Pg. 24 2025-26 Health & Wellness Magazine Lincoln Daily News Simple Strategies for Optimal Health: Advice from a Health Coach Everyone wants to feel his or her best, but many may not know where to start to achieve health and well-being or they think optimal health requires too much time and expense. However, there are many simple and accessible things that humans can do for the health of their bodies and minds every single day. Health and Wellness Coach Marci D’Andrea shares advice for daily best practices for the care of You. Number 1. Grounding. D’Andrea’s number one piece of health advice, especially with the good weather, is grounding. Go outside and walk in bare feet. Touch tree branches and other living things. When you do that, you rebalance your body and it helps give your mitochondria energy. We want the body to be more negatively charged than positively charged. The quickest way to bring back this negative charge is through grounding. How does it work? Our body has energy and grounding reconnects with the earth's surface and brings back electrons to the body. It replenishes lost electrons to help our cells function better. It helps at a cellular level to decrease inflammation and improves things like creating better sleep. It is like a recharging of the body and its cells. We lose electrons through toxins and modern living. Grounding helps replace them. When people walk in the sand on the beach, for example, people feel better. Number 2. Sunlight. Some time in the sun without sunscreen improves health because most of us are low in vitamin D, which is a hormone, and we need it to hold onto bone strength. When vitamin D is low, so many things go offline. Twenty to thirty minutes once a day is sufficient, but not to the point of sunburn. Early or late sun is better. Get sunlight without sunglasses, When eyes take in sunlight, it helps prevent the body from burning. Thirty to forty minutes of sunlight is like 20,000 IUs of vitamin D. Number 3. Nutrition. Eat more foods that are closest to their natural state, meaning unprocessed. Eat cleaner proteins (without antibiotics or growth hormone), fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, organic grains without chemicals. Check www.ewg.org for the updated Clean 15 and the Dirty Dozen list. These lists let us know which fruits and vegetables contain the least and most amount of pesticides. The fruits and vegetables on the Dirty Dozen list you would want to buy organic. Number 4. Movement. Everybody needs movement that promotes cardiovascular health (aerobic) and movement that is resistance (weight training) to ensure muscle and bone strength. It is important to note that there is a difference in what men and women under 40 require and what women over 40 need. Women over 40 should be lifting heavy weights to keep bone density and hormone levels. This could include heavy lifting, jumping, touching the ground. As estrogen plummets, Continued --
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