How to get through quarantine 4: Take care of your health and defense system

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This episode is about taking care of the 5 steps in order to stay healthy and maintain your defense system in these times! I also show you my breakfast routine in the morning and you can learn how to have healthier breakfast. By the way, really start reading the ingredients of everything you eat! Episode 3 (Organize yourself): https://youtu.be/2KYhYM5Je-k Spanish version of this video: https://youtu.be/NCgA0IOVG5Y There are different perspectives on nutrition and some of them are even contradictory. For example, intermittent fasting (only eating a specific time of the day) is different from the opinion of some specialists that having 5 small meals a day is best. It depends on factors like your metabolism, your weight and other factors. I myself learned to eat according to the Tao, where carbohydrates (bread, rice, pasta) are not mixed with animal proteins or fats (meat, fish, milk, yogurt, cheese) in the same meal. It makes digestion much lighter, so I can definitely recommend this way of eating. - I recommend for everyone eating your fruit about 20 minutes before your meal, and not after. Desserts better go in a separate timeslot, as a snack. (It's also good to drink a glass of lukewarm water before meals, I've learned.) - The most important thing in nutrition is balance. You need enough vegetables, because they contain many vitamins, minerals, and fiber. Fiber is essential, it helps your digestion. In white bread, white pasta, etc. there is practically no fiber, so those give your blood a sugar kick. Fiber helps decrease sugar intake, so it assimilates more slowly and gives your body time to maintain blood sugar levels. - Don't eat too much saturated fat and try to avoid trans fat. Saturated fat is a type of dietary fat. It is one of the unhealthy fats, along with trans fats (which are in fried things). Foods like butter, coconut and palm oil, cheese, and red meat have high amounts of saturated fat. Too much saturated and trans fat in your diet can lead to heart disease and other health problems. I'm not a vegetarian or vegan, I eat meat. But together we should all be eating less meat and "happier" meat, not "factory meat," where they are bloated, in cages where they can't move and injected with growth hormones. The meat industry is *one of the biggest contaminants*, so by eating less meat, we begin to contaminate less. - But the good news is that many vegetable foods have protein. Try to alternate days between animal and non-animal food. Non-animal sources of protein are: lentils, chickpeas, peas, avocado... My day begins with a glass of water, I add lemon because that's good for the PH value in my body. Then I have propolis and echinacea, probiotics, and green superfoods like wheat grass, moringa, or spirulina (a type of seaweed). I also take collagen for my joints. After this, I make a muesli of assorted grains and seeds, such as oats, chia, popped amaranth, pumpkin seeds, popped quinoa, hemp seeds, coconut pieces; and I eat them with plant-based milk. Why not cow milk? According to Chinese medicine, I don't mix carbohydrates (bread, oatmeal, pasta, rice) with animal fats (all animal products). But some people prefer a protein breakfast, ideas are: egg with avocado, yogurt, adding chia seeds and quinoa. Green and white tea are very high in antioxidants. Wait about 90 minutes after waking up for coffee or tea, because before your body produces lots of cortisol. Source of the 5 aspects of the "last line of defense": Eric Edmeades.