Written by Mark Anthony

Your Personalized Actions Towards Health (PATH) is a series of choices you make every day. Often, taking the road less traveled will prove to have many benefits leading you to feeling healthy and liberated. Your PATH is personal. Your journey, like you, is unique.  

The following recommendations are a short guide to helping you on your journey towards feeling healthy. There are many dietary, fitness, and lifestyle pathways to take. Often, there are too many choices, which causes confusion about which direction to take. Below are the top five recommendations to help guide you on your journey towards total health. 

Eat a personalized diet. A personalized diet designed for your body’s unique biochemistry is essential for feeling healthy. There is no one-size-fits-all diet. Taking action to personalize your diet is one of the most effective ways to control your weight and correct health challenges. 

Exercise at least 10 minutes a day. It’s good to aim for a light sweat and heavy breathing where it’s hard to talk for one-minute at a minimum, with full-body strength training two to three days a week and some cardio every day as a general guide. Of course, you can do more if desired. But many people often go too hard to fast when starting to workout. It’s best to continually go to the gym and gradually build up your stamina.  

Have fun while working out. If you are the type of person that hates slogging on the treadmill or elliptical – don’t do it. Find something that excites you while exercising like a High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) workout that takes less time but still accomplishes your goals. Short bursts of intensity exponentially improves your health. Strength training with the ultimate sandbags is a great way to condense your workouts and is dynamically more fun and effective. 

Clean up your dirty genes. If you are struggling to find the answers to some of your hard health challenges, purchase the book Dirty Genes, by Dr. Ben Lynch, one of the world’s best leaders in epigenetics. The genetic questionnaire on page 67 can set you on a path to freedom from your complicated health challenges. Many people have been liberated from their health struggles by following the recommendations of Dr. Lynch’s work. Perhaps you can, too.

Seek Health Supplements. Supplements are an easy way to provide the necessary vitamins, minerals, and nutrients your body needs to perform at its best. A personalized diet and exercise can get you far, but it’s often not enough due to a variety of factors like poor soil conditions and hectic lifestyle stressors. Seeking health supplements can often liberate you from feeling lousy and provide you with abundant energy and health.

Take inventory of your lifestyle choices. Your lifestyle choices can impact your health. Your job, where you live, and how you spend your leisure time can all contribute to how you feel. It’s wise to take inventory of how you spend your time and evaluate its effects on you. Learning to identify the lifestyle choices that adversely affect you and replacing them with healthy habits can lead to an improved sense of well-being. For instance, instead of going out for drinks you can instead take yourself to the spa or get a massage.  

Lifestyle choices are the most subjective and it can be hard to take the necessary actions to break the patterns and habits you have built. You might have to make some hard choices. It can be scary. But often the rewards of good health outweigh the consequences of feeling lousy.  

Mark Anthony is the founder of Prospect Fitness and vice president of Diet Typing Systems.