Breathing Air In The City

It's almost been 2 years since we bought our motorcycle bike. My father use it to take me to my office in Makati via C5-Kalayaan. During the early years, I don't mind the cleanliness of the air as I am "already used to it." In my mind, pollution is already normal. But as time passes by, pollution in the city is getting worse by the second. One factor can be attributed to the increase number of vehicles may it be for public or private use. This increase in number also caused additional traffic. 

Pollution, specifically air pollution, as we all know it, can cause some serious health condition on our bodies. 

According to Spare The Air, these are some of the health problems/effect we can have.

High air pollution levels can cause immediate health problems:

• Aggravated cardiovascular and respiratory illness
• Added stress to heart and lungs, which must work harder to supply the body with oxygen
• Damaged cells in the respiratory system

Long-term exposure to polluted air can have permanent health effects:

• Accelerated aging of the lungs
• Loss of lung capacity
• Decreased lung function
• Development of diseases such as asthma, bronchitis, emphysema, and possibly cancer
• Shortened life span

Exposure or prolonged exposure to air pollution can really cause some serious damage especially to our lungs and heart as well.

Again, as I've said, air pollution isn't the only one causing us bad health but also the stress coming from the traffic during our travel to the city.

AIR POLLUTION + STRESS = MORE SERIOUS HEALTH CONDITION

During the past few months, I've noticed some people wearing gas/face masks. This isn't the "normal" thing here in the Philippines. Well, I guess people now are getting more aware of their health and that is a good thing.

I may as well buy one because I'm just using my hanky to cover my nose during travel. Also when I got home, I always take it into consideration to take in USANA's Essentials. The reason? It's already stated above. I don't want again to be "used to it" and ignore my health. We are all getting older by the day.

"We must first take care of ourselves before we could take care of others"

This is true. In order for us to take care of other people, especially our love ones, we must first take care of ourselves.

And though there's so much pollution and stress around us nowadays, I know I can trust my health to the #1 health supplement.

USANA's PROGLUCAMUNE

PROGLUCAMUNE - Everyday Immune Defence

As of June 2016, USANA's new Immune Optimizer Product – USANA ProglucamuneTM has been officially launched here in the Philippines. 

USANA ProglucamuneTM was first launched at USANA Australia on July 2015. 

With the addition of the new immune optimiser, ‪#‎Proglucamune‬, USANA now offers a 3-phase approach with products that work together to support immunity. 

USANA’s 3-tiered Approach to Immunity: 

1. Support immune cells with optimal nutrition, such as vitamins C and; D-found in USANA Essentials and Proflavanol C100. 

2. Help support a healthy barrier by nurturing a balanced gut flora and ousting harmful bacteria with USANA Probiotic. 

3. Help immune cells work faster and more efficiently by strengthening them with USANA’s unique optimizer Proglucamune.

So, what are the ingredients of this Immune Optimizer?

1. Baker's Yeast Extract
2. Reishi Mushroom 
3. Shitake Mushroom 
4.  Zinc

PS: Usana's Proglucamune is registered on Philippine Food and Drug Administration.

USANA ProglucamuneTM Benefits:

• Helps support a healthy immune system and improves general well-being. 

• May assist in the management of upper respiratory tract infections in physically active people and people susceptible to upper respiratory tract infections

• May assist in reducing the severity and duration of symptoms associated with colds and flu

• Reishi has been used in Traditional Chinese Medicine as a tonic to replenish Qi

• Vegetarian safe

Directions: Adults, Take two(2) tablets daily, preferably with meals.

You Squared - 3 Uncommon actions we must take

An excerpt from You Squared

3 Uncommon Actions We Must Take To Create Exponential Results

• Stop Believing What You See

Quite the ironic action right? Most of us, if not all, are raised to believe in everything we see. Also the saying goes like, "To see is to believe". What we see must be real so therefore we should believe in it. It's logical alright. But with regards to what we want, which, in sense, is futuristic and "not yet real", we must switch from believing what we see to "believe and you will see" thinking. Many successful people has this kind of mindset. They first believed, did what they have to do and soon they got the results they wanted.

One good example for this is the Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur. They wanted to fly. They believed they can fly but no one around believed them. Other people not believing of their idea didn't stop them from what they believe. They did the things they have to do and soon, they flew and everyone around them cannot believe what they saw.

"We think thoughts. Group of thoughts are ideas. Ideas create feelings. Feelings generates the impetus for action through our body. Our actions create results in our outer world." 

• Quit Trying Harder

Again, quite the ironic action. But it's not. We just need to adjust our thinking of "hard work". 

The normal definition of "hard work" would be, the amount of effort we put into something we do. On the other hand, what advice is trying to define is that, we lessen the amount of "same effort" we use and improve the "type of effort" we put it.

"It's not about doing certain things, it's about doing things in certain way"

• Expect Your Breakthrough

In my previous blog, Ask...Believe...Receive..., I've written that in order to receive what we've asked for, we must put in the "belief". Believing that what we've asked for will come. Expect your breakthrough. Take actions in order to get that. The Wright brothers didn't just desired or asked to fly. They took actions other people won't take and they've received their results. They got their breakthrough.

"When you combine desire and expectation, you activate a hidden intelligence that puts you in touch with the ways and means to materialize your desire."