03/20/2024
We all know exercise and nutrition is critical to completing and achieving your goals, but have you ever thought about how sleep and mindset play a critical role?
When you have a high quality and quantity of sleep you allow your body the chance to repair itself. Most muscle growth cell repair happens during REM sleep as the body shifts its resources to the processes. We also see a reboot of the central nervous energy and function. Which means less crashing mid day!Lastly, deep sleep (or REM sleep) provides essential support to immune system which helps preventing illness in the future.
Now when it comes to mindset this has more of an impact on our health than many will admit. Ever heard of “eustress” aka positive stress? Adopting the mindset that stress can sometimes be helpful will not only reduce its negative effects, but harnessing it properly will also increase performance in stressful situations. Choosing to move through life with growth mindset rather than fixed has proven to result in better performance, increased learning, overall higher sense of self-efficacy and ability to make healthier choices. Your mindset plays such an important role in our health and longevity, so why not use it to your advantage?
We also want to stress the importance of the big picture. Achieving our goals doesn’t come from ONLY working out really hard, ONLY eating well, ONLY improving our mindset or ONLY sleeping well. It comes from all these areas working together all at once.
Remember there is no one remedy when it comes to health and longevity. Just like our bodies, it is a system that needs all of its parts functioning together to keep us alive and well.
