Feel Better In 5: Your Daily Plan to Feel Great for Life

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The book also comprises case stories so we can hear how doing the various exercises has helped Dr C’s patients.

I don’t know if you want to speak into that for a moment, but I thought it was a really great contrast to help us understand. For any of us listening right now, or watching, you could imagine like, oh, I’m going to shove… By the way, I love ice cream. Ice cream is awesome. Everything in moderation. But if you just like shoved your face with sugar or ice cream or something that you know wouldn’t be good for you three times a day for five days a week over years, you could imagine not feeling very well, right?Just talking about building up the celebration, I love that you also gave the example that sometimes with your patients you’ll recommend, hey, if you don’t want to do a wall chart, you can actually take a jar and put little coffee beans in it. Any type of visual representation of you building up that momentum, of you taking that small step every single day.

You have to choose one five-minute intervention from mind, one for body, one for heart – and do them every day, five days a week. So, literally 15 minutes a day, five days a week, is all you have to do. By doing this, you’re covering the three important areas. He extols the values of blueberries but fails to mention the vastly superior qualities of wild blueberries, which thus would be an even better ingredient for his smoothie. This is one of the most insightful books I’ve read regarding health and well-being. It encourages us to take only 15 minutes out of our day to create daily habits that will benefit us for the rest of our lives. I say to people, don’t do more than three, right? Don’t do more than three, at least when you’re starting. Because again, you run into the same problem. You’ll do five or six a day for a week, and then you’ll be too busy and you’ll do none.I feel that the print could have been larger so as to take into consideration us older readers or others whose sight may not be perfect. Remember, the exercises above are just a guide, feel free to adapt this to suit your own needs and your own kitchen environment. Rangan Chatterjee: Hey, well look, I just want to say to everyone, I hope you guys are doing okay. I know it’s a stressful world out there, but lifestyle change is always worth it, because this is what I say at the end of all of my podcasts, but when you feel better, you live more. So it’s always worth it. It’s funny, Marie, I was thinking in the hour before this call with you, I went for a walk. I thought I was going to clear my mind because I’m under a lot of work pressure at the moment that’s unrelated to this. I just thought about it. I thought, wow, you know what my book is really about that I didn’t realize when I wrote it? It’s about helping people change their identity through action.

We kind of understand that, but we somehow think that a five minute workout, or five minutes of breath work, or five minutes of meditation, or five minutes of nature won’t have the same impact, and it absolutely will. Good habits build up in exactly the same way as bad habits. I really think that’s an important point to grasp. The book is divided into three key areas of health: Mind, Body and Heart. Mind is about reducing levels of stress and anxiety –our modern-day epidemic. Body is about moving more, something so vital for our physical and mental health. And Heart is about strengthening all our essential, human connections, our relationships with others. If I had to choose one of the three areas that I feel is most important, and most often neglected, it’s this one. The biggest perk of this book is the specificity of not only the "Feel Better in 5" routine options, but also the detailing of each 5 minute routine. Chatterjee leaves no aspect without a description, unlike some health routines. Even exercises are explained and modifications given. These details leave people with little excuse to not create these habits. Everything is flexible and personalized to whatever you're looking to improve or gain.The fact that more and more people are talking about this openly on social media, these things are really helping bring these topics into the public domain.

Dr. Rangan Chatterjee is regarded as one of the most influential doctors in the UK and wants to change how medicine will be practised in years to come. He has been called a pioneer and is changing the way that we look at illness. He is known for finding the root cause of people's problems and he highlighted his methods in the ground-breaking BBC television show, Doctor in the House, which has been shown in over 70 countries around the world. In 2017, he was placed 8th in the Pulse Power 50 list for influential GPs. By publishing your document, the content will be optimally indexed by Google via AI and sorted into the right category for over 500 million ePaper readers on YUMPU. Now it’s your turn. What’s one small daily habit you have that makes you feel better every day? Leave a comment below and let me know.It sort of speaks to what I said maybe five, ten minutes ago, which is we think everything around help has to be really difficult and really hard and punishing and deprivation. I’m saying health can be fun. We don’t think about bad habits in the same way as good habits, so exactly what you said. So I’m really proud of the impact it’s had in the UK. I think this book was really helping people before the pandemic. But actually the way the world has changed since we last met, I think this book has never been more important than today. Look, another great example. Toothbrushing, right? So I’m going to guess that pretty much everyone listening and watching this, Marie, brushes their teeth every day. Now, of course, not everyone will, right? But I think most people probably do, and they do two minutes in the morning and two minutes in the evening. Right? So everyone is giving themselves four minutes of dental health every day. They know if they do that, they’re going to look after their teeth for life. Of course not. Because it doesn’t take that long to get fresh breath and a sparkling smile. Two minutes twice a day is plenty. This is what we have to do in behavior change. We have to help people feel successful, they’ve got to feel good. And if they feel good, they’re going to continue doing things.