What is the best way to stay healthy?

Staying healthy is a lot easier than getting healthy, but both require following similar principles. Part of the trick is that realistically you need to follow a regime that fits into your lifestyle or at least gives you time to break into a new way of living.

Unfortunately, those in the West, or at least affected by the Western way of life, are either unfamiliar with Eastern medicine or simply don’t have the resources or familiarity with an Eastern way of life to cozy up to things like doing surya and eating a fresh curry leaf in the morning.

I have worked in the medical system and three things stand out to me.

Don’t drink too much alcohol and don’t do ANY drugs. ANY. Your body was not meant to suck a bunch of poison into it and alter its God-given state of normal functioning.

Don’t be fat. Almost every patient I saw with problems was fat. The more fat, the more problems. But, fat of any sort, even 20 or 30 pounds over, led to problems. Along with causing people to just feel less than optimal because the extra weight slows them down, they have high blood pressure, diabetes, arthritis, acid reflux, and back pain.

Because fatness causes the health problems I just mentioned, people accept — without much question — the drugs doctors give them. Just as with drugs bought on the corner, your body was not meant to suck a bunch of poison into it that a so-called health professional gives you that alters its God-given state of normal functioning. Losing weight through eating properly and healthfully (mostly vegetables) will return your body to its proper state and your high blood pressure, diabetes, arthritis, acid reflux and back pain will disappear. Along with that, you won’t be taking drugs that eventually give you other diseases like cancer and Alzheimer’s and kidney failure.