My Secret Weapon for a Healthy Brain
“Better Health Begins At The Cell.” -Dr. Bill Cole
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Hey folks, how many of you are suffering with brain-type symptoms? Anxiety, depression, brain fog (that’s the big one for so many hormonal patients)? What about sleep? The inability to either fall asleep or stay asleep? That’s another big one.
Well, I want to ask you something. Are you strength training? Are you lifting weights? If not, you might want to consider the effect of weight lifting in your life.
Studies are showing more and more (and I’ve also personally seen it in my own life and in so many patients’ lives over the years) that consistent strength training over a two or three month period really makes a giant difference in so many people’s lives in terms of how their brain functions. I can get into the nitty gritty of it, but the bottom line is research is showing that it works. It worked in my life. It’s worked in so many patients’ lives.
When you strength train, and I’m not talking about the three pound hand weights that you have in your closet. That’s not what I’m talking about when it comes to strength training. Though, for some reason, so many women think of that when they think of weight training. I’m talking about finding a weight that you can only do maybe eight or twelve repetitions within a set, and that last repetition is going to be difficult, right? You can barely do it. Maybe you can get one more after that.
You always keep good form. You make sure you’re warmed up. If you do that and you are intensely training to that level. Not the three pound weight that you can do 50 times and then drop, and then you could’ve actually done another 50 if you really wanted to keep going. That’s not what I’m talking about. That intensity level is not going to be enough to gain the benefits of what I’m talking about here today.
I like doing it this way: Three days a week (Monday/Wednesday/Friday, Tuesday/Thursday/Saturday, whatever works for you) whatever fits into your life best. Split your body part into two groups, upper half & lower half. On Monday and Wednesday of week one, you do your upper body twice, Monday and Friday, you do your lower body on Wednesday. The next week, you just switch it around. You’re going to do lower body twice, Monday and Friday, and upper body once on Wednesday. You just keep going like that.
You want to find maybe one or two exercises per body part. For your upper body: you have your chest, shoulders, back, biceps, and triceps. Four your lower body: you have your quadriceps, hamstrings, glutes, and calves. And then as far as abs are concerned, you can throw that in at any time or each day. But that strength training where you’re doing one or two exercises per body part, doing maybe three sets of eight to 12 repetitions, constantly trying to increase the weight as you get stronger, that is going to do some amazing things for some of you that have never experienced it.
If you’re having brain issues, research shows that it improves cognition. It decreases anxiety and depression symptoms, and it improves sleep. Again, I’ve personally seen it. I’ve seen it in so many patients, highly recommend it. If you haven’t tried it, do it. If you got away from it, go back to it again. Combine it with a whole food diet and anti-inflammatory diet. Stay away from the bad fats, stay away from the sugar, try to get as much sleep as you can and rest, and drink lots of clean water. Get outside in the sunlight, absorb that sunlight for vitamin D, and that’s when we start to see people’s health really start to change.
I hope this helps.
Take care, guys. God bless.
