YOU CANNOT CHANGE WHAT YOU DON’T MEASURE
The physical health of your body and brain is completely intertwined with the health of your mind. Physical ailments such as obesity, diabetes and chronic inflammation are associated with an unhealthy mind and increased risk for depression. ADD/ADHD, and alzheimer’s disease. To improve your mind you need to know and improve your important health numbers on a regular basis. here are 12 important numbers to track on a yearly basis.
I2 IMPORTANT NUMBERS TO TRACK ON A YEARLY BASIS.
General Health
1.Body Mass Index (BMI) Find an online calculator and strive to be in the 2.healthy range (18.5-25).
3.Blood Pressure: Optimal range is between 90-120 systolic over 60-80 diastolic.
4.Number of hours you sleep at night. Between 7-9 hours.
Blood Tests
5. Vitamin D level: Optimal is 50-100 mg/dL.
6. Thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) Optimal is 0.4-3.0mlU/L.
7. C-reactive Protein. Optimal is 0.0-1.0 mg/dL
8. Hemoglobin A1c: Healthy is 4.0-5.6
9. Ferritin: Optimal is 40-100 ng/mL
10. Free and total testosterone: Age and gender dependent.
11. Omega-3 Index: Optimal is > 8 percent
Modifiable Health Risks
12.How many of the 10 most important modifiable health risk factors do you have? Work to eliminate all of them.
1. Smoking/Vaping, 2. Alcohol abuse, 3. High blood pressure, 4. Low omega-3s, 5. BMI overweight or obese, 6. Low polyunsaturated fat intake, 7. Physical inactivity, 8. High salt intake, 9. High blood sugar, 10. Low intake of fruits/vegetables
Even at the doctors it can be challenging to get these 12 important health numbers tested, it is worth trying a few different health-care providers to schedule lab tests to measure these important health numbers.