Skip to content

Beat fatigue with these healthy tips and tricks

Free World Class Education
FREE Catholic Classes
Sleep experts provide advice on how to feel more awake throughout the day.

A lot of people wake up feeling tired in the morning and the exhaustion progresses throughout the day. This causes a poor and insufficient performance on daily activities. The unhealthy feeling of tiredness and fatigue was scientifically noted to be caused by lack of sleep, too much coffee and low iron levels in the blood. Now experts in the field have provided advice regarding weariness and increasing one's alertness, according to the Daily Mail.

Highlights

By Nikky Andres (NEWS CONSORTIUM)
Catholic Online (https://www.catholic.org)
5/29/2015 (8 years ago)

Published in Health

Keywords: Health, Tips, Advice, Experts, Food, Energy

MUNTINLUPA, PHILIPPINES (Catholic Online) - According to Antonia Cook, one must try to consume Maca powder and dark chocolate. Maca powder contains B vitamins in abundance and is serves as a mood enhancer. Dark chocolate also contains mood enhancing anti-oxidants and is a natural stimulant.

One must also try ginger tea, instead of always drinking coffee. Making ginger tea is easy, as you would only need a slice of ginger and hot water.


Complement these nutritious foods with breathing exercise, like Cook suggests. "I do deep breathing exercises to increase my oxygen levels during the day - usually breathing in for a count of four and out for a count of six. This calms the whole system, reducing stress, and getting movement through the upper back, rib cage & diaphragm. It's like a mini meditation," she explained.

Deyo Famuboni shared another trick: Tech curfew.

Famuboni explains, "I stop using any electronics at 9pm. Over exposure to longer daylight in the forms of laptops, phones and electronics means the natural hormone changes that should take place as night falls are interrupted."

Additionally, do not drink water or other liquids a few hours before you doze off as liquids can fill your bladder and possibly disturb your sleep.

Life coach Jo Davidson also shared the secret to keeping energy levels high, "I always get up at least 90 minutes before I need to and spend that time doing vigorous exercise while listening to motivational speeches, seminars and podcasts, which make me completely zingy."  

Nutritionist Charlotte Watts believes it is effective to visualize light. "It has the effect of waking up the brain, as it responds in the same way it would to looking at a bright light source. Simply sitting and imagining light seeping into and filling up my head is gentle and effective at helping me feel more alive," she said.

---


'Help Give every Student and Teacher FREE resources for a world-class Moral Catholic Education'


Copyright 2021 - Distributed by Catholic Online

We ask you, humbly: don't scroll away.

Hi readers, it seems you use Catholic Online a lot; that's great! It's a little awkward to ask, but we need your help. If you have already donated, we sincerely thank you. We're not salespeople, but we depend on donations averaging $14.76 and fewer than 1% of readers give. If you donate just $5.00, the price of your coffee, Catholic Online School could keep thriving. Thank you.

Help Now >

Join the Movement
When you sign up below, you don't just join an email list - you're joining an entire movement for Free world class Catholic education.

Prayer of the Day logo
Saint of the Day logo

Catholic Online Logo

Copyright 2024 Catholic Online. All materials contained on this site, whether written, audible or visual are the exclusive property of Catholic Online and are protected under U.S. and International copyright laws, © Copyright 2024 Catholic Online. Any unauthorized use, without prior written consent of Catholic Online is strictly forbidden and prohibited.

Catholic Online is a Project of Your Catholic Voice Foundation, a Not-for-Profit Corporation. Your Catholic Voice Foundation has been granted a recognition of tax exemption under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Federal Tax Identification Number: 81-0596847. Your gift is tax-deductible as allowed by law.