5 Practical Tips For Improving Your Health & Wellbeing

When leading a busy, professional lifestyle prioritizing your health can often fall by the wayside, and with summer here you don’t want to be stuck at home feeling lacklustre on your weekends. Here are our five easy, practical tips to incorporating better health and wellbeing into your everyday life.

Read our five easy tips on what you can eat and drink for better health.

1. Prioritise sleep

Getting enough quality sleep is just as important as diet and exercise, if not more so. If you’re not getting a solid night’s rest you could develop poor insulin resistance, have reduced cognitive abilities and mental performance, and you could even have future weight gain or obesity.

2. … And avoid bright lights before bedtime

While many of us watch TV or scroll through our phones before going to bed, this may actually be harming our sleep cycles. When we’re exposed to lights in the evening this disrupts the production of melatonin in our brains, the hormone that helps us go to sleep. Stay away from electronic devises before going to bed, read a book to wind down instead.

3. Take care of your gut

There’s a reason the bacteria in your gut is often referred to by health specialists as the “forgotten organ”. Gut microbiota are incredibly important in keeping your body functioning and healthy. An unhealthy gut can lead to some of the world’s most serious chronic diseases. Eat plenty of probiotic foods, like yogurt and sauerkraut, and have plenty of fibre. Fibre is like the fuel for gut bacteria.

4. Water can help you burn calories

Studies have shown that drinking plenty of water can boost the number of calories you burn, it can even boost your metabolism by 24-30 percent. The best time to drink water is about an hour or so before your meals. Another study showed that drinking half a litre of water thirty minutes before a meal increased weight loss by 44 percent.

5. Try taking Vitamin D3 supplements

Vitamin D is essential for our wellbeing. It improves bone health, strength, reduces symptoms of depression and lowers risk of cancer, it may even help you live longer. Unfortunately, most people aren’t getting enough sun these days, the primary source of vitamin D, whether it’s because you’re inside working all day or because you live in a colder climate.

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This article quoted studies and resources found here:

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/vitamin-d-101#section2

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2831986/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19661958

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867412001043

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/10-reasons-why-good-sleep-is-important