The 4 Pillar Plan: How to Relax, Eat, Move and Sleep Your Way to a Longer, Healthier Life

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Our bodies, including brains, emotions, muscles, and everything in between, cannot function without sleep. That’s because sleep is the time when your body takes out all the waste that cells build up when you’re awake. This is what makes getting your z’s improve your energy, attention, and learning capability, among many other things.

4 Pillar Plan by Dr Rangan Chatterjee | Waterstones The 4 Pillar Plan by Dr Rangan Chatterjee | Waterstones

The thing about leading a healthy lifestyle is that most of us know what we are supposed to go it – but we don’t. In his book “The 4 Pillar Plan – How To Relax, Eat, Move, Sleep Your Way To A Longer, Healthier Life”, Dr Rangan Chatterjee does just this.To take remedy this, Chatterjee recommends a period without tech – ideally 90 minutes but as long as you can manage if not – before bed. Another action you can take to improve your sleep is to “manage your commotion”. We didn't know what that meant, so we asked. You might think that it’s harder to take control of your sleep than the other aspects of the plan. That’s what we thought, anyway. Chatterjee disagrees. The 4 pillars are Relax, Eat, Move and Sleep and there is a list of 5 improvements under each and the author suggests trying to achieve 3 of each. If one day you saw a rash on your arm, what do you think you might do? Most people might visit the doctor who would likely prescribe some medicinal cream to make it go away. The problem is, although your rash might go away, there’s no telling where it came from in the first place. You could have problems with your immune system, for example, which the doctor would have completely overlooked. Have you ever wondered why you feel grumpy or tired all the time? It’s interesting that so many of us struggle with these and other frustrations and we fail to realize that the solution is simply improving our sleep.

4 Pillar Plan - Penguin Books UK The 4 Pillar Plan - Penguin Books UK

A better way is to focus on movement each day rather than exercise. According to the author, we should make this a change in how we speak, too. We should remove the word “exercise” and say “movement” in its place. But how can we get more movement in our schedule? Rangan presents a better year long frame work to encourage us all to take better care of our health all year round rather than embarking on short term deprivation diets and unsustainable assaults on the gym -- Sunday ExpressIt is based on The 4 Pillar Plan: How to Relax, Eat, Move and Sleep Your Way to a Longer, Healthier Life by Dr Rangan Chatterjee Some of his tips I was already doing. But as a result of the book, here are the specific things I have newly implemented or adjusted in my life: