Avoid 90% of diseases with these 3 daily practices

what if you could avoid the majority of the reasons why people die today you know as a doctor of acupuncture in traditional Chinese medicine there are some practices that really overlap with conventional medical wisdom and there are others that are maybe pretty unique and you may not have heard before that are very very very effective at making sure you don't die of the same things that the majority of people die from so in today's video let's talk about these three practices from traditional Chinese medicine that may not be as quite obvious but are very very beneficial in the way that they can avoid potentially many of the causes of death today hey guys I'm Dr Alex hin board licensed doctor of acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine and author of the health book master of the day so let's jump in here now the first practice I want to talk about here is chiong chiong you could say literally translate to Chi work or even breath work and while breath work today is becoming very very trendy especially here in California chiong has been going on for several thousands of years in East Asia so literally for thousands of years there are different kind of chiong practices that involve the synchronization of breathing with physical movements and postures or exercise as well as certain kinds of visualizations way back into the BC era you know doctors and practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine noted that this thing that they call Chi was the precursor to lots of illnesses now chi I don't like necessarily translating his energy I don't think that is really truly the best translation it is a cultural concept for example ancient doctors noted that this this kind of Stuffy feeling in the chest that sighing that shortness of breath feeling you get after a stressful day maybe with a low-grade Tension Headache was something that they call chees stagnation so for example a lot of us can feel the effects of stress in our body at the end of a long day what these ancient doctors had noted and the practitioners of chiong was that before you develop a chronic illness like let's just say it's indigestion right acid reflux there is a precursor to that that is not always easy to measure because it is very subtle and I would even argue even today with all of the state-of-the-art highly sophisticated equipment and Technology lots of the little baby seeds of illness we still can't predict but many times your body will notice it at a very very subtle level now chiong is amazing for both treating that precursor by making sure there's proper physiological flow and proper functional flow of your organs in general what differentiates chiong if you see some old dude in the park and he's doing something like this or he's breathing and doing some Tai Chi what differ iates that from going to the gym and lifting weights is that chiong has three inherent pieces piece number one is that yes there are physical postures and physical movements there is sort of an inhale and an exhale movement but there's also in addition to the physical movements which would be just exercise there's also breathing breathing is one of the fastest ways you can regulate your nervous system regulate your heart rate and therefore regulate your physiology like stress hormones so we have the physical Movement we have breathing exercises there are dozen of different kinds of breathing exercises in chiong and often there's a visualization component so sometimes practitioners will be doing like a shaking chiong you're jumping up and down and shaking and at the same time you might be regulating your breathing with a specific kind of breathing and visualizing let's say for example light coming in the crown of your head and just gently making space in each of your vertebrae as you're shaking like that so these three pieces are what make something chiong and not just physical exercise in Chinese there's a saying that chiong Wards off the 10,000 illnesses and what that means is that chiong is very effective for treating the Myriad many different kinds of illnesses that people have so let's say chiong is the intersection of physical exercise and meditation and if you look at the leading causes of death in many of the developed countries in the world and some of the less developed ones cardiovascular disease still is in the top three causes of death and you know what improves that physical exercise including chiong now chiong like exercise can improve many different kinds of illnesses if you look at the reasons people die young today often heart disease Strokes certain kinds of cancers are strongly correlated with metabolic dysfunction right the cluster of symptoms related to high blood pressure high cholesterol diabetes excess body fat in general but sometimes it's not always quite clear where symptoms are coming from so I've actually taken the time to put together this free quiz now this quiz is basically according to traditional Chinese medicine this is the root cause of your symptoms most likely it's a really in-depth free handout we've put together it's the first link below this video or you can also go to Dr alex.com quiz and go through that quiz and it will basically spit out based on these three symptoms your issue is probably with the pancreas or the heart and your nervous system or your kidneys and we've taken time to put together our best resources and our best videos that will help you try to sus out and figure out what is the root cause of some of those symptoms you're having so make sure you check out that quiz first link below this video and we'll jump back in here now while your doctor May Never prescribe chiong the something else that is very important as well which is what I call the yin and yang of diet if you think about East Asia yin and yang are not only cultural Concepts they're also very clinical concepts for example a Yang pathology or illness or symptom is like a fever it's active it's warm it's fast moving it's expressive while a Yin symptom may be something like someone who has cold hands and feet we have Yang symptoms and Yin symptoms but in the same way you can think of your diet as Yang or Yin for example a diet high in animal protein high and fried food alcohol and coffee is a very young diet meaning it is promoting more warmth it can also lead to things like potentially excess inflammation which again manifests or Express itself as warmth and a more Yin diet is things like more vegetables potentially more smoothies more for example avocados versus animal fats if you're trying to get different kinds of fats in and why this is important is very very simple when you look at again the reasons why many of us die today it is related to to a diet that is too young and too warming now what that means is that we know from looking at the Mediterranean diet a diet that is more high in varied kinds of plants vegetables whole grains olive oil that moving more towards a plant-based diet is more beneficial for longevity and therefore before longevity even is more beneficial for your health right now your heart will function better your libido will work better your sleep better your stomach will work better your pancreas will work better your liver will work better and a lot of the reasons why people have chronic issues that may or may not be related to the actual reasons they die is we're eating a very inflammatory diet too high in process foods which is high calories the excess body fat you see in a way mirrors the internal body fat like for example that accumulates in your liver right non-alcoholic fatty liver is an interior manifestation of what's going on externally the inflammation in your intestines is also a mirror typically of the diet and will show externally as well in body fat in general what tends to benefit people the most from from a yinyang perspective is moving more towards a Yin diet and I'll give you a little final tidbit here one of my mentors said you know eat Monk food I said what do you mean Monk food and he said just eat rice and vegetables rice and vegetables honestly is a pretty decent base it doesn't have much protein but in terms of a very clean and a very low inflammatory diet rice and vegetables Monk food is pretty good so we've talked about chiong we've talked about the yin and yang of diet and now let's talk about something called the body scan I had a patient several years ago who was coming in in because she had just had her gallbladder removed Beyond just treating the residual effects of having her gallbladder removed she still had GI problems she also had high blood pressure and she also had some issues with chronic sinusitis she was having sinus infections every single year needing antibiotics and she was concerned about how problematic it was for her gut and she wanted to frankly figure out what the actual root cause of that was for this particular patient as we were talking I said to her you know was there ever any inkling that something was going wrong beforehand and she said you know thinking back I could see all of the symptoms for years beforehand I was just maybe moving a little bit too quick and I was maybe doing too much so she had said that you know I did notice they put me on beta blockers because I was having a high heart rate throughout the day but you know I just sort of ignored it for a while why do we miss these little signs I mean it's it's Human After All We all ignore things or we all miss certain things and I would argue the main reason is that we don't practice this practice called the body scan enough so I'll walk you through how to do this in the next 30 seconds because it is something you can utilize throughout the day that is very very very effective at catching things when they are just those little canaries in the coal mine first I want you to start and just close your eyes and all you're going to do is we're going to break the body down into quadrants so we'll start off by focusing from the forehead up or the sinuses up and all I want you to observe is if there's any sensation there you may notice a little bit of a band Tension Headache some pressure in the forehead in the sinuses you may notice a stuffy nose or some postnasal drip or a runny nose and then as we go down more and more to the throat do you notice poisal drip a little bit of flam in the throat as we go beyond the neck are we noticing fullness in the chest are we noticing our heart rate in our chest you shouldn't be feeling your heart unless you're working out are we noticing sensation there are we noticing chest tightness are you noticing just anxiety there then as we go down a little more we go to the top of the stomach and then we can say am I feeling any sensation fullness indigestion burning discomfort up on the right discomfort up on the left discomfort around the belly button bloating and then finally we can go into the low abdomen here and in the low abdomen we can do the same thing bloating pain pressure a low-grade cramping sensation just generalized sensation there that's not quite clear then you can go down the legs and into the feet as well are they cold are they warm are they numb Etc the reason the body scan is so important is that inevitably these problems that are chronic are occurring for years beforehand years before they become a really serious consistent problem so if you can practice this 1 2 three times a day just for 30 seconds or a minute close your eyes you you will often be able to spot things very very early on before you need organs removed or you need to be on medication for life so these practices are really really helpful I've seen them help lots of my patients here again don't forget guys I work with a limited number of new patients every single month in my clinic in Los Angeles or virtually via tele medicine you can go to Dr Alex hind.com clinic or we've put all the information below for my clinic and my practice here in Los Angeles if you want to just reach out just send us an email or give us a call and then before you go I have some other related practices from traditional Chinese medicine that can really help you right up here