Great Health Part 1.

Improving Your Metabolic Health.

Great health requires resilience in the following 4 domains:
1.  Physical
2.  Social
3.  Mental
4.  Emotional

The following TED talk by Jane McGonigal inspirationally points the way to health and resilience

Jane McGonigal: The game that can give you 10 ... - TED.com

I will discuss each of these domains along with my recommendations to improve each as the beginning of great health.

1.  PHYSICAL.

The physical health of a person is strongly related to DIET and EXERCISE.

But specifically what diet and what exercise?
Based on what criteria?

As always based on efficacy, safety and costs; in effect, the return on investment.
The greatest and most powerful tool for continuous quality improvement is the first of the three tools of quality improvement which are as follows:
1.  Reduce COMPLEXITY.
2.  Make the process LEAN.
3.  Use statistical tools of SIX SIGMA to solve a quality problem.

How does one reduce COMPLEXITY for diet and exercise?
By identifying where diet and exercise have a common result or a common goal and then making that process LEAN.

The body is organized like a 2 cycle engine.
Lungs actively inhale and passively exhale.  Think In, and Out.
Hearts passively fill and actively pump.  Think In, and Out.
All biologic processes require energy for action and building blocks for biosynthesis.
Energy may be simply thought of as diet.
Building blocks may be simply thought of as diet.
The Alimentary system is the start of our process of ENERGY In, ACTION and BIOSYNTHESIS Out.
Livers In diet and Ex building blocks for energy and biosynthesis.

What happens in the liver that is common to both diet and exercise?
Does that affect the health of the liver?
Does that affect the output of the liver?

THE LIVER STORES GLYCOGEN, glucose in chains, for energy use.
THE LIVER STORES TRIGLYCERIDES,  a form of fat which stores the most energy per gram.

DIET and EXERCISE affect the amount of GLYCOGEN and TRIGLYCERIDE and the amount of GLYCOGEN and TRIGLYCERIDE affect the health of the liver and the body parts downstream.
Here is the NEXUS of DIET and EXERCISE!