Solutions for the New Year

Happy New Year. Heather and I wish you the best for a happy and healthy 2022. If you're looking to turn over a new leaf in 2022, you're not alone. In a recent survey from YouGov, the online polling firm, nearly 50% of people said they were making New Year's resolutions to set themselves new goals for the coming 12 months. As to what resolutions Americans are making, losing weight or improving their health top the list, followed by improving their finances. For nearly 47 years Nikken has been founded on living a balanced life and promoting and inspiring well-being and entrepreneurship.

Just recently I had the honor of speaking to a group of entrepreneurs that asked me to talk about being healthy by choice. My topic was centered on what our bodies require for life. Let’s keep this conversation simple and straightforward and start with the basics.

As a physiologist, I have always appreciated how amazing our bodies are. For example, we have 50,000,000,000 cells, that is 50 trillion cells, in our body. Of these 10 trillion are what we call somatic cells or the cells that comprise our body. The other 40 trillion make up our body’s microbiome.

We all start as one cell, and as we develop these cells multiply, differentiate, and form tissues that organize into organs that in turn make up physiological systems that need to work in harmony with each other. Our body’s process of cellular renewal is continual. We replace 6 billion cells a day. In the time I just wrote this, we all replaced nearly 50 million cells. We replace our largest organ, our skin every 27 days, our entire skeletal system every 10 years, or about 7 to 8 times in our lifetime. Our liver tissue and lung lining are renewed every 6 weeks and our intestinal lining in just 7 days. In order to accomplish this, our bodies have certain vital requirements. Let’s talk about them in order of importance for life.

If we choose to be healthy, we want these vital requirements the way

nature intended them to be.

Air

We all breathe approximately 20,000 times a day and for good reason, we can survive for only three minutes without oxygen.

Water

We are nearly 70% water and water is vital for every physiological process and our survival is limited to three days without water.

Sleep

Like breathing and drinking water, sleep is a fundamental human requirement. It has even been said that one could survive for three times as long without food as one could without sleep. It is physically impossible to stay awake for days at a time because your brain will essentially force you to fall asleep. Severe physical, mental incapacities happen in just a day or two and hallucinations shortly after.

Food

We need to fuel our bodies with nutritious foods. We can survive for two to three months without food if we stay well hydrated.

Natural Energies

Our bodies require the natural energies of the earth, the sun, and the wind. You are probably thinking, this all sounds simple and straightforward. But there is a problem.

The Problem

To understand the problem, we need to ask the question, how do these vital requirements exist in our modern world? Our air and water are polluted and contaminated with chemicals and toxins. We average 6.5 hours of sleep each night, well below the required 8 hours per night. Over processed, high caloric under-nourishing food with excess sugar, chemicals and preservatives are prevalent in our food choices.

We need the energy of the earth, the sun, and the wind. These are natural energies that we often do not get enough of due to being blocked by our modern world and technologies. I suggest looking at Dave Balzer’s presentation on “Principles of Nature and Nikken Technologies” to further elucidate the importance and efficacy of these natural energies.

The Solution

If we choose to be healthy, we want these vital requirements the way nature intended them to be. Clean, healthy air and water. Quality, restful, and rejuvenating sleep. Nutritious whole food and the vital energies of the earth, sun, and wind. These are the foundations for the Nikken Wellness Home.

Nikken is best known for using science and technology to replicate nature. A principle is known as biomimicry. We use this approach in the active wellness products and technologies in the Nikken Wellness Home. We have many blogs and recorded classes on this website for healthy air, healthy water, quality sleep, whole food nutrition, and the natural energies of the earth, sun, and wind. The Nikken Wellness Home has been described as a greenhouse for humans to provide our bodies with the vital elements we require the way nature intended, not just to survive, but to thrive. For more information on this, you can access our recent recording on the Wellness Home.

Nikken is a successful and recognized brand in the field of wellness. not by mere chance but because many of us have chosen it to be part of our lives and have shared its benefits with hundreds of thousands of people.

As outlined by our Global President and CEO, Mr. Luis Kasuga, Nikken’s Vision 2025 is founded on three principles.

1. Society Welfare- the good or well-being of a group of people, accomplished by providing accurate information and creating awareness to improve the general well-being of a community.

2. Economic Viability- an overall positive net economic contribution to individuals founded on the ability to generate income and create sources for a collaborative economy while having a positive impact on Society and Nature.

3. Being in Harmony with Nature- a global commitment for the sustainability of the environment of our lives and Planet Earth. Mother nature knows best, and we need our planet to be healthy by choice too. That’s our responsibility. To this end, we are all proud to say that Nikken is a proactive participant, using renewable resources for its products and packaging and developing and using polymers instead of plastics that pollute our planet.

The goal of Vision 2025 is to create 10 million new Wellness Homes in our global marketplace. For the entrepreneurial-minded, this creates an unprecedented opportunity to be part of Nikken’s Global Wellness Community and Vision 2025. For those looking to improve their health, the Nikken Wellness Home is an answer to many of our problems. If you are like many others wanting to improve their finances for 2022 the Nikken business may have the answer you are searching for.

Heather and I wish you and your family a very happy, healthy, and prosperous New Year. A great way to start is to subscribe to our newsletter and get healthy choices in your inbox.