Teaching you how to achieve superior health, leanness and performance.
February 2nd, 2012 Milan
We all know somebody who did everything right taking care of his health. He ate a good diet, exercised regularly and stayed away from toxic materials. His weight is perfect, he looks good, he seems to have a lot of energy, he is happy and feels really good. But he was recently diagnosed with cancer, or heart disease, or Alzheimer’s disease or Parkinson’s disease, or pre diabetes, or diabetes or other kind of scary life threatening disease.
I myself have few very young friends that are looking very healthy, they seem to be doing everything right but they are dying of terminal disease. What is going on? Why these people? While some genetics certainly play some role, I thing the common sense general health recommendation is flawed. Yes, your doctor will tell you to eat healthy diet, exercise for 30 minutes on most days, stay away from the sun, don’t smoke and don’t drink too much alcohol. And your doctor is right for the most part. All this advice is good. And you will probably stay healthy for life following it.
Average health advice is still dangerous to your health
The problem with this advice is, that it is average. And average is just average. The averagely healthy people will be still getting very sick. Yes, they will. And you already know some of them. And it scares us wildly.
I am not exception, I still consider my lifestyle pretty health average like lifestyles of other averagely healthy people. I do average stuff, other average healthy people do. I ate pancakes the other day. I made them myself and used much healthier ingredients, like more eggs and less flour. And I didn’t put any over sweetened crap like strawberry jam on it, but just a little bit of honey. But, this is exactly what average healthy people do. And most probably, they will stay healthy for life if they are lucky enough, including me. So, if my doctor tells me, to get my stuff in order because I am going to die in 3 years, I will know why. Those dam pancakes!
But, beside those pancakes I had 2 days ago, I am getting very close to that invincible like lifestyle. And I strongly believe, that closer you get to that kind of becoming invincible lifestyle, your chances of becoming seriously ill decrease even more.
I don’t think that average in your health is a good state to be. It’s ok to be an average skier or swimmer or to have average IQ, or be an average chess player. But in your own health, average is very, very bad place to be. Your health is the single most valuable think you have and doing everything you can to improve it is everybody’s duty number one. If it’s not, well than you are playing a Russian roulette with miss Death, where the odds are slightly on your side.
Take your doctors advice seriously, but don’t stop there
I believe, that if you take advice from your doctor seriously and then dig even deeper and bring your health protecting lifestyle to the perfection and I am going to show you how, you will become invincible.
What does it mean invincible?
It means, that you will never get cancer, heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimer’s disease, age causing dementia and you will live long and healthy life. So unless you drive your car as fast as my wife does, and climbing Mount Everest is not on your to do list, you will be certainly healthy. And I am writing this with the risk, that people who already are sick will hate me for claiming that they didn’t do something right in their health preservation. And it is true. They didn’t. And I don’t do everything right either. But that’s not the reason to get mad. We are all in fact human beings that make mistakes. Including me and you.
While I believe strongly that this is highly achievable, at the same time I am skeptical that many people will fallow this advice 100% right. I am not exception. While I don’t smoke anymore, I still fall of track occasionally. It is very challenging to do it 100 % right. But if you know how this becoming invincible lifestyle should look like, you will at least be getting closer and closer to your 100% and slowly becoming more and more invincible. Information is power, even if it feels uncomfortable.
Yes, yogurt can be bad for your health
Just couple of examples. Do you buy yogurt your doctor recommended to you as a healthy food? Your doctor will probably tell you, that fat free yogurt is healthy. And you go to the store, get your vanilla flavored yoplait yogurt that is 100% fat free but has 25 grams of sugar in it. Yes in some way it is healthy, it contains protein and calcium, but that sugar makes it average healthy food. And already right there, you put strain to your immunity system by pouring 25 grams of plain refined sugar into your body. Part of becoming invincible means not eating generally considered heathy foods that are average for your health.
Another example is about sun exposure. Average doctor advice is, that you really need to protect your skin with a lot of sunscreen with highly protective factor SPF like 50 or 100 and to spend some little time on the sun everyday. This information is also average and can be damaging. It is not completely wrong, yes you need to protect yourself from sun exposure, but you also need som unprotected smart sun exposure. Plus, your doctor will not tell you that that sunscreen with high protective SPF factor can be very toxic for your skin. And it’s more likely to cause skin cancer than sun does.
How about general advice about 30 minutes of vigorous exercise everyday to stay healthy that includes gardening, house cleaning and fast walking. Is that rally enough? Not, it is not. Not even close. Does that really mean, that as long as you are moving for 30 minutes everyday, you can sit and relax for the rest of the day? If that is what that means, and you do it that way, than you are in big trouble. You are not moving enough. And, you are not moving the right way either.
Healthy vs invincible
The question is: do you want your health to be average or exceptional? Do you want to be healthy or invincible? What would you do, if you knew, that you can become so healthy that you become invincible to any disease. And you can. There is a way to improve your average health to make it exceptional, so you become invincible. It takes a lot of work and som extra knowledge, but what else is more important to you? I will answer that question for you right now: absolutely nothing. Unless………..don’t even get me started.
Although it is very challenging to do everything right on the road to becoming invincible, and only a very small percentage of people will actually apply what they will learn here. And I am getting very close to that level.
The other day, when I went shopping and was passing the register I realized that I managed to turn my lifestyle completely around. While I still listen a metal music very loud in my car and it is certainly bad for my ears, and occasionally get some second hand smoke exposure from some of my bodies smoking not really what you would consider to be a cigarette after surfing, my diet completely changed.
My grocery cart consistent of 4 pounds of apples, 3 pounds of pears, bag of turnip leafs, kale and mustard greens, 5 jars of peanut butter, cottage cheese, raw almonds, walnuts, eggs, tofu, 5 cans of sardines, some canned herring, basked of blackberries and raspberries. No candy bar, no beer, no chips, no sandwich, no chocolate. It really amazes me, how my diet radically changed.
13 steps program for becoming invincible
I developed the 13 steps program you can apply to your daily life, that will make you jump from healthy to invincible. This is highly challenging way to live and quite frankly, only small percentage of people will get even close to following it 100% right. Are you one of them? Are you ready for the biggest challenge in your life? Will you be able to follow it, teach it to you closest ones and become invincible. If yes, get ready for the challenge that will change your life forever. It really is wort it. Your health is at stake. Become invincible!
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January 19th, 2012 Milan
You can be the richest person in the world, who made the smartest money investment decisions, but all that riches will be worthless to you if your doctor tells you that you have 6 months left to live, because of the terminal disease.
We chase wealth, money, materialistic stuff, big houses, luxury cars, exotic vacations. And we are willing to work very hard to get these stuff. And if we don’t get them, we become unhappy and depressed.
We often think, that our health is given to us. We thing that being healthy comes naturally and automatically in our life’s. So we often choose to ignore it. Until we loose it. And than, and only than, we realize, that everything else becomes worthless to us if we can’t get our health back.
The smiling fit trash picker, that constantly moves to haul garbage bins from up and down the streets in the morning in your neighborhood is investing smarter than rich overweight executive watching stock charts, sitting on his but all day and making profitable transactions.
Often times he doesn’t know it, but he is investing in his health. He comes home exhausted from all that physical work, he sleeps well and probably eats well too, because he knows he will have to work very hard the next day again.
His blood pressure is fine and he is most likely going to live long and healthy life. Even if his bank account is not growing at all, he is investing way smarter and better than the sophisticated investment overweight, overstressed, over sugared investment genius.
Think about your health as the best investment in the world, and it really is the best investment. It will make you put things in a little better perspective. We spent too much time obsessing about things that in larger perspective don’t matter much and too little about things that matter a lot – our health.
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July 6th, 2011 Milan
I met a lady today in gym. I see her there about once in 2 months, usually when it gets nice and warm outside.
I said hallo, she said hi, she smiled and while she pedaled on the stationary bicycle, she said: I’m trying to get back at it. This was at 9:30 am. Obviously it’s a woman that is not in 9 to 5 grind of some demanding job. She lives walking distance from the gym and she doesn’t have young kids.
But, hey, she is really, really trying to get back at it. But she never keeps at it. And whatever reason she might have for never actually get the body she really wants, it’s quite simple: She likes and seeks comfort and she is lazy. She knows, she should do it, she obviously has time, but she doesn’t do it.
Once in a while, when things get too comfortable – in these case plenty of time, good mood and fantastic weather, people like that are always starting again. And they never last.
On the other side I know women who are unbelievably busy. They spend majority of their days at work form 8 AM to 7 PM, have 3 kids and starting 2 side-businesses, that are amazingly fit and consistent at their regular exercise.
There is nothing comfortable in their days and they manage to get even more uncomfortable in gyms, running trails, pools and treadmills. They show up, even if they don’t feel like it or if the weather is terrible.
So what’s the difference between those that keep getting back at it and those that keep at it? It’s laziness and comfort seeking.
While we all are inclined toward comfort seeking and laziness, the best, healthiest, fittest and smartest people find a way to overcome this primal instinct.
If you are not a person like that, try to become one, because comfort and laziness produces weak, fragile, unhealthy people.
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June 29th, 2011 Milan
What is the single best thing you can do today? The thing you get the most return on your time?
Anyone who will give you a simple answer will probably try to sell you something. But there really is one think above all.
I was really thinking hard to find something more important than doing some kind of physical activity for an hour. But, I didn’t find anything more important than that.
Doing some kind of physical activity for 1 hour and of course even shorter periods than 1 hour ones count too is the single most important thing you can do today and everyday.
It doesn’t really have to be running on treadmill for 60 min. or lifting weights, even if that would be great too. It could be gardening, bicycling, playing basketball, running outside, building a house, kayaking or remodeling your kitchen.
You might think: yes he is a fitness freak and of course he will be telling me, that the most important thing I can do in my day is to exercise for an hour.
If you think that something else is more important, than what I just said, I am sorry but you’re wrong. And you really have to change your priorities.
Many people would think, that the single most important thing you can do in your day is somehow to help somebody: aging parent or somebody in need or to donate your time for a noble cause.
But I strongly disagree.
Yes, giving your helping hand to somebody else is very important, but taking care of your own health is far, far, far more important. If you are not healthy, you can not help anybody else and if you don’t do some kind of physical activity on most of your days, you will not be healthy.
Hard physical work is primal to all of us. It’s necessary for our health and well being. Let me repeat that one more time: Hard physical work is necessary for our health and well being and without it, you will be certainly sick sooner or later.
I am not trying to scare you, I just want you to really take it seriously.
Today, right now, forget everything else for few minutes and think very hard, how, when and where are you going to get this 1 hour of some intensive physical work done. Think, plan, right now! Got it? Great.
Now, when it’s 100% sure that your hour of physical activity will be done, you can start thinking about other less important things to do for somebody else.
If you say, that you don’t have that much time in your day, than I am sorry, if you care about your health and you probably do, you’ll have to rearrange your life somehow. And you’ll have to do that fast, because you are playing with fire. And that fire is your health. And when that fire gets out of control, it could be to late. It could be to late to be able to help somebody you love.
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June 20th, 2011 Milan
To only a certain point.
There are many people out there that exercise, really exercise intensively but they are overweight and they can’t loose weight.
While it’s definitely better to be fat and physically active than fat couch potato, even skinny and inactive couch potato, there are some risks you should know about.
If you are overweight – your body mass index is over 25, even if you exercise regularly and intensively you are exposing yourself to the other kinds of weight related risks like heart disease, many kinds of cancers, dementia, sleep apnea and many, many others.
Arthritis in knee joint is 3 times higher in people who carry extra weight on themselves.
How about performance? While you can outrun sometimes the skinny guy, just imagine how much better would you do if you were 10 pounds lighter.
So, if you are overweight and very active, it’s a great idea to not get comfortable and keep trying to loose that extra fat. Most often it’s just a simple adjustment in your diet to start loosing it.
Instead of telling you: “hey, you’re fine, you work out every day,” I will tell you: “loose that extra fat you active, fat pig and get healthier, happier, faster, smarter and better looking.”
Sorry for being so rude, but aren’t those the things you are really looking for?
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December 20th, 2010 Milan
People are looking for a quick fix for their medical problems.
And many doctors are fallowing the same strategy:
Quick fix - pill = pacient happy + doctor happy.
Patient feels good, because he doesn’t have to do anything, he can still enjoy his donut here and there, maybe go for a 10 minute walk, take his pill and everything is fine.
Doctor is covered by standard Western medical protocol for certain illness by giving you a pill, and mumble something about exercise and vegetables when you are leaving his office. Everybody is happy.
Recently, you can see in some magazines, commercials for lipitor - statin drug for keeping blood cholesterol in check. The commercial says something like this:
Are you kidding yourself ? And there is a man exercising in background. And than it says: A lot of people think exercise and healthy diet are enough to lower high cholesterol. For 2 out of 3, it may not be.
This is completely misleading and damaging commercial. This kind of commercial makes people who already take poor care for themselves believe, that their only choice – “happily for many, is to take a pill to get better”. Like I said, they don’t have to do anything, which is a great option for majority of people.
It is true, that somewhere in the older age, the levels of cholesterol might be given by our genes. But, I don’t buy this. You should take a pill only if you have already eliminated all the risk factors and the simptoms don’t go away.
I know people like this, and they are very rare to find. They exercise religiously, they have perfect diet, they don’t smoke, they don’t have any stress an their blood cholesterol is still high. And of course, they need to take a pill.
But if only these kind of people took this pill for their cholesterol, Pfizer would go bankrupt.
Majority of people who take lipitor or other statin – cholesterol lowering drug recommended and prescribed by a doctor are aether overweight, smoke, eat poorly, don’t exercise or all of those.
If you are one of those people and your doctor tells you to take cholesterol lowering pill that might cause impotency and other scary side effects, before you eliminate all this risk factors naturally by exercising and good diet, than, there is something wrong with you, or your doctor.
If you could pack all the benefits of exercise and healthy diet into one pill, that would be by far the most healing and expensive pill in the world – cholesterol management included.
But so far, no pharmaceutical company was abble to develop a pill like that.
So if your doctor emphasises exercise and healthy diet very strongly before prescribing some debilitating medicine to you, you should love him for it.
He really cares and he is not willing to compromise his popularity by telling you the truth.
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November 29th, 2010 Milan
I got this the other day. A guy I know told me, that he is been fallowing my advice how to get a six pack abs exactly for two years now.
He is about 220 lb, kind of short and fallowing my advice for 2 years exactly to the detail.
What?
I know, that achieving a six-pack abs is pretty hard work. But telling me this confidently, straight to my eyes makes me run away from this guy and pray I will never hear about him.
If this guy wasn’t lying to me, than something else must be wrong.
There are some people, that actually convince themselves that they are doing everything right.
That’s why you can’t really say they are lying. They are, lets say such a strong personalities with such a high self esteem, that they convince themselves, that they do everything right.
But this could be a pretty lousy state to be in. Because if you honestly don’t look at yourself and evaluate your behaviors and actions brutally honestly, you’ll never improve.
Because I already do that and you’ll not be telling me I don’t. Who do you think you are?
I could have given him few questions, but than I realized, I wouldn’t get anywhere. Because of course he is doing already everything right.
How about you?
Can you honestly see what you are doing wrong? Can you accept, that you failed to fallow certain advice? Can you admit that, what you ate today was garbage?
Well, If you can, you are on the right track to improvement.
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