Growing up, I always heard health, wealth, and happiness are the keys to life. In the pursuit of financial freedom, individuals often focus on budgeting, saving, and investing in assets. And sure, the intrinsicses of focusing on some of the golden rules of proper financial management are:

1. Live below your means; spend less then you make;
2. Increase income > decrease expenses
3. Invest AND/OR create a business
4. Repeat

Nothing related to physical money and paper wealth matters without your health. If you are filthy rich and wealthy to do as you please where money covers all your expenses, allows you to pursue your calling or passion, enjoy your most crucial asset, time, with any person(s), situation, experience, or event, but are not healthy enough to do any of the above things, what good is wealth without your health to enjoy it and be happy?

When I think of the most important things in life and defining true wealth, the list for me in this order are:

1. Health
2. Family/Friends (Relationships)
3. Freedom of time

Before people get controversial on my order, please understand that this ordering is based on me needing to be healthy enough to be able to provide, spend time, and enjoy the 2^nd and 3^rd things on this list above.

As a physical therapist who treats the older population, aged 65 and older, many of my patients tell me the old cliché “I would do anything to be healthy” and “If only I could do (xyz) like I use to.” Many of my patients suffer from severe orthopedic, neurological, and/or cardiovascular diseases that severely alter their “golden years” of life. They cannot be completely fulfilled because of the inability to spend their time with family and friends or chasing callings or passions to their full capability. Illness, sickness, and poor health prevent my patients from being able to live the older life they dreamt of having later in life.

Sure, this is not all older people in the world. And sure, it’s not that dramatic in every person’s circumstance; a lot of my patients modify their standard of living and have assistance with family, friends, and aides to accomplish what is needed. Many though definitely tell me this is not what they expected the Golden Years to be like.

Also to note, we don’t always have control of our health; there are things of health known as modifiable and non-modifiable factors. The lists are:

Non-Modifiable: Unable to change and are present at birth or affect your health later on in life without your control:

• Age
• Gender
• Race
• Family history
• Genetics
• Epigenetics
• Social determinants of health, such as education level, socioeconomic status, and exposure to environmental factors

Modifiable: Able to change through lifestyle or behavioral changes to affect your health:

• Obesity
• The microbiome
• Diet
• Cigarette smoking
• Sleep duration and sleep quality
• Inactivity and sedentary behavior

Prioritizing your health is a fundamental step towards achieving the time freedom everyone is ultimately striving for with financial freedom. Some practical ways to make this essential investment include:

Nutrition:

This is by far the most important aspect of being the healthiest individual possible for a positive financial freedom future. I will try to provide more details than the basics, but am by no means an expert in diet and nutrition. I always refer my patients to seek further advice from a better educated professional than myself (the one website I always refer patients and their family to if they have a hard time finding one themselves or get afraid to ask their primary care doctors in person is: eatright.org), but I also inform my patients about the knowledge I have gained myself over the years for the betterment of my own health through my own research, trial and error, along with some online education for continuing my education as a physical therapist. I will provide some of the other experts that I have gathered my information from throughout the post which will include books and Twitter names.

Not getting too political or scientific, but most diets around the world have gotten away from the essential parts of a healthy diet. This is much more prevalent in the American diet. An article I read years ago for my career and well-being included 3 different groups, one that was put on a simple exercise regiment, one that was put on the same simple exercise regimen with a structured healthy diet, and one ground put on just the structured healthy diet. The results were what most people would suspect; the group with the simple exercise regimen and structured healthy diet were the group that measured the best in the end. What was surprising was the group on just the structured healthy diet was not far behind making significant improvements in one’s health as compared to the group with exercise and diet. The group that just did the exercise lost the minimum amount of weight at the end of the study.

Now I don’t want to bore you with research, but what I educate my patients based off this article is that being healthy is 80-90% diet and 10-20% exercise and activity. That is not a well-supported statement without the article and other gathered information, so here it is for further reading if interested (A meta-analysis of the past 25 years of weight loss research using diet, exercise or diet plus exercise intervention – PubMed (nih.gov)). Exercise is important and exercise is what is usually pushed through mainstream media as the best way to get weigh loss and back to good health, but the focus needs to be more on the diet for better health. Obviously, like the study showed, both is ideal.

Going deeper down the rabbit hole with dieting, there is a lot of terrible advice and information out there. I have gathered all my information from multiple sources and the conclusion is the old MyChart and Food Pyramid have it all wrong. Moreover, research back from the 1960s are well supported on how the sugar industry paid scientists to put the blame on saturated fats on the rise in heart disease and other chronic diseases. You want to learn something else that is super detrimental to your health? Look up vegetable oils and how they were created, introduced into the health realm, and what it does to contributing to your risk of cancer and other chronic diseases along with the correlation of when they were introduced with the rise in chronic illnesses. There is a lot of information about this outside of the mainstream health world worth investigating for your own benefit.

Jumping off my high horse, let’s go over some other healthy solutions to help you become the healthiest human being possible to enjoy your financial freedom life.

Back to food and diet, protein and fats are super important. Carbohydrates are as well. You know, all these macronutrients are important. What makes them more important and healthier is the contents they are made of. Reading a label and understanding the ingredients in any food or drink you put into your body is where the magic happens. In simple terms, the less scientific and less amount of ingredients in your food or drinks, the healthier. If you read an ingredient like Carrageenan or Azodicarbonamide, its most likely a genetically or chemically modified thing that doesn’t belong in your body. Keep it simple; whole foods that have no ingredients are what is best for your body and health. Another appropriate way to manage your health through food is tracking your calories.

Weight loss = calories in < calories out

Essentially, quantity control. Eat less than you burn. This is a poor concept understood in the American diet where low quality food and drink is always readily available and engrained into the American culture. Habits like “more is always better” and comfort is greater than short term pain/suffering/struggle (examples include fasting) and saying to certain cravings are a few ways Americans and people in general eat too much.

Being one of the wealthiest countries in the world where most have an excess in money to spend is what also allows people to find extra time to overindulge themselves in unhealthy foods and drinks. Alas fast food and restaurant businesses exploit further unhealthy habits.

So yes, the type of calories put into your body is important; the composition of the food and drink that makes up the calories is vital to managing being healthy.

Other nutritional factors to follow include:

• Not putting in food or drinks that your body are allergic or intolerant to
• Order in which you exercise/eat/drink; do you eat/drink certain things prior to exercising or after?
• Certain food/drinks consumed prior/during/post times of the day
• Pairing of food/drinks with other food/drinks to complete proper mineral/vitamin/macronutrient contents
• Having proper checkups with medical professionals to track the proper measurements in your body to give you the information needed to adjust your diet accordingly for optimal health

All these points go above my paygrade and would be best addressed by other professionals like a nutritionist or dietitian who can create a proper diet based on your own body needs, goals for being a healthy individual, and medical background.

Some recommendations of people who I continue to learn and have learned from about diet and nutrition include: Dr. Joseph Mercola (Mercola.com – #1 Natural Health Website) and his book: Dr. Mercola’s Total Health Program, influencers from Twitter/X: Heart Surgeon Dr. Philip Ovadia (@ifixhearts), Dr. Dennis Walker (@drdenwalker), Cooking with Chris (@coookwithchris), and Tan Man (@reallytanman).

If you do follow through to learn more of the above experts mentioned, the trend you will see is most follow or have expertise in alternative or complimentary medicine or Eastern ideologies in health with conservative methods, which simply means different from modern medicine techniques like medications, surgeries, and other Western ideologies that tend to be conventional and progressive.

Now I have this conversation a lot in my field of physical therapy which tends to be labeled as a complimentary medicine, and just like everything in life, there are pros and cons to everything. The conversation I usually talk to patients about is how there is a definite need for modern medicine. Many chronic and debilitating illnesses and diseases need to be treated with medications and surgeries and aggressive drugs, such as a patient who is dealing with severe Parkinson’s Disease who would most likely benefit from a medication called Carbidopa-Levodopa, and an individual that has a motor vehicle accident that ends up requiring extensive surgery to heal broken bones, or someone who wants to be able to see their grandchildren graduate school who would benefit from a triple bypass surgery from a faulty heart. These examples are people who obviously would benefit from conventional medicine for their well-being and survival.

Let’s talk about different levels of medicine:

1. Primary – diet/nutrition, education, exercising
   1. Secondary – diagnostics, detection, testing by conventional modern medical professionals, vaccinations
   1. Tertiary – medications and potential surgeries
      1. This article has slightly different viewpoints and information and criteria for the different levels: (Unveiling the Significance and Challenges of Integrating Prevention Levels in Healthcare Practice – PMC (nih.gov))

What I dislike about the American medical system is it is mostly based on tertiary and quaternary care vs primary and some secondary care. If you were to use the internet, most sources I found mislead and still influence a conventional modern medicine view where primary care is still solely focused on going to a medical doctor that generally are educated only in conventional modern medicine practices. Yes, not all medical doctors are that stubborn and narrow-minded to not further educate themselves into preventive primary and secondary practices, but generally most medical schools are incentivized to promote and teach future medical professionals through the scope of tertiary and late stages medicine by large corporations, the pharmaceutical companies, and major food/drink companies (this is a rabbit hole that would need to be discussed in another article about the linkage and conspiracies between all major aspects of our life). So, and what my focus has been with patients aside from the physical therapy aspect of giving patients different exercises, is educating them on the other modifiable factors for better health for themselves and providing my professional opinion on the pros and cons of each type of medicine and how both play a role in helping them become healthy and maximize their living standards.

The last main point I would like to mention about nutrition is similar to what was mentioned above on the importance of what types of ingredients are put into your body. When we start to talk about what is healthy for individuals, think about way back in the earlier stages of life where humans would grow their own food on nutrient-rich soils and have hunters go hunt for different meats. Those same types of food that come from a NATURAL SOURCE is what is optimal nutrition for us humans.

This topic can again be its own blog post, but the source of your food is super important; especially in today’s world where majority of our food is genetically modified, processed, or altered chemically for better favoring, food/drink addiction, or eye appealing. Again, influenced by corporations that financially benefit from taking advantage of the public from poor education, lack of time, and making poor quality food/drinks cheaper, most people lack proper nutrition from the food and drinks they consume which makes them sickly and be more susceptible to illnesses.

The best way to combat this issue and to improve your health is to get natural with the food and drinks you consume from a good source. This would include meeting your local farmers who can specifically tell you how they grow their crops or raise their meat source. Other alternatives include understanding how to read a label properly (mentioned above). Lastly, and this speaks to some of the above experts mentioned above, that the traditional mainstream information about what is healthy is wrong. Meat and dairy are exceptionally healthy for you because they are packed with essential vitamins and minerals and macronutrients for your body; but again, it depends on the source of that meat or dairy product (did the beef cow eat artificial food or natural food, what was the living situation of the beef cow; i.e. did that beef cow live freely in a giant field where it could be calm and happy so it’s internal body stressors were low to allow the beef cow optimal internal/mental/emotional health or was the beef cow trapped in a factory with many other beef cows where their food source was chemically and artificially modified and the beef cow was stressed from being limited in its will to roam freely which created poor internal/mental/emotional health which would effect the quality of that meat?). Other examples would be how chickens are raised and what they ate and how their environment was set up, or how fish are caught and processed (natural/wild vs farm-raised). 

Traditional mainstream nutritional information would encourage you to eat sugar and processed/chemically modified food and drinks. Traditional mainstream nutritional information would sway you from natural healthy foods and drinks that come from dairy, meat, fruits, and vegetables to save the planet, or entice you away by making those food and drinks more expensive.

What you put into your body makes up you. And your body adapts to what is being put inside which affects your physical external output into the world and affects your mental, emotional, and spiritual makeup. Our bodies are made up of many different parts and what goes in from all our 5 senses (touch, smell, taste, sight, hear) creates and changes the many different parts that influence your cells, tissues, organs, and organ systems. What goes in creates and changes your hormones, blood, muscles, literally everything. Big pharmaceutical companies and the food and drink corporations understand this science of what can physiologically create certain external outcomes. They know what different macronutrients, chemicals, and whatever else they put in and do to the food and drink they are selling you will do inside your body to create a certain outcome. Sugar makes you artificially energized and can create you to be metabolically insulin resistant which causes many health-related effects that can lead to chronic diseases. That’s just one example.

Inflammation control is the name of the game. Our bodies are alkaline and acidic systems and work at the basic level of positive and negative subatomic particles. Not getting too deep on the topic, but majority of foods and drinks put into our bodies are acidic based and cause increase acidity. The basis of inflammation is an imbalance in our bodies pH scale; whether it be too acidic or basic. Learning and grasping the importance of balancing different types of foods and drinks to better manage inflammation is a key part to minimizing chronic illnesses and maintaining good health.

In general, nutrition is by far the most important aspect of changing your health for the better for a better financial free life we are shooting for. Many things to pay attention to and focus on to achieve better health, and it sure seems like it basically has to become your 2^nd or 3^rd full time job or side hustle, but this is what is needed to optimize your health to live your best new life. All the topics mentioned above are easily individual posts themselves and should be dived deeper into for better health management.

Mental Well-Being:

This topic is much less information packed than the nutrition section. Generally, what I teach my patients is to be more positive than negative. Your thoughts influence the rest of your body and regulate all the internal chemicals and hormones that give your body different outputs which ultimately affect your health. Controlling your mind starts with how you treat yourself, self-reflection, your internal dialogue, and how you view yourself. How you treat yourself and others, seeking your internal wants and needs in the external world, and through doing things you enjoy all help frame your mental wellbeing and reinforce either positive or negative processing which again then effects your internal makeup and health. Easier said than done on being more positive than negative, but only you can control your thoughts. Yes, other people, external events, and experiences that you cannot control can and will influence how your body and mind interpret the world and effects the composition of your mental well-being, but how you react to all other people, their actions, and behaviors, along with those external events and experiences is solely controlled by yourself.

Not to get too far down the rabbit hole of the mind (and we as a human race still don’t know fully how the mind works), but some things you cannot control about your mind and your composition. Your genetics and parts of your upbringing are things out of your control. But things you can control are your food and drink inputs which effect your internal makeup, what you learn about and the knowledge/wisdom you acquire from others, how you process different people and their actions, external events/experiences, and the following actions you take afterwards that either enhance or detract your mental well-being.

What makes human beings the superior species on our planet? Our mind. The brain is the most powerful piece of equipment our bodies have and investing in its health while also understanding how to control it so it does not control you is vitally important for optimal health.

Again, jumping off my high horse because I am not an expert in psychology or how exactly the mind works, here are some ways to further enhance and improve your mental wellbeing:

1. Meditation and Mindfulness: Incorporate mindfulness practices into your daily routine to reduce stress and improve mental clarity.
2. Therapy and Counseling: Investing in mental health is just as important as physical health.
3. Conversations with family and friends; finding ways to release stressors.
4. Learning and trying new skills or experiences to further your mental aptitude.

Sleep:

Getting adequate sleep is another important aspect of health that is misunderstood or effected in America. Many people do not get enough sleep and have poor sleeping hygiene.

Not only do you need to get 7-9 hours of uninterrupted sleep to allow your body to heal, regulate hormones, and cleanse itself, but getting optimal sleep at certain times of the night to allow your body to regulate itself properly is another very misunderstood part of sleeping.

Your body regulates different hormones and completes different functions at specific times. So, if you end up staying up late to catch the championship game which throws off your routine scheduled sleep, your body gets affected.

Going to sleep at the same time every night and waking up at the same time allows your body to auto adjust itself to allow it to do its digestion, regulate, and function properly.

Again, not a sleep expert, and unsure of the different periods of sleep where certain hormone regulation and function happen but going back to us humans early on in our evolution, we use to sleep when it got dark and awaken when it got light out. This natural light and dark cycle directly work with parts of our eyes that allows natural melatonin to assist in getting our bodies to sleep and rise.

Things that effect this natural process include:

• Poor natural light exposure to our eyes during the day in night
• Artificial blue light exposure from technology alters our cognition and eyesight

Other factors to consider helping for improved sleep include not eating or drinking 2-3 hours before bed, getting rid of blue light at night 1-2 hours prior to sleeping, substituting blue light with either reading or complete darkness by use of blackout curtains/getting rid of any other lighting in the room, and finding other ways to promote relaxation prior to sleep to stimulate smooth transition to a restful sleep schedule.

Waking up should be as natural as well for better quality rest. This includes waking up to natural light, drink water prior and 1^st thing upon waking up to help flush your system and stimulate the start of body functioning, minimizing food or drink (caffeine = coffee) for at least 30 minutes to an hour upon waking, and moving/exercising /stretching to again get the body ready for your day.

Other considerations that I have been experimenting with from learning from professionals include grounding/barefoot walking and taping my mouth shut during sleeping. Grounding (also know as earthing) is essentially walking barefoot on the ground outside. There have been many studies showing vast ways it improves your health, such as balancing your energy levels, effecting your cardiovascular system to help with circulation, healing, and inflammation, and calming your nervous system. Taping your mouth while sleeping has shown to improve nasal breathing which allows filtration of allergens to not enter your system, prevention of waking up from snoring, and can improve oxygen intake.

Not professional advice and my disclaimer for all above within this section is although I am a Doctor of Physical Therapy, I am not a professional on sleeping hygiene. A lot of these techniques have been gathered from my own research and trial and error while also learning from others who have discussed both the pros and cons of each talking point.

Physical Fitness/Exercising:

This is my expertise and I have many ways to address many different functional limitations pertaining to strength, flexibility, or any other physical restrictions or limitations. The point of this section is just to highlight the key points; I can and plan to structure a post that specifies the most important exercises and stretches for each body part in the future; kind of like a top 3-5 for each body part that would dive deeper into reps, sets, and understanding of proper dosing per week based on goals of fitness and health. Anyhow, some of the key concepts are included below.

Regular exercise where you are engaging in activities that get your body moving is the key. This can include walking, running, jogging, swimming, cycling, rock climbing; the list can basically be endless. The main component is something that requires you to feel strain in your body if you are doing something of strength training, like lifting weights or any bodyweight exercises such as pushups or pullups. This is essentially damaging the tissue in your body to allow adaptation for muscular and other soft tissue (tendon, ligament) growth.

This is where most personal trainers have the adage of “lighter weights for more reps works on endurance and heavier weights for less reps works on strengthening.” This, in general, is true. If the main purpose for exercising is toning and endurance, lighter weights with more repetitions is where you train at.  If the main purpose for exercising is strengthening, heavier weights with less repetitions is where you train at. Examples would be toning your legs or training for long distance runs like a marathon, you would focus on 20-30% of your body weight for squats with anywhere between 12-20 repetitions for 3-5 sets. If you were training for a powerlifting competition, those squats should be more towards 70-125% of your body weight for anywhere between 1-8 repetitions. As you can see, there is a wide gap on how you can dose the same exercise to target different muscle fibers in your body based on the goal. This is the value of having a personal trainer or physical therapist that can properly give accurate and effective parameters for your exercising to reach your goals.

If the focus is on endurance or cardiovascular training, then feeling winded to a certain extent is where improvements in blood circulation, heart exertion tolerance, and lung capacity will be improved. The scale that is usually recommended in physical therapy is called the Borg Scale or Perceived Rate of Exertion (RPE). Courtesy of my employer, here is how to use the scale:

In general, the first chart shows the Modified Borg which the first column is where I would ask a patient which number they would rate doing a specific activity. Another way to gauge it as a provider or just by yourself would be the last column, the talk test, which gives you guidance on which number a person/patient would be ranked at based on their ability to talk or converse while doing that activity. The second chart shows more details of the RPE scale and how that can be matched up with someone’s HR MAX or percentage of a 1 rep max and the type of cardiovascular or strength training. On the bottom, general activity guidelines are provided on how much activity should be aimed for per week for healthy exercising.

Another way to gauge exercising is something called Maximum Heart Rate or Heart Rate Max (HRM); it’s a very basic formula where you take 220 minus your age. An example would be a 35-year-old would have a HRM training level of 185. A revised formula requires more mathing, but is: 208 – (0.7 x age) = HRM. This is your heart rate or pulse and based on the type of exercise you would want to perform; you take a percentage of that number. Generally, the ranges are 50-85%.

The American Heart Association breaks down levels 2 different ways:
Low 50-60% HRM
Moderate 60-70% HRM
Vigorous 70-85% HRM

Even more broken down, there are 5 Zones:

In general, most exercising should be spent in Zone 2, followed by Zone 1, Zone 3, Zone 4, and Zone 5. The lower zones are where minimal effort is being completed and progressively increases in effort downwards to Zone 5.

As mentioned in the Nutrition Section, nutrition helps in the essential recovery phase of health. This is what really helps properly construct effective soft tissue repair for improving your strength or endurance training.

The last component that seems to always get overlooked in physical fitness and health is flexibility. I truly believe and emphasize flexibility is more important than strengthening or resistance training. My one professor always said, “the cornerstone to mobility is flexibility.” If you are not able to move because of stiffness or lack of flexibility, then yes, general mobility or movement is going to be restricted. Also, not being flexible puts your soft tissue and bones at risk for injury. Not that I can prove this, but if you think about someone like a gymnast that is very flexible vs an obese couch potato that is stiff from lack of stretching and general activity, who do you think would have a better chance of having minimal orthopedic damaging from a car accident? Sure, there are many factors you can’t count on in this scenario, but most likely the gymnast would have the better chance at less injury because of his/her training as a gymnast where she is more fit from stretching, exercising, and being more active than the obese person. When you address flexibility issues and make your body more pliable, you’re lowering your chance of high impact accidents that could injury your body.

Stretching helps your body handle high and fast stress tension of your soft tissue and bones. This type of training allows your body to be prepared for those fast turns out of bed, falls, car accidents, and many other activities where you would have higher potential from being more stiff and less flexible to minimizing straining a muscle, causing a ligament or tendon strain.

As above with some basic exercises, I plan on adding my general stretching regiment in the future as well for your guidance. It’ll be the same routine I do daily to target my entire body to maintain its flexibility.

General guidelines I give for my patients with flexibility training are hold the stretch till it is about a 4/10 in the amount of tolerance for that stretch and hold it for 20-30 seconds. Holding for 10 seconds is not bad, but the shorter timeframe is less effective in providing adequate long-term pliability in the soft tissue. Holding for the longer times increase pliability for improved tolerance to stress on the tissues.

The last main part of my job as a physical therapist is adding manual techniques to patients. This would include massage therapy techniques, cupping, use tools for something called instrument assisted soft tissue massage (IASTM), and passive stretching. I use most of these techniques everyday on my patients and have given multiple recommendations to patients on some tools for self-use.

In general, what I teach my patients is to massage a painful area to tolerance. An example would be pulling your back which causes pain with bending forward. Usually, the first few days are a no go for any massage 2/2 inflammation. When you injure yourself, the inflammation process starts. Doing any massage or soft tissue techniques adds inflammation to the process which doesn’t necessarily help. Usually after about 1 week is when manual techniques can be effective. Manual techniques is re-damaging the tissue that was injured and trying to help realign the fibers of that tissue to work effectively. Any of the above techniques would work at helping and I’d recommend seeing a professional to help give specific education prior to just going crazy massaging yourself.

But the general recommendations I give are based on a patient’s pain tolerance. If someone has a high pain tolerance, generally the harder/deeper pressure applied to the area that is injured for a short timeframe (no more then 2 minutes) can help release the damaged tissue or “knot” that may be felt causing pain or restriction of a joint from moving freely. If someone tolerates less pain, less pressure can be applied for a longer timeframe (5-10 minutes). Some other aspects include surface area; the more direct or smaller amount of surface area being applied to the painful area will create deeper and more localized soft tissue massage (think about pushing 1 finger into a painful area) whereas more indirect or a wider base surface area being applied will create shallower and broader soft tissue massage (flat hand or using multiple fingers to massage an area). Again, very general and would be best instructed based on your specific area of need.

Extras:

Here are some other health concepts that I have been learning more about from other experts online that seem to have some solid evidence behind them as being conservative and old school methodologies in being and maintaining a healthy life. I do not know enough about them and have plans to trial some of these other techniques myself in the future and will write a post about them once attempted to report results and as I learn more about them.

They include:

• Red light therapy
• Sauna usage
• Biohacking
• Toxicity elimination (charcoal)
• Lymphatic drainage
• Proper and safe cooking equipment
• Chiropractic and acupuncture

Conclusion:

In the journey towards financial freedom, it’s imperative not to neglect the foundation on which all other pursuits stand—your health. By investing time, effort, and resources into maintaining a healthy lifestyle, you not only enhance your quality of life, but also set the stage for sustained financial success. Remember, the truest wealth is the health that enables you to enjoy the fruits of your financial labor. So, as you navigate the path to financial freedom, make the vital investment in your health—it’s a decision that pays lifelong dividends.

There are a lot of concepts to one’s health and I hope I gave some valuable information and at least some starter points for you to pursue further to address any health-related difficulties you may have and gave insight on ways to maximize your health for a better quality of life on your pursuit to financial freedom.

Don’t trust everything mentioned above, verify all that I mentioned. Each person’s circumstances and health concerns are very personal, so a lot of these recommendations are just that, good starting points to start a conversation with a medical professional, whether that be a doctor or physical therapist like myself, to get specialized personal care.

Lastly, look at your health as an investment in yourself to attain optimal health to further attain your other wealth and lifestyle/happiness goals in life.

To the New World and the New You, much success in finding your financial freedom.

Resources:

50 Jawdroppingly Toxic Food Ingredients & Artificial Additives to Avoid | MPHProgramsList.com

when was fats accused instead of sygar – Search (bing.com)

Unveiling the Significance and Challenges of Integrating Prevention Levels in Healthcare Practice – PMC (nih.gov)