’t want to sleep too light because you need a little bit of all that and it’s one of those things that you do have to keep an eye on sometimes something as simple as just sleeping a little bit more or tossing in a nap in the middle of the day.

I know that’s really strange and it’s for certain generations. I’ve found it’s almost verboten. It’s it’s almost where you need a nap for lazy people. You know, I’ve heard people say that and I’m like, That’s not true at all.

In my perspective and the way that I’ve found, naps have been extremely helpful. I’m not saying a big long, you know, sleep session a couple hours long, I’m saying, you know, 15, 20 minutes.

If you know anything about how to take a good power nap, there’s nothing more valuable, especially, especially if you’re raising children like me and my wife. So that’s really helpful.

Naps are great but sleep in general, is your sleep schedule hasn’t been messed up, has it changed?

Has the chime changed?

Has that messed with you?

You know it and then then it comes down to So talking trician talk, sleep, talk exercise, you know, have you has your exercise regimen changed at all?

Have you been doing more physical labor, if not distinct exercise, but physical labor can sometimes run you down or make you feel a little bit better?

If you’re if you’ve changed that at all, in recent times, that could affect things, obviously, disease, and anything that you may have caught from somebody’s word.

Have you been around a lot of people that you aren’t normally around?

Did you hear people coughing?

Is that affecting you?

Is that causing whatever it is that’s going wrong with you?

That’s something to keep in mind.

Another thing to keep in mind, very frankly, is either, you know, do you pray on a regular basis?

Do you meditate on a regular basis?

Do you have some time that you’re alone with yourself, and have a chance to unwind and just be and kind of let a lot of that garbage in our in our heads and everything settled down a bit?

Do you have that?

Have you been doing that or have you been inconsistent with that?

When did you start and then stop?

You know, it’s more about the long game for me in terms of all these things. It’s what’s changed, not necessarily what you’re adding or taking away, but what has changed in the period of time leading up to you feeling a certain way, or having your body act a certain way or your thoughts act a certain way.

So these are the those are some of the main things that I watch for. The main thing, I think, overall is just to keep calm, be curious, be willing to, to find the solution from the oddest places because you never know when the answer is going to show up. Like we’ve talked about before.

Sometimes you just got to ask and you wait for it to show up, whether that’s your subconscious, magically bring it up, or whether it’s God or whether whatever your belief system is that these things work, if you’re patient answers have a way of bubbling to the surface one way or the other. So that’s all I have for tonight.

Hopefully, that’s that opened some some ideas up for you. I know I just I find a lot of people that I meet. And some some people who I really consider friends don’t have much critical thinking when it comes to their own health, physical, mental, spiritual, all that jazz.

You know, they they just don’t think critically about it. They don’t question it enough. They don’t think about it enough. It’s very much a second thought. And it really should be one of your main thoughts because it is the foundation of your entire life. Really, if you think about it, you can’t get much else done. If that stuff isn’t taken care of first. So hopefully that’s helpful.

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