It’s challenging to keep up with evolving information on a day-to-day basis, perhaps even more so during a pandemic. The goal of this blog is to provide you with some useful information and links to support your health. We all know how vital exercise is to our well-being. There is more evidence supporting nutrition, nutraceuticals, and botanicals for immune support. Mind-Body Medicine is starting to take center stage, a place it rightly deserves.
Exercise
Informative handouts related to exercise intensity, high intensity interval training, and resistance exercise are attached below. Current guidelines for exercise are 150-300 minutes a week for adults along with resistance training 2-3 times per week. Children should get at least 60 minutes of activity daily, preferably outside. This was reviewed in a recent blog post.
Immune Support
Great updates this week about immune support. A recently published paper gives us great supporting evidence for the use of nutritional and botanical supplements. The article on the IFM website is here.
Resiliency/Mind-body Medicine
One of the most important aspects of our health is our resiliency. This is our ability to adapt and recover from insults. These “insults” can be infections, mental and emotional stress, environmental stress (chemicals, air/water pollution, etc), movement and activity related stress, and poor sleep to name a few examples. We all deal with stressors in different ways and some better than others. Our current state of health is our baseline, the more we can improve this through diet and lifestyle factor the more range we have before hitting our threshold of illness and “dis-ease”. I’d like to share a link to wonderful resource from The Center for Mind Body Medicine. Here you will find free resources related to Mind-Body Medicine.
Virus Update
Updated information about antibody testing for Coronavirus can be found on this document created by the Alaska Department of Health and Human Services. Given the low prevalence of disease currently in our state, these tests are not likely to be very helpful and potentially the source of inaccurate results.
I’d like to leave you with an informative article about the history of pandemics: “Visualizing the History of Pandemics“.
Please reach out to nowhealthpalmer@gmail.com, if you have questions or comments.
In health, Dr Jill
