17/08/2026
🇬🇧🇺🇸🇨🇦🇮🇪🇦🇺🇳🇿🇿🇦 A good article on how to promote good mental health.
Not everything is covered in the article, but it touches on a number of important areas:
* Go for a walk outdoors in the morning and spend
as much time as possible in the sun; you can also
sit indoors by a sunny window, as blue light
stimulates the sleep hormone melatonin. Do not
wear sunglasses. Our advice for further
improvement: go for a walk in the woods and vary
your pace from tiny, tiny steps to big, firm strides;
this provides natural stimulation for your senses
of smell, sight and hearing, allows you to benefit
from the Earth’s beneficial electromagnetic
radiation, and the physical movement ensures
your joints are exercised at every conceivable
angle.
* Meditation. Studies show that regions of the
frontal lobe which control working memory,
executive control and attention had greater
volume in those who meditate. Although ageing
normally causes this area to shrink, the average
volume in meditating participants aged 40–50
was comparable to that of a 25-year-old.
* Self-compassion – quite simply, the importance of
being kind to yourself and content with who you
are.
* No screens at bedtime and no mobile phones by
the bed. Our additions: aeroplane mode, and
keeping the frequency-charged stainless steel
straw (from Frequense) under your pillow, which
protects against most mobile phone radiation.
* Find purpose and meaning in life; apply the
Japanese concept of ikigai: ‘the experience that
life is meaningful’ (related to the research concept
of KASAM, sense of coherence – our note).
* Don’t become a health fascist.
* Learn the difference between relative and
absolute risk. For example, if a particular food
increases the risk of cancer from 0.1 to 0.2 per
cent, that is a 100 per cent increase – but the
absolute risk is still very small.
What we’re missing:
* Nutrition: cook meals from scratch, preferably
using organic produce and ideally from
regenerative agriculture; avoid ultra-processed
foods; drink alcohol in moderation; and avoid
to***co, ni****ne and other drugs.
* Supplements: in principle, everyone needs
supplements of omega-3 fatty acids and vitamin
D. Make sure you buy a product that is actually
absorbed by the cells.
* Sleep: it is extremely important to ensure you get
6–9 hours of uninterrupted sleep every night,
starting around 10 pm.
* Strength training: from the age of 40, the body
needs strength training several times a week,
whether at the gym, through powerfit in the gym,
power yoga, etc. With regular strength training, no
80-year-old needs to lose their posture or suffer
from osteoporosis.
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