For Liya Shuster-Bier, the year she turned 30 was amazing.
In January of that year, she was diagnosed with a rare form of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. After six rounds of chemotherapy, in October, she discovered that it had returned. The following year, she had radiation therapy and a stem cell transplant, an aggressive treatment that left her unable to perform simple activities like walking and reading.
Now 34 years old, three years into remission of Shuster-Bier. Although she hopes to come out of cancer for good, one thing those days of recovery leave her with is a change in attitude towards life. She realizes that “we are spending most of our waking hours and most of our time at work”. “For what?”
“Can we do less of that and still get the job done?” she said she thought.
In 2019, shortly after the disease was in remission, Shuster-Bier founded Alula, a marketplace that sells products that help cancer patients manage symptoms during their treatment such as nausea and headaches. Although the life of an entrepreneur Tradition is busy and non-stop, Shuster-Bier retains the attitude she developed after the treatment. For her, life is first and foremost about “eating every day”.
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She wakes up ‘whenever the sun wakes my body’
Shuster-Bier wakes up naturally every morning, between 5:30 and 7:45 a.m., depending on the season. “I honestly wake up whenever the sun wakes my body up,” she says.
Shuster-Bier has long used alarms but found it difficult to sleep during the pandemic. “I woke up. I was constantly tired,” she said. Finally, a sleep coach suggested she try waking up with no one.
Shuster-Bier says the transition is scary. But she adopted some helpful tactics, such as going to bed early, around 10 p.m., every night. And as a result, she finds herself much more alert during the day.
‘I try to walk 50% of my daily steps in the morning’
Shuster-Bier then went out to take her dog for a long walk. Her goal is twofold.
First, “it supports your circadian rhythm to receive sunlight as soon as you wake up,” she says. Learn published in the National Library of Medicine support this theory, and practice helps her wake up naturally every morning.
And second, it makes sure she gets exercise and movement during the day. “I try to walk 50 percent of my daily steps in the morning,” she says.
“There is some research that shows that rhythm can help focus people and calm them down,” said Chanel Dokun, a relationship and life planning expert based in New York City. previously told CNBC Make It. “So when you walk and you get rhythm and fresh air, it has a really good effect.”
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