Optimizing Health - 6 Pillars

The Challenge

The threatening increase in diseases and medical costs challenges us to act. The astronomical cost of health care is largely to be found in the cause of poor diet and lifestyle !!

Since nutritional science is hardly recognized in medicine, we, as ordinary citizens, are challenged to make ourselves smart. High-tech medicine and drugs sometimes have considerable side effects, which leads to a loss of confidence in conventional medicine. In addition, the symptoms are often treated instead of the cause.

Unfortunately, conventional medicine and the pharmaceutical industry rely largely on prescribing medication. This despite all the side effects. The high potential of nutrition and exercise (see NEWSTART) is largely neglected. Could it be that our health system is ruled by mammon (money)?

6 Pillars of Health

1st Pillar: “Let your food be your remedy!” said Pythagoras, whom we all still know from our school days. Nothing is better than healthy AND tasty food!

2nd Pillar: Naturopathy was shaped by well-known names: Hildegard von Bingen, Paracelsus, Rousseau and Kneipp. They have already developed holistic concepts of life that are still relevant today. Hydrotherapy, exercise therapy, dietetics and order therapy are products that have a positive effect on the health of body, soul and spirit.

. it doesn't have to be such a dedicated swim !!

3rd Pillar: Perhaps you know the pioneers Bircher-Benner, Lothar Wendt, Denis Burkitt and Werner Kollath. They revolutionized nutritional science in their time. Raw vegetable food was suddenly an important issue, as were the disadvantages of excessive consumption of animal protein.

For many, it is a matter of getting used to eating more raw vegetable foods. But it's worth it, because after three weeks at the latest you will love this healthy food.

4th pillar: The FASTFOOD gastronomy was recognized as responsible for many diseases of civilization, obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, cancer and cardiovascular diseases. How about more cooking yourself?

What a nice picture!! Cooking together. Plus quality. Taking time to eat and promoting health together. Wonderful!!

5th Pillar: The work of important personalities for a plant-based diet - such as T. Colin Campbell, John McDougall, Neal Barnard, Michael Greger etc. have indicated that the value of the plant-based diet with its long underestimated phytochemicals and fiber is the basis for represents a healthy diet.

Secondary plant substances and fiber form the basis for a healthy diet. Do not miss that. You will be rewarded for it.

6th Pillar: Hans Diehl and Klas Mildenstein have independently developed concepts that represent far-reaching findings (CHIP). The solutions they were looking for:

• Moving from meat to vegetables

• from white flour products to whole grain products,

• replace french fries with potatoes,

• change from burgers to beans,

• from lemonade to water.

• Then on from global to regional products,

• from huge portions to normal,

• from eating out to eating in the living room and

• from fast food to a leisurely lunch, of course.

How about a basil and garlic pizza? Not suitable just before visiting, but extremely healthy! A good appetite!

Do You Also Want to Be Healthy in Old Age? - 5 Tips

Feeling young and vital, like children, at least sometimes - that's it. Age research has some good suggestions for people who want quality of life in old age.

Do you know healthy older people? If so, what is your secret to your quality of life?

Research Results

Medicine professor Thomas Perls * is one of the world's leading researchers in the field of longevity. He acquired his findings in a study on 150 people who have turned 110 and over. He found these people in USA, Canada, Japan and other countries. There are currently around 350 people worldwide who are over 110 years of age. In his opinion, these are extremely few.

The medical professor speaks about his “centenarian” research at universities and congresses. Which people will be 100 or even 110 years old, and why? Perls, 58, has been asking this question since his youth.

He likes to open his presentations at congresses with a little quiz: "Do you smoke? Okay, subtract 15 years. Are you good at coping with stress? Good, then add 5 years."

It is known that the following risk factors played a decisive role in the death of these old people: 1. Smoking 2. Obesity 3. High blood pressure 4. Diabetes 5. Lack of exercise

In the German-speaking countries we have a life expectancy (2015) of

• Germany: 82 for women and 77 for men

• Austria: 84 for women and 79 for men

• Switzerland: 84 for women and 80 for men

One could be of the opinion that if we are already around 80 years old according to statistics, then we would like to experience it healthy. Makes sense right? And when we grow old healthy, why shouldn't life go on a little longer?

Mr. Perls suspects that there would actually be a lot more in our latitude and state of development. He is thinking of 89 for women and 86 for men. The question is whether we want to make use of our genes or fight against them! He followed up on the oldest people in the world and found them primarily among the Seventh-day Adventists.

Seventh-Day Adventists (SDA) and Health

The STAs have the highest life expectancy in the United States. They are very ethnically diverse and spread across America. They tend to lead healthy lives, that is, they do not smoke or drink alcohol, are vegetarians and exercise a lot.

SDAs have many health programs (see NEWSTART blog) and have a science center in California that is responsible for the latest knowledge. They also tend to have hospitals and health centers that are strong in the use of natural healing methods. They are professionals in cures for diabetes II and other lifestyle diseases.

The Landhaus Die Arche (DE - above) and the mountain pension Sonnmatt (CH - below) are the best-known spa houses in German-speaking countries. (Terri and I live close by helping our daughter and son-in-law - wonderful area!!)

Mr. Perls discovered that genes are only responsible for 30 percent of our age. More important is our behavior, our lifestyle. That's the good news:

We are largely in control of how healthy we want to be in old age and how old we want to become.

Alzheimer's problem

About half of people over 85 get Alzheimer's. That should be avoided. How ? Research tries to get at the genes. Drinking water regularly is sure to have a positive effect. Those who take their 2-2.5 liters of water in their old age have an advantage, because around 85% of the brain consists of water. In addition, thirst disappears with age, so that one has to consciously take care of drinking. Many elderly people in retirement homes 'forget' this and then suffer from many signs of aging that would not be necessary if the blood had a better quality thanks to the water.

Problem Stress

How older people have learned to deal with stress appears to be an equally important health factor. It is not so important how much stress people have, but how they have learned to deal with it. Eustress, i.e. positive stress, also makes older people flourish and motivates them.

In affluent countries, insufficient management of stress is more damaging to life expectancy than smoking and alcohol! (BLOG).

Most people know how to reduce stress, namely with exercise, meditation, prayer, enough sleep or individual recipes.

It is important that you do your best not to let the stress get to you. Research shows that otherwise the risk of heart disease, but also cancer and Alzheimer's, increases.

Mr. Perls reports that you have observed these very old people to have low scores for neuroticism and high scores for extroversion. To put it simply: you don't eat it all up, you can process worries and let go. They are also exceptionally good at building and maintaining social bonds. How far this trait is genetically present or learned, he cannot say.

He recommends that you have your high blood pressure and cholesterol level checked regularly so that you can react in good time and without medication.

Why do Women get older than Men?

Thanks to the reduced number of men who smoke, they will come closer to the age of women. Since increased smoking has been observed in women, it can be assumed that their age expectancy will be somewhat reduced. What hardly changes is that extremely old age is almost only reached by women. It is genetic. Men have the advantage that when they reach 90 years or more, they are healthy more often. Women often live on for a long time even with chronic diseases - they are more resilient.

Sounds good: women are more resilient! In a family you are usually responsible for their health and thus develop more knowledge.

Anyone who has a lot of exercise in old age and drinks enough water to do so has decisive advantages.

Anti Aging Industry

The pharmaceutical industry and also Silicon Valley companies are researching drugs that are supposed to make us grow older. Most of what is being advertised is charlatanism. Allegedly life-extending substances, snake oil and the like have been a business since ancient times.

Nothing against marketing healthy foods. But nobody makes big money with it. But, for example, with senseless hormone therapies that cost 11,000 to 20,000 dollars a year and can even have dangerous side effects. The antiaging industry seems legitimate to have very little faith.

There is also serious research that works towards extending life. The research is still very theoretical. The big problem is that any treatment has side effects. What is supposed to prolong life in theory can in practice increase the risk of cancer.

5 Tips

Getting old healthy largely depends on our lifestyle. Genetic advantages may also contribute.

The following 5 tips can be used advantageously:

1. WATER - Start drinking 2 - 2.5 liters of water (no beer or coffee !!) early enough. With this you clean the blood and supply one of your most important organs, the brain, with the necessary functionality. (BLOG)

2. EXERCISE - Create an exercise plan that will allow you to take up to 6-10,000 steps a day. Exercise nourishes muscles and improves blood circulation, and allows better stress management. Sometimes it helps if you pursue this goal together with someone. (BLOG)

3. NUTRITION - The more plant-based diets you indulge in and the fewer animal products like meat and dairy products, the more beneficial it will affect your body and mind. (BLOG)

4. GOOD THOUGHTS - We know from research that positive thoughts can have a corresponding impact on the whole body. Find joyful literature, pleasant people and positive experiences! (BLOG)

5. DEALING WITH STRESS - As soon as you identify a stressor, remind yourself: I don't want any unnecessary stress! Push it away, replace it with good thoughts, and shelve it. This takes some practice. But if you do all the other points, then this last point will also be within reach. (BLOG)

Ref: Tagblatt (Swiss Newspaper)

* Thomas Perls
Age researcher Thomas Perls, born in 1960, is a professor of medicine at Boston University in the United States of America and a doctor at Boston Medical Center. He studied at the renowned Harvard University, among others. His specialty is age research. Perls founded the “New England Centenarian Study”, a project that he still leads today and that researches people around the world who are 100 years or older. He is one of the most prominent critics of hormone therapies, which should extend the life span. He considers most anti-aging products to be bawdy and useless. Perls is the initiator of the “Living to 100” web calculator, on which you can use dozen of questions to calculate how high your life expectancy is. Link to the calculator.

NEWSTART Plus® - the Best Remedy - 1

*"There are thousands of diseases, but there's only one health!" Since that is true, wouldn’t it make perfect sense to invest in your health? Spending time out in nature is a great way for families to regenerate, both physically and emotionally. Very healthy!

NEWSTART Plus®

These 12 components are unbeatable. They are the keys that can even heal diseases that have not yet been diagnosed. If you integrate these 12 tips into your lifestyle, they will help you to enjoy all-round better health. What a deal!

Our health, happiness and wellbeing are not a product of chance, and are much less a product of our genetics than we might think. They are, rather, the result of various controllable factors and principles. The good news here is: You can actually influence your own health significantly!

It is extremely interesting that a certain branch of biology called epigenetics, which studies the mutations in gene function, has discovered that lifestyle, healthy or unhealthy, has an influence on the genes of an individual which is felt into the third and fourth generations.

NEWSTART Plus® is a modern, internationally known, scientifically proven, holistically based health concept. NEWSTART Plus® is an acronym, in which each of the 12 letters stands for a principle that has a decisive influence on our health, happiness and quality of life.

The most powerful results are achieved when all 12 principles are implemented together.

All the elements together give NEWSTART Plus® its holistic balance. It is an invitation for each of us to make a new start and discover a more positive life. You won’t want to miss it!

NEWSTART Plus® is a patented trademark.

Nutrition is a very important but also controversial subject.  What we eat influences each of our approximately 70 trillion cells, every day. That means our food has a strong influence, in either direction, for health or for sickness.

Food – healthy and yummy

Most people do it three times a day: eating is one of the nicest things in life.

We know a balanced diet is important. You are what you eat. We need a regular supply of energy, building materials, nutrients, vitamins, trace minerals, fiber and phytochemicals.

Today we also know that people who regularly eat a lot of fruits, vegetables, whole grains and nuts in moderation are healthier than those who don’t. They have less cancer, cardiovascular disease and metabolic disorders. Other advantages include better mental health, lower risk for developing depression, increased vitality and a higher quality of life. Achtrung: Attention: Too much of a good thing is really too much. You can get too much protein and too many vitamins if you take them artificially, but if you eat them in their natural forms as plant-based foods such as beans and potatoes, no problem.

It is a joy to watch our lifestyle guests at Sonnmatt Lifestyle Center go through12 days of practicing NEWSTART Plus®. The food is so delicious that they invariably think they must have gained weight. However, in spite of their fears, besides feeling much healthier and happier than when they arrived, as well as having lower blood sugar, lower cholesterol and blood pressure levels, they almost always LOSE weight! Isn’t that fascinating?

Exercise has a holistic impact on body, soul and spirit. The positive effects of exercise are always an amazing surprise for our lifestyle guests at Sonnmatt.

Life is Motion

Where there’s life, there’s motion. How active are you? There is hardly another factor that is as conducive to health as physical exercise. It tones the muscles, gets the circulation moving, is good for the brain, helps the metabolism, strengthens the immune system, raises self-confidence, facilitates social relationships and even improves self-discipline and appearance.

Exercise is an antidote for heart disease, diabetes, breast and colon cancer, constipation, osteoporosis, dementia, psychological disturbances and many other afflictions.

It’s good to remember that regularity is more important than intensity. Exercise invigorates the body and cheers the soul.

There is a great difference between people who grow up in the flatlands and those who grow up in the mountains: Mountain people are used to walking up and down mountain slopes. That’s normal for them. Hiking in the mountains is a joy for them, but the same hike can be torture for city folks. Exercising going up and down inclines is more challenging, but very good for your health! Take a lesson from mountain dwellers.

Link zu vertiefter Information :  LLG-Bewegung

Water is a fascinating elixir that can be used in many ways. Those who drink 2-3 liters of water a day to the point of urine running clear at least once a day may experience better results in school or on the job.

Water Heals

Water is basic for all life. We are made mostly of water. Every cell in our bodies needs water in order to function properly. A deficiency can result in headaches, fatigue and a loss of the ability to concentrate.

Drinking enough water can protect us from heart attack and stroke; it also improves metabolism as well as lung, kidney and digestive function and even beautifies the skin.

The external use of water is a cheap and simple natural remedy. Hot and cold baths or showers, fomentations or ice massage, correctly applied, can relieve pain, inhibit inflammation and accelerate the healing process. Contrast (or even just cold!) showers are a good immune booster and stress reducer.

I always tell my students, “if you drink two liters of water every day instead of Coke, you can raise your GPA by half a grade." Our brains consist of 80-85% water and depend on us to provide a fresh supply of water regularly!

5 Basic Needs of the Cell

Our more than 70 trillion cells get everything they need for survival through our circulatory system via blood. Blood is life, and perfect health requires perfect circulation. High quality blood (and good circulation) produces health; poor quality blood (or bad circulation) opens the door for sickness. The following five points are of vital importance:

1. OXYGEN – Without oxygen, we would die in a matter of minutes. The metabolic processes in the cells function through a kind of “internal breathing”. This is where the energy is produced that the body needs. All life is dependent on a permanent source of energy: the maintenance of cell structures, all the biological processes, reproduction, everything.

2. WATER – A regular supply of water is necessary for the maintenance of almost all life and every metabolic process. About 70% of the fat free body mass of men and women is water. That makes it the main ingredient in our organism. It is the ideal solvent and means of transport. A dynamic balance between water absorption and excretion must be maintained.

3. NUTRIENTS – Carbohydrates, fat, protein, vitamins and minerals are the basic building blocks of our nutrition. Without these, nothing would work in our bodies. They are responsible to get the necessary energy to the cells so they can do their jobs. That’s why it’s important to give our bodies a balanced assortment of all the necessary raw materials.

4. WASTE ELIMINATION – Living cells produce an abundance of waste daily. Some of the proteins that are made in the production line of the cellular protein factory have to be disposed of immediately, either because they are imperfect or because they have already fulfilled their mission in the regulation of metabolic processes and would only be in the way. Constant quality control is the name of the game. There would soon be a mountain of trash clogging the system if there were no sophisticated system for elimination.

5. FREEDOM from TOXINS - Free radicals are often the toxic initiators of many health issues. They enter the body in the form of polluted air, fluids and junk food. They attack our cells and render them dysfunctional. The more cells of an organ that become damaged, the worse the organ will function. When an organ begins to malfunction, symptoms of disease begin to be manifested. The cell damage caused by free radicals can also lead to mutations in the cells. Cancer is produced in this way. Antioxidants (found in whole plant foods) can protect the cells from free radicals. (More on that in NATURE’S POWERHOUSE)

Every cell is a miracle, highly complex in function. It has been compared to the complexity of New York City at rush hour. Only the cell works better than NYC – if it is taken care of. That’s where NEWSTART Plus® comes in.

If you’re interested in having this or other subjects presented in your area, don’t hesitate to contact me at >  ernst.zwiker@yahoo.com.

Practice makes perfect. Start ‘em young! Jenny and her three children are enjoying a little hydrotherapy outside. This is a tepid bath. Contrast baths are an amazing remedy for many ailments. They boost immune response, improve circulation and thereby help supply the cells with their basic needs.  

So, now we’ve had a brief look at the first three components of NEWSTART Plus, <NEW> . You wouldn’t believe the amount of power for healing there is in this simple, transparent system. Sometimes it seems almost impossible when we see modern day miracles happen right before our eyes at Sonnmatt by using this simple, pill-free strategy.

PART TWO <START> will soon follow, and the psychosocial components will be presented afterwards in PART THREE <PLUS>. I hope you’ll join us there too!

Tip:  Choose ONE of these three points to work on for the improvement of your health.

* Quote by Karl Ludwig Boerne