Unleashing Your Energy

This secret is quite simple, but is scientifically verifiable and also something you can plainly observe for yourself. People who make this change start to notice a big difference fast, and so will you!

Most of us are not aware that the process of digestion actually takes a whole lot of energy. In fact, we burn over 10% of our available "fuel" every day just digesting our food!

So, what do we do? Can we turn off digestion? Of course not, but we can make the job of digestion easier - freeing up mountains of energy  - with this little trick.

Rule: chew every bite of food 30 times before swallowing.

Silly, right? No. Actually more profoundly life-changing than you can possibly imagine.

On the surface, this may sound like it wouldn't do much, but we're now discovering how many ways this practice unleashes our hidden energy.

For example, digestion starts in the mouth.  If we skip that process, we only get a fraction of the nutritional value of our food.

Next , gulping down partially chewed food puts tremendous stress on our digestion and saps us of our vital energy via several pathways.

Try tuning in to your stomach right now ... I mean it.  Turn your attention to how your stomach feels for a quick moment. I am willing to bet it doesn't feel "right."

Now, I don't know you, so why would I "bet" on this? Listen, confidence is based on real statistics and science - not by guesses or voodoo:

So, it's pretty safe to bet that your "tummy" doesn't feel so good right now, or that you remember a case of this from earlier in the day or yesterday.

To make matters worse, sometimes these digestive problems don't even manifest in a sore stomach - only in fatigue. This is one of many easily-avoidable ways we chronically prevent our bodies from unleashing our available vitality.

Now here's the real kicker - not only does it sap our energy, but it weighs on our minds preventing clarity of thought. Anyone in chronic pain knows this quite well. You simply don't function as well mentally when your body is in pain.

But, many times, simply correcting our chewing habits can open the energy floodgates by freeing up energy that was already there!

Here’s another energy-saving tip: The Real Truth About Water.

There are some things I'm about to tell you about water that will not only blow your mind, but will also have an almost immediate impact on your energy.

First, most of the advice you get about drinking water is dangerously wrong. No one really knows for sure exactly how much water you should drink, and the blanket advice we get is pure hogwash.

For example, I’m sure you’ve heard someone say, "Drink 8 glasses a day."

Now, that may look like sound advice, but further analysis shows it's an overly simplified "wive’s tale." To be more blunt: "8 glasses a day" is actually a well established urban legend.

As recently revealed by the American Journal of Physiology, there is absolutely no scientific evidence to support the popular 8-glasses-a-day theory.

Now, none of these scientists at AJP are saying we don't need water (that would be silly).  It's just that these overly simplified platitudes are not helping anyone's health.

What's needed is real scientific information and not half-truths. What we do know is that "8 glasses a day" by itself is not good advice.

First, you need to drink water regularly throughout the day.  Drinking 8 glasses in the morning and thinking you're "golden" for the day is actually dangerous. You should, in fact, hydrate every single hour.

Many people who simply take up the habit of drinking a glass (or even half a glass - more about that in a minute) every hour notice their energy levels skyrocket.

Why? Because most of us are chronically dehydrated. If you don't think you are, try what I'm advising here for 48 hours and see what happens. Again, this is a statistically valid "safe bet."

Another safe bet: you're tired all the time and you can't figure out why.

Dehydration making you tired? You bet. Here are just some of the symptoms of dehydration:

Dehydration has been shown quite clearly to be linked to all of these.  (Merck Manual of Health)

OK, so you want to fix this. What next? Before you start gulping down, you need to know that "how much" depends on a lot of factors.

It depends on your body size, how much you exercise, the climate in which you live, and more...

Obviously, if you live in a hot climate where you're sweating all the time (a lot of the sweat is invisible - you don't have to be dripping to be rapidly losing water all day long), you need more - a lot more. If you exercise even mildly - same thing. But there's something important here.

You may think drinking more water by itself is enough, but if you drink too much you can actually "overdose" on water.

It sounds crazy, but there have been cases where people have died from drinking too much water. Too much water can harm you by either "water intoxication" or by "electrolyte" imbalance.

See, the more water you drink, the more you need to replace your electrolytes. But before you go thinking you're going to need to purchase some expensive fancy "electrolyte replacement" sports drinks, here's the real deal:

All you have to do is add a tiny pinch of sea salt to every gallon of filtered drinking water you drink and - voila! - you have all the electrolytes you need.

Of course, the sports drink peddlers won't tell you that.  They'd have to sell you a whole lot of sea salt to make the same profit off your back!

If you were simply to apply what I have shown you so far my "safe bet" is that you'd see a pretty significant bump in your energy.