• Anti-Inflammatory Nutrients: Enjoying nutrient dense vegetables, proteins, fruits, carbohydrates and healthy fats; omega-3 and -6 fatty acids; polyphenols and related compounds.
  • Physical Activity Everyday: Choosing fun activities that enhance endurance, strength, flexibility and reduce chronic inflammation; challenging but not taxing.
  • Career: Doing what you love, loving what you do; work that gives back to the world
  • Finance: Aligning money with heart; mindset of sufficiency.
  • Mindfulness and Spirituality: Ability to separate oneself from ongoing averse states; being in the present; connection with something bigger; ancient Buddhism meeting modern neuroscience.
  • Nourishing Relationships: Supportive, protective effect of close friends and family; overcoming social rejection, loneliness and isolation.
  • Depression Resistance: Seeing challenges as temporary, solvable and impersonal.
  • Emotional Resilience: Adaptively responding to thoughts that could trigger immune suppression; how thoughts influence physiology, the importance of expectation and the perception of control.
  • Optimism and Positive Affect: Acquiring optimism, positive expectations, reduction of immune symptoms and need for analgesics.
  • Beliefs: The healing power of beliefs that are life supporting, mood enhancing and meaning infusing.