Reasons for sleeping and waking up early

Evening at 9 - 11pm:
is the time for eliminating unnecessary/toxic chemicals (detoxification) from the antibody system (lymph nodes). This time duration should be spent by relaxing or listening to music. If during this time a housewife is still in an unrelaxed state such as washing the dishes or monitoring children doing their homework, this will have a negative impact on health.

Evening at 11pm - 1am:
is the detoxification process in the liver, and ideally should be done in a deep sleep state.

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My friend’s company conducted a health screening session and I went down right after my gym workout.

Name: Carine Olivia Attan

Age: 25 years old

Weight: 46 kg (with my clothes on but without shoes)

Height: 160 cm

BMI (kg/m.m): 18.0

% Body Fat: 19.7% (under normal range for women athletes but still high!! Need to work on this!).

Viseral Fat: 1% (fats around the important organs such as heart etc. Most girls my age are 1. Guys are usually higher. Guys tend to have more belly right hehe)

Skeletal Muscle: 29.6%

Body Age: 18

Blood Pressure (mmHg): 110/64 (right after a 1.5hr workout at the gym)

Pulse: 51 (right after a 1.5hr workout at the gym)

Blood Glucose (mmol/L): 5 mmol/L (Fasting Blood Glucose — because I only had breakfast at the time of testing)

Blood Cholesterol (mg/dl): 187 mg/dl (my total cholesterol is under the desirable range but it’s kinda the high end for an athlete. It’s either because of my junk food bad eating habit or it’s in my genes).

Bone Density Score: T 2.9 (anything above -1 is considered good)

I’ve never done a cholesterol check before. So it was good to know my current level. I am planning to do another checkup to get the details i.e the HDL and LDL level.

Basic categories for total blood cholesterol:

- Desirable — Less than 200 mg/dL
- Borderline High Risk — 200–239 mg/dL
- High Risk — 240 mg/dL and over

Desirable

If your total blood cholesterol is lower than 200 mg/dL, your risk of heart attack is relatively low, unless you have other risk factors. That said, it’s still a good idea to eat foods low in saturated fat and dietary-cholesterol, and take plenty of physical exercise. Lastly, to monitor possible changes in your cholesterol levels, have them measured every five years — or more often if you’re a man over 45 or a woman over 55.

For the first time in my life, I experienced heartburn. Have you?

Heartburn is a burning feeling in the lower chest, along with a sour or bitter taste in the throat and mouth. The term “heartburn” may come from the fact that hydrochloric acid from the stomach comes back up the esophagus because of a problem with the cardiac sphincter, a valve which misleadingly contains the word “cardiac” (an adjective referring to the heart) in its name (wikipedia)

It took me a while to realise that I probably had heartburn. At first I thought that my antibiotic was stuck in my throat. It was a little alarming because I’ve never felt this burning before. It was an uncomfortable feeling.

* I had a question about heartburn in my Sports Nutrition exam paper and I think I wrote something different :<