8 Pillars of Health
8 Pillars of Health is a Health and Wellbeing Center located in the city of Chengdu in China, serving the local community.
It is the test-model center for the programs and systems and innovations created by AlphaMind Plus™
The 8 Pillars of Health
Everyone has been looking for a ‘Universal Remedy’ and the secret to longevity for thousands of years.
The 8 Pillars of Health is the system, the technology and the knowledge that will bring trigger your own body’s innate ability to not only heal itself but create energy and vitality right into your 10th decade and even beyond.
The 5 biggest causes of death are Heart Disease, Cancer, Chronic Obstructive Respiratory Disease, Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases and Diabetes.
These diseases account for the majority of early death – death before 100+
All long-living populations share the same secrets of longevity:
- They ate wisely.
- They exercised naturally
- They managed stress
- They lived purposely
- They slept well, they got lots of sun
- They had periods of fasting or time-restricted eating
- They kept mentally active
- They belonged to a community.
The 8 Pillars of Health system borrows from the knowledge of the past and the knowledge of the Blue Zones and marries it with the latest cutting-edge technology to give your body and your mind exactly what it needs to do its job properly – keep you alive, healthy and full of energy.
And we have packaged this into an easy to learn and implement system of 8 Pillars of Health.
Each of the 8 Pillars of Health was chosen specifically because research shows these tools are effective and based on the latest scientific research.
Pillar 1 – Knowledge via Virtual Reality
Before you create health, you need to understand how build health.
Dr. Narendra Kini from the Miami Children’s Hospital that information learned in a Virtual Reality environment had a recall and retention rate of over 80% after 12 months.
8 Pillars of Health’s partner, AlphaMind Plus, have been working with Virtual Reality for more than 7 years and have used this experience to create multiple lessons and programs in Virtual Reality – 20 minutes at a time.
This allows you to remember 80% of that information and apply the knowledge in building your own health and well being.
Pillar 2 – The Food We Eat
There is a massive amount of scientific research into food that has shown that if we eat the right food with the right nutrition, our bodies respond with vibrant health and boundless energy.
8 Pillars of Health has a variety of training programs to teach you what food is important, how to cook, how to choose the right foods and how to avoid disease by eating the healthiest, life-giving foods there are.
And equally as important, how to stop eating atomic bombs of health destroying foods and find healthy replacements.
Our programs will teach you the secrets of how to get a massive boost in all the essential vitamins, antioxidants and micro-nutrients – we will teach you what to eat – when to eat it – how to prepare it – how to choose it to get the right quality.
Pillar 3 – Sleep
Sleep is one of the body’s healing mechanism. Sleep is essential to good health.
Approximately 35% of adults do not sleep properly and this negatively affects your health on many different levels.
Sleeping fewer than 7 hours per day has a 13% increased risk of death from heart disease and sleeping fewer than 5 hours per night had a 61% higher risk of developing high blood pressure.
8 Pillars of Health have developed a system for sleep based on very powerful (but very simple) scientifically backed techniques that will improve your health and well-being.
We will give you the tools, techniques, and supplements to ensure you get the right sleep, the right sleep cycles and the right time to sleep to maximize the incredible healing power of your own body.
Pillar 4 – Exercise
Our bodies are naturally adapted to exercise – not the intense treadmill-busting, weight-lifting type of exercise you find in a gym – but the type of walking/wandering/bending and lifting type of exercise that was required to get food every day or two.
Exercise was natural. It wasn’t called exercise – it was called ‘getting food’ or ‘building a shelter’ or ‘dancing around the campfire’.
Exercise has been shown to reduce heart disease, many types of cancer, high blood cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes and other diseases.
We are already programed for health by the environment that we existed in for millions of years – turning on the body’s own health mechanisms with green environment exercise is an incredibly powerful way to increase health and longevity
8 Pillars of Health have a range of science based exercise programs that are not painful or strenuous but maximize the health benefits of movement.
Pillar 5 – Far-Infrared Heat Therapy & Cold-Water Immersion Therapy
Your body has an amazing healing system that virtually no-one knows about.
The heat-stress system.
Heat Therapy using THE RED BED mimics and amplifies the effect of a feverish body – literally turning on the body’s repair and damage control systems at a deep cellular and DNA level.
8 Pillars of Health have two Far-Infrared Heat Therapy RED BEDS which have been scientifically proven to
- Improve Recovery and Circulation and relieve sore muscles.
- Relieve Pain
- Clear And Tighter Skin
- Detox of Heavy Metals, Chemicals, and other Toxins
- Burns Calories (Weight Loss)
- Increases Resistance to Illness
- Improve Lungs and Airways
- Reduce Depression
Cold-Water Immersion Therapy
Cold Water Immersion therapy is the practice of immersion in water that is 15°C and lower to treat health conditions and stimulate health benefits. Immersion can be in an ice-bath or a cold shower.
Thousands of years of experience has shown that cold water has the effect of stimulating the healing systems in the body which strengthens the body’s internal defense mechanisms.
Cold Water Immersion Therapy has been shown in scientific studies to:
Boost the immune system – Improve circulation – Deepen sleep – Boost energy levels – Reduce inflammation – Improve metabolic function – Improve mood.
Pillar 6 – Intermittent Fasting
Intermittent fasting or Time-Restricted eating is the powerhouse of a health system that heals pretty much every single faulty system in the body.
Ancient human beings went long periods of time without eating – and the body used that time to perform a task that kept every single cell alive and healthy – this task or process is called autophagy – which means ‘self-eating’.
Insulin and sugar are heavily linked to cancer, diabetes, liver disease, kidney disease, inflammation – which is linked to heart disease, atherosclerosis, stroke and other major lifestyle related diseases.
Intermittent Fasting has a major positive effect on all of these diseases.
There is no more powerful tool in regaining health and well-being that time restricted eating.·
- Changes the function of hormones, cells, and genes.
- Reduces insulin resistance, lowering your risk for type 2 diabetes
- Reduces oxidative stress and inflammation in the body
- Beneficial for heart health
- Induces various cellular repair processes
- Is beneficial for heart health
- Induces various cellular repair processes
- Helps prevent cancer
- Has benefits for your brain
- Help prevent Alzheimer’s disease
- Extends your lifespan, helping you live longer
8 Pillars of Health have the entire range of programs and resources from Dr Jason Fung’s world-famous fasting protocols and can offer unique one-on-one advice, support and mentoring to see you build health and well-being and longevity.
Pillar 7 – Meditation and Relaxation – Brainwave Guidance
Meditation and Deep Relaxation has been found to improve multiple health systems in the body
Meditation improves physical health by boosting the immune functions, regulating hormonal discharge, and decreasing cellular inflammation.
A regular meditation practice has been shown to reduce stress and anxiety, slow down the rate of brain aging and memory loss, promote mental health, and lengthen attention span.
Brainwave Guidance via Binaural Beats induces the same mental state associated with a meditation practice, but much more quickly.
Brainwave Guidance can help create the frequency needed for your brain to create the same waves commonly experienced during a meditation practice. The use of brainwave guidance in this way is sometimes called brain wave entrainment technology.
Brainwave Guidance has been proven to reduced stress and anxiety; Increase focus, motivation and concentration; induce better sleep; increase feelings of well-being; enhance creativity; stimulate better long-term memory; and Increase relaxation and positive moods.
8 Pillars of Health has created an entire library of brainwave guidance programs that are available to use in the center.
Pillar 8 – Targeted Additional Nutrition
Nature has provided everything the body needs to work properly – but we have disrupted the quality of the food we eat so dramatically that we need to provide additional support to the body to keep the body working in its natural healing state.
Almost all adults fail to get enough of the essential micronutrients that the body needs to maximize the body’s ability to maintain the highest level of health and well-being.
Micronutrients are responsible for managing the body’s epigenetic systems, which turn gene expression switches on and off and in turn boosts the body’s own highly effective healing and heath generating metabolic processes.
Your body has an on/off switch for every single gene – and every gene can be turned on or off depending on the quality of the nutrients we eat.
Targeted Additional Nutrition means that an individual’s unique dietary intakes and disease profile is analyzed and a unique nutritional program which includes both those things that must be removed from the diet and what micronutrients need to be added to the daily food intake to allow the body to recover from the identified disorder.
8 Pillars of Health has products that support Healthy Cholesterol levels, Blood Pressure support, Cognitive Improvement, Cellular Repair (Omega 3 Fatty Acids and Polyphenols), Immune System support, Sleep Enhancement, and Human Gut Microbiota support.
