health is the most valuable investment of my life

The Most Valuable Investment of My Life - My Health

As a professional scientist, I have often spoken about the most sensible investment decisions one can make. While those decisions are for the most part monetary, there is one necessary investment that, I believe, stands above all others – health.
If you have to experience happiness – your body is the instrument. And when you experience the down times – then too, your body is the instrument.
You experience your life through your body, whether your life is bliss or plain hell.

I sacrificed my body when I was studying between 2014 and 2018. There was no fixed time for waking up or sleeping, and I was regularly studying overtime at the library.

My friends& professors raised their eyebrows when I tried to leave at 5:30 pm, even when I had finished my study. I felt like as if I was committing a crime. They were looking at me as if I was taking a half day off without permission.
My normal timing for leaving the library  became 12 am. I was spoiling my life and body while making everyone happy.

My health was at an all-time low, & I was plagued by severe backpain, anxiety, and hyper tension. I could not shout at my professors, so I was shouting at myself and blaming myself all the time.

Now, the purpose of my life is to advise people in choosing the best investments to make more money. But the truth is that the real investment that is required is in the body, not the bank.
No matter whether your goal is to enjoy worldly pleasures or spiritual enlightenment – everything has to go through your body. Even your mind does not work in your favour without a healthy body.
Here’s how the investment of money works:
You start investing x amount of money every year (say in stocks or interest).
You keep on investing that x amount for 20 years.
How much money would you have in your account after 20 years? No, it's not x20 plus some interest. It would be  x53; the 'some interest' would swell to x33 in 20 years.
And here’s how investment in your body works:
You start investing 15 minutes of your day in exercise/walking.
You start investing 15 minutes of your day in yoga/meditation. Or both.
Your start consuming healthy, organic food in the right quantities, at the right times.
Your body starts becoming free of toxins, your digestion system improves, your immune system becomes stronger.
Your mind becomes sharp, your focus increases, your thoughts become clear, and you get better sleep at night.

You would live a life worth 20 years in an actual span of 10. I mean, you will start living a healthy life.
You will live life worth 100 years of a regular person even if you die from an accident at an early age. That’s the return over investment in life.

If you failed to accumulate sufficient wealth or lost all your money in some unfortunate event, you still can borrow money from your friends or the bank. But no one can lend you health or wellbeing. You have to earn a healthy life yourself.

Unfortunately, there is no lottery where you can win a healthy body in a single day. You have to build your assets (health) slowly.
What happens when we don’t invest in our body at an early stage? Our body becomes weak from the inside, but we don’t realise it until we catch a disease.
We go to the doctor, who prescribes us chemicals to cure our disease. Despite appearances, our body does not become strong, instead, it weakens further with medicines. Have you noticed how badly chemicals impact our body even after the recovery from any disease? One of my friends lost her hair after a month long treatment for her fever. Just fever!
Chemicals kill the germs, bacteria or whatever was causing the disturbance in our bodily ecosystem. However, fighting and killing rarely bring about harmony & peace anywhere in the world, neither inside nor outside of the body. The chemicals kill both helpful and harmful bacteria in our body.

Organic growth and profitable health makes your body sustainable.
The first and most impo investment in your life is your health. Period