How to Banish Five Life-Shortening Health Myths

Stance for Health

In this episode, Dr. Rodney and Karen talk about five popular health myths that may be shortening your life.
Myth #1: You can make up for lack of exercise during the week by becoming a weekend warrior.
The tendency for your body is that when you don’t use something you lose it. Here is an average daily scenario for many who sit eight to ten hours per day at work with very few breaks, drive an hour, sit and watch TV before falling into bed.

You have these muscles that cross joints that shorten from sitting too much. You put force on a tendon and activate that muscle while inhibiting the opposite side muscle group. A simple example is the hip flexor and the glutes where the glute gets weakened by sitting.

Myth #2: No pain, no gain.

The problem with that tendency is that the last part of that muscle then actually crosses the hip joint gets out of balance . And when you're in an exertion mode, not only are you working muscles that are already tight, but one side is tighter than the other, one side is weaker than the other. And that's a recipe for low back disaster, low back pain. If you're running, you can have injuries and other complications.

The no pain - no gain may have started with coaching for those who didn't want to work hard enough to be sore the next day.

The people that buy into this myth basically learn to ignore their body's warning signals such as scar tissue, restricted joints and lack of range of motion

Myth #3: More is better.
That's another health myth seen particularly with bodybuilders building muscles and models losing weight. Long distance runners get into it and don’t want to stop. More is better. We used to think that marathons were excessive. yet now with triathlons they run, cycle and swim.

Those doing ultramarathons or extreme bodybuilding are tapping into this oxidative stress that reaches free radical toxicity. The end product is all of these things that are almost like saying body rust.

“An extreme lifestyle will shorten your life.”

Health Myth #4: Don't waste your time with rest. Keep pushing.

You need to rest and get good sleep. That's why we do high intensity interval training, because we rest in between and we don't push past a certain point depending on our age. But we are the other part. We are consistent. It's important to do things every day with some rest days mixed in. So I contradicted myself right there. It's important to do it consistently and yet allow some rest days in between that's.

Health Myth #5: Supplements can make up for an unhealthy lifestyle.

There's some magic potion for women who want to look young. They're willing to inject rat poison into their face by their forehead. They're willing to get fillers around their mouth. And so instead of living a healthy lifestyle, eating healthy, avoiding the foods and the things that would cause that aging, getting enough sleep, all the things that we say that are longevity pillars, instead of doing that, they want something magic, a pill they can take that's going to erase all of that.

Live a Rejuvenation Lifestyle

• Exercise regularly and consistently build your strength
• Listen to your body when you feel pain and do something about it quickly
• Be satisfied with incremental progress
• Take time to rest
• Eat real food and take quality supplements for what is no longer in the soil

Living a rejuvenation lifestyle is bringing all of the different factors into good balance.

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