Health 101

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Intro

Health consists of 3 aspects: physical, mental, and emotional.

Assessment

How do you know if you are fully healthy? And how can you improve? Start with understanding aspects of health. Start with physical:

  1. Breathing - see simple assessment - [1]. Quality and depth. Breath 301 - think of lungs as balloon, when full it massages and aligns everything. Lungs as pump with heart as valve - see Heart Is Not the Pump.
  2. Alignment - chiropractic, alignment stretches, exercise ball, flexibility, hanging, laying on back, posture. Breathing to fill your body balloon.
  3. Muscles - strength, length, symmetry, breaks and injuries, body fat percentage
  4. Ligaments and - strength, flexibility, length, injuries. Stiffness of joints.
  5. Flexibility - range of motion, resistnace to shock
  6. Herniation - how to cure spinal disc herniation, a common feature in erect animals
  7. Activity vs relaxation - abiity to attain a rest state, lower blood pressure, lower breath rate, control heart rate. Heart as
  8. Ecto, endo, mesomorph - [2]

Healing

  1. Garbage collection - harmful chemicals, chemical imbalance, particles stored in muscle and fat, intenstinal cleaning, lymphatic system, sweting, defecation and urination
  2. Repairing muscle tissue - torn or microtorn muscles
  3. Repairing connective tissue - cartilage, ligament, tendon, collagen
  4. Repairing breath - proper breathing, allergies
  5. Fixing eyesight
  6. Repairing bone - breaks and fractures, partial and whole
  7. Repairing teeth -
  8. Repairing skin -
  9. Reparing nerve tissue - growing nerve cells, cyborgs

Tools

Different exercises to attain physical health:

  1. Breath work
  2. Flexibility exercises
  3. Strength training - weight lifting, resistance, isometrics
  4. Alignment - foam rolling [3], chiropractic, rolfing [4], posture exercises, massage
  5. Core training - see all the muscles involved - [5]
  6. Symmetry training - [6]
  7. Unilateral exercises - [7]
  8. Eccentric training - [8]
  9. Concentric training - compared to eccentric - [9]
  10. Isometric - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isometric_exercise
  11. Isokinetic machines vs isotonic - [10]
  12. Isolation vs compound exercises - [11]
  13. Plyometric - jump training - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plyometrics
  14. Mobility training - motion - [12] or Dynamix in P90X3
  15. Float tank - [13]
  16. Lymph flow - acupuncture, acupressure, masssage, kundalini yoga
  17. Sitting - Posture Chairs
  18. Compression/decompression
  19. A&P - Anatomy and Physiology is a start, sprinkle in some Kinesiology and Sports Medicine

Other

  1. Yoga
  2. Meditation
  3. Tai chi

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