These habits have been through a whole bunch of books that I've read and articles that I've read, and even studies that I've looked at reports from. And these are habits of people who do live a very long life and are also quite healthy. So we're going to take a look at them and see if you can break them down and implement them into your own life so that you can be healthier and hopefully live longer.
Having number one is that these people move around for at least 30 minutes a day. Physical activity has all kinds of benefits, from psychological to physiological, to all kinds of even your friendships, the quality of your friendships can increase just by moving around for 30 minutes a day, because it increases the healthiness of the neurons in the brain. Now, I would suggest this 30 minutes of movement is a bare minimum. And if that bare minimum is a struggle, make it something that you enjoy doing, like playing a sport.
If you like lifting, then go and lift. If you like running, then go and run. If you like running, do not go and lift. If that's not what's going to motivate you to move around for 30 minutes a day. habit number two is that they have a favorite sport. Now personally, I'm not much of a sports guy. But I do enjoy playing basketball with some friends. And I think this helps a lot and moving around for 30 minutes a day. In fact, when I go out and play basketball with my friends, I don't even realize 30 minutes has passed, it's usually an hour or two hours, and then the gyms closing and it's like, wow, I did not realize I spent that much physical activity, enjoying the time with my friends having number three is that they educate themselves about the food that they put in their body. Now, this is something that a lot of people struggle with, because there's a lot of myths and bad information on the internet.
But what you can do is sort through it. So just read as much as you can, and you'll kind of start to understand, alright, this is a myth. I don't need to believe this. This is a bad article, this website gives out horrible information. It's just something that you do over time, you just have to continually educate yourself about the food about macro-nutrients about calories, even technical stuff, like how to build muscle and how to lose weight, that stuff super important and being healthy. habit number four is that they have a meal plan. Now this isn't something that I've really implemented in my life, but I do kind of have a schedule. And what it is, is I have certain meals that I go through my day and I know these are healthy enough, they don't have any major carcinogens. And if I eat them at throughout this time of the day, then I generally feel great afterwards. So having a meal plan or at least a meal schedule is something that a lot of healthy people have in their life. habit number five is sex. Now I know a lot of people might actually get offended about this. But loving intimate sex is what this means not a fling or a weekend thing. It's just that loving intimate sex produces way more total beneficial hormones in your brain, then a weakened fling does. And if you do, we can flings one night stands every week, you can actually start to form an addiction and the dopamine quality in our brain will start to reduce and that can actually become a negative habit that you'll have to get rid of later on. So try to form loving, intimate relationships. And within those intimate relationships, I have found that people that are super healthy and live a long time have sex quite often.
Anyways, on to the next habit habit six to drink at least two liters of water a day. Now I have carried around a two liter bottle of water one day. For some people, it's going to be a ton of water, especially if you're used to drinking pop or soda throughout the day when I was little I drink a lot of tea. So switching from tea to water was quite a challenge.
But now for the past like six months, I have not drinking anything other than specifically water or milk.
And I have noticed that one I pee an awful lot.
And to my mood is way better when I wake up like when I if I go to bed right before I go to bed I chug usually like eight ounces of room temperature water.
And what happens is for some reason that helps me get to sleep better. And when I wake up, boom, I'm ready to go usually because I have to pee really bad, but it wakes me up. It's like almost like a cold shower. So drinking tons of water is something that a lot of healthy people do. habit number eight is that they are outside a lot. Now I got all kinds of numbers on this from two hours to eight hours of sunlight. But I do know sunlight can cause skin cancer. If you do not protect yourself from it well enough, but your body will start to produce more nutrients from the sunlight, like vitamin D, I think is one of the main ones and people can actually start to get depressed if the natural sunlight is taken away from them. It's called sad or seasonal affective disorder. So there are proven benefits of having sunlight having number eight is that they get at least seven hours of quality sleep. Now there are all kinds of tips that I could name here to help you have quality sleep and that's what's important because you can have sleep but if the lights on and there's a weird noise in the background, you're not going to have quality sleep, try to keep the light off. Don't have any caffeine for less than six hours before you go to sleep. Turn down most of the light even on your phone. There should be like a brightness thing that you can turn down. I don't recommend working out or eating an hour before you go to bed. there's just tons of tips.
