The big H
Just seen a program about health, and what all those guilty pleasures do to ones biological age.
This dude at 25 had the liver of a 35 yr old, the lungs of a 41 yr old, and a brain functioning as good as an 65 yr old. wow.
He was shocked I tell you. Even though he smoked 300 cigarettes a week and drank alcohol almost every day and never exercised.
He turned it around as well. cut down the cigarettes to under a third in just 2 weeks, drank less and less often, and started exercising almost every day.
The improvement in just one week was tremendeous.
I started thinking about my own health, which is the goal for these kind of shows, and found out that the reason I may be sick right now, might not be because I didnt dress warmly enough or took my vitamins... hmmm. go figure. :)
So, the answer must be to stop smoking totally . I dont smoke often at all anymore, but the program showed that the nicotine level and the lungs doesnt heal completely if there isnt a full stop of smoking, and one should also keep the non-smoking thing up for 10 yrs before it would have healed to its fullest. Result: Im throwing my cigarettes away. no more party smoking. I really want to keep this up.
secondly, the drinking. luckily I dont have lots of money as a student, and the weekends could be more constructive. theres always work, homework, and other more positive things to do in leisure. Result: start drinking less, and not every weekend.
the hardest thing right now is work out.. this is why I dont like snow. Its hard to jog in, the temperature freezes my lungs, one is either packed with clothes and too warm, or dressed for a work out and freezing in the warming up..
on the show though, they played badminton, which they said was a high intensity work out. I may be willing to give that a try. :)
but the best way to get myself to do some serious lasting work out is with a work out buddy :)
I need one, so sign up if you are in..
btw. this wasnt a social post.. hehe. I just wanted to clear my thoughts, put them down on paper so I could read them when my will is down.
cheers
This dude at 25 had the liver of a 35 yr old, the lungs of a 41 yr old, and a brain functioning as good as an 65 yr old. wow.
He was shocked I tell you. Even though he smoked 300 cigarettes a week and drank alcohol almost every day and never exercised.
He turned it around as well. cut down the cigarettes to under a third in just 2 weeks, drank less and less often, and started exercising almost every day.
The improvement in just one week was tremendeous.
I started thinking about my own health, which is the goal for these kind of shows, and found out that the reason I may be sick right now, might not be because I didnt dress warmly enough or took my vitamins... hmmm. go figure. :)
So, the answer must be to stop smoking totally . I dont smoke often at all anymore, but the program showed that the nicotine level and the lungs doesnt heal completely if there isnt a full stop of smoking, and one should also keep the non-smoking thing up for 10 yrs before it would have healed to its fullest. Result: Im throwing my cigarettes away. no more party smoking. I really want to keep this up.
secondly, the drinking. luckily I dont have lots of money as a student, and the weekends could be more constructive. theres always work, homework, and other more positive things to do in leisure. Result: start drinking less, and not every weekend.
the hardest thing right now is work out.. this is why I dont like snow. Its hard to jog in, the temperature freezes my lungs, one is either packed with clothes and too warm, or dressed for a work out and freezing in the warming up..
on the show though, they played badminton, which they said was a high intensity work out. I may be willing to give that a try. :)
but the best way to get myself to do some serious lasting work out is with a work out buddy :)
I need one, so sign up if you are in..
btw. this wasnt a social post.. hehe. I just wanted to clear my thoughts, put them down on paper so I could read them when my will is down.
cheers