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Jaime Galvez Tan’s zero-cost prescription for a healthy, long life
The secrets to a healthy, long life come free if one follows Dr. Jaime Galvez Tan’s zero-cost prescription.
An advocate of primary health care, sound nutrition and integrative medicine who had taken the road less travelled when he served in rural areas for a decade, Tan said the most number of centenarians in the world can be found in Asia. The Philippines doesn’t figure in those statistics, he said, because “we have internalized the North American diet.”
A centenarian does not have to be stooped and shuffling on his/her feet. He cited actor George Burns who starred in movies at ages 79, 89 and 99. All were box-office hits. When he felt it was time to go, Burns willed himself to die and simply said goodbye.
Tan cited former senator Helena Benitez who, at 97, walks unassisted. Although blind in one eye, she can repeat the three essential messages of Tan’s lecture after hearing him and expound them into her own speeches.
Tan challenged the Diliman Book Club members at his lecture at the University Hotel, University of the Philippines campus: “Are you ready to be a hundred years old?”
Tan wrote with his wife Rebecca the best-seller Medicinal Fruits and Vegetables (published by The Natural Shelf).
Tan said his prescription does not cost anything, but people find his recommendations hard to follow and prefer a real prescription for over-the-counter medicines at drugstores.
One recommendation is to think positively by waking up ahead of one’s alarm clock, eager to face the day and affirming that it be full of prosperity and abundance. He said the attitude one should take upon waking is “Wow! Thank you for another day to serve. I could’ve died last night of a stroke or a heart attack because these happen usually at 4 a.m. Each day is a blessing.”
Tan said one must go up the mirror and tell one’s image, “Good morning, handsome” or “Good morning, beautiful,” then declare, “I am healthy, I am full of wellness, I am prosperous.” Do not use the future tense: “I will be…”
He said it is vital to “claim the present.”
“Whatever you declare will manifest because this is the universal law of attraction,” he added.
Tan cited “impossible (medical) cases” that are brought to him. As soon as he teaches the patient to chant “I am healed, I am completely healed, I am totally healed,” miracles often happen—tumors disappear or a patient with life-threatening cancer requires no more chemotherapy.
Tan said the World Health Organization made a breakthrough when it recognized that health is not only measured by physical or biological parameters but also takes in mental and social well-being. The social aspect includes all types of relationships from the personal to the community level.
He learned from his immersion with herbolarios (traditional medicine men) that health is a body-mind-spirit confluence with the divine, with nature and with others or, in longer words, spiritual, emotional, environmental and national well-being.
Tan said sleep in total darkness from seven to eight hours. “Darkness was created to make us rest,” he said, adding that it helps produce melatonin that promotes youthfulness. He said, “Those able to take afternoon naps live longer than those who don’t.”
If one wakes in the middle of the night, never be tempted to read or log on to the Internet. Another reminder is to keep digital gadgets like watches and cell phones at least a meter away from the bed as “their electromagnetic waves interfere with the brain waves,” he said.
Tan ran down the other healthy pointers to remember:
Physical activity or exercise 20-30 minutes daily. An hour’s walk is equal to 10,000 steps a day, even if not continuous. Tan said, “Taking the tricycle has destroyed the body of the Filipino.”
Maintain friendships. Follow the adage of to love and be loved. Keep ties with kindred spirits throughout life. Even donating to charity releases happy hormones called endorphins.
Forgive and ask forgiveness. He said social medicine evidence shows that this works although it may be the hardest act. If the hurting person lets 10 weeks or even six months pass, then meets the offender casually without evading him/her, forgiveness has taken place.
Laughter and sex reduce aging. Watch funny films or videos. Take forced leaves and vacation. A happy life, Tan said, is one where “every pregnancy is planned, every baby is wanted and a person is free of sexually transmitted diseases.”
Have time for stillness, meditation and prayer.
Eat lots of plant-based food (vegetables, fruits, nuts, beans, lentils) apart from complex carbohydrates and deep-sea fish. Avoid white sugar, white bread, processed meat (tocino and longganisa). Go on a monthly fast by eating fruits and vegetable for three days, something other living creatures do naturally.
Drink warm or room-temperature liquids, mineral water, dark chocolate (tablea), green tea. He advised against distilled water which is “dead water” as it has no minerals and doesn’t rehydrate the body.
Free oneself from addictions to smoking, alcohol, gambling, drugs and sex. Also toxic are secondhand smoke, chemical fertilizers and pesticides, and heavy metals.
By Elizabeth Lolarga, Vera Files
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Medications And Treatments For Diabetes
What is sad about people who are suffering from diabetes is that many of them remain undiagnosed mainly because of lack of knowledge on the disease and lack of resources to even visit a doctor and know their real condition. In fact, more often than not, “diabetics” or the people who are suffering from diabetes only know about their condition once their bodies exhibit signs and symptoms that can no longer be ignored. These include extreme blurring of vision, excruciating pains especially in the legs, and cuts or sores that takes time to heal and worse, wounds that don’t heal at all and needs to cut to avoid other affected cells from spreading to other parts of the body.
Treatment and medical options
Since diabetes is a chronic disease, people who are suffering from it should be more vigilant about their health more than ever. It means that they should visit their doctors more often, maintain a healthy lifestyle and take the necessary medications or undergo needed treatments for them to stay healthy.
Before taking in any medication or undergoing a specific treatment, it is a must that person knows what type of diabetes he or she is suffering from. Basically, there are three types of diabetes: type 1 diabetes wherein the person’s body doesn’t have the capability to produce insulin, which is crucial for sugar to turn the food into energy; the type 2 diabetes—the most common type—restricts the person’s pancreas to produce enough supply insulin for the body to use well; and the gestational diabetes which occurs among pregnant women and can lead to type 2 diabetes eventually if not monitored immediately.
Experts say that people with diabetes should aim for healthy diet and getting regular exercise to control the illness. At times, there will be the need to take in some medications or undergo treatments. The following are just some of the common medications advised for people with diabetes:
1. Insulin shots. Since insufficient insulin levels in the body cause diabetes, insulin itself can solve the problem. For diabetics, insulin is very important because it lowers the blood sugar in the body by moving the sugar from the person’s blood into the cells. Insulin should be taken at least two times daily to ensure that there will be stable blood sugar control. It should be taken at least 30 minutes before each meal or should be taken before one eats especially if she or he takes a fast effecting type.
2. Oral medications. People with type 1 diabetes are not advised to use oral medications since insulin shots are injected in their bodies 24/7 in order to survive. Oral medications work best to people with type 2 diabetes—especially those who have high blood sugar—because these can serve as a supplement for them. The most common oral medications include sulfonylureas which forces the pancreas to produce more insulin to lower the blood sugar levels; siguanides which helps achieve lower blood sugar by stopping the liver in producing too much sugar; metformin which helps the person lose weight which is the common cause of diabetes; thiazolidinediones which helps the cells develop higher sensitivity to insulin which moves the glucose from the blood; and meglitinides which is responsible for helping the pancreas produce more insulin immediately after each meal to effectively lower blood sugar levels.
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