Celebrate National Optimal Health Day

Can you train your brain to improve your overall health? This doctor says yes

From the LifeMinute Team

September 17, 2015

Ninety percent of cardiovascular disease is a lifestyle choice, according to Dr. Wayne Scott Andersen, Co-Founder and Medical Director of Take Shape For Life. According to him every aspect of your health and life--how you move, how you sleep, how you handle stress--can be improved upon by changing your everyday habits.

You can take charge of those habits by making very small changes in your daily routine over time. Enter National Optimal Health Day. "Learn how your brain focuses, how the neuroplasticity allows your brain to be malleable, you'll start practicing these habits, you'll start moving forward to install these habits to create a healthy life," says the critical care physician, who has been practicing for over twenty years.

This means starting incrementally, and staying consistent. "Today I'd love you to start adding one new habit of health. I'm thinking pushups. If you do one push up a day for the next few days you'll start getting into the routine. If you don't get it done during the day make sure you do it before you go to sleep at night. Over time, over the next two to three weeks you'll look at your calendar and x if off and say, 'wow, I've done this every single day.' Because the anticipation of doing it is what derails us and makes us procrastinate so we don't get started. But everyone can do one push up," he says.

To give yourself a jumpstart for National Optimal Health Day, Anderson suggests visiting TakeShapeForLife.com to find a coach to help you. "These are people who have struggled with their own health in their own lives and are moving forward adding assistance those who want to create health in their lives," he says.

Go to takeshapeforlife.com to ask about the well-being evaluation, working with a coach and other tools and strategies for making a difference in your health and the health of your loved ones.

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