A Healthy Body
Your body is perhaps the most important and complex organism God created and put on planet Earth. It is made up of billions of microscopic parts, each working together in an organized fashion that allows the total being to function.
How well each of those parts work together might define how healthy your body is.
It is through maintaining or improving the efficiency of our body and keeping its various systems in balance that health is maintained.
The Wikipedia Encyclopedia defines “Health” as the level of functional and/or metabolic efficiency of an organism at both the micro(cellular) and macro(social) level. In the medical field, health is commonly defined as an organism’s ability to efficiently respond to challenges (stressors) and effectively restore and sustain a “state of balance,” known as homeostasis.
You are in control of your own health, life and fitness.
It should be one of your top priorities to take care of your body as best you can. After all, you only have ONE body and when it’s gone… it’s gone.
It is, therefore, important that you take responsibility for your health and begin to make informed decisions about your healthcare.
While science and the practice of medicine is important to our health, perhaps the most important factors are impacted through your individual effort.
Activities such as
- exercise,
- weight management,
- a healthy diet,
- nutritional supplementation and
- stress management are examples of things in your control that can improve your health.
Health Care System
While modern healthcare is excellent at handling emergencies and acute illness, you can put yourself in a much better position by needing it less often. The most powerful way to do that is to take personal responsibility for the daily choices that drive long-term health.
If you want to be healthy, start with what you can control: what you eat, how you move, how you sleep, and how you manage stress.
A Better Approach: Prevention
Modern medicine excels at crisis care, but it cannot do the daily work of health for you. Pills can be life-saving and necessary for many conditions, but they work best when combined with foundational habits — a nutrient-dense diet, regular movement, healthy weight, quality sleep, and stress management.
Chronic conditions like heart disease, obesity, autism, and type 2 diabetes have continued to rise, not because doctors don’t care, but because our modern environment makes healthy choices harder. Highly processed foods, sedentary jobs, and chronic stress all work against us.
If you’re currently swallowing a handful of pills every day… you’re NOT healthy. Those drugs are only masking the underlying problems.
It’s been estimated that more than 50% of us die from cardiovascular disease. One third of us develop cancer and an increasing percentage of us suffer from life threatening infectious diseases.
These conditions are all preventable when you take an active role in your body’s health.
Taking personal control over your health will become even more important in the coming years. Your healthcare is being industrialized and socialized which will decrease your quality of care while skyrocketing the costs. Make no mistake about it… there are billions of dollars at stake and the medical industrial complex wants to control all of it.
Dead Doctors Don’t Lie
by Dr. Joel D. Wallach
Skyrocketing healthcare costs have many people asking how they can stay healthier and avoid preventable expenses. One resource many readers have found helpful is the book Dead Doctors Don’t Lie by Dr. Joel D. Wallach. In it, Dr. Wallach discusses his perspective on the importance of 60 essential minerals and other micronutrients, and makes the case for his principle: “It’s not what you eat that kills you; it’s what you don’t eat!”
Like any nutrition book, it presents one viewpoint. We encourage you to read it with an open but critical mind — look for ideas you can discuss with your own healthcare provider, compare it with current guidance from sources like the NIH and Mayo Clinic, and decide what fits your personal health plan.
Lessons Learned from Coronavirus
The COVID-19 pandemic was a reminder of how important foundational immune health is. Research shows that many Americans have risk factors — such as poor diet, lack of activity, inadequate sleep, and chronic stress — that can make it harder for the body to fight off infections.
Perhaps one positive outcome of the Sars-CoV-2 pandemic is a renewed focus on personal responsibility and common-sense hygiene — practices that help with many contagious illnesses, from the common cold to seasonal flu.
The mission of this website is to…
provide you information and resources that will empower you to make more healthy lifestyle choices. As you become better informed about health issues related to your body and gain access to resources to improve your health, you will be empowered to make the choices necessary to improve your overall quality of life.