Secret #2
Fast often.

Keeping a fast or staying hungry for the entire day triggers a gene in your body which starts to preserve and repair the body.  The body moves into a starvation mode where it starts to protect the body cells from damage and aging. 

 “My doctor wanted to start me on drugs. But I said, ‘I want to see if there’s something better and alternative out there,’” he says. “I started exploring, and came across intermittent fasting…    

Dr. Michael Mosley, a physician wrote a best-selling book on this subject, aptly called The Fast Diet: Lose Weight, Stay Healthy, and Live Longer with the Simple Secret of Intermittent Fasting,

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Here are some of the benefits of fasting.

Benefits of Fasting

1. Rests the digestive system
2. Allows for cleansing and detoxification of the body
3. Creates a break in eating patterns, while shining a spotlight on them
4. Promotes greater mental clarity
5. Cleanses and heal "stuck" emotional patterns
6. Leads to a feeling of physical lightness, increasing energy level
7. Promotes an inner stillness, enhancing spiritual connection

Natural Remedies For UTIs

1. Cranberry Cranberry has been proven to help acidify the urine and prevent the UTI bacteria from sticking to the walls of the bladder. Make sure you drink 100% cranberry juice or eat actual cranberries, though. All of the unnatural sugars and other substances in regular store-bought juice won't do you any favors.

2. Baking Soda When you first feel the symptoms of a UTI, mix a teaspoon of baking soda with eight ounces of water. It's gross tasting, but you'll be happy you did it. Baking soda raises the PH level of the irritating and acidic urine during a UTI attack.

3. Uva Ursi Uva Ursi is an herb you can get at most natural food and drug stores. This herb has antiseptic properties.

Your Power Nap

When billionaire adventurer Steve Fossett broke the record for around-the-world solo jet flight in 2005, he slept just 60 minutes in 67 hours of flight time — 60 minutes broken into two- and three-minute naps. "I slept when I needed it and awoke refreshed," he said. Fossett, whose world records in ballooning, sailing and flying still stand, added that none of his feats could have been done without these micro-variety "power naps."

 Napping in general benefits heart functioning, hormonal maintenance, and cell repair, says, Dr. Sara Mednick, a scientist at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies who is at the forefront of napping research. A power nap, says Mednick, simply maximizes these benefits by getting the sleeper into and out of rejuvenative sleep as fast as possible. In Manhattan, napping has become a lucrative business: MetroNaps in the Empire State Building provides darkened cot-like redoubts that attract Broadway actors between shows as well as investment bankers who otherwise would fall asleep at their desks. And in Iraq, U.S. Marine commanders mandated a power nap before patrols.

Secret #1
Take a nap in the afternoon.

“Taking a nap could turn out to be an important weapon in the fight against coronary mortality.”  (Dimitrios Trichopoulos, Harvard School of Public Health).


Great!  I found out that sleeping in the afternoon between noon and before dusk is extremely beneficial but no later than.  As time for dusk approaches you should wake up.  The period of sleep can vary from person to person.  The minimum time must be 30 minutes (half an hour) of sleep.  It doesn't have to be deep sleep, just a nap is enough to give you all benefits.

Napping Benefits

1.  You will feel relaxed and re-energized.  When you wake up you may feel lazy but after a few minutes you will start feeling more alert and more rejuvenated than ever before.

2.  It boosts heart health.  Risk of heart attack is greatly reduced and it strengthens the heart muscles. Working men are 64 percent less likely! It’s true, according to a 2007 study published in the  Archives of Internal Medicine.  Patients having palpitations or similar heart problems will benefit most.  Taking a nap in the afternoon gives the heart muscles time to relax and re-energize.

3.  Maintains blood pressure.   Taking a nap in the afternoon greatly benefits people having high or low blood pressure.  

4.   A nap heightens sensory perception.  Napping also improves your creativity by relaxing your mind and allowing new associations to form in it.  According to Dr. Sara C, Mednick  the author of "Take a Nap, Change Your Life" napping can restore the sensitivity of sight, hearing, and taste.

5.   A nap makes you more productive. Numerous medical studies have shown workers becoming increasingly unproductive as the day wears on. But a Harvard University study demonstrated a 30-minute nap boosted the performance of workers, returning their productivity to beginning-of-the-day levels.

Napping Celebrities

Then I discovered many other successful people who were nappers:

• Leonardo da Vinci took multiple naps a day and slept less at night.
• The French Emperor Napoleon was not shy about taking naps. He indulged daily.
• Though Thomas Edison was embarrassed about his napping habit, he also practiced his ritual daily.
• Eleanor Roosevelt, the wife of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, used to boost her energy by napping before speaking engagements.
• Gene Autry, “the Singing Cowboy,” routinely took naps in his dressing room between performances.
• President John F. Kennedy ate his lunch in bed and then settled in for a nap—every day!
• Oil industrialist and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller napped every afternoon in his office.
• Winston Churchill’s afternoon nap was a non-negotiable. He believed it helped him get twice as much done each day.
• President Lyndon B. Johnson took a nap every afternoon at 3:30 p.m. in order to break his day up into “two shifts.”
• Though criticized for it, President Ronald Reagan famously took naps as well.

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