Mario Alonso Puig: “These are the four fundamental keys to a healthy and long life”

Renowned surgeon, teacher and author Mario Alonso Puig has outlined the four most important keys to achieving a healthy, long life. A set of daily habits that are necessary to maintain health and ensure a good quality of life over the long term.

“Exercise is the first one. Lack of exercise shortens life, although it is difficult to admit this, especially for those of us who do not really like to exercise,” jokes Mario Alonso Puig in one of his latest interviews. A famous doctor explains that “physical exercise lengthens life, but a sedentary lifestyle shortens it.”

In addition to this first point, which leaves no room for debate in this regard, Mario Alonso Puig points to diet as another key to a healthy life. “Diets high in sugar are known to be harmful to health. Lack of fiber is also harmful to health. “We should consume fifty grams of fiber a day, and in the West we only take fifteen,” he explains about the habit we should maintain.

“Thirdly, posture. “Body posture influences many physiological processes,” this is the third of the fundamental keys to taking care of our health, which finds the fourth differentiating element in sleep. “One of the most fundamental, most important elements is sleep at night. We need at least seven hours of sleep. During sleep, the body’s defense system, the immune system, is activated, and defective, toxic proteins are cleared from the brain; The lymphatic system opens up and releases growth hormone or growth hormone, which revitalizes the tissue,” he explains about the importance of sleep.