Motivation

Which diet is best for you? Kerstin chased nutrition trends from High Carb Low Fat to High Fat Low Carb. She gained strength doing HIT workouts but her goal was to gain muscle mass and improve her health with food. In addition to AURUM strength training, epigenetics and a personalized nutrition approach was the answer. A personal self-optimisation journey by Kerstin.

Regular exercise and High Intensity Strength Training may help ease depression symptoms and boost happiness by releasing feel-good endorphins, natural cannabis-like brain chemicals (endogenous cannabinoids) and other natural brain chemicals that can enhance your sense of mental wellbeing.

Whereas happiness is a subjective state of wellbeing, research on health and longevity suggests that physical activity does not only increase levels of happiness but also fights mental illnesses. Exercise is an all-natural way to fight depression, increase resilience and is most often more effective than drugs..

These 15 simple tips will help you optimize your body & get hormones into balance. Implementing only 2-3 tips can already improve metabolism in the short and the long term. My current favorite tip is #13: Strike. Stroll. Shiver as suggested by Ben Greenfield. In the long term, this not only helps your body metabolize fat and build up your bone and muscle mass but also rejuvenate your cells (autophagy).