The Healthy Deviant by Pilar Gerasimo

Author:Pilar Gerasimo
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: HEA010000 Health & Fitness / Healthy Living
Publisher: North Atlantic Books

Okay, freeze frame here: This is a super important moment—a moment of truth.

This is a moment to which you want to bring your newly amplified Healthy Deviant awareness. Because the feelings you’re noticing right now? Those sloggy, tired, tweaky, distracted, “blah,” or “ugh” feelings? These are signs that your body is working exactly as it should be. These are your body’s flag-waving signals that it needs some down time—now, or as soon as humanly possible—in order to regenerate cellular fuel, rebalance your blood sugar and biochemistry, flush its detoxification systems, and repair damaged tissue.

Your brain also needs a break to sift through all the vast amounts of data you’ve taken in, tag it, organize it, and create important synaptic connections. These are the connections that allow your mental databases to merge and exchange information, producing those magical aha moments, creative insights, and brilliant solutions you kept wishing you had more of. These are the connections that allow important information currently piled up in your various mental inboxes to be sorted, labeled, and filed appropriately so that you can easily recall them later, whenever the need arises. These are the connections that determine whether you are a sparkling genius making great things happen or a grumpy, lumpen mass of flesh parked on an office chair wishing you were somewhere else.

In short, even if you don’t care that much about your health and happiness, if you care at all about your brain and your career, these signals your body is sending you at this moment matter. So now, let’s rejoin your body’s ultradian program in action:

• Assuming you heed your body’s signals for a break, the moment you step away from external demands and take a few deep breaths, your body’s internal ground crews begin cranking into high gear, tackling a wide array of internal detoxification, maintenance, refueling, and repair tasks that comprise what’s known as the “ultradian healing response.”

• During the course of the next twenty minutes (ideally), fresh stores of fuel—in the form of adenosine triphosphate (ATP)—are delivered to your cells; blood sugar, hormones, and neurotransmitters are rebalanced; toxins are flushed; and many important fix-it and filing tasks are completed.

• At that point, your frontline systems ramp back up and rapidly return to full capacity for another hour and a half or two hours. Woo hoo!

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