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    Your Journey to Aging Well: Drink. Move. Eat. Sleep. Connect.
    Your Journey to Aging Well: Drink. Move. Eat. Sleep. Connect.
    Your Journey to Aging Well: Drink. Move. Eat. Sleep. Connect.
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    Your Journey to Aging Well: Drink. Move. Eat. Sleep. Connect.

    By Sally Handlon

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    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention predicts that the leading cause for death in 2030 will be cancer, followed by hepatitis and Alzheimer's disease. But in seven years, you'll have a whole new body. How can you make it a good one?
    In Your Journey to Aging Well, you'll learn the four major components of good health: water, exercise

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHandlon Business Resources dba Body Construct
    Release dateMay 8, 2020
    ISBN9781950459995
    Your Journey to Aging Well: Drink. Move. Eat. Sleep. Connect.

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      Your Journey to Aging Well - Sally Handlon

      © 2020 by Sally Handlon

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any other information storage and retrieval system, without the written permission of the publisher.

      This book is intended as a reference volume only, not as a medical manual. The information given here is designed to help you make informed decisions about your health. It is not intended as a substitute for any treatment that may have been prescribed by your doctor. If you suspect that you have a medical problem, we urge you to seek competent medical help.

      Internet addresses given in this book were accurate at the time it went to press.

      Printed in the United States of America

      Published in Hellertown, PA

      Edited by Jennifer Bright

      Proofread by Skye Cruz

      Cover and interior design by Christina Gaugler

      Art by Robert L. Huetter

      Library of Congress Control Number 2020901851

      ISBN 978-1-7323016-0-3

      ISBN 978-1-9504599-9-5 (ebook)

      2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1 paperback

      I couldn’t have navigated the path to writing this book without the help of several special people. I would like to dedicate this book to them.

      My mother, Dorothy Abbott Manson, who until her final days was an amazing lady

      Justin Kelley, DC, chiropractor, who introduced me to alternative medicine

      David Winston, RH (AHG), world renowned herbalist, whom I had the great fortune to study with

      Joshua Rosenthal, founder and past director of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, whose work helped me to understand the missing pieces to my learning

      CONTENTS

      A Note from the Author

      Introduction

      CHAPTER 1: Body Systems

      CHAPTER 2: Drink

      CHAPTER 3: Move

      CHAPTER 4: Eat

      CHAPTER 5: Sleep

      Conclusion

      References

      Checklists

      About the Author

      About the Artist

      A NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR

      THIS BOOK IS A CULMINATION of more than 35 years of interest in health, environment, and wellness. Although I majored in physical education, then parks and recreation in college, I was young and didn’t see these majors as a way to address wellness, nor did I really give thought to wellness. The real journey began with my subscription to Prevention magazine when I was in my early thirties. I continued to learn more about the body’s capabilities through my work with a special alternative practitioner, Justin Kelley, DC.

      This led to an interest in herbs as medicine and an introduction to herbalist David Winston, RH (AHG). Although I took three years of study with David’s courses, I knew that I would always be a student herbalist. I realized that unless I devoted myself full time to this learning, I would remain a resource for family and friends only and never hang out a shingle.

      Still, my journey wasn’t over. It took me eight years to find the missing factor. It was discovering the connection between wellness, herbs, and nutrition that helped to forge my new path. My intent has always been to find a way to share the knowledge that I obtained, starting with the herbal training. While I was researching and writing this book, I realized that the seed for this book was planted many years ago, during my first year of herbal training. What a great find that was!

      INTRODUCTION

      Listen to me and not to them.

      —Gertrude Stein

      OUR EARS WOULD FILL WITH ADVICE, if we listened to it. Advertisers, evangelists, publishers, educators, all clamoring to market their products, try to get us to conform to their notions of what we should be.

      One of the dangers of a democratic society is confusing the individual and the mass—using statistical data to define persons instead of trends. Trendiness is a way of avoiding individuality. To choose for ourselves means taking responsibility for our choices, saying, I do this because I want to.

      Each of us has an interior voice that knows what we want. We know—even if the knowledge sometimes causes us pain—that we’re unique individuals, with goals, programs, and behaviors distinct from others. Acknowledgment and enjoyment of our full humanity means owning our differences and listening to our own voices.

      I am the expert on my own life. Today and every day, let me be wise enough to consult myself.¹

      Our bodies learn to adapt to our habits—whether those habits are good or bad. Unlike a car, where if you put in the wrong gas, it can immediately stop the function, the impact of bad health choices might not be felt for years.

      However, there can be immediate consequences to bad habits. These include decreased energy, increased weight, and more frequent illnesses. Overtime, long-term bad health habits can lead to continuous inflammation, which may result in autoimmune type diseases.

      What’s amazing is that our bodies are fine-tuned machines designed to run efficiently and to heal themselves, given the proper nourishment—both food and lifestyle choices. When our choices are less than appropriate, we begin to erode our health and build inflammation.

      If we take the time and desire to correct the fuel, most damage can be reversed. Two main contributors to this damage are eating food without the proper nutritional needs (eating chemicals instead of nutrients) and making lifestyle choices that increase daily stress—and sometimes lead to chronic stress.

      First let’s talk about the importance of making the most healthful food choices. If you can’t pronounce the ingredients in a food, chances are that the body can’t process them either. If your body can’t process an ingredient, it’s either excreted or stored in fat. David Winston, RH (AHG), herbalist and founder of the Center for Herbal Studies, is the person who made this statement really resonate with me: Just because something is natural, it doesn’t mean it is safe.

      Second, consider the importance of making the most healthful lifestyle choices. Damage due to environmental toxins (especially an accumulation of pollutants), poor sleep, chronic stress, hyperglycemia, oxidative stress, copper toxicity (especially the brain mitochondria), heavy metals (such as nickel), and other factors lead to a loss of function.²

      Everyone’s needs are individual. They are based on your ancestry, family traditions, and body systems. No two people are exactly alike—not even identical twins. As Joshua Rosenthal, founder of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition often said, One person’s food can be another person’s poison. He defined this as bio individuality. That’s why the choice of the foods that you eat and the lifestyle habits you choose (such as physical activity, relationships, spirituality, and career) should be unique to you. You may get guidance from other people or books; however, your implementation should be based on what works best for your body.

      Today, Western medicine—through vaccines and

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