Travel and Your Health
Do you have wanderlust on the brain this summer? Then this post if for you!
Perhaps for some of us, traveling is a break, a vacation, from our otherwise healthy and wellness-focused lifestyle. We indulge in a few adult beverages, we forget about our healthy eating habits and we don't even pack our running shoes!
There ARE ways to incorporate health and wellness into your travel plans and I am here to show you how. First and foremost, the travel part:
- Pack things that will keep you relaxed in transit
- I like to incorporate a lot of stretching on long trips, especially if flying to avoid deep-vein thrombosis
- Give yourself lots of time to get to where you are going, nothing peaks anxiety like thinking you'll miss your flight, train, shuttle
- Always carry a travel wrap (scarf, shall, sweater, poncho) and a hat for comfort
Once you're there, boost your health with one or two of the following:
- Hydrate, hydrate, hydrate
- Walking is your secret weapon
- Take the stairs
- Get out and explore
- Limit your indulging to one treat per day
In terms of your wellness, enjoy the break from reality:
- Meditate (if that's your thing)
- Get lots of sleep
- Read for pleasure (said the librarian)
- Pack the remedies to ailments
- Try aromatherapy
Looking for wanderlust destinations? TPL has a ton of amazing travel guidebooks and adventure travel resources. For those ambitious travelers who want to learn the basics of the language you're exploring, try Mango Languages. If you want more travel and health information, check out these resources…
Living Well on the Road: Health and Wellness for Travellers by Linden Schaffer
Travel Health Guide: Everything You Need to Know Before You Leave, While You're Away, After You're Back by Dr. Mark Wise
Travellers' Health: How to Stay Healthy Abroad by Dr. Richard Dawood
Extreme Medicine: How Exploration Transformed Medicine in the Twentieth Century by Kevin Fong
7 thoughts on “Travel and Your Health”
This will be great and informative article for my sister as well like it remained for me. So will talk about this with her.
Glad to be of service Doris! Hope you and your sister have safe travels.
This is massive for me to know about travel and health
going with one day trips from seattle to see more and happy for that.
Day trips sounds like a great opportunity for travel, enjoy Lucas!
It’s an important subject matter than often gets overlooked in the preparation for travelling. Glad it was useful to you!
I will talk about this massive stuff with others too after mine san fran to yosemite.