that we wanted not just for a while but
for the rest of our lives so in turn we
wanted not just ourselves but for our
entire family a great film is not easy
to come by in 2012 the Ministry of helps
has released statistics that in
Singapore every 5 hours there is one
youth diabetes patients so at the end of
the event today there is one more and
this is not in this is not surprising
news surrogates ratio May and in 2012
and US release results showing that by
the age of 69 one in 3 Singaporeans wear
diabetes in a UN in 2014 has predicted
that in 2030 the cancer rates will rise
from 24 20 million to 21 million you
will actually rise by half by at the
moment in many developed countries
already the cancer rate is going towards
1 entry so look at the person next to
you and say it’s either you or me well
but you know that sounds like very bad
and breaking news but what I’m here to
stand for my talk today I’m here to get
everyone to think about health
differently and just look beyond the
surface beyond one is usually in this
conversation so we’re gonna start by
considering and please join please
participate let’s start by considering
what do most people think about when
told to take better care of their health
what do you think it takes to have
better health and vitality now I’m
guessing many of you are having images
such as these in your head right now you
might be thinking of this NGO activity
diet and you might also be thinking
mindfulness now all of these things are
very good but in today’s day and age if
we only rely on these for good health
then we are bound to be sorry
disappointed and I’m here to share with
you something even more significant then
all these things have on our health and
come on be honest do we do all of these
things no I’m sure always other very
clear honest with ourselves but not only
can people who do people not do all
these things but there’s something more
important so maybe this is this change
that we need to make today so come to
consider this this is the coefficient
now whatever it does whether it is
moving around eating or swimming or
sleeping it’s always in the same
environment of water you can’t take the
goldfish out of its environment and if
it has to leave if you want to bring
your pet don’t fish your best friend’s
house you need a bag and you need to
fill your water and put a goldfish
inside now we are actually the same as
the goldfish
we cannot leave our environment the air
and so that is why when astronauts go to
outer space they need to be one of these
things they need to be in a space suit
because outer space does not support
life and the space suit needs to provide
that life-giving environment but the
fact that we need air is not the only
reason why is important not consider air
and compare it with the other things we
take in every single day we might drink
two liters of water and we might eat two
kilograms of food depending on not
whether your little faith right but
these two liters of water and two cages
of food how does it clip here when we
look at air so do you want to guess how
much air we consume every single day so
let’s take a deep breath now okay shall
we let’s do this together let’s all take
a deep breath and breathe out as if
you’re blowing into above one over back
and one more time in and out now if you
do this for one minute you will have
breathing
two liters of air that makes in a day
11,500 liters of air in one year this
more than formally and in our entire
lifetime of 85 years
then we’ll make 357 liters of air and
this is way way more significant than
that where our food that we’ve always
been caring about most of us do not know
that our skin actually interacts with
the air around us so we don’t leave this
environment as filled with air and all
skin actually interacts with it and the
amount of air we interact with is so
much more and dependent on where we go
so think about this you know everything
that we do for health what what we eat
what we drink and what we do does it
happen in air but yet we pay so little
attention to it so here’s what I have to
share with us every you know for for
today’s key point it is every something
more important than whatever effort we
put into health a lot of us have there
is an image where we talk about a toxic
air and polluted air so yeah we know
this is bad for our health but today
that the images I have about air look
more like these these are places we span
out everyday life and they look nice on
day you know we actually spend time
decorating our home our office and put a
lot of money into it too you know
today’s talk I won’t be focusing on the
harmful substances that exist in these
environments I’m here to talk about that
our body doesn’t just mean an absence of
banned substances in the air a body
actually needs nature just get a read
out the bad stuff we need the good stuff
and when we think about nature we’re
meant to be in it we’re designed to be
in nature but look at where we are today
look at where we are seated right now we
do not have nature do we this is where
we live in there were small nature now
the thing about nature
is this there is something in nature
that is very important and vital to our
body and scientists have found out about
them a long time ago at the indignant
they need me this invisible substance
vitamins in the air now they are biting
into me and precisely because they are
so essential deeply essential in our
lives and for our health and we cannot
do without it so you know but you know
let’s make this a little more fun I
don’t just want to give you the answer
right so we don’t say okay but guessing
in the common game what am I so I will
play the character of this vitamins and
you will guess what it is okay so here
goes I am naturally occurring I am found
most abundantly in forests and
waterfalls you absorb me directly from
the air 15% read reading at 85 percent
who your largest organ the skin and that
means I get directly into your
bloodstream and when I get into your
bloodstream I help you by purifying your
blood by improving cell metabolism by
raising and enhancing your email system
and balancing your autonomic nervous
system bringing about a multitude of
physical benefits what am i some people
get oxygen we definitely oxygen but
there’s something more important than 90
minutes in the air that’s it’s actually
called anions or simply put negative
ions know to cut away at the complicated
science okay I’m actually not do that
sighs I like waiting okay but I’m gonna
make this really simple
basically atoms and molecules can lose
or gain electrons and when they do that
they become ions if alcohol ions and
when we our next charge electrical
charge is negative
they’re called negative ions and when I
met charge is positive they are called
positive
and research has shown that positive
ions directly damage our bodies at the
cellular level but on the other hand
negative ions are extremely important
for body functions now research for
negative ions began a long long long
time ago and most notably by fillit
Leonard and there’s a letter in fact
named after him and that’s because he
found out that at waterfalls or
fountains where water fall from a great
height and hit I don’t wanna droplets or
a wet surface it actually produced
negative electric charge in that
environment and it’s found that
environment is actually very very
attractive and very very good for
physiological benefit so animals can be
found near waterfalls and after this
discovery loves more thousands more
paper has been done and many books have
been written on the physiological
benefits of negative ions so it’s not
something available already it’s really
established now let’s take a quick look
and see what the effects are I would
like to ask all of us have you ever
consider your body how it works or do we
just most of us we just open our eyes
and we wake up we jump any along so and
we just take our body wherever we want
it to go actually a lot of things has to
happen for our body to work our blood
has to be clean because our blood has to
bring nutrients and water and oxygen to
every single part of our body and remove
the waste from there any can we do this
one is clean our entire bodies made of
cells and negative ions is required for
the cell membrane to be more permeable
and we will appreciate our body more
when we realize how many cells there are
in the body scientists have done the
hard work of actually calculating on the
average we have 37 points
trillion cells in our body that’s three
seven two and eleven zeros okay I
memorize echoes I coming over how many
serves in a trillion but that’s exactly
how many yes that’s so many cells in our
body all need to work properly in order
for us we have this thing called health
and of course our immune system is you
know I don’t need it doesn’t need
further collaboration it’s all number
one hands first defense against anything
that could harm us and our autonomic
nervous system you might not have heard
of it very much but it does everything
that you don’t do whatever you mean by
you don’t do I mean you take care of I
know by exercising and brushing your
teeth things like that these are things
we do but all anomic nervous system
takes care of everything that we don’t
consciously think of from your digestive
system from your other are from your
endocrine system from our immune system
even so it’s something that runs on its
own and when it works well we’re healthy
and when it doesn’t yeah you really can
give us that help insomnia pain and
digestive issues
so please and these systems they all
work individually on their own our body
has a huge inter huge collection of
interrelated systems when there’s a
problem in one usually there’s a domino
effect and it affects other systems as
well can you begin to see why scientists
nickname negative ions vitamins in the
air do they sound vital to you there are
actually scientific conditions to
fulfill for negative ions to take effect
in our body so first of all we actually
need to have it in high densities you
need a large amount large concentration
of it second of all we have to have it
all the time thirdly it this large
concentration must be very close to our
skin do you remember how many percent is
absorbed through our skin eighty-five
problem is though the problem is where
we are living right now and has no
nature the environment does not support
any of these conditions let’s take a
look at some statistics to see what the
real picture is so these are from
medical journals or research they found
out the physiological effects of an ions
so what at what density creates one and
what effects on our body
and we find it when there’s a lock I got
CA means 100,000 and 500,000 I don’t
want he has natural self-healing ability
and then you know about 5000 it’s
important for our body and minimally we
need 1000 for our body to maintain is
healthy metabolism for this thing for
this machine to work mini Andes 1000 and
the critical thing is less than 50 it
induces physiological disorders so this
is quite critical so let’s see where we
are in and where we can find negative
ions so as you can see in nature and bow
at waterfalls multiple sites you can
have more than 5,000 to 50,000 90 files
but as we move closer and closer and
closer to the city as we get more and
more urbanized there’s less and less of
it and if you look at the cracker
Orencia you realize that in Singapore in
any urban city we don’t get a thousand
but what is the crux of the problem this
is this we add less than 15 users
physical disorders but this is where we
spend I would say 90% of all time we are
in some way off some side if you’re not
know how physical not in school you are
at a shopping mall you’re at a movie
theater or you’re at home so it is in
this environment that we are living in
right now so when you consider when we
consider three things first of all the
important functions that
bioethanol Bobby second of all how much
air we breathe in every day and third of
all how much more air religion
can we see why there’s a gross lack of
health in our current situation and the
statistics is amounting to a health
tsunami but for the biggest part of my
life I never knew this for 30 years I
had been searching for health I was in
deep need of health ever since I was
young before the age of four I had
contracted many you know multiple
respiratory illnesses and I had immune
system problems that led to debilitating
eczema and psoriasis and you know you
unless you’ve had it before
you cannot imagine a life that is filled
with pain every single moment that at
any time a flare-up can lead to a skin
breaking and cracking imagine having a
fall and scraping yummy and it doesn’t
heal for five years in fact one gets
bigger and many girls carry cosmetic
colleges in their bag I carry of the
safe key and there was a period of time
in my life for more than six months I
had no skin on either of my hands they
were covered with rashes and they flat
out all the time and I had to cover them
with bandages all every single day as I
went to work and the smell of undressing
them Eddy and on today was unbearable
it was depressing and I’d like to say
that you know I like to think that 30
years is a long time long enough for me
to find out you know all the different
ways of all the different ways to
improve my health but I realize that no
matter what I do I finally understand
why
in work because everything fell within
this category whatever I did or wherever
I went now consider what I like what you
know what if I told you that this
solution comes in a form of clothing
that illness a high-tech fiber invented
by the Japanese in the 1955 in 1955 and
it’s engineered to continually generate
high levels of negative ions power only
by static electricity and by putting all
this clothing the body is in the
environment of a forest on their natural
environment in fact I’m wearing them
right now
so you know today today right in my
short talk I’m just here to share with
everyone that we need to look beyond
what we usually look at many people look
at their diet and their physical
activity but he may forget about the
environment around us just like how the
outer space doesn’t support life our
modern city living does not support
healthy life so we need to start asking
ourselves new questions we need to ask
ourselves what kind of environment are
we interacting with what kind of
clothing do we wear where are we from
and how are they made
what do you apply spray wash and wipe
yourself with every single day but
detergent you use to wash your clothing
with what upholstery and burning do you
use and what furniture exists in your
home because this is one critical factor
might change everything we know about health thank you very much