This is a section called giving your body what it needs. Now, look in nature, have a look at a plant on what does a plant get? Oxygen, water, sunlight, and of course nutrients from the saw the side and from the environment. So we also want to be getting ample amounts of oxygen breathing is very under underestimated and understated in the West. In Hawaii, they call us in the West, the people that don't breathe properly. taking deep breaths can really oxygenate and actually alkalize all systems.
Just try it. Take intense deep breaths deep into your stomach and then release deep in your stomach and then release your meat start to feel light headed when you take 10 deep breaths, many ancient cultures would naturally be breathing this way. Your gifts for example, no pranayama is called, they know the power of breathing exercises, because it oxygenates the body. Oxygen is one of the most important nutrients that we need. We can only go seconds if not minutes without oxygen. However, water, we can go a few days with that.
And then food we can go for weeks up to a month. So it goes to show the importance of those three and oxygen is the main one. So what we want to be doing is making sure that we're oxygenating properly. Exercise is another very good way to oxygen oxygen aid right out in nature. I personally recommend low intensity exercises like walk in your tank should be accepted because Those are four guest exercises that we can we can increase our circulation, increase muscle density, not massive amount but increasing muscle density. So walk in, we're using every single muscle in our body swimming for example.
These are all fantastic exercises for us to do to help oxygenate our oxygen in our body and get more movement in the system. Water. Water is, is the second most important nutrient that we need. So how important is it to have a quality, fresh, clean, pure drinking water is vitally important for our health. In nature of many years ago, we would have used springs to get off there, we would have come from down the mountain and then through the spring into the spring and then those water as a source of oxygen rich and nutrient rich actually, there's so many minerals that we can get These waters they've picked up so many nice minerals as they come down into the springs that are still springs out there at the moment, but they are fewer and farther between at the moment unfortunately. But we can start to filter our own water now.
And then use things like vortexes. If you're familiar with a vortex you can get simple filters now, which vortex you want. So if you're filtering your water, that's a really, really good, but what you can find with because it's been through many filters, they may be a little bit damaged. So what you can do then is put it through a vortex and actually restructures the water like nature would structure it so our body knows that it can that we know how our body can absorb it better sunlight in the UK Of course and life we don't get that much of it. So we need to make the most of it in the summer months. There's been research recently by doctors in America actually believed in Dr for vitamin D in America, he says that we need to be an SN between the hours of 10 and 3pm.
In order to get in order to utilize vitamin D in the body. Now we're not saying to burn at all we're saying to go in the sun, but to go in the sun for half the time that it's going to take you to burn, especially when you're going in the heat of midday. You just want to be going out there to get maybe 1015 minutes 20 minutes in the same. I'm showing face showing as much of your body showing as possible. And that has been proven to you that our bodies produce more spit them in different vitamin D is a very important nutrient. And many of us in the West suffer with things like sad, seasonal affective disorder usually comes about in window in vitamin D levels the lower doctors have started prescribing vitamin D for this purpose now But there are ways that we can get rid of Indian Lego said by going out into the sun being out in nature that much more and utilizing the natural light that we're gaining.
And in the winter months and we can start to supplement also getting the right mineral balance is another top tip. In order for us to give our body what it needs in nature, we would we would have got a full array of minerals. Now when we need then non organic foods and often pesticide rich and nutrient deficient. So we're going to be going for organic homegrown if possible, but or at least organic so that we get in more nutrients and more minerals so that we can get the mineral violence connected within our bodies. Because minerals are vitally important for all of the reactions that needs to take place within the body. Fat is another essential essential fatty acids are called essential fatty acids because we need them in our body.
So let's make sure that we're getting the correct amount of essential fatty acids. We've already spoken about often the importance of having a clean and pure source of water. And then it's finding the correct ph vulnerably. Said Breathe in and water can affect our Ph. exercise can affect our Ph. And of course diet can affect our Ph.
So we want to be looking, again, our pH app above seven 7.3 is the optimum for our body to be and we can test our pH actually with things like PHP, but you can test your saliva in the morning before you have anything to drink. And likewise, you can test your you in the first urine urine of urination of the day. You can test that to see what how acidic your body is, and if it's coming In a Pacific then you want to be making changes to have become a more alkaline, just alkaline actually just over said. Those are some of the top tips to giving your body what it needs.