Healthy Travel
Healthy Anywhere
Taking care of oneself is a habit, something most adults gradually learn to understand. Exercise, brushing teeth, eating right and simple self-care routines are all hallmarks of a healthy lifestyle.
However, when traveling long-term, it’s more difficult to adhere to a person’s stable wellbeing.
Learning about health and travel is a discipline. It takes time to move away from the vacation mentality and shift back towards a deliberate lifestyle.
The following articles discuss exactly how a person can improve and maintain themselves, while continually growing and exploring the world.
Best regards and excellent trails,
Old Sean
Old Sean
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Old Sean Thoughts
“I’m fortunate to have a very robust immune system.
Whether it’s due to playing in plenty of dirt as a child or a steady diet supplemented by wine and chocolate, I only get sick once every few years.
However, I do have a problem with my ears. For whatever reason, it takes very little to cause the equilibrium to fly off-kilter. For years, I was extremely prone to altitude sickness and pressure changes.
This became dauntingly apparent after skydiving lessons, tours of the Bach Ma Mountains, explorations of the Sequoia National Forest and scuba diving lessons. I would spiral dramatically. Vertigo struck me like a club, and I would often be down for days. The doctors I saw prescribed me treatments for altitude sickness.
It wasn’t until read a narrative for fun, Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver, I learned about BPPV, (Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo). Her book mentions it in passing regarding a character, Garnett, who described similar symptoms. I studied the recovery techniques online, verified it with an occupational therapist friend of mine and waited. The next time the vertigo struck, after a mountain barbeque trip in Romania, I was cured within two minutes.
Knowledge and routine are the pathway to health. Nobody else is required to teach it to us. Wellbeing is something that must be sought out.
Best regards and excellent trails,”
Old Sean