Why is that important?
Health is not the absence of disease, but it is the ability of the body and mind to respond alertly and appropriately to change. Through resilience and flexibility, being able to cope well with a stress moment and return to the balance that is right for you.
For you, a stress moment can be the presence of a pathogen, wrong food choice, poor digestion, circumstances, an emotion and a thought, as well as the absence of acute stimuli.
You respond depending on the strength of your immune system and your personality.
These forces are diminished by today's chronic exposure to stimuli. Everything is expected of us all the time, the news evokes emotions and thoughts, wrong food and exercise choices. When a person has experienced circumstances such as early life stress, his or her systems have gone into a chronic "alertness" state, preventing adequate recovery and functioning.
Due to the stress hormones adrenaline and cortisol, the immune system is activated resulting in insulin resistance, causing low-grade inflammation to be dormant. From this, a range of complaints and illnesses can arise, physically e/o mentally. Your well-being is thus undermined.
More and more studies show that exposing yourself again to past old acute stressors that are familiar to the body gives the body its and the mind/brain its flexibility back. When do we still experience these stimuli? There is constant presence of food, drink, constant temperature and being busy.
For better physical, mental and emotional health, it is important to:
- Somehow step out of your comfort zone for a while through exercise, cold, heat, fasting, breathing techniques, cognitive stimulation and mindfulness.
- Real food with lots of flavour to eat, fresh and unprocessed, so healthy and tasty.
- Being able to experience gratitude and connection.
Through behavioural change, clear your stressor(s) for your flexibility. Because being flexible means health, freedom, decisiveness, creativity, being in connection and therefore true happiness.
Since starting to change is difficult for people, I organise a 5-day retreat, in which we take into account all aspects for your recovery or prevention. Fully geared to your personal situation, whether you aim to improve your performance or want to get rid of a chronic illness or complaints.
Intermittent Living days based on kPNI science = complete medicine. The concept was developed by Dr Leo Pruimboom, PNI Europe
"The use of ancestral challenges as a vaccine against the damaging effects of modern life".
Using the Intermittent Living concept®©, you will experience and understand how to use old acute stimuli to go or stay fit in today's modern times. The concept is based on the knowledge from scientific PsychoNeuroImmunology, PNI.
It turns out that our bodies have not yet genetically adapted at all to our current way of life. For 200,000 years in our development, we have had to deal with acute stressors such as cold, heat, hunger, thirst, hypoxia and hypercapnia. Science has now shown that our immune system has an adequate response to these and not to the chronic stimuli of our time: our current diet, sedentary lifestyle and stress. These chronic stressors cause our immune system to remain chronically mildly activated, resulting in a continuous low-grade inflammatory response, resulting in all the pathologies of our time. Our ancient stressors allow us to react immediately to changing circumstances; they make us flexible.
"It is not the strongest or smartest individuals who survive and are fit, but the individuals who can best adapt to conditions and environment! To survive, our species had to regularly push its ingenuity and endurance to the limit. In our struggle with an unpredictable nature, we evolved from strong apes to smart humans," said Dr Leo Plumboom.
SOURCES AND SCIENTIFIC REFERENCES
1. https://www.rug.nl/research/portal/publications/the-multiple-faces-of-the-human-immune-system(2be316f9-0ffc-4baa-ae02-d55c123f52c4).html
2.https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306987718305723.
Intermittent living® programmes:
Goal: restore flexibility and fitness, over which you regain control
We offer 2 to 5-day programmes and an online programme, following a scientific concept. The following strategies are used:
- Intermittent fasting
- Intermittent drinking
- Short-term cold
- Heat
- Hypercapnia
- Hypoxia
- Nutrition
- Motion
- Relaxation, mindfulness
- With additional photobiomodulation, red light therapy.
The programmes are run one-on-one or in groups, for which you can sign up individually, or as a team (colleagues, family members, friends). The format is such that it also lends itself very well to teambuilding. Online programme is a one-to-one programme.
The 5-day programme:
- 5 days give a complete reset, from which you can start tracking it yourself.
- Prior and concluding blood pressure, weight, urine and blood values determinations can be done. Fully PMO worthy for companies.
- fermentation training
- learn to prepare healthy and, above all, delicious meals in a simple way
- easy-to-fit exercise schedule for daily life
- handbook for home use
- possibility of continuation under the professional guidance of a certified Intermittent Living Coach®© training PNI Europe.
- learning to listen to your own needs again
- connection between head and body
- restoration of biorhythms.
- Besides preventive programmes, also special programmes for, for example: diabetes, obesity, respiratory, cardiovascular, immune incl autoimmune diseases, neurodegeneration, fibromyalgia, joint problems, sleep issues, behaviour, depression, (top) athletes, smoking cessation,
- various locations in the Netherlands and abroad. For companies, it can also be done on location for a team.
Programmes are for your own health, where you gain knowledge, deep learning. It is not training to become an Intermittent Living®© Coach. Classification and acceptance into a group after review of intake form and, if necessary, a 15-minute online conversation (ZOOM). For specific dates and locations: https://flexhealth.eu/hoe-hou-je-gezond-leven-vol/
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The 2-day programme:
- gives you a picture and the tools of how you can start applying it in your daily life. Registration is possible from now on, we will decide the dates together.
Intermittent Living online programme:
- A 1-to-1 programme. In 8 sessions, I guide you through all the Intermittent Living facets and help you implement them in your personal daily life.
Workshop:
In addition to programmes, workshops of 1 or 2 half-days can also be given. A workshop is a shortened version of a 2-day programme. It provides insight into the how and why of Intermittent living in daily life at home and in the workplace. It provides tools for points of improvement. It has a high preventive value and greatly reduces absenteeism. (evidence-based 150,000 studies).
Workshops are mainly held at companies, but also at fellow sufferers' associations or at schools.
Individual counselling:
In case of a personal question regarding the functioning of the various systems in the body, a one-to-one session is agreed upon to determine the best course of action and in what order: a coaching course or not in combination with the Intermittent living concept, based on kPNI. For the follow-up trajectory, face-to-face or online sessions can be chosen.
Intermittent Living Exercise:
Sessions of 5x 1-hour training including a piece of practical experience of the various interventions, such as cold, heat, hypercapnia, hypoxia and intermittent fasting. From February '23 on Tuesday evenings again. Group size maximum 10 people.
Introduction day Intermittent Living®:
Includes mini workshop. For information and registration, please fill in the contact form.
Facebook group: Intermittent Living according to kPNI