If you want to enjoy the health benefits of optimized physical health, start making proactive changes today.
1. Embrace the healthiest diet for you.
Every body is different, but most bodies don’t respond well to fad diets and weight loss supplements that sound too good to be true (as they likely are!).
Identify gaps in your nutrition and develop a healthy eating routine that makes sense for you and your lifestyle.
2. Give yourself a gut check.
Digestive health is a critical component of optimal physical health. Everyone should have at least one easy, solid bowel movement each morning. If that’s not the case, your gut likely needs help.
Gut conditions like irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), your sleep hours, and even your self-esteem can affect your gut function.
Follow your gut and take steps to improve your microbiome.
3. Boost your mood.
Your mental health isn’t separate from your physical well-being.
Embrace healthy habits that curb anxiety and depressive symptoms. This could include regular physical activity, sunshine with a walk around Sloan’s Lake, breathwork or meditation, better sleep, adequate hydration, and more. It’s all connected.
4. Combat chronic stress.
Chronic stress can increase inflammation in the body. Your body is not meant to handle long-term stress. While we cannot eliminate all stress, we can undoubtedly change the way we perceive stress and pinpoint major stress factors.
Managing stress is just as important as a healthy diet for optimal health.
5. Balance your hormones.
A hormonal imbalance can keep you from maintaining a healthy weight, mess with your gut, and even lead to high blood pressure. It can also hamper your social health.
An intelligent approach to optimized health considers how conditions like hypothyroidism (thyroid hormones), chronic stress (cortisol), and overall adrenal function affect wellness.
6. Ask for help.
Don’t be ashamed to ask for help. PrimeHealth’s functional health clinic in Denver can determine what’s standing in your way.
Let’s say you’ve loaded your diet with healthy fats, reduced snacking, and bumped up the cardio with a regular exercise routine. Maybe you’ve even started a regimen of vitamin D and other supplements.
But you’re still not feeling your best.
Lifestyle choices are a big piece of that puzzle, but our strategy is evidence-based and holistic. We look at your whole-body health.
