• Why the purpose of your life has everything to do with your goals and values, and why it's something that you need to explicitly know to fully leverage rest and downtime.
• Why your mind and body need both times of stress and times of rest to help create the ideal life. Stress and rest exist in a symbiotic relationship with one another, and one of the keys you need to discover for yourself is how much and to what degree you need to focus on one and ignore the other and vice versa.
• The Life By Design definition of rest and how it's entirely and utterly different from what we've been taught to do.
• How self-awareness plays a vital role in using rest to it's full advantage.
• Strategies on how to create a rest and recovery routine that will work well for you.

It's a very normal emotion to want to help your child when they have a raging fever, are feel poorly and want nothing more than for you to hold them.

The chances are most will try to bring the temperature down – either with medicine or other measures, such as warm baths.

On today's episode of Life By Design we explore the question...

Is fever reduction a good thing or could it actually be bad?

What we covered:

• What is the physiology of fever? Understanding why and how a fever works is the first step to figuring out if we should let it run or fight to bring it down.
• What does the research say? We explore the body of peer reviewed research to look for some answers and what we uncover is shocking.
• What does an iguana have to do with answering the question at hand? Jamie shares a story from the literature that clearly highlights the logic of fever and it's expression in animals with no internal fever creating mechanism.
• What temperature defines an emergency case? Is there a set point at which we need to jump in the car and rush to the hospital?
• What about seizures? They can't be good right? Can fever cause seizures?
• What are the signs it's time to call in the cavalry and seek medical testing and possible treatment?
• The multi-step process to help our children (and ourselves) and support the body as it manages an immune system response.
• One hypothetical effect following a fever that can be neither confirmed or denied by research, but is reported frequently by parents.

• The physiology of cancer and why knowing how it works is the key to planning how to deal with it properly.
• The movement requirements for every body. Cancer patients are still people first, and although ALL humans have the same requirements, it's hard to train like an average healthy person while your body is undergoing cancer treatment. What can cancer patients do?
• Why mindset is most important and what you can do to help someone who is giving up.

• What is intermittent fasting, should you do it, and what you hope it accomplishes.
• The nature of coffee - why do some people say it's good and others claim it's bad?
• What the data says about coffee and does it, in fact, end your fast?