LitPick Review
In this informative self-help book, Dr. Habib Khan teaches a special system he has devised which will help his patients, and readers of this book, to increase their longevity and provide years of better health overall to them. It’s what he calls “The Five Pillars of Health.” These Five Pillars consist of: Diet, Exercise, Sleep, Stress Management, and Relationships. If you follow every single one of these pillars and incorporate them as an active part of your daily routine, he has seen an increase in longevity and overall better health in the majority of his patients who have adopted his pillars into their lives.
Dr. Habib Khan specializes in Neurological, Sleep, and Pain and Balance Disorders. He also has continued his education and became certified in Age Management Medicine, which focuses on preventing chronic illnesses and degenerative disorders, while improving longevity.
If you want to live longer, one must be open to being healthier, happier, and leading a more fulfilling and productive life no matter what your health is at its current state. By starting off in taking baby steps, it will help you in the long run live a longer, healthier, and more productive life than you are living now.
Opinion:
I loved how this book provides the step-by-step foundation the readers can take in learning the Five Pillars and tailoring those five ideas into fitting their own individual needs. It’s never too late to start taking an active role in caring for yourself and reading this book has inspired me as well to start taking into account my health and how I can start taking steps in improving things that fall within Dr. Khan’s Five Pillars of Health.
In each of the Five Pillars, the statistics that Dr. Khan provided allowed me to have a few “aha” moments where those statistics hit close to home. Seeing the live data presented in a systematical way for his readers to digest, allowed me to want to start working on the pillars myself. One especially I want to address is under the Stress Management Pillar. The thing that truly stuck out to me is that one must have positive self-talks and thoughts, no matter how severe the circumstance is that is causing your stress, in order for you to even try to cope with the stress that you are experiencing. Remaining positive, will have a better outcome of overcoming your situation than if you think negatively. I find that at times, it’s hard not to have those negative thoughts creep into your mind when you are experiencing stress that has been ongoing for a lengthy period of time. After reading Dr. Khan’s book, my mindset has changed though. I see how by taking a different approach to the stressful situation will change your perspective on the whole thing, which in turns helps your mind and body process things differently. In making this change, it will have an overall healthier way for you to deal with the stress in a way that is better for your mind and body to handle.
I also want to mention that this book is one in which readers of all ages can take notes and make positive changes in their own lives. Dr. Khan speaks to his readers in a friendly, down-to-earth fashion and readers won’t be lost in medical jargon like other self-help books on the market. This is one that you will want to re-read to make additional notes on anything you might want to work on while working on the Five Pillars in your own life.
Overall, An Ounce of Prevention: Raising Your Body as a Temple With the Five Pillars of Health is a self-help book that readers will find invaluable information to incorporate into their own lives no matter what their age. This book comes highly recommend.
