Flight #58: What Good is Wealth Without Health?

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Airline News:

How To Think About Your Health And Improve Your Quality Of Life Now And In Retirement

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Financial wellness can increase the quality of your physical health.
1. High levels of financial stress manifest through physical symptoms like sleep loss, anxiety, headaches/migraines, compromised immune systems, digestive issues, high blood pressure, muscle tension, heart arrhythmia, depression and a feeling of being overwhelmed.
Can induce feelings of happiness.
Enhances the quality of your sleep.
Physical activity is often associated with reduced symptoms of depression and anxiety.
Exercising is critical for airline pilots due to the sedentary lifestyle of flying and traveling.

How:

You must be intentional.
1. What’s the best diet/eating habits?
2. What’s the best exercise routine?
  1. The one that you’ll do!
  2. What you are able to make part of your lifestyle.
3. Without a plan, you will drift... to bad nutrition and exercise habits.
Hire a fitness instructor. Also, develop an eating plan.
1. Especially plan for days on the road.
2. It’s not your age that has you feeling the need to rest -- it’s that you’re not moving. Even older adults with serious health problems -- heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, and others -- can live better lives by getting up and moving.

Resources:

https://neurosciencenews.com/fitness-neuroscience-23228/