Living Lucky® Podcast with Jason and Jana Banana

The Six Doctors of Health

• Jana and Jason Shelfer • Season 8 • Episode 76

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The Six Doctors of Health: Your Ultimate Wellness Prescription (Living Lucky® Podcast)

What if the most powerful healing forces in your life aren't found in a pharmacy, but are six simple, accessible elements? On this Living Lucky® Podcast episode, Jason and Jana Banana unlock the profound holistic health wisdom attributed to Steve Jobs: "The best six doctors in the world are sunlight, rest, exercise, diet, self-confidence, and friends."

Dive into a candid exploration of how these six 'doctors' form a comprehensive framework for well-being, available to everyone. We share personal stories, from battling the guilt of intentional rest after achievement, to rediscovering the transformative power of brief daily exercise, and understanding how "eating food as medicine prevents eating medicine as food."

Discover the interconnectedness of these elements – how improving one naturally boosts the others, creating an upward spiral of vitality. You'll gain practical wisdom on balancing these crucial components for a more harmonious life.

Perhaps most surprisingly, we reveal why self-confidence might be the lynchpin to it all. When you truly embrace self-acceptance and believe in yourself, you naturally gravitate towards nurturing all six 'doctors' in your life. This insight alone could revolutionize your health journey and personal development.

Whether you're seeking a lifestyle reset or aiming for small, powerful improvements in your wellness routine, this episode offers a simple yet profound roadmap to living with more energy, purpose, and joy. Tune in to learn how to apply these timeless principles for optimal physical and mental health.

  • Steve Jobs' six best doctors for health.
  • Holistic approach to health and wellness.
  • Importance of sunlight for mood and energy.
  • Benefits of intentional rest and recovery.
  • How daily exercise improves well-being.
  • Eating food as medicine for optimal health.
  • Building self-confidence for better health.
  • Maintaining friendships in adulthood.
  • Interconnectedness of health elements. 
  • Practical wellness tips for a balanced life. 
  • What are Steve Jobs' six best doctors? What are the six elements of holistic health? Why is self-confidence important for health? How does diet impact overall well-being? What are t

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*Previously Recorded

Jana Shelfer:

Are you ready to create a life you crave? Let's spin that doom loop of negativity into an upward success cycle and start Living Lucky®. Good morning. I'm Jana, I'm Jason and we are Living Lucky®. You are, too. Steve Jobs is quoted as saying the best six doctors in the world not that we want doctors, but the best six doctors in the world are sunlight, rest, exercise, diet, self-confidence and friends. I feel like this is very wise.

Jason Shelfer:

It's pretty impactful when you think about it.

Jana Shelfer:

I think the older I get, the more I agree with him.

Jason Shelfer:

Yeah, and it's weird because, even without the quote over the last 10 years, a lot of this are things that we have kind of found through experimentation experimentation, and if we would have just listened to him or read his book, it would have exponentially put us ahead of the game.

Jason Shelfer:

Yeah, it just moved us forward. No, we had to learn it on our own, and that's one of the beauties of reading. I love the fact that we've picked up reading these books and autobiographies because it gives us the life lessons of some of these people that have had extraordinary lives in a compact four-hour, four-five-hour version, and sunlight, just getting out there and walking around the pond every morning.

Jana Shelfer:

Do you know how many times, like when I was suffering, I was in a dark place. I went through a really dark time, and when I was going through that time, the last thing I wanted to do was go outside.

Jason Shelfer:

Yeah, you want to bask in the darkness.

Jana Shelfer:

And I even remember your mom came to stay with us for a short time and she was, like you need to get outside, get some of that vitamin D. You just need to go sit in the sun, get some of that vitamin D, you just need to go sit in the sun. And isn't that funny how now we ski and we're out in the sun a lot, almost to the point where I'm like, oh my gosh, I'm starting to premature age here, you got to get some umbrellas.

Jana Shelfer:

I got to protect my skin A little too much vitamin D.

Jason Shelfer:

No.

Jana Shelfer:

I don't even know if that's possible, but sunlight does help your mood.

Jason Shelfer:

And there's an energy to it. It's a it's. Plants need light to grow. We need light to grow.

Jana Shelfer:

Oh my gosh, that is so simple.

Jason Shelfer:

We're not photosynthesizing things. I'm not a scientist, but I'm assuming that we're not using photosynthesis for anything but that light is a nourishing factor.

Jana Shelfer:

Maybe I'm not a scientist, but that light is a nourishing factor?

Jason Shelfer:

I think we are, though Maybe.

Jana Shelfer:

I'm not a scientist, I'm not going to claim it. I think going outside and just being in the sun, I think it helps not only our cells, our skin, vitamin D, like you said, but it just- 100% it gives us it's a life Force.

Jason Shelfer:

It's a life force.

Jana Shelfer:

Yes, 100%, it is a life force.

Jason Shelfer:

Okay, let's go through the next one, rest. We've talked about this multiple times in our podcast.

Jana Shelfer:

Because I feel guilty resting, yes, and I do know that this month especially, or this past month June, the month of June for us we spent a lot of time on the couch because we were tired, we were just. It was like our bodies. We were going going, going, going going and then our bodies were like, okay, it's time to rest. And for some reason, when I tried to rest purposefully, I start feeling it's guilt and it's this oh my gosh, I'm wasting. I'm wasting my life and I have things to do.

Jason Shelfer:

I'm wasting my potential and we talked about this on our live chat with the community that we accomplished so many things in the first six months of this year and sometimes we need to look at that and go. You know what I need to give myself that permission to rest. Rest is so important Rest recovery, giving that authorization to recharge, to give myself the time to recoup the energy.

Jana Shelfer:

You're so correct. I mean, think of an athlete. And when they just train, train, train, train train, that's when they start getting injuries. It's because they need that time to just recharge.

Jason Shelfer:

And it also gives your mind a chance to practice, perfectly Like when you're going through motions all the time. Sometimes you can just allow yourself your body and mind to rest, but you can gently go through things in your mind without the pressure of it and do it perfectly. All right. Number three Exercise, and it doesn't have to be vigorous.

Jana Shelfer:

How many times have we been told in our life Exercise it does the body good, Right.

Jason Shelfer:

You sound like a Saturday morning commercial, it not?

Jana Shelfer:

only does the body good, but it does your mind, your soul, your.

Jason Shelfer:

Relationships.

Jana Shelfer:

Vitality Energy levels.

Jason Shelfer:

We talked about this in our Miracle Morning podcast. Just 10 minutes can be all you need. It doesn't have to be vigorous, it doesn't have to be six hours in the gym, I know.

Jana Shelfer:

But for some reason, we do that. We're like, oh my God, I got to start a workout routine today and we start by going to the gym for an hour.

Jason Shelfer:

Yeah, because we want results immediately and then tomorrow that hour just feels.

Jana Shelfer:

That feels like too big of a climb. Do you know what I'm saying? That used to be me.

Jason Shelfer:

I would go to Tony Robbins. I would go to Tony Robbins' conference and I'd be like, oh, I got to get the full body gym, I got to get the supplements, I got to get the protein shakes. And I would come back and I'd be like, all right, I'm going to start my workout routine. I'm going to do two hours a day. I'll do an hour in the morning, an hour in the evening, and I would just blow myself up like exhaustion, exhaustion wise, not not muscle wise, but exhaustion wise, and I would be done in like four weeks.

Jana Shelfer:

And even if you do it for four weeks, which I don't think you did and I didn't get the results. I don't even think you made it that long. But if you do it for four weeks, then you've changed so many things that you don't know what that one Right.

Jason Shelfer:

I don't know what's working and I've blown my ecosystem out of the water Like I've blown everything in my life out of the water, and I have no idea what that one thing is that's working, but incremental improvements, just a little bit of exercise every day would have been gold Number four, which this is a no-brainer as well. Diet, diet we are what we eat. Just eat your food as medicine, so that you don't have to eat your medicine as food.

Jana Shelfer:

Okay, I know you didn't make that one up, you read that.

Jason Shelfer:

I'm pretty sure that's another Steve Jobs.

Jana Shelfer:

That is really quite brilliant, though, if what we eat is what we are.

Jason Shelfer:

Yeah, I mean how many times did we hear that when we were younger.

Jana Shelfer:

You are what you eat.

Jason Shelfer:

From your head down to your feet.

Jana Shelfer:

I never heard that part.

Jason Shelfer:

That's the way it goes. That's why I'm such a poet, and you didn't know it, but my feet show it because they're long fellows.

Jana Shelfer:

Ah, Jason, you're full of surprises today. Okay, so what is number five?

Jason Shelfer:

Number five is self-confidence, and I think that just comes down to loving ourselves and also being confident in that love. So it's accepting yourself, like we all want acceptance, but a lot of times we don't accept ourselves. We want acceptance from everyone else.

Jana Shelfer:

That is so true. That is so true. And number six, friends.

Jason Shelfer:

Friends Value time with friends.

Jana Shelfer:

Now I'm going to be a little transparent here. I feel like I have put friends on the back burner in my 40s and it was a mistake. I am realizing that it has been a mistake and I've really been trying to intentionally reconnect with some people and to not get back in good graces, cause I never fell out of graces, I just stopped putting effort into it.

Jason Shelfer:

One thing I will say is that we have invested a lot of time with each other and I don't regret I don't regret a single bit of that.

Jana Shelfer:

Yeah, but it's to the point where we finish each other's Sandwiches.

Jason Shelfer:

Sentences.

Jana Shelfer:

Oh, and I sometimes think, though, that the more people that we can be around, it will benefit us, I think we definitely expand our inner circle, yes, and expand the layers outside of that inner circle, but it's a it's just so important.

Jana Shelfer:

Okay, I just want to like take a minute to be real, because it's harder as you get older to make friends, and I know that that's a limiting belief, but when I was younger it felt so easy to make friends, and it's not that people don't like me, it's, it's really me Like. Sometimes I want people to see three, fourths of me, but I don't want them to see that 25% that you know isn't, isn't what I want to project.

Jason Shelfer:

Well, it's also. It's hard for some people to accept boundaries Like. It's like when we say I've got one weekend a month or one night a month that I can hang out. Yeah, some people are like I need someone. I want someone that I can hang out with three times a week.

Jana Shelfer:

They feel like that might be a slap in the face. Right Is what you're saying.

Jason Shelfer:

And what we're saying is we really enjoy your company. We want to hang out with you a lot and a lot. Our definition of a lot is hanging out once a month.

Jana Shelfer:

Or once a quarter Right, let's not over commit.

Jason Shelfer:

Going out once a month seems like a stretch for me.

Jana Shelfer:

Why is that, though? We used to go out all the time.

Jason Shelfer:

But we do a lot like we. We have a lot on our calendar and you say that.

Jana Shelfer:

But then I look at what we do and I, for some reason, my perception is that we're not doing enough.

Jason Shelfer:

Well, look at our, look at what we just went through our calendar and marked off, like all the goals that we've accomplished. So we're going. But the problem is, is we not the problem? We've designed our life to accomplish the things that we want in our life. So we're going, getting up at 4 30 in the morning, we're going to bed at 7. I mean, that's a and a lot of friends no, there's people don't want to go.

Jason Shelfer:

Don't want to go to dinner at 4 30 in the afternoon, right? Because they're like, oh my gosh, you guys just need to go to the.

Jana Shelfer:

Golden Corral. That's what crew we're in now. Get that early bird special, that's right.

Jason Shelfer:

I don't mind going to the Golden Corral. Well, I don't want to go eat at the Golden Corral, but I don't mind the early bird special.

Jana Shelfer:

Okay, so Steve Jobs, we all know him as the CEO and founder of Apple. No longer the CEO and founder of Apple, no longer with us. Apple a day he was a genius. Keeps the doctors away. Oh my gosh. Okay, you're making connections that aren't there.

Jason Shelfer:

And his quote is that the six best doctors in the world are sunlight, rest, exercise, diet, self-confidence and friends. Okay, so just to wrap this up of thoseconfidence and friends.

Jana Shelfer:

Okay, so just to wrap this up, of those six, which one is your favorite?

Jason Shelfer:

My favorite self-confidence.

Jana Shelfer:

I was going to say the same thing. I literally think, if you can step into your self-confidence and-.

Jason Shelfer:

I think the rest will come in with you.

Jana Shelfer:

Yes, you start attracting everything that you want in life and need.

Jason Shelfer:

I think we've talked about this for the last couple of years in the podcast and, like we just talked about it and building our own prisons, and once you get that self-confidence, you will bring in the rest of this and you will start taking care of yourself. You will start recognizing your soul, will take you to the sunlight, to the rest, to the exercise. It will have you eating the right thing.

Jana Shelfer:

But they all kind of feed off of each other, don't you think I? Mean we've gone through periods in our life where you know we start eating the wrong things. Then all of a sudden that affects your self-confidence. Am I right? Or we stop exercising?

Jason Shelfer:

Or do we eat the wrong things because we're not self-confident?

Jana Shelfer:

See, and it goes hand in hand, which came first, the chicken or the egg. I mean, I could sit here and argue this with you all day which comes first, the smile or the joy?

Jason Shelfer:

Right.

Jana Shelfer:

Right. I mean it all feeds off of each other and how do we just get curious about this and say what do I want more in my life of? Okay, so to wrap this up, don't go to the doctor, go to these six doctors, that's right. Read them off.

Jason Shelfer:

Sunlight, rest, exercise, diet, self-confidence and friends.

Jana Shelfer:

Make sure you're going to the right friends.

Jason Shelfer:

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Jana Shelfer:

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