Longevity Hacks
JED WIGHTMAN PERFORMANCE/SPORTS NUTRITIONIST ADVANTAGE FITNESS LTD
This article has been written for Canadian Physique Alliance July/August 2024 Edition
Hello everyone, I believe that this will find you all working on yourselves, living your best and seeking a higher standard of health, performance and longevity every day. Something deeply important to me, living this gift of life, and getting older, is getting better, with deeper preparedness for the years to come.
A client of mine thanked me the other day for being this powerful example to him. Living the way I teach him and his family, about food, fitness, health and longevity. This means everything to me; it’s a standard upon which I measure myself daily. I coach, teach and guide so many, and to each a different life dynamic, but all the sand foundation. So I must be the principal example, at a ground level, of getting better and unwavering in my quest for health and performance. As they hold me to this very high standard, the expectation upon me.
In turn makes me hold myself to an even higher standard. For what does it profit a man at all, to not practice what he speaks. If he intends to do good, and help others? To be anything but the example of what he teaches others, while on this path to a healthier and genuinely better existence.
So for all of my athletes, clients of all lifestyles and all of you out there. Whether it’s looking the best on the stage, or crushing it in the field or rink for you competitors. This is of the highest importance. Plainly then, if we are focusing efforts to improve our longevity, and our performance, our bodies will recover, heal, and produce better results.
Importance of Longevity
How important is this to each of you? Do you focus much of your thoughts, or time or energy and daily actions on overarching, and the nuance of protecting and enhancing your longevity? What do I mean by overarching and the nuance? Well, I mean the grand and broad from things like what you eat, how much sleep you get, and do you exercise. To the fine tuned details of specific kinds of exercise, healing, detoxification, amelioration, and protection from harmful substances and poisons. Chemicals like endocrine, disruptors for example.
Things that start off a cascade of downstream health issues and potential comorbidity events as they concentrate over time. Beginning in our hormone system, accumulating and reeking havoc on us as we age.
Well, today we are going to shed light on the overarching nuance. Discussing and detailing some ways in which we can all do more! So, Maybe you are already doing a few of them, maybe some of you none, but dig in. I have some insightful stuff for you to chew on and digest today. We are exposed to such high amounts of endocrine disrupting chemicals, and substances unbeknownst to us mostly. You gotta know what they are and where they come from. Mostly we are without awareness of how the hormones in our body are affected by these toxins and chemicals.
They are everywhere existing in our clothes, from cosmetics, fragrances, cleaning products, body care products, furniture, bedding, food, food packaging, food products, and the water, liquids and beverages we consume. Numerous studies exists for relationship of these chemicals like parabens and phthalates, bisphenols halogens and glyphosates; directly influencing, early onset pubescence in girls, late onset in boys, childhood and adult obesity, impaired glucose tolerance, gestational diabetes, chronic inflammation, reduced birth weight, reduced semen quality, and fertility, polycystic ovarian syndrome, endometriosis, and breast cancer and colon cancer. To name some… there’s more.
Organophosphates are some of the worst, and they are all over vegetables, cauliflower, broccoli, fruits, like strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, apples, etc. Concentrating the amounts as we consume, when we think we’re trying to eat healthy.
Every one of these things takes away from healthy, vibrant longevity, compromising our health, our fitness performance, and our cognition. Our daily acumen to live better. This should be something that details, the identification of these things and how we can remove them, “our acumen to live better”. Also, how we can ameliorate the effects of things that we are exposed to; clothing as I mentioned above liquids, air quality in our area of operations exposure, that we can’t fully remove ourselves from or from us.
These tips and longevity hacks will go far to give our bodies armament and strength to live longer and stronger.
Starting with the most important, sleep more friends. I wrote an article a few years ago about the importance of sleep.
I always knew it was important, but I learned so much from writing that article. Most basic and number one, sleep more. Then of course the thing that life is based on, survival default. We are of necessity exposed to every day to survive. FOOD DUDE! To my clients, I would say “proper human diet origin-based food”. What does that mean? It means, avoid all fast food products, all packaged food materials. Cook at home, prepare your food. Choose fresh or frozen from fresh foods, avoid false foods, fast foods, canned foods, foods with long shelf life are riddled with these things, full of chemicals.
Why do you think a Wagon Wheel or a Twinkie will last on your desk for two weeks and taste the same as when you open the package? Simply eat the way we have been eating for 100s of thousands of years. Well up until the industrial food and pharm revolution. Avoid heating liquids and foods in plastics, microwaving foods in plastics. Avoid putting hot food and liquids into Styrofoam or plastics before consuming. This means absolutely no hot beverages in plastic Styrofoam cups, no takeout food in plastic or Styrofoam. Store food in your fridge in glass or ceramic or stainless steel containers to avoid storage in Tupperware of plastic.
Yes, that’s right. It’s a series of removing variables and avoiding these things that we don’t see, but has been accumulating in our bodies since birth and potentially earlier because of what we were taking from our mother, she was consuming and exposed to during pregnancy.
Now that we’re not taking in anymore and building an accumulation, this is how we can remove the concentrated amounts of these things stored in our liver and fat cells, making us so unhealthy. Increasing reactive atoms with unpaired electron clouds, bouncing around ramped up free radicals wreaking havoc on our body.
Can you guess? Hopefully some of you could, and if so, I’m proud of you:
High intensity exercise where you sweat a lot, a lot a lot. Add in a sauna, and steams, purging toxins through and out of sebaceous glands. Water! No less important, is to drink good water and lots of it. What do I mean by good water? Water without chlorine and fluoride. When you drink a diet drink, when you drink an energy drink, when you drink a canned or bottled beverage most of those nearly all of them are made with filtered but chlorinated and fluoridated water. Refer back to “iodine” in my “essential supplement series” to understand how important removing halogens such as fluoride chlorine and bromide is. Also, some great tips in there for longevity as well.
Now the supplemental level to increase your body’s detox. Our most powerful antioxidants, detoxification molecules. Glutathione, if you remember for my article “tremendous telomeres”. Glycine and cysteine, two amino acids, are responsible for making our most powerful line of defense, glutathione. So some of you are familiar with my previous writing, you’ll know that I make a pretty strong case for creatine as an essential nutrient.
Also supplementing with NAC, why Jed? Well you’re going to get all the glycine and cysteine that you need to make glutathione. Creatine and NAC provide all the glycine and cysteine needed. Taking creatine around training increases bioavailability. Taking NAC at night before bed is an awesome way to detox. We oxidize all day long. We need to anti-oxidize while we rest, recover and sleep. Ramping up our most powerful antioxidants at night before bed.
I don’t wanna bore you friends with deep detail of regimental scaling, and preparedness on how to increase longevity. To which I believe each of you needs to find your path of disciplined daily, format of action. I want to give you an overview in simplicity, on how easy it is to approach the things all around us, on us, and in us that we may not have been paying attention to first and foremost.
Friends, Our energy and time are our two most important resources. Both of which we cannot get back. So if we focus some to, rest, remove toxins supplement with detoxifying agents and provide a healthy top down process for our body, well, our energy will be more strategically expended, and effective. Our time was more productive, and fulfilling.
In closing, if we want to be better, stronger, of higher performance, and to live healthier. Eat whole food, exercise hard, intensely and consistently. Remove liquid sugars, processed fructose, commercial oxidized chemically altered seed and vegetable oil. Packaged products, materials, false foods, and all of the containers we would transmit heat through. Critical involvement in all things that we are, and what we do daily. We will produce the greatest performance and return on our investment of energy and time.
FORWARD FORWARD ALWAYS FORWARD
